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Jimmy Carter: One Helicopter Away From Greatness
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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.”


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carter; carterlegacy; cranialrectumitis; delusional; failure; idiotredemptionweek; jimmycarter; smalllittleman; totalfailure; worstpresidentever
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To: cool2007

Failure sucks.


61 posted on 10/12/2007 4:53:16 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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To: Fred Hayek
And I voted for that pile of excrement in 1976.

The difference between you and him is that you recognize that you made a mistake.

That moron said he wouldn't change a thing about his presidency.

62 posted on 10/12/2007 4:54:20 AM PDT by magslinger (I will not submit.)
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To: cool2007
As I remember it, half a dozen brave U.S. soldiers died in this desert fiasco. And all he remembers is that one too many helicopters failed and therefore he was not re-elected.

It's all about Jimmy.

63 posted on 10/12/2007 4:58:41 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: cool2007
Bill O. blasted him last night on the Factor...especially his ridiculous comments on how we were SO much safer under Bubba and his attacks on President Bush.
64 posted on 10/12/2007 5:03:11 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: cool2007

I can’t say it.

Those men died for the Hostages, not Jimmy Carter.

http://www.rescueattempt.com


65 posted on 10/12/2007 5:09:55 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty; The Pendleton 8: We are not going down without a fight)
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To: savedbygrace

Yes, it all sounds really stupid. But that is liberalism.

In reality, it was liberals who have cooked up the idea that Ronald Reagan had either negotiated with the Iranians or asked the Iranians (long before the election ever occurred) to PROLONG the hostage crisis until he was crowned as president.

He was president for apparently 6 minutes and the Iranians let the hostages go.

Liberals can’t believe Carter was that ineffective, so they believe Reagan did all that to make Carter look bad.

Of course, Reagan had no standing with the Iranians. Carter, “Mr. Stagflation,” was really just that bad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis


66 posted on 10/12/2007 5:55:36 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: elephantlips
All those people suffered and this country was made to look absolutely impotent and his concern is not being reelected.

jimmyh doesn't have enough intelligence to be a complete idiot.

67 posted on 10/12/2007 6:03:11 AM PDT by dearolddad
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To: VR-21

“One helicopter away from a rescue” And a few fries short of a happy meal.


68 posted on 10/12/2007 6:13:08 AM PDT by 70th Division (If we loose the Republic we have lost it all.)
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To: longtermmemmory

I would state it differently.

Together with NP winner Al Gore, Jimmy Carter sets a standard of mediocrity so low that even a Hillary Clinton can be elected president.

I don’t know if I’ve ever had the experience of getting nauseous over words I myself have typed, but the above comes damn close.

Yuk. Ugh. Retch.


69 posted on 10/12/2007 6:23:12 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This post sold by weight, not volume. Content may have settled during shipment.)
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To: PGalt

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70 posted on 10/12/2007 7:01:33 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: The_Media_never_lie

71 posted on 10/12/2007 1:39:33 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: cool2007
If I had had one more helicopter, they would have been rescued. I might have been reelected president.”

No, Jimmah, with that conflagration in the desert, it would only have been one MORE helicopter carcass to leave for the Iranians.

72 posted on 10/12/2007 2:44:14 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Thank you.


73 posted on 10/12/2007 8:48:19 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: A.A. Cunningham; martin_fierro
Someone photoshopped the Vietnam Memorial so it shows a reflection of John Kerry's face, smiling at all the dead names.

Can someone do that with this picture and Jimmuh Carter?

NO Cheers, unfortunately.

74 posted on 10/12/2007 9:18:55 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Thank you for posting that sad but wonderful memorial to those brave men who died in that desert operation.


75 posted on 10/12/2007 10:00:10 PM PDT by billmor
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To: cool2007

bump


76 posted on 10/14/2007 4:51:00 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: PGalt

Drink some Billy Beer and get in line!!!


77 posted on 10/14/2007 6:29:52 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (All my bullets are dipped in PIG fat. How about yours?)
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