[backhoe]

Many here were not alive, or perhaps old enough to well recall the Carter era... let me refresh your memories.

Interest rates over 23% on some types of debts...
Cubans in Angola...
Soviets in Afgahnistan...
Soviet proxies- mainly Cuban- in Yemen, and Central America, and many other places, too. Let me spell it out for you- at the time 60% of our oil came via the Gulf of Mexico, and the Soviets were aiming to interdict our oil lifeline- is that serious enough?
Gasahol, because gas was getting expensive...

There was more, but that's enough to give you the picture, why many of us- myself included- swore Mr. Carter had to go.

[quidnunc]

Don't forget the double-digit unemployment and double-digit inflation.

The retired and others living on fixed incomes took a terrible hit to their purchasing power.

[Dilbert56]

My favorite Carterisms:

• Boycotting the Olympics to protest the invasion of Afghanistan. Screwed our athletes and cheapened the medals awarded there. Symbolism where substance was needed. USSR returned the favor, screwing another generation of athletes.
• Turning down the thermostats to save energy. In my college classroom, this meant the air conditioning kicked on in the dead of winter.
• His energy secretary telling us to ride bikes to work to solve the energy shortage. I worked 30 miles from my home.
• Managing the White House tennis courts.
• Giving away the Panama Canal after US taxpayers bought all the land and paid for the construction.

[Jimmy Valentine]

"There was more, but that's enough to give you the picture, why many of us- myself included- swore Mr. Carter had to go."

Abandone3d the Shah of Iran who had been the regions stabilizing influence against islamofacism as well as a check on the Russian influence.

What would thew world be like today had Carter stood firm behind the Shah?

regards,

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The company I worked for bought a new piece of capital equipment and spare parts in 1979. We paid 21 1/2 percent interest on $1.25 million.

[Fiddlstix]

Many here were not alive, or perhaps old enough to well recall the Carter era... let me refresh your memories.

You are spot on. The carter administration was a total mess.

(Btw, I was born when FRD was president. I don't remember him too well. I was a kid. I do remember Truman and Ike, etc. Up until the 'Toon was elected, I considered Carter to be the worst president we ever had.)

[Bernard Marx]

There was more, but that's enough to give you the picture, why many of us- myself included- swore Mr. Carter had to go.

The "more" I remember included Carter's headlong push to allow the Soviets to exert their influence all over the world, especially in our spheres of influence;

His apparent naivete(?) about Soviet front groups working to subvert American opinion here and in western Europe;

His complete wussiness and incompetence over the Iranian hostage mess;

His refusal to increase American military might even as the Russkies were flexing their muscle with increasingly heavier missiles aimed at western Europe and at us;

His derailing of the neutron bomb as a viable American weapon (now the Chinese are threatening to use it on us thanks to Wen Ho Lee and his predecessors at Berkeley, New Mexico);

And there's more yet, but I get depressed and almost homicidal every time I think of Jimmah the Commie.