Posted on 08/11/2011 6:35:38 AM PDT by RobinMasters
Who on Aug. 18, 2010 - almost one year ago - said, “I now think it is clear even to official Washington that President Obama is the worst president of modern times. President Jimmy Carter is redeemed”? Yes, it was I, and I threw the entire weight of the American Spectator behind that asseveration, putting both Jimmy and Barry on the cover.
Now, of course, others are stepping forward and drawing the awkward comparison. On the left, there is Maureen Dowd in the New York Times quoting an anonymous Democratic senator who laments that “we are watching him turn into Jimmy Carter right before our eyes.” Apparently the same comparison has been made by the left-wing fussbudget Eric Alterman in U.S. News & World Report. Yet I went further, making the point that between Barry and Jimmy, Barry is worse. Consider the prophet’s performance on the tube during this financial crisis. He is actually calling for more spending, and the markets continue to tumble. His fabled cool is exposed. It is obliviousness.
Columnists William McGurn and Bret Stephens made similar comparisons on the same day, Monday, and in the same newspaper, the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Stephens is bold: “I just think the president is not very bright.” He quotes Socrates, Aristotle and Plutarch, respectively, on wisdom, prudence and the costs of flattery. Mr. McGurn has an eye to history. He reminds us of the extravagant statements made about Mr. Carter’s genius more than 30 years ago by New York Times columnists Tom Wicker, Anthony Lewis and R.W. Apple and the author Norman Mailer in the New York Times Magazine.
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The first black Jimmy Carter.
Just when you think the Slimes couldn't possibly raise a bigger crop of fools, they come up with Paul Krugman and Frank Rich.
We hobbits knew all along Hussein was a Jimmy Carter Jr.
The first 1/2 black Jimmy Carter.
The dolts in the media and Democrat party have it all wrong. Obama has not "turned into Jimmy Carter". He has been Jimma all along. They were just too blinded by his skin color and aloofness to notice. Obama's "cool" is born of ignorance, not knowledge.
Barak is a bad, really bad, president but he is still no Jimma.
Carter gave us at 21% prime, double digit unemployment, radical Islam, etc. Worst domestic policy of my lifetime; worst foreign policy in my lifetime.
In addition, Jimma is the worst ex-president we have ever had.
I will admit that O has a year and a half left but, as bad as he is, he is still not as bad a Jimma.
I agree with you in the sense that Barry’s life after the Presidency is likely to be one long, continuous string of vacations, basketball, golf and beer summits. He is unlikely to turn into the malignant force that Carter has been since leaving office.
We needed to buy a major piece of mining equipment while he was in the WH. Our rate on $1.2 million was 21.5 percent.
“I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging,” Mr. Brooks says, “but usually when I talk to senators, while they may know a policy area better than me, they generally don’t know political philosophy better than me. I got the sense that he knew both better than me.”
No, you shouldn’t be bragging, Mr. Brooks. One would think that a NYT scribbler would know when to use “I” and “me.”
“they may know a policy area better than me” implicitly means “better than I do” hence “better than me” is as wrong as saying “better than me do.”
We now know that that shameless fawning over Obama by Brooks and others in the liberal MSM was grounded completely in fantasy and wishful thinking rather than objective reality. In objective reality, Obama is far less intelligent, far less eloquent and far less skilled as a political leader than either he, his minions or lap-dogs will ever be willing to concede.
This guy must be removed immediately!
The US got a credit downgrade under him for the first time in history and I could be wrong, but i don't think the deficit was as bad under Carter.
Blanket Fed healthcare coverage is pretty bad policy; Jimmy didn't do that.
We have yet to see where Hussein's foreign policy takes us as well.
"When a society loses its memory it
descends inevitably into dementia"
-- Mark Steyn
It’s not like this all wasn’t predicted. There is only one senator who is a declared socialist... Bernie Sanders of Vermont. There was only one other senator whose record was further to the left than a declared socialist. That was Barack Obama.
Bull Squirt... Carter is and will remain a dark spot on the Presidency..
Men elected Carter, women elected Obama..
“Mr. Stephens is bold: “I just think the president is not very bright.”
LOL! Finally these people are awakening to the same thing that 50% of the country, or more, has seen since day one in 2009, when The One took control. All we continue to hear, although presently waning, is how brilliant and messianic this guy is. After he’s finally ruined the country, they see a thing or two that isn’t right? God help us!
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