[RabidBartender]

I am reading "The Real Jimmy Carter" by Stephen Heyward right now. Carter, in my opinion, is by far the worst president the United States has ever had. I cannot find a single thing he did as president that didn't immediately turn to complete and utter crap. And his track record since then reflects the same - Palestine, Venezuela, Haiti, North Korea...."Jimmy Carter" should be a synonym for "complete and utter failure".

But.....

If it wasn't for Carter's immense ineptitude, we wouldn't have had the Great Communicator for 8 years.

In his 1982 presidential memoir, Carter cited as his biggest mistake "allowing Ronald Reagan to become President of the United States."

[doberville]

As much as I despise Clinton, gotta admit: Carter was WORSE.

[DustyMoment]

I agree with Jack Kinsella who once wrote in the Omega Letter Daily Intelligence Digest that “Jimmy Carter holds the hands-down record for being the worst ex-president the United States has ever known. His post-presidential meddling in foreign affairs has cost America dearly, both in terms of international credibility and international prestige.”

I second that. Those in favor?? Opposed??

Motion carries unanimously. Carter is the worst (president and) ex-president the United States has ever known.

[Christian4Bush]

bttt

[Stepan12]

It's times like this that I wish I had bought that black and white poster of Jimmy Carter, distributed by 'Human Events' after Reagan was first elected. The poster showed a grinning Jimmah with the logo beneath it of Iran... commemerating four disastrous years.

[speedy]

I remember it being said before the 1980 election that the only reason to vote for Carter was that if he won, he would never be eligible for the Presidency again.

[memorandum1]

ping for later reading

[kitkat]

And don't forget that it was Jimmah who gave the Panama canal away.

And I will never forget the Christmas when there were no outdoor lights thanks to Carter.

And, he was NOT a nuclear scientist as the Dems claimed.

[nuconvert]

"“Jimmy Carter holds the hands-down record for being the worst ex-president the United States has ever known. "

The worst President, Period!

[Dixie Yooper]

Here's what I remember;

Government cheese
55 mph speed limit
Thermostat set at 65 degrees in winter
Thermostat set at 85 degrees in summer
Research and development of ethanol gas
Afghanistan's invasion by USSR
Boycott of the Moscow Olympics
Iran, the nightmare
The prisoner of the rose garden
A stagnant economy turning into a recession
Dow Jones Industrial Average below 800 points

[KC_Conspirator]

The premise of this article is right, but the facts are wrong and therefore this is a really crappy article.

In 1994, when Bill Clinton was facing down North Korea’s Kim Il-Sung, father of current dictator Kim Jong-Il, he sent Carter to strike a deal on his development of nuclear technology.

Carter went on his own and really screwed things up. Klinton was a joke as well, basically giving North Korea the ability to go nuclear, but Klinton never "sent" Carter.

Furthermore, Jimmy Carter did not want Khomeini installed, but was dangerously ignorant not to support the Shah or even grant him amnesty into the US, especially when the Shah needed medical attention.

[Grampa Dave]

"Everybody’s playing the blame game these days. The current target is Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who seems to be standing in for President Bush – the man who his enemies say is responsible for everything that’s gone wrong since the Biblical flood. (“Bush lied about the need to build an ark.”)

South of our borders we have a nut job running oil-rich Venezuela and threatening to do all kinds of nasty things to us. In North Korea we have another nut job building nukes and rattling sabers, and in Iran there’s still another whacked-out leader threatening to blow Israel off the map, for starters.

Believe me, Rummy had nothing to do with any of that. Nor did George Bush."

[Grampa Dave]

Lillian Carter when she looked at Jimmy/Billy:

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin."

 

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/20935.html

Thanks to George 76 for this great post.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

the Shah somehow offended Brother Carter’s exalted view of the inherent goodness of a mankind freed from the strictures imposed by dictatorial rules. With a wink and a nod, he arranged to have Pahlavi replaced by an exiled mullah - the Ayatollah Khomeini - who in Carter’s view would be a moderate leader who would democratize Iran.

Never forget.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Speaking of the dying murderous dictator, Carter said he found him "vigorous, intelligent, surprisingly well-informed about the technical issues, and in charge of the decisions about this country,"

Jimmy was just projecting his own self image into the P.O.S.