Posted on 03/31/2006 5:14:56 PM PST by ncountylee
Back in 1993, P.J. O'Rourke wrote an essay entitled, "50+ Reasons Why Jimmy Carter Was a Better President Than Bill Clinton." I agreed with it at the time, but now I demand a recount. Little did O'Rourke know then that Carter was about to embark on a megalomaniacal campaign to become a "great ex-president," inspired by the outpouring of admiration for Richard Nixon upon his death in 1994. As long former president Carter's reputation is being revised, it might as well be done accurately. To that end, here's a list to rebut Mr. O'Rourke's, by explaining why Jimmy Carter is even worse than Bill Clinton.
* Clinton is only one draft-dodger, but Carter pardoned them all.
* If Clinton's brother marketed his own beer, it would probably be pretty good.
* The atrocious Agreed Framework with North Korea was Carter's idea. Clinton only signed it out of his characteristic lack of conviction.
* As childish as Clinton can be about many things, at least he doesn't tell people to call him Billy.
* Carter brought Walter Mondale within a heartbeat of the presidency. Clinton banished him to Japan.
* Clinton helped the Democrats lose control of the House of Representatives for the first time in forty years, whereas all of Carter's ineptitude was not enough to dislodge Speaker Tip O'Neill.
* Unlike James Earl Carter, William Jefferson Clinton does not share the first two names of a famous assassin.
* When Clinton acts as a tool for despotic foreign governments, at least he's smart enough to get something out of the deal for himself.
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So Jimmah thinks that by waltizing around the world brown-nosing Islamist/communist dictators he'll get back into America's good graces?
I agree. Clinton > Carter. Which is like saying "paper cut on the eyeball > being slowly dipped feet-first in a vat of acid."
Read the book "The Real Jimmy Carter" and be thoroughly disgusted with him.
He's way to kind to Carter.
How can Carter be worse than Clinton?
Clinton brought Hillary to the White House.
You know the rest of the story.
This made me grin.
It's a tough choice: it's like asking someone if they'd rather drink pus cola or eat a scab sandwich.
they're both doodies in the swimming pool of life.
<< .... P.J. O'Rourke wrote an essay entitled, "50+ Reasons Why Jimmy Carter Was a Better President Than Bill Clinton." I agreed with it at the time, but now I demand a recount .... >>
I also agreed back then - but now I accept the likelyhood that, notwithstanding the vote's still in progress, it's beginning to seem likely the ongoing recount will reverse the original result.
Guh! (does horror shimmy) First it was the 'dog gets his tongue caught in the paper shredder' thread, then it's 'paper cuts on the eyeballs' then we have to talk about Jimmah, too!
This is NOT my day to be reading on FR!
Cahter also gave Kerry a pass on his less-than honorable Naval discharge and pardoned all the Canada-runners who evaded the draft during VN. Cahter is sewer scum, Clintoon is a floater on top of the sewer. Take your pick!
My personal view is Clinton was a worse man but not by much. Carter was a worse president, but not by much either.
Carter was a much worse president than Clinton. No president since Hoover has made a bigger hash of the economy than Hoover, and he set in motion the Islamic movement through his inept handling of the Iran hostage crisis.
It's like flipping a cow pie and calling heads or tails.
I usually don't compare. I just flush.
The peanut farmer went out of his way to harm the United States.
Jimmy Carter was worse than Clinton. OTOH, he was better than LBJ.
--Dean Vernon Wormer (John Vernon) and Gregg Marmalard (James Daughton), National Lampoon's Animal House
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