BS. Ben Barnes is every bit the cheater and liar that Lyndon Johnson was. My father co-owned an airplane with him, and said he was the slimiest lowlife he had ever met. Barnes wanted to do business deals with him, but my dad refused to get involved in anything else with him. Never trusted him.
Communist tyrants depend on historical revisionism...
midway through the article Baker admits that there is no proof Reagan knew about this and the entire premise of the article collapses
but the headline and opening are all excellent psychodrama for a radical left that has never actually lost a Presidential election and has always had it stole by the Right.
I thought it was the sandstorm* that wrecked his rescue mission that sabaatoged his reelection.
*act of God
What happened to the story about herbert walker flying in the second seat of a Blackbird to meet the iranians?
Carter himself cancelled his second term.
Yes, because as everyone knows, the Carter administration was cruising for an easy re-election. His plan would have worked if it weren’t for those meddling kids!
Yeah, no. Easily one of the worst presidents ever. Nobody cares, good riddance.
Carter sabotaged Carter. No one else needed to help.
Carter lost because even the Democrats were not united behind Carter.
I attended the Dims convention that renominated Carter for his second term, as an observer. It was Raucus. Ted Kennedy and all his minions were doing all they could to get states to not agree to nominate Carter again. Even Kennedy’s speech to the convention was an anti-Carter dirge.
Carter lost because even the Dims were tired of him.
More likely is that Iran knew that the Reagan administration would be a nightmare to deal with when it came to the hostages. As a popular joke at the time had it: "What is flat, black, and glows in the dark? Iran the day after Reagan is inaugurated."
If you think anything other than bungling the Iranian Hostage Crisis scuppered Carter’s re-election, you’re an idiot.
Stag-flation (& the accompanying Misery Index) got it started but leaving Americans hostage to Muhammadan barbarians for 444 days was the final nail in the coffin.
Really? I remember our first mortgage was 14% interest rate. My husband got a ten % raise, and it was less than the inflation rate.
Carter told everyone to accept that the ability to own two homes, was gone forever.
We had gas rationing, with long lines at the service stations. Which day of the week you could buy gas, depended on whether your license plate, ended in an odd or even number.
Then we had the hostage crisis. He finally tried to launch a rescue mission, and our military crashed into each other, instead of performing a rescue
No alcohol served at the White House.
He belonged to a church where no blacks were allowed when he became President. Then when it was revealed, he objected to the racial prejudice, and it was swept under the carpet.
It was one incompetency after another.
People loved Billy and miss Lillian but the rest of the family left a lot to be desired. Daughter Amy got tons of parking tickets, but she was above the law.
One of his grandsons taped Mitt Romney saying that the rich were OK, and the poor had a safety net. It was the middle class that was hurting. It was propaganda used against Mitt (not that I am a fan, but it was pretty low). Jimmy was proud of his grandson’s accomplishment with that recording.
Jimmmuuuh Cahtu sabotaged Jimmmuuuh Cahtu and anyone who was an adult with a functioning brain during his presidency knows it!
A dumb, pointless article intended to lionize THE worst President (until Joe Biden) this country has ever had. An inept peanut farmer (from my state, BTW) who as Governor turned a $200M surplus into big time debt and then went on to luck up his way into the White House where he did even worse damage.
Billy Beer, Jody Powell in blue jeans and his pathetic foreign policy that resulted in long gas lines, inflation, the “Misery Index” and national embarrassment in the Hostage Crisis. A totally inept.
If the Democrats could do it, they’d drag this hospice thing out until 2024 so they could make a big spectacle like Paul Wellstone’s funeral and blame it on Republicans.
carters Carrer died. a little each day after Iran seized the American embassy.
The story line is BS. He would not have won anyway.
Carter was a horrendous Prez. His administration destroyed our economy with high interest rates and gasoline shortages, among many other negatives.
Bunk.
Jimmah was going nowhere.
This “Don’t release the hostages” conspiracy tale is not new, and was thoroughly debunked decades ago.
Ben Barnes? Yeah...not exactly a credible person.