I am admitting a personal guilty pleasure here,but... I watch old episodes of The Match Game from the seventies. It is amazing how openly hostile and disgusted they were with then president Carter. They mocked him and criticized him with joyful abandon. I was too young to pay attention then...did he have a “honeymoon” period too? I would love it Obama becomes a pop culture joke, like Jimmy Carter.
I would love it Obama becomes a pop culture joke, like Jimmy Carter.
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Oh you don’t have to worry about that...Obama is already a joke...its just taking some people a little longer to get the punch line!
Yes, he did. But after six or eight months, with the economy getting worse by the day, things changed. Add to that the fact that Carter wouldn't play ball with his own Democrats in Congress, and he was thoroughly reviled by early 1979, six months before the Iran hostage crisis. When that happened, I knew he was a one-termer, no matter who the Republicans ran in 1980.
Oh yes, the media fawned all over him and repeated all sorts of half-truths and exaggerations like:
He's a speed reader and reads ten books every day
He speaks Spanish
He's a nuclear engineer
He jogs four miles every day
He's a born-again Christian
These are some of the wild claims I remember off the top of my head. JC's had a "folksy" demeanor the media really played up, but it was/is a smokescreen for one of the most malignant anti-American communists ever to hold office.