How ridiculous is this?

Polling Report ^ | June 18, 2006

[Kaslin]

Jimmy Peanut Carter the worst president of the last century at 61% approval rating

[TexasPatriot8]

Of course carter came out high. The idiot didn'tm ake any hard decisions when he was President and he hasn't changed in the 26 years since he stopped being President. When you have to make hard decisions, you aren't liked as much. That's life in the real world. And if carter was so great, why was he a one term President?

That number with kennedy was a crock too. He only ranked that high because he was assassinated. He botched the Bay of Pigs horribly, and other than his Tax cuts, did very little good for the country. Those high marks for him were sympathy because he was assassinated, not because he was a great President. He got us into Vietnam after all.

[NYIslander]

NASA was spearheaded by Johnson's senate.

JFK is by far our most overrated president. He had great rehtoric, but he got nothing done. And he had almost a full term.

[popdonnelly]

They should have asked my opinion. Carter is the worst American President of the 20th Century, and the worst ex-President of all time.

[Past Your Eyes]

I know the one you mean.
BTW, I have nothing against Neil Diamond.
Barry Manilow, on the other hand....
";^o

[Lazamataz]

most people could not tell you a single thing that Carter ever did

He whacked a rabbit with a boat oar.

[speekinout]

He didn't start NASA, but he was the one who pushed for the Apollo mission to the moon. That made a huge difference in our space programs.

[Grut]

Many of them must have loved wage and price controls too.

Nixon started that.

[VastRWCon]

Not as rediculous as this Dave's Birthday Card

[ladyinred]

Okay, President Bush has had much higher polls, and still would if the media didn't trash him constantly. They are picking and choosing at what point in a Presidency to compare the ratings. This is pure propaganda as usual.

[HHFi]

I graduated college in 1980, after four years of Jimmah's brilliance. I had a magna cum laude degree, a fistful of honors, a good resume from having worked my way through college, and the best job I could find was minimum wage retail clerk. I had friends who'd bought a house and were stuck with a 20% mortgage rate. There were lines for gas that cost more in inflation-adjusted dollars than gas costs today; we enjoyed the seemingly impossible economic miracle of "stagflation" (inflation and recession at the same time); and the Ayatollah had been allowed to take over Iran and humiliate America in front of the world, setting the stage for all the Islamic terrorist garbage Bush is having to deal with now (which doesn't stop Jimmah from having the gall to criticize the way he's doing it). When he wasn't delivering wet kisses and important properties like the Panama Canal to enemy dictators, he was blaming all our problems on Americans and our "malaise." Well, of course we were depressed! We had an incompent moron for a President!

When my niece was in college and being spoonfed the sewage about how great Carter was and how Reaganomics didn't work, her dad (my brother) and I would regularly set her down, go through her textbook, correct it and give her the real story. Apparently, it worked: she's a conservative supply-sider, and when she graduated with honors, she entered a non-Carterized work force and immediately got a good job as an office manager for a financial advisor.

Jimmy Carter is a prime example both of how history is rewritten and of the Peter Principle: he found of his level of competence swinging a hammer for builders of low-end pre-fab public housing. It's just a tragedy that he briefly got promoted to a job that was far beyond his abilities.

[dr huer]

Why did we elect Carter in 1976 instead of Ford? Ford's nearly instantaneous pardoning of Richard Nixon for his watergate coverup, and possible initiation weakened Ford's campaign in 1976. Moral compass error? Come the election of 2000, and Bush just squeaks through in Florida, whose electoral vote gives him the Presidency. Sending 200 plus federal officers to seize Elian Gonzales and send him to Castro enraged enough voters to cost Al Gore the Presidency. Democrat moral compass broken.

[Bernard]

The times made the man. After all, it was the 70's. Jimmy Carter was the perfect representative of a leisure suit era.

And Lyndon Johnson was the worst President ever. And the most evil American in the 20th century.

[nickcarraway]

The largest yax cut in U.S. history stands out among other things.

[Teacher317]

A couple of really cool speeches, lots of great Life magazine photos, and the cool "Camelot" thing really charged up a lot of people.

[meyer]

"..... that Jimmy would sit in his study after hours and knock back Jack Daniels like they were going to quit brewing the stuff."

So he did have one redeeming quality.

[meyer]

I am very hard pressed to remember anything of great importance done by Kennedy except get assasinated.

I can't remember because I was a little kid when JFK was president. I do remember when he got shot, though. My aunt called my mother and she started crying on the phone. Crying because the President had been killed! I doubt that too many would have felt great sadness if Carter, Johnson, or Clinton had received the same fate. Things have changed, and the democRATs have moved considerably to the left since then.

[Kaslin]

Well it is obvious the majority they polled were liberals and independent voters who vote mostly for democrats anyway.

[Kaslin]

While it is correct that Jimmy Peanut Carter gave the Panama canal away. It was not to the Chinese if I remember correct. It was Billy Jeff who gave the canal to the Chinese in 2000

[operation clinton cleanup]

While it is correct that Jimmy Peanut Carter gave the Panama canal away. It was not to the Chinese if I remember correct.

I didn't say that. But, he gave back control to Leftist Panamanians for no reason, who in turn sold rights of operations to the Chi-coms. So... I guess the end result is the same.

[Kaslin]

Yes that is correct. He gave the control of the Panama canal to Panama. I remember that idiosity like it was yesterday