Jimmy Carter: America basher

townhall.com ^ | 5/15/02 | Jonah Goldberg

[nickcarraway]

Carter should host a show called ``The World's Most Misunderstood Dictator's.''

After electing Carter the nation said D'oh.

[InvisibleChurch]

Remember Jimmy and the Killer Rabbit?

[Light Speed]

"Have the Carters had their home tested for Radon gas"?

[DeFault User]

I cannot recall one domestic or foreign policy issue on which Carter made a good decision. God help us, even Clinton did at least one thing right. A man so consistently wrong as Carter was/is, can only serve as a sort of reverse weather vane on policy. If Carter is for it, I'm against it.

[ozzymandus]

Actually, I think it's nice of Jimmy to remind us of what an ignoramus he is. Every time the RATS campaign, we can remind them of their ex-presidential national embarassments, carter and clinton.

[luvbach1]

Carter has always had a crush on Fidel. He also is incredibly naive, ascribing his own good motives (and I believe they are good even though, as in this case, they often achieve the opposite) to the most odious individuals. As if his wishing it so will make them pure of heart. Instead he accomplishes no good, gives aid and comfort to an enemy, and undermines the President of the United States. Nice Going Jimmy.

[FlyVet]

Jimma cries because he knows he was a failure as Prez. He will cry about it until the day he dies. As with any Lib, it's always somebody else's fault that he failed. He blamed the public for "Malaise". Sorry Jimma, the Malaise was yours. And IT rolls downhill. You didn't get it then, you don't get it now. Stick to building houses. Darn sorry Uncle Ronnie smothered you like he did. But, you deserved it.

[BunnySlippers]

Notice who's wearing the red, white and blue ...

[FlyVet]

Ain't that pic worth a thousand words? Poor Jimma, so ashamed of his country. How pathetic.

[EternalVigilance]

You know, I haven't exactly been a Jonah Goldberg fan; but that piece was very well written, and definitely hit the mark, even if it is a target the size of a house. ;-)

Thanks for posting it...your work is appreciated.

EV

[Freee-dame]

He also is incredibly naive, ascribing his own good motives (and I believe they are good even though, as in this case, they often achieve the opposite) to the most odious individuals.

I remember when he said, during the depths of the cold war, "Those Russians, they really do lie." Duh. What a revelation!

[FlyVet]

I remember when he said, during the depths of the cold war, "Those Russians, they really do lie." Duh. What a revelation!

I haven't figured it out yet. Is he Marxist Idealist (blind), naive, or just incredibly stupid?

[BoomerBabe]

I know the Carters get a lot of credit for their house building for the poor, but there is something about their do-goodism that bothers me. It feels pious and self-serving. I saw Rosalyn on a talk show once, and she came off as smirky and self-satisfied. Her manner seemed incredibly cold to me. Even though on the face of it their work seems worthy of respect, I can't shake this attitude I have about them.

[LenS]

If it helped him politically, Clinton would do the right thing (i.e. sign welfare reform). But Carter was too stubborn to do even that.

The only two positives I can recall for Carter was 1) appointing Paul Volcker, who started the Federal Reserve back onto a sane path and critical to markets, consistency and predictability, and 2) actually producing or finishing some clever weapon systems that weren't popular with the Defense pork crowd (A-10's, Stealth FB's, etc.). Though, to be honest, that second one may be more to the credit of Harold Brown or the inability of the administration to realize what some clever people were doing at R&D. *g* No matter how you slice it, Carter really ranks up there among the worst Presidents of all time. Fortunately for him, Buchanan's legacy of the Civil War will always be rather hard to top.

[monday]

"Is he Marxist Idealist (blind), naive, or just incredibly stupid?"

All of the above plus a certain amount of weasel in his soul. I don't buy the common assumption that he means well.

[The Great Satan]

You know, I haven't exactly been a Jonah Goldberg fan; but that piece was very well written, and definitely hit the mark, even if it is a target the size of a house. ;-)

Yes, this piece was quite an eye-opener. Carter's idiocy goes beyond anything I imagined in my wildest dreams.

[Aim small miss small]

Jimmy Carter is a Johnson.

[FlyVet]

All of the above plus a certain amount of weasel in his soul. I don't buy the common assumption that he means well.

I think that he thinks he means well, but he is guided by a dark light. There is no other explanation for this, that he worships at the altar of Communism. Sickening. He made this choice, "in his heart".

[Tom Bombadil]

Yes, this piece was quite an eye-opener. Carter's idiocy goes beyond anything I imagined in my wildest dreams

Most of us who actually remember Jimmy Carter's presidency are not surprised by his continuing narcissistic involvement in foreign policy. The other bubba will be doing similar things for years to come.

The problem is how to educate people born after 1980 concerning this joker in the face of a media that takes him seriously.