The Real Jimmy Carter
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Posted on 04/18/2017 4:18:56 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Appearing as a guest on Monday's Tavis Smiley show on PBS, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof lamented that the media "truly wronged" Jimmy Carter and were "profoundly unfair" to him while he was President, due to "snobbishness" by the media. He also seemed happy to report that Hillary Clinton's personality has improved since her electoral loss, as the liberal columnist also recalled that she implicated "misogyny" in her loss when he met recently with the former Democratic candidate.
Early in the interview, after host Smiley asked about a recent interview with former President Carter in which the topic of religion was discussed, Kristof brought up his concerns that Carter was treated unfairly: "There's just so much respect for Jimmy Carter, and, I mean, at least I think that we in the media truly wronged him when he was President."
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Maybe, Kristof has some good words for Pol Pot, too ...
They only wronged him against their hero, Teddy Kennedy. They tried everything they could to help him in the fall campaign against Reagan.
The Real Jimmy Carter
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You mean he was’t our third worst President?
Those 18% mortgages and 21% car loans were just a dream I guess.Manage a nation’s economy,he could barely run a peanut farm.
Jimmy Carter is an intelligent man. You don’t get to be a Chief engineer on a nuke boat without knowing a thing or two. Having said that, he was a slow motion, 3D, quadrophonic, panavision trainwreck of a president. The economy was so bad, economists had to invent new words to describe it (stagflation). Jimmah was so bad, his alcoholic “Good ‘ol boy” brother Billy was more popular than Jimmah. Interest on mortgages was so high you’d think guys nicknamed “Nicky the chin”, or “Joey no nose” were the ones setting the rates.
Bad, Bad, Bad.
CC
I was lucky. ..first mortgage was only 11% in 1980.
He felt as though he had to micro-manage all aspects of the federal government and wound up with "Analysis paralysis".
They were pretty tough on Abraham Lincoln too.
caselaw.findlaw.com › Caselaw › United States › US 4th Cir.
Jul 28, 2005 - Dr. Steven J. Hatfill sued The New York Times Company (“The Times”) and columnist Nicholas Kristof, alleging claims under Virginia law for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Hatfill's claims arise from The Times' publication of a series of Kristof's ...
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-4th-circuit/1052949.html
Well, not post-presidency.
Micro managing was Carters downfall. I’ve heard stories that you had to get permission from him before you could use the White House tennis courts. That there is a fatal inability to delegate. The whole hating Jews thing didn’t help. Throwing the Shah of Iran to the wolves seriously damaged the already tenuous relations with many foreign nations, and led to the hostage crisis. Oh yeah and the next 38 years of Islamic extremism, Let’s not forget that. (like we could)
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Jimmy Carter caused the deaths of 1 million people because he didn't assist the Shah in stopping the Religious fanatic revolution.
Jimmy Carter may eventually be responsible for the deaths of many millions more.
He felt as though he had to micro-manage all aspects of the federal government and wound up with "Analysis paralysis".
This is my tagline on several other websites.
‘What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.’ — Lord Melbourne —
Agreed. And putting the 'stamp of approval' on Hugo Chavez's theft of the Venezuela's Presidential election doesn't win him any kudos.
There probably wasn't an America-hating dictator in the world that Carter didn't praise.
Kill 3/4ths of a million people in an economic war, and yeah, the press is going to be pretty mean to you.
It looks like this guy read my mother-in-laws diary.
It was worse that that. It was largely due to Jimmy Carter's meddling that the Shah stopped cracking down on the religious fanatic dissidents. Jimmy also talked the Shah into allowing Chief Nutbag (Ayatollah Khomeini) back into Iran.
I've read articles which claim Carter did far more than that to destabilize the Shah's regime.
He was one of the primary participants of the sell-out of Rhodesia. Nearly 40 years of dictatorship by Mugabe has turned that former 'Breadbasket' of Africa into the 'Basketcase' of Africa.
Thanks Jimmah...
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