The trouble with Carter

Toronto Free Press ^ | August 5, 2005 | Klaus Rohrich

[Roccus]

"...TheDemocrats could have run Mickey Mouse and won." Those were my words exactly at the time. Although I voted for Ford, I made a LOT of money betting on the Dem. candidate before the convention.

[Revenge of Sith]

With all the Democrats had going for them in 1976, they still almost blew it.

[chesley]

As long as she is an incompetent president, Hilary will be inconvenient, but not very dangerous. It is if she is a competent president that we have to worry.

[chesley]

Both Carter and Clinton are embarrassments to the South and to the Baptists, who generally have a better handle on how the world really is.

[elbucko]

I don't think that anyone blamed Ford for Vietnam -- his hands were tied by Congress anyway.

I don't think so either, at least consciously. I think it was more subtle, primitive and psychological, than obvious and political. Whether its an ancient tribe or a modern civilization, the head of government, after a defeat, will loose his crown or office. It's human nature. The complicity of congress is the real factor in the loss of Vietnam, but, deep down, Congress is not a head that will roll all at once. To the electorate, Ford was head of state when the state lost a war. He must go, even if the successor is an unknown.

[shekkian]

"You mean it's behind the rabbit?"
"It IS the rabbit!!!"

[TheForceOfOne]

Jimmay!

Jimmay?

Jimmay!!

[badgerlandjim]

Hey now - without Jimmah gettin' elected we'ed never have had...

BILLY BEER!!

[RATkiller]

I was there. People were insanely mad at Nixon and more insanely mad at Ford for pardoning him. A lot of people not just the extreme left wing felt this way. Carter was thought to be an honest man who would clear out the sleaze. I am not defending this I am just telling you the way it was. I didn't vote for Carter.

[Tulane]

At least we were only fooled once (by 'we' I mean the country, not my family!)...thankfully he had his 4 years and then was kicked out on his lilly-white-Georgia-azz.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Iowa Caucuses put Jimmah Cahtah in the spotlight. He won in Iowa because he swept a bunch of Polk County Courthouse Democrats off their feet and they controlled the caucuses. That's what happened.

[hdstmf]

The alternative was little Jerry Ford. He was a total loser
who cut a back room deal with Nixon. He was no more than
a political hack. None of us knew just how bad Carter would turn out.

I agree that Carter has become a totally worthless socialist
jerk. If my memory is correct, even Clinton didn't think
much of him. It can't get much worse tha that...

[TheForceOfOne]

[elbucko]

How do you figure that Clinton "inherited" the White House?

H. Ross Perot willed it to him.

[bill1952]

And that, El Bucko, is the unvarnished truth, irrespective of what libertarian trolls like iconoclast would have you believe.

No Perot = No Clinton.

[obnogs]

H. Ross Perot willed it to him.

But wouldn't that reasoning lead us to the conclusion that Bush inherited the White House from Nader?

No Nader = No Bush.

[doberville]

Odd days and even days for buying gas. . .by tag number.
Even numbers got screwed.

[iconoclast]

No Perot = No Clinton.

No Perot = two terms for pops.

A bigger, better head start on globalism.

More great legislation like the Handicapped (or whatever) Americans act.

Nothing wrong with dumping pops, except for nominating the sterling, ultra conservative Dole in '94.

[softwarecreator]

Completely forgot about odd/even days ... talk about a lame idea.

[SALChamps03]

Followed closely by the fact that he's an idiot and a pu$$y.