Posted on 10/11/2007 9:23:59 PM PDT by cool2007
Jimmy Carter, America’s most powerless, indecisive President, who allowed a mob of uneducated Iranian students to hold Americans hostage for more than a year, says he wouldn’t have done anything differently.
Speaking with XM Radio’s Bob Edwards on Tuesday, former President Jimmy Carter (you know, the guy who gave the “malaise” speech) told the radio host that he “would not want to have changed anything” during his presidency. Well, okay, maybe one thing.
Referring to the Iran hostage crisis, Carter said, “I have a specific regret in not having one more helicopter when I wanted to rescue our hostages. If I had had one more helicopter, they would have been rescued. I might have been reelected president.”
What a horse’s ass.
Yeah, I guess you are just an unlucky idiot, President Carter.
President Reagan took away all of your glory, having negotiated with the Iranians just prior to Inauguration Day for their release, right?
Wow, you were a really ineffectual president. At least you had an economic termed coined in your honor, “Stagflation”.
All those people suffered and this country was made to look absolutely impotent and his concern is not being reelected.
I regret that the American people elected a man without a brain in his head.
Maybe if he Carter had a brain or even a reasonable facsimile thereof, he wouldn’t have facilitiated the return of Khomeini to Iran and greased the Shah’s slide out of there in the first place.
We’re still paying the price for Carter’s massively stupid “Islamic Card” he thought was so artful to play against the Soviet Union on its southern border.
Thanks ever so much Carter, for Al Qaeda and all the rest you unleashed on the world, you lamebrain.
I am really tired of hearing from or about this flaming idiot, good bad or indifferent. History has made its judgement of him abundantly clear.
Could we have a FR moratorium on Jimmah posts?
Poor form as always. I’d have to say the failed raid is not his worst mistake. His worst mistake was losing Iran, dismantling the CIA, giving up the Panama Canal, destroying the economy, etc. The aborted rescue probably was a poor plan as well.
That makes 2 of us.
I was really fooled by Carter. Thought at the time he was an embarrassingly inept president with a corrupt administration ($100,000 from Qaddafi to alcoholic brother Billie Carter). But I was wrong. Carter was a messed up left wing ideologue, and now a full fledged America hating, dictator worshiping jerk.
What more do you need to know: Iran released the hostages as Ronald Reagan was taking the oath of office.
But he gets all kind of praise and awards from other countries. He’s needy.
I do not think five or ten more helicopters would have made any difference, as there was very little chance that the hostages would have been rescued. But if they had all been killed in the attempt in April, by November the whole mess would likely have been forgotten by the media.
I agree, he should be sittin’ on his porch in Georgia shelling his peanuts and out of world affairs period.
Where’s the barf alert?
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