Profile In Incompetence, A 10-part Series On The Worst President in American History (con't)

IBD Editorials ^ | 31 May 2007 | IBD Editorials

[K-oneTexas]

Profile In Incompetence, A 10-part Series On The Worst President in American History (con't)

In this exclusive 10-part series, IBD takes a hard look at Jimmy Carter’s administration and compares it to that of George W. Bush, which Carter has called the worst ever.

Installments will cover the economy, foreign policy, human rights, dealing with dictators, fighting Communism and the Democratic leadership in general during times of war.

Next installment: Monday, June 4

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Part Eight

Camp Hype

Diplomacy: It's often asserted that while Jimmy Carter's presidency was marred by error and incompetence, the peace deal he brokered at Camp David was an unmitigated triumph. Time to pop that bubble, too.

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Part Seven Friend Of Dictators

Leadership: In foreign policy, Jimmy Carter proved his presidency the worst ever by subordinating U.S. interests to his vague "human rights" policy. All he did was enable dictators to take him to the cleaners.

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Part Six A Feeble President

Leadership: When men of strength are presented with difficult problems, their responses are firm and decisive. Jimmy Carter spent four years as president of the United States responding with weakness.

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Part Five Carter's Red Carpet

Leadership: On President Jimmy Carter's watch, more territory was lost to tyranny than at any other time since Yalta. And he'd have us return to those thrilling days of yesteryear.

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Part Four Iran: Carter's Habitat For Inhumanity

Leadership: In the name of human rights, Jimmy Carter gave rise to one of the worst rights violators in history — the Ayatollah Khomeini. And now Khomeini's successor is preparing for nuclear war with Israel and the West.

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Part Three Carter Planted Seeds Of Al-Qaida

Leadership: After being told over and over by President Jimmy Carter that America's ability to influence world events was "very limited," the Soviet Union believed him and invaded Afghanistan. And al-Qaida was born.

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Part Two 'Malaise' Maestro

Leadership: When it comes to economic performance, there's no contest: Apart from the early years of the Depression, Jimmy Carter's brief tenure as president was the worst in the 20th century.

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Part One Look Who's Talking

Leadership: So Jimmy Carter calls the Bush administration "the worst in history." This from the man who wrecked the world's greatest economy and made a nuclear Iran and North Korea possible.

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Part 8

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Part Eight

 

[af_vet_rr]

Me thinks that Bush’s stance on “guest workers” will trump Carter’s giving away the Panama Canal...

[Edgerunner]

I’m a keepin’ this...

[metesky]

Me thinks that Bush’s stance on “guest workers” will trump Carter’s giving away the Panama Canal...

As of now, that remains to be seen. Carter pulled his stunt when the Fairness Doctrine was still law and there was no talk radio and worse, there was no internet.

Even though there was a hue and cry about the Canal give away, it was mostly in the few op-eds that the MSM allowed through the filter and some grudgingly printed letters to the editor. We were painted as a few crackpots with weird ideas about sovereignty and ownership.

Let's see how Shamnesty works out in our brave new instant communications world before we rank Bush along side Jimmah.

Although it doesn't appear that Bush is even interested in what the base thinks...

[EdReform]

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[Geostorm]

Just watch the opening credits of the movie Miracle and it shows the kind of time we had when Carter was president.