Ford on Carter: “Certainly the poorest president in my lifetime”
posted at 6:55 pm on January 12, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Another round of interviews granted on the condition that they not be published until after his death, as part of his grand initiative to posthumously kneecap every major figure on the American political landscape.
Born: 1913. Died: 2006. Number of presidents in his lifetime, not counting himself: 15, including Harding and Hoover. Granted, he made the statement in 1981 and softened his tone considerably in his dotage, but does anyone think Clinton or Republicans Reagan, Bush I, or Bush II went on to replace Jimbo in Ford’s cellar? If he’d told a reporter the Bushitler was the worst, does anyone doubt we’d have read about it on page 1 of the Times the morning after he died?
Mrs. Ford didn’t raise no dummy:
In 1981, Ford said: “I think Jimmy Carter would be very close to Warren G. Harding. I feel very strongly that Jimmy Carter was a disaster, particularly domestically and economically. I have said more than once that he was certainly the poorest president in my lifetime.”
But two years later, he praised Carter’s performance on the Panama Canal treaty, China and the Middle East. And in 1998, he said Carter “will be looked on as a better president than some comments we hear today.”
“He was a very decent, fine individual,” Ford told the paper. “There were no major mistakes. There just weren’t a lot of exciting results.”
Those last remarks came after years of friendship. If I got to be friends with Kos, I’m sure I’d move from calling his site Douche Central to a place where there “just weren’t a lot of exciting results.” But I’d be pulling my punches, wouldn’t I?
Ford also had some mildly unflattering things to say about Reagan, among other people.
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serenity on January 12, 2007 at 6:58 PM
Mine too (Komrade Klinton is a close second)
I’ll never forget those 8 men who died that night in April, 1980, at a place in Iran called Desert One because of Mr. Peanut’s poor micro-management practices. Carter was/is a weak kneed spineless …. At least Ford showed some “Malkins” every now and then.
Zorro on January 12, 2007 at 7:13 PM
I have been around for a few years and without a doubt Jimmy Carter was the worst President in my lifetime. Bill and Hillary Clinton were the next worst President.
Why don’t these people just shut up and go away?
Carter is trying to do something (anything) to try and take the tarnish off his presidency but every time he says or does something he just adds more tarnish to his legacy. Jesus! will he never just go away?
OBX Pete on January 12, 2007 at 7:25 PM
Agree OBX Pete, and Desert One very accurately defines this dolt”s entire presidency.
rplat on January 12, 2007 at 7:28 PM
I beg to differ. I’m willing to wager that Hamas thinks ol’ Jim is just about the best thing that ever happened to them.
SailorDave on January 12, 2007 at 7:29 PM
Looks like he nailed Bubba, aka Slick Willy, pretty accurately also.
Mallard T. Drake on January 12, 2007 at 7:30 PM
During his tenure, Ford’s every word was greeted with derision and scorn by the media, the same as any Republican president. And now his word is gospel. (if it doesn’t diminish a socialist worldview)
Freelancer on January 12, 2007 at 7:31 PM
Carter should and deserves to be remembered for what he didn’t do. When the hostages were taken, his gross inaction and pansy appeasement mentality started us down that slippery slope and led directly to 9/11. After our abandonment of South Vietnam and then the hostage crisis, we appeared to be the nation of cut and run. His actions since then, the conditions under which he accepted his Nobel Prize, EVERYTHING has been dishonorable. He is the worst of the worst and an antisemite to boot. Pig.
Glynn on January 12, 2007 at 7:34 PM
My 14 yr old’s favorite word is “douche” these days….so, if it’s ok with Allah, it’s ok with me.
Tru2my2 on January 12, 2007 at 7:37 PM
It’s only gospel now because of his statement criticizing the GWB administration, and the MSM’s glee in reporting on it.
Let’s see if they exhibit the same enthusiasm with the Carter statement.
BacaDog on January 12, 2007 at 7:39 PM
He’s also the Worst Former President we’ve ever had.
Labamigo on January 12, 2007 at 7:51 PM
Labamigo….you just took my post….without question the worst president and ex pres this country has ever seen…
robo on January 12, 2007 at 7:54 PM
oh, please, be serious
Squid Vicious on January 12, 2007 at 8:04 PM
I had a 16% mortgage and gas lines under Carter and then there was that Iran screw up. What a dope.
kmcguire on January 12, 2007 at 8:23 PM
This post made me laugh out loud. Thank you.
aengus on January 12, 2007 at 8:44 PM
To say that Carter was a disaster is to have a keen grasp of the obvious. Gerald Ford, Captain Obvious……..
ritethinker on January 12, 2007 at 8:46 PM
I’ll go even further and speculate that 230 years from now Carter will STILL be the worst President and worst ex-President this country has ever had.
MattSkosh on January 12, 2007 at 8:56 PM
Well golly gee-willikers Batman, you stink.
Limerick on January 12, 2007 at 9:45 PM
Maybe it would be advisable to consider more than one gentleman’s comments in regards to Mr Carter. Fourteen people from an advisory board of the Carter Center have spoken HERE.
News2Use on January 12, 2007 at 10:44 PM
My life started during the Johnson admin, and I’d definitely have to agree that Carter was the worst president of my lifetime as well, hands down.
Re his comments on Reagan, other than winning the Cold War, what did Reagan ever do about communism?
(that’s sarcasm for those of you that are a little slow).
thirteen28 on January 12, 2007 at 11:18 PM
Who cares what Ford thought of anything, even class clown Carter? Ford’s appointment of John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court stands out as one of the most asinine GOP acts of all time.
And he was so clueless that he continued to stand by and defend the appointment to his death. Even if one agrees with Stevens’s radical left (allah) position on religion, how could Ford be blind to the rest of Stevens’s leftist tripe?
Ford hoped that history will judge his short Presidency on this appointment.
It will…
Jaibones on January 12, 2007 at 11:41 PM
Desert One was just the result of Carter’s draining of military funding. I was on active duty during his term and I recall ships sitting pierside and aircraft on the flightline because of lack of repair parts. Oh yeah, it was a Democrat controlled Congress too….way to support those troops!
I still recall seeing a bumper sticker right after Clinton was elected. It read, “Jimmy Carter is no Longer the Worst President we Ever Had.” I laughed about it then, but it’s not true. He is definitely at the bottom.
I grew up in W.Va. and had no political thought other than the “Republicans are bad” mantra that everyone heard there. The Ford Carter race was my first time to vote. I am ashamed to admit that I voted for Carter, but only because he promised during the campaign to give all taxpayers a $50 rebate check….I’m still waiting.
The only fond memory I have of Jimma is that he made me a Reagan Conservative.
TugboatPhil on January 13, 2007 at 1:00 AM
Jimma was and is a clown and moron, however my personal favorite for the worst ever is still Lyndon Johnson.
His list of screw ups both of stupidity and even worse on purpose, is far too long for any comment submission.
Speakup on January 13, 2007 at 1:28 AM
I totally agree. Barbara Walters, in my opinion, rues the day she put that animal on her show.
RightWinged on January 13, 2007 at 5:21 AM
Some Presidents were a disaster on domestic issues, some on foreign, most at least had a strength in some area. Carter managed to suck at everything to a collosal scale.
Faith1 on January 13, 2007 at 8:22 AM
More senseless Carter Bashing? Why? Stop the cycle of senseless hate.
“He was a very decent, fine individual,” Ford told the paper. “There were no major mistakes. There just weren’t a lot of exciting results.”
Is close to the truth. The only thing Carter is guilty of by you haters is being President while Democrat. Talk about Bush hate! OMG! Carter/Clinton is the nucleus of a super nova of hate.
The 1981 statement Ford’s comment was right. It was right after Carter left office. At that time I would agree, but historically and in retrospect Carter was not as bad as your daddy told you when you where a kid or Rush Limbaugh says. READ A HISTORY BOOK HATERS. (Wikipedia in a pinch) (Reagan was rated only 26 of all Pres right after he left office.)
Here are the worst 5 *rankings of the last 10 US Presidents. The second number () is overall rating of all 43 presidents:
George W Bush - R (23)%
George H. W. Bush - R (26)
Gerald R. Ford - R (28)
Jimmy Carter - D (29)
Richard Nixon - R (33)
% [From only (2) of the (ll) polls in 2002 and 2005. My guess is its lower, you think.]
For Ford to call the kettle black is funny since most people think he is the worse right there with Carter and Nixon.
Where will George W. Bush, 43rd Pres of USA fall with a 30% approval rating after he leaves (yea!)? Who knows. My guess is it will not be with Lincoln, Washington or FDR. May be the have room at Mount Rushmore to add G-Dub-a-U
Clinton? Is 22 just above Bush Senior.
Reagan? An average of 15 (low 20, 22 and 26 right after he left office, to a high of 6 in 2005, right after he died.) I would like to say Pres Reagan was NOT as good as you Republicans make it out in your partisan heads. You say “Reagan Republican” excitedly like that’s GOOD? Please, Iran-Contra, he recited old hollywood movie lines as his own. They did not even wake him up the last year he was in office because he no doubt was suffering effects of Alzheimer’s. He was popular (60% average approval rating) and the right man for the time. He was a great figure head and inspired confidence. He spoak, looked and acted like a the head of the the free world.
Reagan gets WAY TOO MUCH CREDIT FOR FELLING THE USSR. Those wheels where turning for decades and Carter and before others should also be given credit. (Oh you can’t because they are Dems, sorry.) Reagan DID spend the USSR into the ground with Star Wars, B1B and all kind of military build up. However a lot of good the high tech developed under Reagan does in Iraq and Afghanistan with door-to-door and cave-to-cave shooting. I can see now with Bush, people (including me) long for Reagan, he was popular. Bush Jr. is not and for good reasons.
Clearly Carter inherited a pile of from Nixon/Ford. We where recovering from Vietnam and NIXON. The economy was in stagflation in the mid 1970’s when he got it. The energy crisis was upon us in 1973 with the oil embargo and OPEC price increases the following years before Carter entered office in 1977 was killing us. Oil went from (believe it) from about $3/barrel in Oct ‘73 to $13/barrel overnight. Oil price remained level for Carter’s term from 77-81 except for the last year when the Iran-Shaw-Hostage thing went down.
It was the poor economy, high gas prices of the late 70’s Carter got handed and Iran hostage crisis he is remembered for. Was that his FAULT? Is it fair? No, I think you hard core Dem haters are way off base and should show respect. You whine and cry about Bush bashing. Well at least Carter did not lie like a rug.
These three things, gas, econ and hostages, tant his administration, but he did a lot of good things and its not fair evaluation to look just at these things. It’s just more partisan, “I hate Democrat’s and love republicans” (no matter what) thinking.
PS: Carter started the military build up that Reagan continued and got all the credit for. It was Carter that start rapid deployment and CENTCOM we have today and has served the Nation well. His other successes in diplomacy, which Bush has NONE, are:
>South Korea Nuclear disarmament
>Rapid Deployment Forces, started CENTCOM running and fighting in Iraq today
>Rapid Deployment Forces CENTCOM
>Panama Canal Treaties
>Camp David Accords (still keeping Israel and Egypt peace, the two most powerful militaries in the region).
>Intervention in Afghanistan (which defeated the soviets and was another chip at the down fall of communist USSR.)
>Post Pres: Humanitarian work, Nobel Peace prize.
Yea Carter sucks? Look I don’t blame Carter just like I don’t blame Bush for 911 or Iraq. Bush did the best he could, but lets face it, Carter has more intellect and diplomacy in his little finger than G-Dub has in his whole body. It ain’t a GOP v. Dem thing, just the truth.
Carter may not have been considered a great Pres (because he could not LIE enough), but what the heck are they going to say about G-Dub-a-U? I know Ford did not think much of the Jr. Bush and his Iraq policies. IN FACT FORD could NOT be a republican in today’s GOP party. He was too bi-partisen and would not fall in line, goose stepping the Rove/GOP way. If you are not in line, you are out of the GOP. That is not a good thing.
GOP talking points and unity in a party can be good to win elections, but taken to far it becomes dangerous group think. The GOP has put a BIG FAT wedge in the nation and high jacked religion for politics. I rebuke that as a Christian. It is sinful and against the constitution. Jefferson would slap the GOP’s face if he was alive today. I’m not talking about God in our nation. I am ALL about one nation under GOD, pledge of allegiance, but the total rape of religion for political gain. Shame.
We shall see how history judges Bush #43, but when you say Carter sucks, he is right there with Bush Senior/Jr and Ford, so they all suck. I don’t care WHAT you think of Carter, I just want to survive the current Bush administration. PS-I am independent and moderate; before you attack me I’m an equal opportunity party brasher, both sides. I just hate hate-speech against a good and decent man with NO REASON GIVEN, JUST THAT HE SUCKS. Again my theory is partisan haters are raised that way. Rush Limbaugh was indoctrinated to hate Dems by his dad. Children who are sexually abused have aberrant behavior. Its a cycle that can be broken, so won’t you please break the cycle of senseless Carter Bashing.
*Wikipedia - Historical rankings of United States Presidents - Avg of 12 different polls from many sources from 1948 to 2005.
gmcjetpilot on January 13, 2007 at 9:06 AM
gmcjetpilot….
“goose stepping”???? …. and you have the audacity to say that that we have posted hate speech??
“South Korean disarming”…. while he helped North Korea get nuke technology during the clinton era….that is a heck of an accomplishment…
You were either not alive during carter’s administration or have read revisionist history books….we still have to deal with the stained residue of his judges and ill logic way of thinking.
He might have been a good and decent man had he just done his work with habitat for humanity after leaving office and you think that with the worst presidency in history he might have learned to simply be quiet during his retirement…
robo on January 13, 2007 at 1:25 PM
OBX Pete on January 13, 2007 at 1:28 PM
Carter was, and still is, the worst President in my lifetime (I’m 46).
During Carter’s presidency I watch as school achievement was downgraded, the economy fell, retail prices rose dramatically, industry faltered, interest rates hit double digits, and some of the worse unemployment occurred following the post war boom of the 50’s and 60’s. Carter did nothing to prevent any of this and most of his policies actually accelerated and/or caused these problems.
All this occurred as I was graduating high school and attempting to find a job. During this period, the best I could hope for a menial, low pay, labor intensive job and no real expectation to advance my education and my wages.
It wasn’t until Reagan became president and changed the economic and domestic policies that things started to change and my outlook on life improved.
It is reasonable for me to say, based on my experience, that Carter was the worts president in my lifetime. That’s not hate speech, that’s personal experience.
RedinBlueCounty on January 13, 2007 at 1:52 PM
Wait a minute guys, we’re all forgetting something here. We must cut pilot a little slack. Don’t forget, to liberals failing is succeeding. How else to explain their futile attempt at defending the war on poverty? Talk about a quagmire, w’re still losing this war 40 years later. Where is our exit strategy for the war on poverty. What scrifices are the libs making in this war? Who will pay the price(tax-payers to the tune of 10 trillion)? Remember, you can’t question Carter’s results, is his intentions that count. We are paying the price in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and N. Korea, just to name a few places around the world. Domestically, we pretty much have overcome(not in energy unfortunately)Carter’s failures thanks to Ronaldus Magnus. It was Nixon who stirred Carter into becoming the radical, nutty, Moore-worshipping bufoon he has become. Remember the praise that was heaped on Nixon during his death and subsequent funeral? Can you imagine how Carter felt? How am I going to be remembered? Rosalyn to Jimmeeeee, you better get out there and build you a legacy, to hell with the houses……..
Pilot we forgive your ignorance, we know you’re probably a product of govt. schools……..
ritethinker on January 13, 2007 at 2:12 PM
gmcshitferbrains,
Most of your spew isn’t worth the spellcheck it needs, but a couple of points and corrections:
- “The economy was in stagflation in the mid 1970’s when he got it.” Wrong; Carter invented the condition. Up until 1978, economists thought zero growth and uncontrolled inflation were mutually incompatible.
- You think that popularity polls created by leftists for Democrat controlled media organizations are the correct measure of past Presidents? Odd, no one else does.
- Carter’s Nobel prize is an international joke, awarded for his public hate speech to toward the current President.
- Where Carter is personally hated, rather than simply regarded as a fool and the worst President in 100 years, I would suggest it is a fair trade by partisans who have observed his cowardice and hatred toward conservatives since being thrown out of office.
Jaibones on January 13, 2007 at 2:44 PM
Does anyone else here have a problem with the way Allahpundit links? Maybe when you link to something you should describe where the link is going? Not everyone wants to (or has the bandwidth) to follow up every “wink wink nudge nudge” you fail to describe. Anything else is just cruel.
tadams1138 on January 13, 2007 at 3:41 PM
I think I’ve found a potential member for my dial-up sucks club. DSL apparently will hit outer Mongolia before it will hit me… 20 miles outside Houston.
SailorDave on January 13, 2007 at 4:14 PM
Carter is easily the worst president of our lifetime and realizing that fact may be the basis of confidence reinforcing a realistic knowledge of American politics over the last 40 years. In other words; if you think Carter was even a reasonable president you’re political knowledge is hopeless and you’re destiny is that of a politically ignorant fool. Whereas, if you have seen through the life of lies this pea-brained farmer inseminated upon our country you may be worthy of self-governence.
Griz on January 13, 2007 at 8:47 PM
Calm down, goose stepping is just a march hot head. However if you want to get into invoking Nazi appeasers, Soviet gulags, Pol Pot and calling distinguished veterans cowards in congress, the conservative propagandist are all over it. “A vote for the Dems is a vote for terrorism”. Stop with your moral outrage hypocrite. However if you are offended by Goose Step, I will change it to the GOP “screw us line dance”.
Look Dems are not any better and they can’t march; they are too disorganized. The NEO-CON cookie cutter is scary to me. (Sorry you like cookies don’t you? no offense)
I’m so sorry but BUSH ignored North Korea for the last 6 years and let it happen and empowered Iran with the Iraq war. Instead of competent people bush put political appointee’s in key positions. If you understand the reason for the reactor, it made sense. The real OUTRAGE is Bush ignoring special K (Kim jong ill) for 6 years! In fact let me get outraged and say BUSH and his administration, the GOP lead 109th congress was derelict in their duties. No doubt lying takes a lot out of you and does not allow time for diplomacy. SORRY NOT LYING, JUST BEING WRONG ALL THE TIME AND promising things that NEVER turn out to be true. My mistake.
I won’t be a hypocrite; I’ll admit I was for the war, in 2003, 2004 and 2005 but in 2006 not so much. After a full year of “stay the course”, the jury’s back, “NEW WAY FORWARD”, “Surge and Accelerate”. Please. Bush has wrecked the military. (I will always HATE Rumsfeld for being a condescending jerk and sending troops out with out armor. When ask by a soldier why they did not have Humvee armor, Rumsfeld said: “You don’t always have everything you want.” (with a shrug and a smirk) Are you proud of the Bush team?
It was tough times and it’s all the democrats and Carter’s fault, of course. Got it.
I respectfully acknowledge your opinion but frankly Carter is right there with Nixon, Ford & George Bush Senior, all contenders for the worse president of the 20th century; no doubt Carter will be above George #43 in history. Watch and see. I’m just going on polls. The polls do take con/lib bias into account. The results vary but the main players at the bottom are about the same (if you are honest).
You know what polls are. They are like votes; like when the PEOPLE voted the GOP out and ran them out of town Nov 2006. Just pulling your chain. Give Carter a break. He was a US President. Also farmers (including peanuts) are the salt of the earth.
I agree, Carter is good man, lousy President, too honest and could not lie and play politics. Of course he is a Democrat and WE HATE THEM. The world would be better with one party, Republicans of course. We should amend the Constitution so Bush can stay in office to FIGHT Terror forever. Yea! King Bush #43, Great president or the Greatest? “Constitution, we don’t need no stinking Constitution.”
All the other stupid comments and hate towards me……boring ho humm, bite me. I’m not liberal by any means (I check all the conservative boxes except I have a brain.) I’m sure the heck not a right wingnut evangelical holier than thou party loyalist. Hey I may be a fool, I voted for Bush twice. Doha! The shame is killing me. I could not call my self a republican or democrat either, because I’d be too embarrassed.
Come-on guys the last 6 years really stunk the place up, corruption, perversion, laziness, greed, incompetence and lying to the people too many times. You know it in your heart, but god bless you loyal party water carriers. Hail the GOP.
We are a strong nation and we’ll survive. Besides America is great because of the PEOPLE, not the politicians (Thank GOD). God bless America and her people. Pray that all the knuckle heads, crooks and liars (both parties) can do something right.
Carter gets a bad rap and people who hate him don’t know why? I’d be fine if you can say WHY? Most Carter HATERS just repeat what their daddy told them when they where kids. For you scholars and historians good on you, read it your way. No one likes to talk about watergate, nixon, spiro agnew, all republican dodo. Than you all get wood over Reagan and think all was great. “Reagan Republican”? How quaint.
It 1977-81 was all a long time ago; give it a rest. We have bigger fish to fry. I don’t care who is in office just so long they succeed and do the people’s business in an honorable, fair, competent manner, following the law. I distrust both parties and ALL politicians. Bush, I have no faith or trust left and that is why 70% of the country is sick of him. What about the boarder? Both parties are letting us down (again).
“YOU are not a patriot if you don’t want the Democrats to succeed.”
-OR-
“If you want the Democrats to fail you are for the terrorist.”
gmcjetpilot on January 14, 2007 at 1:50 AM
Yeesh. Jimmy Carter only wishes that Rosalynn wanted to give him a b/j that bad.
ReubenJCogburn on January 14, 2007 at 9:22 AM
gmcjetpilotnitwit on January 14, 2007 at 1:50 AM
It was tough times and it’s all the democrats and Carter’s fault, of course. Got it.
Jaibones on January 14, 2007 at 9:44 PM
Jaibones, you are clearly not a Gentleman or a man/woman of honor. Your little nitwit idiot tags show you for your limited mind. Just because you disagree with my contention, Carter was not as bad as people say, you attack and name call? Look I’m happy, my beautiful smart girlfriend adores me and I her, have a prestigious career I love and I’m well compensated for. I also love America, so I don’t give a rats pa-toot what you think about me. Your whole little Democrats and liberals are evil value system is in question. Sorry. People that hate like you are deeply biggoted and prejudice, but this is the only forum and topic you can express it with such venom. You have other hate and bigotry that is not as socially acceptable you hide, your dirty, dirty, little secret. You’re just intellectually dishonest.
Your right, the Dem and “Liberal Republican” Presidents started and escalated a war (Vietnam). Now we have Bush doing it. What is your point? 16 years of crap leading up to Carter’s term and it’s all Carters fault from ‘77 - ‘81?
You don’t get the point or you are making my point for me, CARTER (which is the subject, focus Jaibones) was not totally to blame for the state of the Nation when he took office or even when he left. John F. Kennedy assassination, Vietnam War, Watergate, Gas prices where already going crazy, Dwight D.E., JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford; Carter stabilized gas prices from the data I see.
The oil/energy crisis in ‘73 & ‘79 should have been the start of our independence from foreign oil and alternative power, wind, solar, nuclear. Carter put solar panels on the White house! That Rocks. Carter ordered hot water, lights and thermostats in government and commercial buildings off or reduced and temps set to 65F winter and 78F winter. Bush Jr. has done nothing with energy and asks for no sacrifice, just shop more. Of course he is busy.
Carter tried to stop the high gas prices last year - 28 years Ago. If Carter would have stayed in office we might be more energy independent than the “there is no global warming” and “Hummers” are great cars at 8 mpg group. You know who you are. If we did not need oil we would not be in Iraq today! Any argument? I thought not.
Now we are stuck with the bill for the war (approaching 1/2 trillion to date) and we’ll not get oil revenues from Iraq to pay for it, as Bush promised. Gee did they lie or are they just incompetent? I like to think it was an honest blunder, and we all make mistakes. Now lets fix it. What could the American people do with a 1/2 trillion? Secure the borders, increase the military, track terrorist and kill them abroad, work on foreign oil independence technology, health care and drug care for elderly…. the mind boggles.
PS: I forgot, Carter worked laboriously on the SALT II Treaty, reduced the number of nuclear arms produced and/or maintained by both the United States and the Soviet Union. GOOD! Another chip at the cold war and fall of communism.
As Ford said about Carter: “He was a very decent, fine individual,” Ford told the paper. “There were no major mistakes. There just weren’t a lot of exciting results.”
I disagree with the no results comment: Camp David accords, SALT II, CENTCOM, Afghanistan, Panama. Ford did nothing except almost get shot twice and pardon Nixon. It was that darn bad economy that people hate Carter for; deserved or not, he is blamed for that. I don’t think he was totally responsible for the energy and economy of the late ’70’s. There was no scandals. He conducted his self as a Gentleman and gave honor to America.
The debacle with the hostages was also his legacy. How or what was he suppose to do? Is he responsible for the helicopter flying into planes at LDZ desert 1? I guess he is. So is Bush. There is no comparison in scale of course. I pray for Bush and hope he is well but disagree with his policies as an independent.
Good day Sir. You are intellectually dishonest and can only think in your narrow prejudice black/white, which keeps you from having an adult conversations and name calling. No one said Carter was a great president, but you provide NO comments why he was BAD? What did you call me?
gmcjetpilot on January 15, 2007 at 1:05 AM
Dude, is someone paying you by the word for this stuff?
For what it’s worth, I think you were closer to the mark with the “narrow” and “black/white” characterizations than with the “deeply biggoted and prejudice” one, which makes little sense on a blind comment blog. If you mean Carter, he is a white, male, Christian, so am I, and I voted for him in my first Presidential election, so where does the prejudice and bigotry come in?
Besides, I don’t hate him, I just think he’s an idiot and the worst President in memory.
Jaibones on January 15, 2007 at 2:25 PM