Profile In Incompetence: The Worst President In American History

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY ^ | September 10, 2008

[lrvp99]

Jimmy Carter 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.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Obama will be worse than Carter.

Much worse.

And if that doesn’t scare the wits out of everyone, then I don’t know what will.

[cp124]

i thought the article was about Comrade Bush.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Lucky for Carter there is a good chance the crown will soon be taken by B. Hussein.

[Konacoast]

This should be required reading at every polling place In America. No one should be allowed to vote before reading this and then passing a 5 question quiz on its content.

[Thommas]

But the Dems will never read, nor understand this. Being products of the NEA schools systems, and constant reprogramming by the MSM, 50% of the electorate take it as an act of faith that any and all perceived problems with America are Bush’s fault.

[Desdemona]

Thanks. I e-mailed this to personal friends and family who e-mail large numbers of people. Trying to spread the word.

[IM2MAD]

And it will have to be available in Spanish and half a dozen other languages.

[Past Your Eyes]

I still think LBJ was the worst.

[johnny7]

[Sherman Logan]

I vote for Buchanan.

A president who did nothing to head off a civil war that resulted in fatalities equivalent to 6M in today’s America is more or less in a class by himself.

[Yorlik803]

What about Woodrow Wilson. There is proof that old Woody was mentally ill durning his last term, and that his wife was really making the decisions.
Carter was bad. He is living proof that there are more horses asses than there are horses.
LBJ. He made the phase” My fellow Americans” an insult.

[chadwimc]

Aside from the war on islam(the most critical issue we face), what has Bush done to make him a great president. Or even a contender. I’m not a troll or a moonbat. I’ve voted Republican since turning 18. I twice voted for Bush. Not so much *FOR* Bush as against his opponents. I’ll be voting against Brak, not for McCain. Flame away...

[ar15cz75]

Somehow, this message must be repeated and spread as much as possible.

I am old enough to remember the Carter administration. I remember sitting in those gas lines, stretching around the block, for hours. I remember the sapping of productivity, the wasting of resources, the downward spiral of the American spirit.

I remember people bragging if they could get a mortgage in the low teens. I remember America being a laughingstock in the world. The horror of month-after-month watching the Iranian hostage crisis, while the Carter administration flailed around with weak, half-hearted uncertainty.

And the one time Carter chose to use the military, the equipment that they depended on, after suffering years of poor maintenance because of lack of funds, failed, and backups were called-on that were poorly suited to the task. It was a complete fiasco, and the news carried pictures of the burning hulks of American transport planes and helicopters in the desert. I don’t think the bodies of the soldiers and airmen were ever recovered. (Relying on memory here, please pardon if I get something wrong.)

Jimmy Carter brought America to a shambled mess.

But the American people are blissfully forgetful of such things as history. Change and Hope.

[lrvp99]

Here is the link to a 10-part pdf file which goes into much more detail on this. Please pass it on.

http://ibdeditorial.com/images/IBDeditorials_CarterSeries.pdf

[LS]

In our book, A Patriot's History of the United States, we list about 10 New Deal programs and show their immediate intent, their short-term effect, then---something no other textbook has ever done---their long term effect.

FDR doesn't look so good when his legacy is a bankrupt Social Security system, a failed Glass-Steagall Act, a minimum wage law that for 20 years protected discrimination against blacks, an FDIC/FSLIC that encouraged the S&L industry to go bankrupt, and the most massive taxes in American history.

So long term---while he did a good job of leading during WW II---FDR tops my list of worst presidents.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

James Buchanan made Carter look like Jefferson.

[lone star annie]

I look at Dem Presidents this way:

JFK the dumbest
LBJ the most dangerous
Carter the most incompetent
Clinton the most corrupt

[Sherman Logan]

Another anti-Buchananite!

Greetings, brother.

Although his second successor, Andrew Johnson, was a pretty spectacular disater himself.

[mulligan]

And I still think it was FDR.