With his dog BOZO !
Posted on 09/10/2008 5:16:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
Jimmy Carter The peanut farmer from Georgia became our 39th president at the young age of 52. He was a one-term governor from Plains, Ga., where he managed the family peanut farm and taught Sunday school. He was also a graduate of the Naval Academy and served seven years in the Navy, leaving as a lieutenant.
He came to power in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the resignation of President Nixon. The public wanted change and someone new, and Carter was an ambitious, hands-on politician who promised better days. As good as his intentions were, however, the things he tried were not successful. In fact, he created far more serious problems than he ever solved.
The centerpiece of Carter's foreign policy was human rights, and he did achieve one noble success — a peace treaty between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin. Unfortunately, that later led to Sadat's assassination at the hands of Muslim radicals.
Many people felt Carter was a good man who worked hard and meant well. But he was naive and incompetent in handling the enormous burdens and complex challenges of being president.
He wrongly believed Americans had an "inordinate fear of communism," so he lifted travel bans to Cuba, North Vietnam and Cambodia and pardoned draft evaders. He also stopped B-1 bomber production and gave away our strategically located Panama Canal.
His most damaging miscalculation was the withdrawal of U.S. support for the Shah of Iran, a strong and longtime military ally. Carter objected to the Shah's alleged mistreatment of imprisoned Soviet spies who were working to overthrow Iran's government. He thought the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, being a religious man, would make a fairer leader.
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i like that:
” i can’t believe the soviets lied to me!”
This, Kaslin, is by far the most enduring "legacy" of the Carter Presidency.
The man is still working to correct his legacy, Hey Jimma you forgot to look in the out house, out back ya here!
the first true dhimmicrat
Bulls-eye!
Don’t graduates of the Naval Academy start out as “Lieutenants?
If so, Jimmah didn’t gain any stripes in 7 years???
I have read elsewhere that he ran the peanut farm into the ground, and filed bankruptcy at least 2 times.
Wonderful resume for a President, eh?
They start out as Ensigns.
With his dog BOZO !
Which is which?
That is the first question I had as well.
I searched and could find anything about this. Could you post a link please? Thanks.
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