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.”
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"And, if 9-11-01 had happened on Bill Clinton's watch, he would have had a better legacy [according to him].
--John Greenleaf Whittier
The senile peanut farmer should just shut up in his addled old age.
The helicopter hasn’t been built yet that could make Jimmy Carter great.
The only silver lining in a Hillary presidency will be that it will be one term. Unfortunately Jimmah shows how much damage can be done in one term.
I wish I shared your confidence in that prediction.
I don’t know about “one helicopter away from greatness,” but there’s no question that he’s a half bubble off plumb.
It is a good thing that there was not another helicopter. The rescue had disaster written all over it. I do not blame him for the failed rescue. Another helicopter would have made a bad situation worse.
The left adores Jimma. The left is determined to repeat his mistakes in foreign and domestic policies. The energy policies promoted by the dims are similar to the crazy ideas of the late 70s: windfall profits taxes, mandates and subsidies for favored technologies, and an emphasis on forced conservation. The public rejected these policies in the 80s because of the poor economy. With a strong economy, the public has not rejected these policies. Perhaps the next recession will change the public’s mind. Somehow, I think the dims will just find new scapegoats and shove more socialism down our throat when the next recession comes.
effin’ delusional
He just keeps living and living , he is a bad as the Beard .
The more he yammers, the less relevant he becomes.
Jimmy came up with the “Misery Index” which came back to bite him. He combined the Prime Interest rate, the rate of inflation and the unemployment rate.
I am reasonable sure no other president has even come close to Jimmys misery index. I think it was over 40 at one time.
One day I will urinate on jimmah’s head stone!
I think I will wait a couple of extra years for the line to be shorter when his time comes
I always said Peanut Butter will do that to your brain...
Then again he would have made a miserable rabbit farmer too—he’d plant ‘em too deep
Regarding your picture on post 8 — I can’t help but think
“Fredo”
But I guess we'll never really know.
More like: One Taco Short of a Combo Plate.
There should be a constitutional amendment that states, “All former presidents must “Shut the Hell up” after leaving office.”
There are MORE than enough mouth breathers, leaches, perverts, baby slaughterers, welfare brood mares, “civil servants”, leftists and assholes to elect a “Clinton” for as long as the law allows them to run....
We’re in big trouble folks.....
Yet - the MSM is focused on dimwitted Hollywood morons , whores and their pimps, the Congress is focused on fighting Republicans instead of Islamists and the Republican Justice Department can’t make a case against criminals staring them in the face....and laughing!
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