The Worst Ex-President

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 5/06/04 | Jamie Glazov

[Phyto Chems]

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[onyx]

I have been waiting for an article like this!
Carter is responsible for so many of our troubles.
Truly a dangerous, meddlesome man.
He deserves to be ridiculed and brought down from
his lofty "habitat" perch and "Jimmy Carter Center
for whatever he calls it"
WHILE HE'S STILL ALIVE.
Damn shame his passport can't be pulled.

[neverdem]

LBJ was worse than Carter. Listen to the tapes. He committed over a half million of troops as a holding action so he could enact his notion of civil rights and "the Great Society". The "Great Society" was a flop, and our current "War on Terrorism" descends from the loss in Vietnam. Our enemies were certain we would bug out.

[DustyMoment]

Carter, despite all of his "book learnin'" is a simplistic moron. We thought the Dems had reached rock bottom when he was elected - until Clinton showed up. IMO, in the final analysis, history will be hard-pressed to break the looming tie between Clinton and Carter for the title "Worst Ex-President EVER".

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Right. The long term damage Clinton did to our country is impossible to fathom. Carter's economic disaster was quickly cured.

[tkathy]

If there's one thing the democrats are excellent in, it is in the redefining of their abysmal presidents.

Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, even Truman, started or aided in disasterous wars and disasterous foreign policy. Yet the media worships at their feet.

An argument could be made that they are collectively responsible for all the America hating that goes on in the world today.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Good point about Johnson. He was far worse than Carter. But let's look at Clinton and recent events. Johnson brought us the Great Society, the War against Poverty. Clinton brought us perfidity, Chinagate, and Romanesque politics. He jaded the military the way no other president has. Rush seemed to hint at that yesterday. [My mom taped him. I'm keeping that tape. Yesterday was a Rush classic.]

Clinton brought our military "Don't ask, don't tell." Jostlin' Elders tried to normalise what they made the prisoners do there. Having female guards increased erotic tensions. Female guards seeing naked men was unheard of at one time in this country. It's sick. All that leftist dogma is jading our military. I'm jaded myself, having been raised in a family of democrats. So I found the entire thing funny. But even I can see how dangerous it is to keep pushing our military into Sodom and Gamorrah.

Here's the weird part: the scriptures pointed out prior to Iraqi Freedom, Babylon will be Sin City of the world. That is one reason a Biblical scholar would have been optimistic about our chances of success. But it's sad, isn't it? This debaucherizes that entire nation. The young women there shouldn't be put on trial. Clinton should.

FReegards....

[Shane]

You are correct it's a toss up. However, Clinton is morally corrupt, where Carter was simply naive.

[Reo]

When my liberal siblings start that "Jimmy Carter is the finest ex-President ever" stuff, I simply point out that my wife and I, by voting for Ronald Reagan, were the only ones in the family who recognized Jimmah's potential for that role, and did all that we could to help him achieve the position of ex-Pres at his first opportunity. That shuts 'em right up.

[Thebaddog]

Carter has proved over the years after his presidency to be more than naive. He's egotistical, rigid, anti-American, bitter, cantankerous, and probably a bad lover in bed since he boasts about that too. He's done more damage than any president in toto. Johnson at least had the good grace to quit and be quiet in Texas in his later years.

And Clinton's damage will never be fully known with his placement of Hazel O'leary in charge of the keys to the crown jewels. What was that report the other day about Chinese diplomats trying to run a blockade near a secret installation? Was that frustration at not being able to get our secrets the easy way?

[BibChr]

Ping to read later.

This title caught my eye in Borders; I loved it! I said, "Yeah, exactly. About time someone wrote about it."

Dan

[F-117A]

Bump for later reading!

[Pan_Yans Wife]

ping

[gsrinok]

LBJ is my pick for the worst. Carter was undoubtedly a nimrod, and he easily ranks in the top five. LBJ's "great society", his absolute debacle of a Vietnam strategy, and his cheer-leading for blatantly gerrymandered congressional districts in the name of "civil rights" shoots him right to the top. If not for LBJ, we would not be paying so many welfare queens to sit at home, watching Oprah and eating bonbons.

[G.Mason]

Good find Kat. Thanks.

Hayward ...."Nathan Miller, author of The Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents, ranks Carter number one among the worst. Miller wrote that “Electing Jimmy Carter president was as close as the American people have ever come to picking a name out of the phone book and giving him the job.”

And here I thought I was the only one who despised that pathetic moron.

[CatoRenasci]

I remind everyone that the only reason Carter won against a relatively weak Gerald Ford in 1976 was that fundamentalist and evangelical Christian clergy and laity strongly supported him. He was regarded as "one of us", a born-again Christian who would return the country to a better moral compass.

I was on active duty at Ft. Sill, Okalhoma, during most of the 1976 campaign, and I heard literally dozens of young officers, who had been strong Nixon/Ford supporters and hated liberal Democrats, tell me how they were voting for Carter because he was a born-again Christian, and their pastors had assured them he had the right stuff.

I was appalled then, appalled by his presidency, and have always found him an appalling man: an incompetent president, though a highly intelligent man, who pushed morality out of one side of his mouth (telling unmarried federal employees living together they'd better get married -- remember that?) and pushing a leftist agenda in foreign and domestic policy out of the other side of his mouth. He was personally a sanctimonious prig who never met a leftist swine he didn't like. His weakness precipitated the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the same way Kennedy's weakness in his first summit with Kruschev precipitated the Cuban missle crisis. About the only thing he showed vigor in was undermining the Shah of Iran -- thanks for Islamofascism , Jimmmy!

It is ironic, to say the least, that Carter, the most openly religious president in the 20th century and the first to describe himself as a "born-again" Christian, was most responsible for the rise of Islamofascism in Iran, and then in Afghanistan as a response to the Soviet invasion his weakness made possible.

[em2vn]

".......even Truman, started or aided in disasterous wars and disasterous foreign policy. Yet the media worships at their feet."
I was in agreement until you threw in Truman's name. Truman was hammered by the liberal newspapers of the time.

[Chu Gary]

'"IMO, in the final analysis, history will be hard-pressed to break the looming tie between Clinton and Carter for the title "Worst Ex-President EVER".'


Just one problem to note. I agree entirely with you but, unfortunately, guys like Michael Moore write the history books, so forget about honesty ever creeping into a history book.

[RBroadfoot]

Hayward: I got sick and tired of hearing people describe Carter as "our finest ex-President."

Man, I understand that feeling. After the initial gag reflex, I just have to bite my tongue when somebody says that. Anybody who says that Carter is "a fine ex-President" is too ignorant, stupid, or far-left to bother discussing the matter.

Sure, Habitat for Humanity can be commended for some good works for poor folks. Carter has a winner there and has pumped it for all the photo ops and publicity he can. But otherwise, he has been a thoroughly awful ex-President.