Jimmy Carter Surely Wasn't Worst President

[Purveyor]

In reference to Mitch Goldberg's July 30 commentary, "Former president needs to stay out," I would have to ask Mr. Goldberg where his head has been the last six-plus years? Under a rock?

He states that Jimmy Carter is the biggest failure in U.S. presidential history. It amazes me that a man who wasn't the best of presidents but certainly not the worst yet has done more good than any other former president with Habitat for Humanity and human rights is so vilified by those whose real loyalties apparently lay with Israel.

Is it because he has opened our eyes to both sides of this never-ending conflict? What about Mr. Bush ignoring the holocaust going on in Darfur all these years?

---EOE---

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-pbmail901pnaug06,0,2855049.story

[Parche]

1. Failure President

GW Bush will go down as the worst President ever, in History of the world
followed by Buchanan, Harding, Nixon

[jaysunb]

3. He was nowhere near the worst.

Also, Im not sure Nixon will be veiwed in that catagory.

[Parche]

5. Carter

Carter was a moderate President
But has done more after that and is a human,then most President's will do in their lifetime :hi:

[jaysunb]

6. agreed....but,

check out post # 4. It says it all ! Thats why I believe history will vindicate he and his presidency. :thumbsup:

[yurbud]

15. the others will be far, far distant seconds.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Who came up with this thing about calling Carter a bad president?

And where did they pull it out of?

[EST]

4. Jimmy Carter was president under the worst of conditions.

The republicans did the same blam! blam! blam! discrediting act on him that they did on Clenis, doing all they could to prevent his election, even illegal stuff, all they could to render ineffective anything and everything he did or tried and then pulling more illegal shit to rout him from office and install the other village idiot, the one without a memory or a colon.

(The prevailing joke during raygun's first term, when he had a bit of his colon removed and was demonstrating a gonzo-like grasp of memory function, was "What's the difference between Raygun and an IBM typewriter?" A typewriter was a primitive device between a stylus marking on wet mud tablets and a modern computer/printer. The IBM word processor could, a bit like your PC, store correspondence and documents in memory to manipulate and correct, then print.)

Carter was not as brass balled as clenis, and was probably the smartest president we have had.

[bemildred]

7. That is a ridiculous assertion.

Jimmy was insufficiently vigorous in using the political capital he came into office with to destroy his enemies, and as a consequence, they destroyed him. All the rest of it is bullshit, Jimmy never did half the damage to US interests that Bush had already accomplished in his first term.

[marmar]

8. And Jimmy Carter has aged like a French wine.....

George W. Bush will age like processed American cheese.....

[TankLV]

11. bush* will age like standing shit in an unflushed toilet in a hot room...

unlike cheeze, it was never good and was disgusting in the first place, and it goes downhill from there...

[Slyder]

9. Franklin Pierce

is my candidate for one of the worst presidents. Pierce was president from 1853 to 1857 and let Bleeding Kansas continue to bleed. His leadership failure at this time was a cause of the Civil War. Pierce is joined by Buchanan, Grant, McKinley, Harding, and Hoover. Carter could have been better but ranks above these losers. Nixon was a failure because he had to resign--the only president to do so--but he had his good moments like setting up the EPA and the opening to China. Failure to lead in time of crisis is the worst way to fail. Grant and Harding lacked the intellectual capacity and were guilty of cronyism, the second worst failure.

Dubya offers both cronyism and failure to lead in a crisis. Swaggering is not leadership. Teddy Roosevelt might have swaggered, but he also was a leader. Bush has also had bad luck--Katrina wasn't his fault, but the way he dealt with it was. No other president has lost an entire city quite like he did! And kept it lost for so long. Bush will be remembered as "The Weakling". As Proverbs says: "Woe to the nation whose king is a child." Pray God he is not remembered like Romulus Augustulus, the last Roman Emperor of the West, deposed by the Goths in 476 CE. A Romulus founded Rome and was its last emperor. A George was our first president and a George is our current president!

[othermeans]

10. I think Buchanon was the worst. Allowed the South to take over armories

military installations and handed a hamstrung federal government over to Lincoln. They're building some big monument to him in PA. While Thaddeus Stevens' place is being bulldozed.

[reprobate]

12. There never has been and never will be a president worse than Boy George.

[Cobalt-60]

13. The 'Cons are all chanting this

The last time I visited a converted friend all he wanted to do was bust on Carter.
He was chanting "Carter is the worst president" as if it was his mantra.
This guy tends to say whatever his idols down at Faux tell him to.
So they're trying to hang worst anyone else but Junior.
While I would never cheat Junior of his well earned title, there is the small problem
that he never has actually been president, just a usurper lodged in the White House.

[othermeans]

14. Next time he starts busting on Carter ask him if he knows what the WIN program was.

It was one of the Republican programs like "Just say no" All yap and no substance. They tried to bring inflation under control when Ford was president with the catchy little slogan Whip Inflation Now.

[Cobalt-60]

16. He locks up completely about Stealth Technology

That came out of the Carter Administration, too.