Posted on 12/30/2024 7:32:54 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Carter’s true legacy is one of economic misery at home and embarrassment on the world stage. He left the country in its weakest position of the post–World War II era. After being booted out of office in landslide fashion, the self-described “citizen of the world” spent the rest of his life meddling in U.S. foreign policy and working against the United States and its allies in a manner that could fairly be described as treasonous. His obsessive hatred of Israel, and pompous belief that only he could forge Middle East peace, led him to befriend terrorists and lash out at American Jews who criticized him....
Carter was stubborn and arrogant. He had plans for a second term, and he wanted to see them through despite the overwhelming rejection by the American people. So instead of stepping away, he spent the rest of his life simply pretending that he was still president and pursuing foreign policy goals even when it meant undermining the actual president.
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B.I.H.
Agree!
This is what Truth reads like.
Well done.
Means nothing to the brain dead dem worshippers.
Their saint Jimmuh Cahteh.
I was a kid in the 70s but I remember a lot of the lousy things courtesy of Mr. Peanut.
At least there was the sitcom, Carter Country.
I tend to judge Presidents on economic issues. Carter was horrible on that front. People forget that the prime interest rate during his term was over 21%.
“B.I.H.”
Some truth against the sickening tide of praise. He rivals Obama and Tyler in working against his country as ex-Presidents.
I was a metals fabricator. We had to bid on projects perhaps a year in advance of when the materials would be needed.
At the time, prices of extrusions from vendors received in the morning were good only to close of business that day.
To obtain gasoline for our trucks, we had to go at night to a service station that sold to commercial customers after actually closing for the day.
It was near impossible to do business at all, much less than in a manner that was anywhere near normal.
I have no regrets the phony nuclear engineer, Baptist, SOB is dead.
I agree with all of the previous posts. I even said to my wife after the announcement of his death:
“Great, now we have to listen to this Jimmy Carter love fest for the next two weeks”
The one positive thing I will say is that Carter did NOT receive a WHITE ENVELOPE at George HW Bush’s funeral. He also built a lot of houses with Habitat for Humanity. One of the few charities I personally support.
Thank you for this post.
The more I learned about Jimmy Carter and his activities, the less I liked him.
Carter actively worked to destroy Rhodesia and install the worst, most radical marxist politician among Rhodesians.
it led to the destruction of the country, literally hundreds of thousands dead from starvation and millions forced to flee what is now called “Zimbabwe.”
For what end? To promote race-marxism in the USA.
Part of his legacy
Video
January 20, 1981. Ted Koppel reports on the last minute efforts of president Jimmy Carter to secure the release of American hostages in Iran
https://rumble.com/vlmy36-american-hostages-day-444.html
Yes, and CD rates got up to around 18%. If you opened a bank account you got your pick of a small appliance. I got a Sony clock radio I used for years.
The worst thing that happened during the Carter administration...disco!
Anyone could have beaten Ford do to the Nixon pardoning and watergate mess that the media blew WAY out of proportion.
Carter barely beat Ford. Carter's Presidency was an anomaly.
13% Car Loans! I remember Dan Ackroyd spoofing Carter on $100k automobiles! Today it’s REALITY!....................
My mother had 6 kids crammed into a VW bug as she waited in long gas lines.That is what I remember.
Chevy Vega for us but yeah, exactly!
...and I’ll take the arrows for somewhat defending Carter.
1. His election was the FIRST federal election after Watergate, and with that Carter came into office with Dems at over an 2:1 advantage in the House, and 61 votes in the Senate (about as bad as it could get).
2. Even if Carter wanted to do things like increase military spending, the country, and especially the Democrats, would have told him to F-off. What surprises me, actually, is how little he cut military spending in his first 2 years, considering the way that the Democrats DESPISED the military back then, right after Vietnam (anyone remember the term “baby killers”, these were the ones running Congress).
3. Carter responded to Afghanistan in a way that DID NOT involve playing footsie with World War 3 (as another Democrat has been doing), but instead drove the Soviets to bankruptcy by opening up drilling and starting the military buildup that Reagan continued.
4. People can beat up Carter over interest rates back then, something by the way that he didn’t directly control, but higher interest rates do have some positive effects on an economy (cleans out the trash), and extended low interest rates, especially for mortgages, makes a mess of capital investment - as houses are now 50% larger than back then, while at the same time, having 50% less kids living in them. The money that was wasted in expanding house sizes COULD have been invested in upgrading manufacturing, and modernizing the military, a cost we now pay when we watch our decades-old weapons systems getting regularly zapped in Ukraine.
Having said that, Carter’s biggest legacy is Iran...absolute idiot. Similar in other places, as our allies were dropping like flies (Africa, Central America), even South Korea was put at risk for no reason.
Finally, some of what is claimed to have happened during Carter, actually happened during Nixon. There were gas lines in 1979 under Carter, but the lines were FAR WORSE under Nixon in 1973 (I got stuck in both). Even the gas line pictures that people attribute to Carter don’t seem to show any cars beyond 1973 models in them.
**My mother had 6 kids crammed into a VW bug as she waited in long gas lines.That is what I remember.**
That was 73-74 under Nixon mostly. Happened again in ‘79 but not as bad.
Think deregulation of the airlines making travel affordable. Think Camp David.
I didn’t like him either but the article is too strong. Nixon/Ford gave him the office. Whip Inflation Now? The pardon/Poland under the USSR. Stupid stuff.
Jimmy Carter: Egypt and Israel Peace Treaty
We will recognize March 26 as the anniversary of peace between Egypt and Israel for which Anwar el-Sadat and Menachem Begin won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978. Concurrently we will applaud Jimmy Carter's 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts such as that.
Nevertheless, we should remember the truly worthy recipient of the three was Anwar Sadat. Through three wars Arab leaders had used Egyptian blood and treasure for vicarious satisfaction of their Jewish hatred which had invigorated their despotic regimes. By conclusion of the 1973 war, Sadat was certain Egypt's price for Arab victory would not only include countless military deaths, but also destruction of the Aswan Dam leading to 100,000's of Egyptian flood victims and catastrophic infrastructure damage.
Sadat brought an end to this waring cycle and looming national catastrophe with his historic trip to Jerusalem on November 7, 1977, and thereby began a process he formalized by signing the Camp David Accords the following September, and the peace treaty of 1979. For his extraordinary statesmanship, the Arab League suspended Egyptian membership. Two years later Sadat was assassinated by an amalgam of Islamic radicals including Ayman al-Zawahiri who came from the Muslim Brotherhood and became a leader of al-Qaeda.
In comparison, Begin risked nothing politically, and Carter just served milk and cookies.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1978 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1978/press.html
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2002
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2002/press.html
Ayman al-Zawahiri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayman_al-Zawahiri
Anwar Sadat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Sadat
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