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Carter: Biggest failure was '80 loss
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Posted on 12/14/2010 5:25:20 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


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To: ChicagoConservative27

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


41 posted on 12/14/2010 7:05:39 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Michigan's Supreme Court - Once again, it is best in the country.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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


42 posted on 12/14/2010 7:13:47 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: hal ogen

“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


43 posted on 12/14/2010 7:19:50 PM PST by Hunton Peck (Life, Liberty, Property, and the means to protect them, are what it's about.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


44 posted on 12/14/2010 7:39:53 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2
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To: ChicagoConservative27
When Billy Carter is the most sane member of your family, you have issues.

I liked Billy.

45 posted on 12/14/2010 7:42:27 PM PST by lonestar
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To: elcid1970

Ironically, Carter even screwed over Clinton with his meddling.


46 posted on 12/14/2010 7:43:50 PM PST by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: lonestar

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)


47 posted on 12/14/2010 7:48:30 PM PST by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: donna
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)
48 posted on 12/14/2010 8:05:47 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: onona

I honestly read this thinking it was satire!


49 posted on 12/14/2010 8:49:02 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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


50 posted on 12/14/2010 8:54:28 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pathetic.


51 posted on 12/14/2010 9:46:14 PM PST by FatherFig1o155 (Still fighting the fight. Until there's no fight left in me.)
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