Posted on 10/10/2014 9:44:17 AM PDT by raptor22
Leadership: The former president on whose watch Americans were taken hostage and the mullahs rose to power in Iran gets it right in condemning the current president's failed handling of Syria and the Islamic State.
We've often referred to Jimmy Carter as our worst president. But considering the recent IBD/TIPP poll showed 53% of Americans labeling Barack Obama's presidency a failure in just its sixth year, the incumbent may soon claim the title. It's one thing to make mistakes out of gullibility, quite another to foul up the world out of gross incompetence.
It is said that Carter's presidency literally crashed and burned in the Iranian desert with the failed Desert One Delta Force mission that was sent to rescue our embassy hostages from the clutches of the mullahs he had naively helped to power. But as we have noted, at least Carter tried a rescue, as President Obama failed to do at Benghazi as he rested up for a Las Vegas fundraiser.
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Yep. But when you’re dealing with an uneducated or plain unconcerned populace, 1984-type “speak” occurs.
For example, how many people know Kennedy signed the EO over an Easter Recess allowing Federal Employees to unionize? Even the patron saint of Amerikan Communism, FDR, saw how bad that would be and didn’t push for it.
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