O'Contraire: Why Jimmy Carter is Worse than Bill Clinton

postchronicle ^ | Mar 31, 2006 | Daniel Clark

[GraceCoolidge]

Excellent summary! I wonder if P.J. O'Rourke will respond to the piece???

[DemforBush]

Clinton was degenerate, spineless, and corrupt, but Carter was and is a delusional self-righteous fool. Imagine if he had been re-elected in 1980!

[Savage Beast]

"Why Jimmy Carter is Worse than Bill Clinton"

That's easy: A fool is more dangerous than a scoundrel. Everybody know that.

(And these are the two prime archetypes.)

[Savage Beast]

It's a hard call, but: Note tagline.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Carter has written approx. twenty books trying to re-write his legacy. And in some corners, it is working.

[ncountylee]

Jimmy...Mount Rushmore's not happening, baby.

[Verginius Rufus]

If it had not been for Carter's ineptness in dealing with Iran, Ayatollah Khomenei might have lived out his life in exile.

[Windsong]

Then there was that botched rescue mission in Iran with the Green Berets (way to go)

[ncountylee]

During the briefing for the rescue mission in Iran one of Carter's advisers asked the briefer "what's take them out mean". When the double tap protocol was explained to him, the turkey was aghast and wanted the guards wounded.

The mission should have been canceled on the spot!

[DocRock]

Clinton never made himself look like an idiot when attacked by killer rabbits...

[CowboyJay]

If Mr. Clark wishes to be taken seriously, he can start by spelling 'eau contraire' correctly. I'd conjecture that along with disagreeing with him in the Carter/Clinton treasonometer debate, he would probably deplore improper spelling from a journalist as 'bad form'.

As for me, I'd prefer an honest fool with good intentions to a dishonest crook with nothing but treason and self-gratification on his mind.

Jimmah was far from the worst President of the 20th century. I'd put Komrade Klinton towards the top of the list alongside Woodrow Wilson.

[Beckwith]

Jimmah Carter was the worst prsident ever.

The only thing he's done worse than being president is being ex-president.

[Just mythoughts]

The only thing that checked Clintonism was a Republican House of Representatives.

[napscoordinator]

Clinton or Carter. What a choice.
My personal view is Clinton was a worse man but not by much. Carter was a worse president, but not by much either.


In some ways I agree with you, but lately my respect for Carter as a person has dropped big time. The ONLY thing that Clinton has going for him is he is a extremely good speaker, but has absolutely no morals. I would pick Clinton over Carter if that was the choice. Carter still pissed me off about the Panama Canal giveaway and those damn long gas lines.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

.......a megalomaniacal campaign to become a "great ex-president," iinspired by the outpouring of admiration for Richard Nixon upon his death in 1994

I remember watching Carter at Nixon's funeral. He had a not-that-subtly amazed look on his face in reaction to all the great things everyone was saying about Nixon. You could see the wheels turning in his head: "If Nixon can fall into an outhouse and end up smelling like a rose, I should be able to rebound from my disasterous term in office!"

Nixon had so much more class than Carter could ever hope to muster. For one thing, he'd have never considered betraying his country.

[RobbyS]

unchecked by a Democratic Congress, Carter's actions were more feckless. Whatelse Clinton MIGHT have done is beside the point.

[FreedomPoster]

Just for the record, LBJ was worse than both.

I fully expect that Carter will remain the worst foreign policy President of my lifetime, with Johnson as the worst domestic policy President, and overall "winner".

[Just mythoughts]

Actually not true, because we this day are only still discovering what Clintons planted the world over. Carter did not have the seductive powers the Clintons possessed as Carter was rooted out in four years whereas the Clintons continuously polled with a two thirds popular support and I have no doubt were it possible the Clintons would have been reelected for a third term.

[RobbyS]

Can't we stick with what each guy actually did? This other stuff is speculative.

[Just mythoughts]

"Can't we stick with what each guy actually did? This other stuff is speculative."

Clintons stated foreign policy was "equalize all nations" and nuclear was their equalizer. Clintons attempted to nationalize health-care and only a Republican House stopped them. There was the Kyoto Treaty attempt which had no other purpose than to bring US down to the same standard as the rest of the world. How about using the INS as the Clintons own personal get out the illegal vote agency.

The Clintons made it a habit of touring the world making public apologies for the 'evils' in American history.

The Clintons made public consumption for my children their deviant perverted behavior.