Posted on 09/21/2010 8:28:25 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Comparisons between the Obama White House and the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter are increasingly being made—and by Democrats.
Walter Mondale, Mr. Carter's vice president, told The New Yorker this week that anxious and angry voters in the late 1970s "just turned against us—same as with Obama." As the polls turned against his administration, Mr. Mondale recalled that Mr. Carter "began to lose confidence in his ability to move the public." Democrats on Capitol Hill are now saying this is happening to Mr. Obama.
Mr. Mondale says it's time for the president "to get rid of those teleprompters and connect" with voters. Another of Mr. Obama's clear errors has been to turn over the drafting of key legislation to the Democratic Congress: "That doesn't work even when you own Congress," he said. "You have to ride 'em."
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There are similarities between Barry and Jimmy, but at least Jimmy was more economical. Barry is on an unending spending spree, with no results. Would probably be better off if Barry just lit a bonfire of hundred dollar bills.
Line of the day
“Hey I waiting for the Bubba Clinton sign “Miss me yet” to appear”
Actually, if I could swich Obamidiot for Bubba Clinton, I would do so in a NY minute
That must be a Shovel Ready Job that we heard so much about last year.
Hahahahahahaha. You must be effing pulling my chain.
Uhh,Uhh, it worked in my classes at Harvard and Columbia...I swear we hypothesized and theorized and it worked, I tell ya, IT WORKED... with ME in charge...wealth redistribution and socialism and utopia...(darn Michelle and her $200 t-shirts and my kids Prada backpacks for their Private school-—what is that tuition now???) If people weren’t so damn greedy wanting that “American Dream”...why isn’t it the Obama Dream????
I’m old enough to have cast my first vote for Ford over Carter - and you’re right - Carter didn’t blame his problems on Ford.
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