Joe Biden Is No Jimmy Carter

Townhall.com ^ | September 3, 2021 | Michael Barone

[HamiltonJay]

Not in my book.

The entire Islamic worldwide terror problem today flows straight to Iran.

They created and funded this worldwide and have no intention of stopping.

This attempt lately to prop up Carter is more of the same nonsense.

Without question worst President in the last 50 years other than perhaps Biden, who is well on his way to replacing him.

Islamic world was actually modernizing and connected in the 60s and 70s… Carter’s insanity gave the Wahhabists power that now has spread throughout Asia and parts of Africa…

Without Carter abject screw up in Iran, Wahhabism would be contained to small pockets of backwoods tribal nations. Biden has just amplified this mistake and given them another country and first world weaponry. Afghanistan will be the gift that keeps on giving just like Iran has been.

[eeriegeno]

The guy is the laughing stock of the world and he’s taking the US reputation down with him! His wife should be ashamed for what she is doing to him! Joe Biden will be known to history as the Alfred E Neumann president of the United States!!!

[Verginius Rufus]

When the Russians invaded Afghanistan, Carter got the US to boycott the 1980 Olympics because they were being held in the Soviet Union. The net result was more gold medals for the Russians.

[Verginius Rufus]

I would put Obama below Carter even if Carter was less competent as a politician. He wasn’t guilty of the multitude of scandals that Obama was guilty of which have permanently damaged the federal government (politicizing the FBI, IRS and other agencies for a start).

[Pirate Ragnar]

Carter was an undisguised anti-semetic.

[Reily]

Exactly !!

Regarding your statement “..Islamic world was actually modernizing and connected in the 60s and 70s...”

All one has to do is do an internet serach and you will quickly find pictures from the 1960s & 1970s of Iran & Afghansitan where young women are in college and dressed in a fashionable for the 60s-70s but somewhat modest European style. Now all gone ! Look at class pictures of American University Cairo & American Univesity Beirut and you see the same thing, The watershed even is the Iranian Revolution the fact that it was a Shia version of fundamentalist Islam is irrelevant. It normalised Islamic findamentalism ! It gave them a suceess against the “infidel decadent west”, a sucess to emulate. In those class pictures you can see the fundamentlaist bacillus march through time. Every year after the rise of fundamentalist Iran you see the young women in those pictures go from stylistic but modest Eurpean dress to laundry bags on legs ! All of this can be laid at Carter’s feet. Now I don’t want to leave out European cowardice it greatly contributed too !

[Renfrew]

“The entire Islamic worldwide terror problem today flows straight to Iran.”

Does it? It’s our buddies in Saudia Arabia who funded Osama and the other global Jihadi groups.

Most of Iran’s efforts in the last decade have gone to support Assad in Syria, who really should be our ally against the Islamists.

[william clark]

Heck, about now, Jimmy Carter must be feeling like Winston Churchill.

[x]

I guess Carter did have some accomplishments, but the country was in worse shape by the end of his term than it was during Clinton’s or Obama’s or any of the presidents who came after him, and that’s what people remember. I can’t say who “loves America” and who doesn’t. I’m not inside their heads. Carter’s inexperience and naivete were not good for the country. Joe Biden may turn out to be worse than Carter. So far, he has certainly been worse, and without the redeeming achievements Barone finds in Carter, but I’ll hold off until we have more perspective.

[EastTexasTraveler]

Dhimmi Carter is responsible for most of the problems we have today in the Middle East. We controlled Iran, a big, strategically located country. Carter sold them out in favor of his Mohammedan buddies. Problems in Iraq and Afghanistan are his fault!

[Vaduz]

Trump came to the presidency with almost no hack experience and did great things for the country it’s why the left hates him.

It’s all about the man/woman not the R,D or I behind the name it’s all about common sense and experience.

[Chgogal]

Biden is worse. He is on China’s and Russia’s payroll. IOW, he is in it for himself and the Lying MSM shield him.

[jmacusa]

Next to Mohammad Jimmy Carter is perhaps the one man in the modern era most responsible for the spread of radical Islam. He was an a$$hole and as a no nothing kid from a family of life long Democrats I voted for him.

[MrLucky1966]

What Carter brought to the White House was a willingness to adjust to events and change his views. A product of segregationist southern Georgia, he installed a portrait of Martin Luther King in the Georgia Capitol, leaving segregation behind and endorsing the civil rights revolution.

That portrait was painted by a relative of mine, George Mandus (1924-2012).

I think President Carter wanted everyone to get along and he would have done better if Détente continued on but the Soviets started to support their puppet government in Afghanistan in 1978and of course invaded in 1979. Some say that Zbigniew Brzezinski advised Carter to back the Munhadjeen (sp) in July of 1979 that lead to the USSR invasion. I don't know really, it is one of those chicken and egg things but I think for the most part, Carter wanted to do good and was not out to really destroy the country but he was so into trust that he was a gullible bumbler at times. Still a lot of his policies were not too good and we had inflation, the gas crises and so on. the Iranian hostages, he didn't handle it very well but I'll give him credit to where at least he tried to rescue them. By 1979, I think Carter did buy a few clues and did start up some military spending and finally standing up to the USSR but it was too little, too late and this brought in Ronald Reagan thankfully. One big thing I'm angry at him though is giving away the Panama Canal. Still he wasn't right for the job but unlike most Democrats after him, at least he had a real job in the Navy with our atomic subs. If you put a gun to my head and say I had to pick Carter (in his prime of course) or Biden today, I'd pick the former.

I think Jimmy Carter was a late knee jerk reaction to the Watergate mess, President Ford could not hold it together.

[MrLucky1966]

I was too busy driving 55 in a house with a thermostat set to 78 in the summer and a 12% 30 year mortgage to notice anything else ...

I remember that too where we had the soft gas rationing of "even/odd" last number on your license plates to whether you can buy gas that do or not. Mom and Dad divorces in 1976 and Mom raised me. She had to work. On our car was 52471K was on our Penna license plate so I guess Mom had to go by the "1" before the "K"

Well in 1979 I was 13, a week before school started (I was going to junior high for the first time), I spend the weekend at my grandmothers where my cousins came in from Columbus to Pittsburgh plus my cousin Jerry from the South Side. Well, they all got to go home except me. I was stranded for almost a week because Mom needed the gas to go to work. I missed the first several days of school. I help grandma in the garden, watched TV, we read her paranormal books, listened to shortwave and the scanner, went to Pittsburgh on the bus, it was kind of fun.