Posted on 08/09/2005 9:28:54 AM PDT by MikeEdwards
Please remember people that Ford was just as liberal as Carter (Whip Inflation Now!). He would have probably handled the hostage situation better, though - but Reagan would never have been elected as people would have thought that yet another Republican President was enough (The Swimmer would have been elected then...)
"Before that he got elected Governor of Georgia. It's too bad he was ever let into the US Naval Academy."
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He was going to be among the first generation of the Navy's nuke officers but his father's illness caused him to resign his commission and take over the family farm. You never know, he might have made a fine engineering officer but the thought of him eventually taking over command of a boomer sub gives me pause.
Well... thanking Carter for being a horrible president, thus allowing a Republican victory is quite an interesting spin.
Carter has school girl crushes on 3rd world dicatators
Rebel banker explains it very well, but I would also add this comment:
Without Carter we might not have gotten Reagan elected in 1980. So for that we should be thankful.
What I hear is that nobody in his class at Anapolis remembers him...just what I hear.
IMHO, not as much as people think. I don't think that Carter won the '76 election as much as Gerald Ford lost it. Moreover, I don't accept the conventional wisdom and excuse that it was Ford's pardon of Nixon that defeated Ford. Gerald Ford lost because he was the president during the loss of a war. The TV pictures of Saigon falling appearing on American TV was the nightmare that LBJ tried to avoid by escalating Vietnam. The nightmare became real for Ford because the country won't vote for a "loser", whether it's his fault or not.
Both Carter and Clinton inherited the White House, they did not "win" their elections outright. That's why both of these morons became president, by default.
He was also President during the time when his Pal, Castro, kicked out all those folks from Cuba and allowed them to Migrate here. I beleive it was called the infamous Mariel Boatlift ...
What I hear is that nobody in his class at Anapolis remembers him...just what I hear.
I had just gotten my driver's license at that time. What a pain.
yea, that was quite dumb - lol. Ford at least used the veto pen a lot to control spending. That was a good thing he did.
Carter was the most idiotic and naive President. LBJ and surely Clinton were more evil and self-aggrandizing. Throw up a three sided coin and you can't go wrong for worst President. Incidentally, they are the last three Democrat Presidents.
It wasn't a "smoking" thing. It was a Watergate thing.
Wrong. The problem is his brain.
Yes, Nixon really blew it with that one ...
Remember when Jimmah said he consulted with his daughter Amy on foreign policy? Not long after on Monday night football some former footbal QB was asked his opinion on a play, and he replied that he'd have to call his daughter and get back to them . .
No reflection on the south, I grew up there, but Cartuh's as big a joke as his fellow southerner, Slick William.
The problem is that he is very resentful that he had his A## handed to him in the 1980 election and has been taking it out on his successors ever since.
Nixon got hounded out of office for using amateurs to do what FDR, JFK, and LBJ used the FBI to do.
Funny how all three are the Democratic Party's biggest heroes.
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