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.

He’s pretty much right on the money, with a couple of minor exceptions.
First, nobody in Reagan’s camp ever said that Reagan alone caused the Soviets to collapse. Most conservatives will readil…

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All of your snark, aside, back up your point, lefty troll. Democrat Presidents from ‘60 to ‘68, followed by eight years of a liberal Republican and his stooge, followed by Carter. A Democrat-controlled House and Senate throughout. A Democrat-controlled media.

A war that the Democrats invented and escalated, which was carried on by the liberal Republican and then ended. So, do you “got it”, or are you just an idiot?

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?

It was tough times and it’s all the democrats and Carter’s fault, of course. Got it.

All of your snark, aside, back up your point, lefty troll. Democrat Presidents from ’60 to ’68, followed by eight years of a liberal Republican and his stooge, followed by Carter. A Democrat-controlled House and Senate throughout. A Democrat-controlled media.

A war that the Democrats invented and escalated, which was carried on by the liberal Republican and then ended. So, do you “got it”, or are you just an idiot?

“goose stepping”???? …. and you have the audacity to say that that we have posted hate speech??

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)

“South Korean disarming”…. while he helped North Korea get nuke technology during the Clinton era….that is a heck of an accomplishment…

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?

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.

It was tough times and it’s all the democrats and Carter’s fault, of course. Got it.

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…

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.”

There was a time, not that long ago really, when Jimmy Carter at least looked like a great ex-president. … But since the election of George W. Bush, Carter has stepped back into the partisan arena and reminded us all of why he was such a lousy presid…

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.

Ford Impressive in First 100 Days as Dead President (2007-01-13) — President Gerald R. Ford, who since his death last month has released a barrage of personal opinions about U.S. presidents and their policies, today announced a new program to…

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.

Pilot we forgive your ignorance, we know you’re probably a product of govt. schools……..

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.

Rush Limbaugh was indoctrinated to hate Dems by his dad.

How the hell do you know this? Who told you this? Rush? his father? Thats the trouble with liberals (no matter what you call yourself) you just make up crap and state it as fact and if you aren’t questioned about its authenticity it just stands as fact.
Come on gmcjetpilot – tell us how you know this.

“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…

“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.

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.

I totally agree. Barbara Walters, in my opinion, rues the day she put that animal on her show.

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.

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…