[NYIslander]

Second worst. Warren G. Harding has to be the worst of the 20th century.

[indianrightwinger]

Tells you one of two things:

1) Polls are useless
2) Most Americans are clueless

Hope it is #1.

[operation clinton cleanup]

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

Hi tied Clinton... that says something.

[auggy]

Most people that answered the Poll about Carter could not have been alive when he was president.

[nmh]

It only proves how ridiculously STUPID people CHOOSE to be.

[Brilliant]

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!"

[divine_moment_of_facts]

They must have used AOL polls for their stats!

[freekitty]

I don't believe that.

[bust]

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.

[Recovering_Democrat]

What-EVER.

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.

[jebeier]

Note the use of Bush I and Bush II as labels. That tells you all you need to know about the attitude of Gallup.

[John Semmens]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.