Posted on 04/13/2009 1:59:46 PM PDT by Mind Freed
I was born the year Reagan took office. Needless to say I don't remember much of the President that I have heard things about that make me wish I was born sooner so I can remember him. Since I don't remember Reagan, I also don't know how much he had to do to fix what Carter did. I'm trying to get more information on how Obama is acting like Carter, or acting worse. And... Is Obama on a road to make Carter look like he was a good President?
You were born the year Reagan took office? Sorry, but that made me so jealous, I didn’t read the rest of your post.
Carter so far is worse. However, Obama has just started. Of course I was in sixth Grade when Carter was done, but I remember those damn gas lines when my Dad needed to fill up. A nine year old does not appreciate waiting an hour for gas that is for sure.
It’s your own fault for being born so late.
Gas Lines.....Odd and Even Days to get gas...Iran taking American hostages and Carter doing nothing....Fireside chats where Carter tells the American people to “sacrifice”....Interest rates skyrockets....unemployment skyrockets...inflation...
Look at what it has gotten us now. A STATE OF TOTAL DISASTER and OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT that thinks we exist to serve it — not the other way around. Reagan knew better, that the government was by and FOR THE PEOPLE.
Carter was small potatoes compared to the damage already here and coming out way with Obama. His twisted ideology, racism and hate for America's greatness and success will make Carter look like chump change. I heard a black commentator say the other night in the best terms, “The United States could not have picked a more disastrous president than Obama”. The truth lies not only in what he clearly professes, but his past associations, his mentors, and their socialist/communist ideology. Terrorists, radicals, traitors, criminals, and America haters -— a real credential of association.
America has brought this upon itself. It will be up to the people to fix it. I would much rather have Carter or Clinton back in the White House than Obama -— any day.
Carter was an incompetent liberal with no particular goal other than to avoid the mistakes of Nixon. Obama is an incompetent liberal with the intention of outright detroying American Judeo-Christian culture and rebuilding it into a racist afro-islamo-marxist one.
Carter actually started off fairly strong in office (for him) in 1977-1978, and there was not a terrible economic or foreign crisis like we have today, so some comparisons are tough to make. He really fell apart in 1979-1980, for a slew of well-documented foreign and domestic problems. The reputation he gained for being weak in his first two years fatally undid him in his second two years. One shared characteristic they both have: they both want to lecture Americans on how they need to sacrifice and get used to being second-rate. Of course, that gets old fast with the electorate!
You might be surprised... LOL...
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See my list of Presidential Crises and see where Reagan and Clinton and Bush and Obama fit in there...
A previous post of mine below...
Well, an interesting thing happened on the way to Free Republic for me, a few days ago..., it just started with a simple post and two little items on it... I never intended for the following list to come about... LOL...
Here’s where it all started, and then some FReepers started giving me some more events.. :-)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2226437/posts?page=5#5
THEN... it turned into this...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2226437/posts?page=135#135
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Carter is on there, along with Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower ...
Well, we needed “EPIC GREATNESS” because he encountered ‘EPIC PROBLEMS” while in office... :-)
See my chart, referenced in my post #10, just above...
Compare my chart, referenced in post #10, for some interesting comparisons of the “Presidential Crises” for the various Presidents...
Thanks
Oh my, what did I just say...
Yes. Being lectured by Carter about how “we the people” were stuck in a “malaise” and needed to sacrifice and quit being so spoiled, needed to wear sweaters and turn down the heat . . then Reagan came along and told us “we the people” were more than OKAY, that it was Carter who was stuck in the malaise, that America was dear, a shining city on a hill, the last best hope of mankind for liberty. It wasn’t hard to have REAL HOPE with Reagan, and he came along, knocked Khadafi’s and his ilk’s turbans on crooked, got us out of Carter’s “malaise” and that was it. That’s why those of us who loved Reagan are having a very hard time with Obama’s apparent “destroy America” tour and mission. (I credit the military with freeing the captain and expect Obama to have dropped any pretension of dealing harshly with such terrorists ASAP.)
Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.
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"Gas Lines.....Odd and Even Days to get gas...Iran taking American hostages and Carter doing nothing....Fireside chats where Carter tells the American people to “sacrifice”....Interest rates skyrockets....unemployment skyrockets...inflation..."
Ah, those were the good old days. Can I say it? "Happy Days are Here Again."
Or will be soon.
Well, you were showing the inflation index, and I remember the one thing that could have stopped that — and when President Nixon *shocked the world* by taking the U.S. off the Gold Standard...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock
I remember being *absolutely shocked* at the time, and I knew we were *in trouble* from then on, as a result of that. And sure enough, we were..., as you can see from the resulting inflation...
You also had those “Islamic terrorists” back then, (those Arab countries) who tried to “muscle” the United States by cutting off oil to the country. They also contributed to the future problems...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Oil_Embargo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis
And then you had the huge run-up in costs from Johnson running the Vietnam War — and — social programs — “Guns and Butter” — as it was called back then. That contributed to the future problems, too...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/21/AR2005092102504.html
[don’t know who this is, but it’s just for documenting the “guns and butter” policy which did exist back then...]
You can look at all those things for the high inflation rates that inevitably came “down the road”. The economy is a large entity for which “inputs” work its way through the system over years and it finally shows up, sooner or later...
"Obama’s apparent “destroy America” tour and mission."
Could we call it the G-d Damn America Tour?"
Yep, you can take that to the bank. Carter is stupid where the Obamoron is dangerous. Under Carter, we had inflation that topped 21%. Reagan's tax cust did a whole lot to reverse the "stagflation" of Carter and grew the economy at a phenominal rate.
Twinkie, you were saying — Yes. Being lectured by Carter about how “we the people” were stuck in a “malaise” and needed to sacrifice and quit being so spoiled, needed to wear sweaters and turn down the heat . . then Reagan came along and told us “we the people” were more than OKAY...
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That reminds me of the time that I was driving around Portland, Oregon, back then, and people were still upset about the “double-nickel” speed limit (LOL...). I sure was.... :-)
And so..., one time, while driving down one of the freeways in town, there was a local sheriffs car that went zooming past me on the freeway, with me going 55. He didn’t have his lights on and I watched him for a bit, and then I said — “That’s it!”...
I “put the pedal to the metal” and went after that cop...
I had a pretty fast and powerful car, so it wasn’t a problem in catching up to him and I got right behind him and honked and flashed my lights and swerved slightly from side to side — and finally got his attention — and “pulled him over”...
He pulled over to the side and got out of his car, but he was sorta flustered that I had pulled him over in the first place and when he got out, he had not put his vehicle in park and it started driving away... LOL..
He jumped back in and jerked the thing into “Park” and the car jolted back and forth, forward and backward and stopped.
And then when he came over to me, as I was walking over to him, I let him know my complaint that if I was going to have to drive 55 MPH, then he better darned well drive 55 MPH too. I noted that I watched and he didn’t have his lights on and no siren and so, I was safe in *expecting* him to drive the speed limit. He made some kind of phoney-baloney excuse, but admitted not having any place to go do in an “emergency”.
He could see that I was “really hot” about it... :-)... and so, he finally tried to “make peace” and offered me to come over to the station house, see around the place and maybe go out on a cruise sometime, if I wanted... LOL...
Well, I just left it that way and finished my conversation with him and never followed up on those things he offered.
And since then, I’ve never pulled over a cop again... :-)
Nothing could make Carter look good. Obama will make him look better than he deserves. Carter did only two things right in 4 years:
— He appointed Paul Volcker chairman of the Federal Reserve, which helped make Carter a one-term president, but was good for the country. (All that pain was necessary to wring the inflation out of the economy...)
— He was lacking in any form of leadership, which prompted the country to turn to Reagan in 1980.
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I was in college when Carter was elected. I voted for Ford, even though he wasn’t so great. When Carter was done, not only had we been thru the hostage crisis in Iran, and had gas rationing, we had a 70% top marginal income tax rate, double digit inflation and double digit unemployment. Reagan very wisely understood that lower taxes meant an economic boom ultimately generating more income for the government, as well as job creation. The government itself is not supposed to “create” jobs! Rather, they are to have loose regulations - ours got too loose for a time - on corporations so the CORPORATIONS can create jobs. If we keep taxes where they are, and put back the banking regulations, our economy will come around WITHOUT any government interference. The so-called stimulus package is going to drive us into the ground.
LOL! Gosh I feel old now, I had just turned 20 when Regan was elected. I do remember how bad it was during those years but not enough to fill you in on what he did.
It doesn’t matter. Obama can do no wrong. Every action he takes is magnificently well thought out, thus demonstrating his coolness under presure. Mistakes will not occur in this administration.
If they do, the blame goes to Bush and/or those who thought they were mistakes when they were actually brilliant ploys.
He can’t be wrong! He is the Messiah!
No more Christmas lights because of the “energy crisis”. Christmas lights never came back to the level they were before Carter.
I was a photographer in DC during both the Carter and the Reagan years, and spent a lot of time in the White House around both of these presidents. Carter was not only the worst President we’ve ever had, but an arrogant, mean spirited little man. Reagan was the most humble and gracious man you’d ever want to meet. It didn’t matter who you were, he treated you the same as he would treat a foreign dignitary. I spent 6 hours in line to pay respects to him when he was laying in state in the Capitol. I won’t even think twice about Carter when he goes.
If we, the electorate, would vote for the best candidate that fits one's beliefs, regardless of party(Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Constitution, whatever!)... we'd be in a much better shape.
But no, we keep voting one way or the other, because our ‘betters’ tell us we should.
My first political memory was Reagan's first election. I remember Dad standing in front of the TV when they were announcing Carter's concession. I remember several nights when Reagan was to give a speech. Dad was never missed it. I caught him with a tear in his eye during one speech.
I was born in 1973. During the presidential race between Mondale and Reagan, I was voted to be Reagan in a 3 week mock campaign. We had to do speeches and debates for the class during that time about the issues of the day. I won in a landslide the day before election day.
I miss Reagan. I do have some CDs of some of his speeches. During the last few weeks of the campaign recently, I started listening to some of them again.
Is it just me or are good candidates and nominees getting fewer and fewer? More and more only career politicians run for president. I think that by the time they get there, they have no rational grip on the reality of the real lives of those they wish to represent. They have been indoctrinated and have already become drunk with power, subject to corruption and working for their own best interests and/or a place in a history book somewhere.
Truly great American leaders are not interested in leading buffoons. Best I can tell, more than 50% of Americans have become just that.
Speed limit put in its proper context - made to save GAS, not LIVES. No matter how the Safety NAZIs try to color it.
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