Carter: Biggest failure was '80 loss

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[ChicagoConservative27]

Former President Jimmy Carter says his biggest failure during his term in the White House was that he didn't get to spend another four years there.

"I guess my biggest failure was not getting reelected," he said in an interview with Big Think, referring to the 1980 presidential election.

Carter, 86, said the loss taught him "not to ever let American hostages be held for 444 days in a foreign country without extracting them." He added, "I did the best I could, but I failed."

Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) challenged Carter in the Democratic primaries "and then that cost me a lot of votes," the former president said.

[Darren McCarty]

Carter’s failure was his four years in office. Worst president in my lifetime although Bacrock is making a run for that.

[Farmer Dean]

I always thought that his biggest failure was the North Korean nuke agreement debacle.For THAT he was awarded a Nobel Prize?

[Hunton Peck]

“carter’s biggest failure was being born.”

Even his mom agreed:

“Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, ‘Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.’” http://creativequotations.com/one/1577.htm

[Georgia Girl 2]

His biggest failure was from day 1 until we thankfully threw him out 4 years later. Everyday was a failure I lived through it in misery.

[lonestar]

When Billy Carter is the most sane member of your family, you have issues.

I liked Billy.

[boop]

Ironically, Carter even screwed over Clinton with his meddling.

[boop]

I think it wa PJ O’Roarke who said he can’t fault any of Jimmah’s SCOTUS picks. (He didn’t get any, thank God)

[tanknetter]

But the planning was flawed, and the mission had to be aborted when two helicopters were damaged in a sandstorm and failed to reach the rendez-vous point. Worse was to come when another crashed into a transport plane as it was pulling out.

If Desert One was a fiasco, it's hardly imaginable what the proposed follow-on rescue mission would've turned out to be. It involved infiltrating assault teams and extracting them and the rescued hostages using VTOL-modified C-130s* operating of of a downtown Tehran soccer stadium.

(* yes, you read that correctly ... VTOL C-130s using fuselage-mounted ASROC motors to stop in mid-air, land vertically and then ascend vertically. Google "Credible Sport" for more info)

[miss marmelstein]

I honestly read this thinking it was satire!

[Rebelbase]

Roslyn won’t like the fact that he’s no longer beating himself up for having impure thoughts that didn’t concern her.

[FatherFig1o155]

Pathetic.