Posted on 05/20/2007 5:23:34 AM PDT by pubjohn47
Jhimmitude at its finest!
“How was his Cold War record?”
Remember when Jimmy told the world (during his debate with Ronald Reagan) that he discussed “nuclear proliferation” with his young daughter Amy? I’m sure the Soviets and Chinese got big laughs from that.
Junior Birdbrain already has taken the cake.It took Jimmy Carter 30 years before he said something I agree with.
The thing about Carter is that there is no Ronald Regan waiting in the wings.
After Bush is thankfully out of office,there is no Ronald Regan walking through the door.
Happy days are probably forever not here again.
I dislike Carter immensely, but its hard to argue with his conclusion.
Clintoon is the worst and Jimmah is the second.
Carter’s criminally inept foreign policy, regarding Iran and the Shah, and then use USSR and Afganistan, are DIRECTLY responsible for the mess we are in today.
Jimmuh is not only the worst president ever, he’s the worst ex-president ever, though BJ Clinton gives him a good run for his money. Both of them were slobs in office but more than that, they are the first ex-presidents publicly to denounce their successors and undermine their own country by so doing.
No man with any sense of honor would ever have done this in the past. But these two fools have no honor, none, not a shred of honor.
The sad thing is that their criticism undermines the ability to accomplish much of anything—which, of course, is exactl the goal of Jimmuh and Bubbuh. To gain power by ensuring the failure of your opponent may work, but it’s a pyrrhic victory in the end. If soldiers’ lives were not at stake and if the errors of one’s opponents were serious and dangerous enough, it might be in some circumstances a justifiable strategy. But openly to undermine your opponent’s ability to govern when soldier’s are dying for the country is unforgiveable. Carter is a clumsy monster. BJ is a slick monster. The two of them deserve each other.
Get serious. Bush is worse than Carter? Than Clinton? Than LBJ??? However, if the immigration amnesty bill becomes law, you may be right...
“aim at the White House’s policy of pre-emptive war”
And I take aim at Carter’s LACK of war,(and goofy accent) for making me ashamed of my country’s weakness and never voting Dem ever again.
I guess even Jimmy is conceding that nobody will ever come close to touching the job he did on the domestic front. (Gas lines, locked thermostats, "malaise", 20% interest rates, hyperinflation...)
Since I don't live in the Islamic world, I could care less if the Jihadist-on-the-street likes Bush or not, in fact I'd prefer he doesn't like Bush.
The demented old fart from Georgia needs to have Michael Moore sit on his lap again.
I assume LBJ signed the 65 immigration bill also from Teddy that ended european immigration in favor of illiterate 3rd worlders.
When your own administration was the worst in history I suppose it’s natural to want to hang that label on someone else.
What an ass he is! “Death to America” was born under his pathetic presidency!
You miss the point. Even if were true that GWB is a bad president, an ex-president does not say so publicly. He can say it to all his friends if he wishes, but not publicly. An honorable, decent man respects the electoral process, the structures established by the constitution in which properly elected officials deserve to exercise the constitutional power and authority of their office, especially in foreign policy, until the next election. Joe Six-Pack citizen can jabber away all he wants in criticism of the current president. But a former president is not an ordinary citizen and what he says affects policy in a way almost no one else can.
Criticize GWB all you wish. But the very fact that Jimmah has broken the basic rule for expresidents makes him worse than GWB, hence his conclusion can be argued with. Jimmah’s just plain wrong about who’s the worst president. It’s not hard to argue with his conclusion, no matter how much you dislike GWB. It’s the sort of sloppy “moral equivalence” you used here that gets us all in trouble. Be angry with GWB as you wish, but be intelligent about it—between him and Jimmah there’s still a significant gap.
I can’t stand Carter and think he is the worst President we have ever had, but he had nothing to do with Bin Laden in Afghanistan.
I refer you to a book on the war in Afghanistan, “Charley Wilson’s War”. All this was done during the Reagan admin. What we did was admirable but as we often do we dropped the ball as the Russians fled the country and let a vacuum develop.
Oh, so that's why Europe is swinging pro-American again...why didn't I see that? /s
And hindsight is 2020, in the 80s everyone was a big supporter of the mujahedeen vs the evil commies, who could have predicted the taliban would be worse than communism.
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