Posted on 06/18/2006 11:54:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Amen, brother.
Seems like right after inauguration, Neil Diamond had a hit song, the hostages came home, interest rates dropped 10% in a month. We had a "real" president.
Looking back on my lifetime, the worst prezzes were all democrats. JFK (elected thru voter fraud by the Chicago Mob) was responsible for Bay of Pigs disaster and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. LBJ - Vietnam war escalation. No excuse for it. McNamara should have been executed for the deaths of 58K citizens. Carter - Economy, Iran Embassy Incident, Ass-kissing the Russians. Clinton - Decimation of US Military, sell-off of trade secrets to PRC, Somalia, Bin-Laden, Cole, African Embassies, impeached.
The republicans during that same time frame were Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush & Bush. No comparison whatsoever.
It's easy to approve of his current circumstance. Ask folks if they'd want to him be President, though, and I think they'd say "NOOOOOOOOWAY!"
That sounds about right. Plus, there's also the factor that most people who responded probably weren't around during the Kennedy administration and only know what their public school teachers told them about those years.
And don't forget Ms Lillian in the Peace Corps.
ROFLMAO!! Which one was that?
He gave us REAGAN - that's what I like about Carter.
They must have used AOL polls for their stats!
Don't remember the exact title, but the radio stations played it the whole two weeks of the the hostage release drama. Something about "Coming To America". In fact, IIRC, it was playing in the background on the evening news when they showed the hostage aircraft landing on US soil.
Somebody help me out here with the "real" title...
But the people simply loved Jimmah's fireside chats with he in his sweater while instructing us on how to set our thermostats. Many of them must have loved wage and price controls too.
I think he was also the originator of the widespread "peanut allergy" we see in our youngsters nowadays/sarc!
I don't believe that.
Easy. The Dems are winning the war of EDUCATION. The libs are educating our kids and rewriting history. As a result we have a gigantic bunch of num nums voting in polls like this who obviously were not around when that loser was in office.
I lived through the malaise of the Carter years: 20% interest rates, inflation, gas shortages, unemployment, humiliation and weakness in foreign policy...and I was an idiot Democrat then. What a fool I was.
I won't forget what life was like then, and for that reason I will not support 'rats like Carter ever again.
Note the use of Bush I and Bush II as labels. That tells you all you need to know about the attitude of Gallup.
Carter Warns Against Upsetting Iran
Former president, Jimmy Carter, has said that the United States should begin talks with Iran without preconditions. "We can't afford to upset them if we're to have any hope of gaining the release of the hostages," said Carter.
Carter says he believes that the Bush administration's offer to sit down and talk on conditions that Iran gives up its uranium enrichment program may not be enough. "Also people should turn down their thermostats and wear sweaters," Carter said. "If we all pule together we can lick the malaise that is sweeping the nation."
In related news, it was revealed that The Carter Center has received more than $1 million from Bakr M. Bin Laden on behalf of the Saudi Bin Laden Group. While the source of this funding has been questioned by some, former president Jimmy Carter defended it as a humanitarian effort. Carter says he hopes his "Habitat for Humanity" crew can use this money to build proper housing for bin Laden and his beleaguered companions. "Just because bin Laden's plotted terrorist attacks on unarmed civilians doesn't mean he
should have to live in a cave," said Carter. "Maybe if he were shown some love and compassion he wouldn't be so angry all the time."
In related news, Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, has urged Muslim countries to pursue "peaceful" nuclear development and long-range delivery systems that can bridge the thousands of miles between our countries and the "infidel pigs who threaten us."
read more at...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
I am very hard pressed to remember anything of great importance done by Kennedy except get assasinated.
Unfortunately he didn't start NASA either. It was formed in 1958, before he was elected
NASA was cool, and redecorating the White House...oh wait, that was Jackie.....never mind.
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