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Is Obama the new JFK? No, he's the new Jimmy Carter
The Scotsman, Edinburgh, Scotland ^ | 2008-07-20 | Gerald Warner

Posted on 07/19/2008 4:30:39 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

YES, folks, it's déjà vu all over again. That charismatic American politician Jimmy Carter II, aka Barack Obama, is carrying all before him – at least in Europe – riding a tsunami of media-driven hysteria. When you are possessed of unlimited reserves of rhetoric, boundless ambition, an increasingly undisciplined ego and – er – not a lot else, the soap-box becomes addictive.

(Excerpt) Read more at scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2008; camelot; carter2; carterredux; democrats; election; electionpresident; elections; iran; jimmycarter; obama
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The actual déjà vu evoked by Obama is the ill-starred Carter presidency. The parallels are ominous.
1 posted on 07/19/2008 4:30:40 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: rabscuttle385

BEEEEEE-OOHHHHHHHH-Bama actually makes Carter look good.


2 posted on 07/19/2008 4:33:09 PM PDT by SandRat (An American voting for Obama is like a Chicken voting for Col. Sanders)
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To: rabscuttle385; All

Damn, an article from the UK that makes sense. Pigs flew today.


3 posted on 07/19/2008 4:33:24 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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To: rabscuttle385
And McCain is a much weaker candidate than Ford. But he seems to seek defeat just as much.
4 posted on 07/19/2008 4:35:20 PM PDT by isrul (Help make every day, "Disrespect a muzzie day.")
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To: rabscuttle385
That charismatic American politician Jimmy Carter II, aka Barack Obama...

A bit of rewording and it would make for a most appropriate bumper sticker via truth.

5 posted on 07/19/2008 4:37:37 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: rabscuttle385

does obama

delegate

or

is he a control freak?

jimmy carter and bill clinton were control freaks, the former more so than the latter.

ronald reagan, in contrast, delegated authority and monitored the results, and he was a leader.


6 posted on 07/19/2008 4:38:11 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: rabscuttle385
He's got the only thing JFK had that made JFK a great president. He telegenic.

The rest of him is Carter both Jimmy and Billy.

7 posted on 07/19/2008 4:38:56 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: rabscuttle385
Jimmah brought in the Mullahs.

The dazzling "oHo" will bring in the Madhi.

8 posted on 07/19/2008 4:39:25 PM PDT by BigFinn (nO oHo in 2008.)
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To: SandRat
BEEEEEE-OOHHHHHHHH-Bama actually makes Carter look good.

And that's one he!! of an achievement for anyone!

9 posted on 07/19/2008 4:39:29 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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No - he is the "new" FDR!

Welcome to the New New Deal!!!

10 posted on 07/19/2008 4:45:48 PM PDT by jamaksin
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To: rabscuttle385
REEEE

CREE-ATE

SIX-TEEE

EIGHT!

SAY HEY!

OH!

BEEE-OHHHHH'S

GOTTA GO!

SAY HEY!

OH!

BEEE-OHHHHH'S

GOTTA GO!


11 posted on 07/19/2008 4:46:13 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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And McCain is a much weaker candidate than Ford.

I am less of a fan of Ford.

12 posted on 07/19/2008 4:46:53 PM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: jamaksin
Welcome to the New New Deal!!!

WPA redux?

13 posted on 07/19/2008 4:51:26 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: truthguy

Yeah, I’m a bit surprised as well. But a really first rate article. Sometimes a foreigner has a more illuminating point of view than us natives. What a contrast to most of our media who are really nothing more than a bunch of servile suckass supplicants fighting to see who gets to perform the Dalai Bama’s ablutions. They make me sick. Obama is a virtual nobody, a creation of a bunch of guilt ridden whites. Pathetic. I don’t even concede that he’s a great orator. Everything I’ve heard from him is nothing if not banal platitudes. I defy anyone to recite one memorable thing Obama has said. And he gets a pass on all his gaffes which are more numerable than Dan Quayles. “Fifty seven states?” “When we dropped the bomb on Pearl Harbor?” “When I’m Commander of Chief?” My God, what nonsense. And no, that Harvard degree means nothing since they’ve dumbed down the curriculum. His law degree is indicative of nothing in the way of achievement. No more than an Associate of Arts Degree from one of our local community colleges.


14 posted on 07/19/2008 4:59:24 PM PDT by donaldo
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To: Always Right
Yeah. But Ford is less dangerous.
15 posted on 07/19/2008 4:59:31 PM PDT by isrul (Help make every day, "Disrespect a muzzie day.")
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To: truthguy

This should be interesting, the media will of course fawn over the...Obamao, The Euro left will fawn...

What will the folks in Missouri think? I don’t see this trip playing well among the folks in the heartland...

“Europe? We have enough to deal with here in the US?”


16 posted on 07/19/2008 5:00:50 PM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Romans 10.10/Eze 11.2)
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To: rabscuttle385

Obama wouldn’t amount to more than a blackhead on JFK’s ass.


17 posted on 07/19/2008 5:03:05 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: rabscuttle385

My tagline is having some effect, I see. Either that, or brilliant minds think alike!


18 posted on 07/19/2008 5:05:36 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Barack Obama--the first black Jimmy Carter.)
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To: isrul

Continue lowering that bar.


19 posted on 07/19/2008 5:07:14 PM PDT by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

Billy Carter was actually the brother with common sense and business sense. My Mother’s company did business with the Carter Peanut Company and she told me Billy was the one who ran the business.


20 posted on 07/19/2008 5:10:27 PM PDT by bamagirl1944
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