On the other hand, even though he was the worst Prez ever, he DID authorize the development of the F-117. Credit where credit is due, but other than that, he sucked.

Carter’s remarks remind me of the running joke people of Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas like to say. “We are always competing for 48th or 49th.”

Bush browbeat him into it using some mysterious form of coercion that has never quite been explained. (See also the constant denigrations of Hitchens as a drunk whose imbibing has rotted his brain.)

Excellent analysis on Bush and especially on the Blair topic. This man goes in history as an absolute strongly backboned liberal, who worked for good with the one they despise the most. Would this have been a Gore/Blair alliance, with similar (assumed) actions after 9/11/01, Mr. Blair would be hailed a superhero by same factions, media included.

On Mr. Hitchens’ drinking/smoking – were he a Kennedy or other leftie, he’d go to rehab and be praised, after long dissertations on how ‘afflicting’ drinking/smoking is, and how the ‘victim’ can’t control it, bla, bla, bla…And Mr. Hitchens w/b hailed a superintelligent hero too.

amerpundit, thank you. Rates then were at times 17%, having gone up from 7 3/4 almost daily, lines at gas stations were around the block, driving in some place on odd days considered…in addition to others’ items listed, above.

gmcjetpilot (real pilots indignant again) – you provided numerous smirks. How you can make a hero out of nothing is truly miraculous. Should consider patenting indeas. Maybe someone will buy…

The Princess has it right. This truly bad president is seeking relevance where there isn’t any. The response, for an otherwise inept communications admin. was perfect. “increasingly irrelevant” was perfect. And it hit the spot. And for Carter, like many other unaccountable lefties to blame “or misunderstood”. It’s either a “joke” or “misunderstood”, which always blames others. Grow some stones, lillies! Own what you do and say, then try to make yourself better and more plausible.

Carter is doing more, though, besides trying to embelish his insignificant record. The hatred of Gore losing to this “nitwit walking/talking Texan”, by electoral votes drove the Left insane. Then, as if to prove that Mr. Bush’s god exists, came 9/11/01 and handed him a raison d’être to preside, legitimately, in a time when the worst attack on this wonderous country occurred in history. The rest we know. What was mild derangement became a complete mass neurosis. Mr. Carter is trying to point that out, and by doing so hoping to raise his zero-status, using the anti-American sentiment around the world, the BBC and our lefties as platforms.

What an irrelevant worm!

What a

Man, too easy gmc:

Nobel: given to him to spite President Bush.

Humanitarian: Hates Jewish humans.

Righteous: Listen to him speak about those Jews again.

Camp David: brought in by Israelis and Egyptians after the fact.

Human Rights: for killers and terrorists, not for Jews.

China: Nixon

Panama Canal: now controlled by our adversaries.

Author: just repudiated by his own employees.

SALT: nothing

Afghanistan: ooh, boycott.

Hostage crisis: caused it.

Rapid Deployment: failed rescue.

Economic failure: malaise, all our fault.

Yeah, boyo good ol Jimmy. Bush ain’t done nothin but get rid of two dictatorships. Helluva lot worse than helping install one in Iran.

You all whine and cry about how the “world” doesn’t like us and President Bush is to blame. NB: this world of which you speak is made up of those who love evil and commit evil acts against their own people each day. Who wants to be praised by them?! Only those others who love the darkness.

Carter, bah! Don’t want him dead, don’t want him hurt, don’t want him speaking again.

Done.

outstanding rebuttal!

He has repeatedly made agreements for which ther other side never followed.

And he has the nerve to call Bush the worst president ever.
Aaaaaagh!

Nobel: given to him to spite President Bush.

Humanitarian: Hates Jewish humans.

Righteous: Listen to him speak about those Jews again.

Camp David: brought in by Israelis and Egyptians after the fact.

Human Rights: for killers and terrorists, not for Jews.

China: Nixon

Panama Canal: now controlled by our adversaries.

Author: just repudiated by his own employees.

SALT: nothing

Afghanistan: ooh, boycott.

Hostage crisis: caused it.

Rapid Deployment: failed rescue.

Economic failure: malaise, all our fault.

Yeah, boyo good ol Jimmy. Bush ain’t done nothin but get rid of two dictatorships. Helluva lot worse than helping install one in Iran.

You all whine and cry about how the “world” doesn’t like us and President Bush is to blame. NB: this world of which you speak is made up of those who love evil and commit evil acts against their own people each day. Who wants to be praised by them?! Only those others who love the darkness.

Carter, bah! Don’t want him dead, don’t want him hurt, don’t want him speaking again.

Done.

Yea Jimmy Carter:

-Nobel Peace Price recipient
-Humanitarian
-Righteous and spiritual man
-Camp David Accords
-Human Rights
-Sino-American relations
-Panama Canal Treaties
-Author of 16 books

-Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT)

-Intervention in Afghanistan (USSR 1979): The Carter Doctrine, US would not allow any other outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf. Terminated the Russian Wheat Deal. This was the many of the first nails in the coffin of the cold war.

-Hostage crisis: Shah of Iran (installed by the US before Carter) was removed by the 1979 Iranian revolution, led by Ayatollah Khomeini. American Hostages taken. A failure to recognize the deterioration and the failed military mission, which Carter took full responsibility, where Bush dances around responsibility for everything and blames others. The event motivates Carter to increase the military and start a new division of the military CENTCOM.

-Rapid Deployment Forces – CENTCOM main command control for the fight on terror even today. Started by who? Carter a democrat. Carter is the one who started build up of the military that Reagan gets all the credit for.

-Economy and gas prices: Carter (1977-1981) inherited a pure steaming pile from Nixon and Ford, Vietnam War and Watergate. The years of republican rule had put us in “stagflation”. When the energy market exploded — an occurrence Carter desperately tried to avoid during his term. Carter is the one that came out with sweeping energy saving plans that we still enjoy today.

Carter was the first to recognize our need to get off of foreign oil. If Reagan would have continued Carters energy plans, we would NOT be dependant on mid east oil and we would not be in Iraq. He was visionary. Carter convinced and create the US Dept of Energy and put solar power in government buildings, including the White House, where he turned the thermostat down and wore sweaters in the winter. What does Bush really do all day?

Carter inherited the aftermath of the first OPEC gas embargo’s of 1973 and rapid rising gas prices right before taking office (sound familiar). The Iranian Revolution caused the second embargo in 1979 and long gas lines. I don’t think he can be blamed for that. Again Carter took action and was able to keep prices flat throughout his term. However the memory of waiting in long gas lines in 1979 by the american people, is one of the main reasons he is not ranked higher. If it was not for the hostages and oil embargo, which where not in his control. He might have won in 1982 or at least been remembered favorably.

IN 1979 WE HAD ALL THE SIGNS WE NEEDED TO GET OFF MID EAST OIL. REAGEN DID LITTLE TO NOTHING. CARTER DID MORE FOR SETTING THE GROUND WORK OF ENERGY INDEPENDENCE IN HIS LAST YEARS 2 YEARS IN OFFICE DID MORE THAN REAGAN IN 8 YEARS, BUT IT MEANT SACRIFICE, SOMETHING GEORGE W. BUSH DOES NOT DO OR KNOW HOW TO LEAD OTHERS TO DO, TO MAKE SACRIFICE, OTHER THAN THE MILITARY AND THEIR FAMILIES. His advice after 9/11? Go buy things.

We have less than 1% of the American people involved in Iraq. We are kidding our self. The hammer will fall and we will have to pay for it later.

I would NOT want to be the next President for all the money in the world because what a mess the state of the nation is in. It’s almost going to be a sacrificial presidency, like Carter was set-up, regardless who takes office it will likely be one term, a fall guy. To do the right thing will take immediate sacrifice, but ALL the idiots running are liars, cheats, crooks and scallywags, and the people are not willing to sacrifice, especially selfish, self centered conservatives like you all that cut down a great former Presidents, who has done more good than most Presidents in history.

A man of character, convictions and diplomacy is never irrelevant?

WHAT HAS BUSH DONE? Please

I love the conservatives whine, cry and throw temper tantrums about the “Hate Bush Crowd”, while just a mention of Carter or Clinton makes you all go crazy like rabid weasels foaming at the mouth.

You don’t know what you are talking about. President Carter was right the first time, Bush is terrible and the worst in (modern) history. The historians and political science folks have rated presidents which are widely available. Lincoln, FDR, George Washington, Jefferson and Roosevelt often make the top of the list.

Tightly packed in middle (mediocrocy) of the 43 presidents, in order, is: Clinton ranked at #21, followed by G. W. Bush at #22, followed by G H Bush and Carter & Ford, who are tied at #27.

THE WORST, unanimously by both conservative and liberal scholars is Harding the 29th president. Grant, Nixon, Andrew Jackson and Buchanan round out the bottom.

So Carter is technically wrong; right now Gee-Dub is around in the middle of the pack with a bullet to the bottom, worst President in history. I don’t think Gee-Dub will ever beat Harding for the worst, but we have hope Bush will be successful at something, even if its being “victorious” at being the worst. I think history will put him in the bottom 10.

On the nostagia track…”Carter is a Farter and Mondale is a whale”.

We were nine years old – you wanted wit?

I remember my parents having him on TV and seeing what has become my favorite Carter moment – “Ah ask’d my dawtah Amah wha’ wuhrried her the most, and she said ‘Daddah, nucular proliferashun’.”

Now he’s degenerating from a useless idiot to a fist-shaking doddering old man. I hope I get to hear him utter the word “whippahsnappahs” before he has full dementia.

There’s plenty to criticize W. about, particularly as of late with his continued hard-on for amnesty, but Jimmuh the peanut farmer could only dream about having an economy as strong as it has been the last several years.

Let’s face is Jimmuh, you just sucked in every way possible.

(My apologies to any crap that was offended by my comment.)

OT: anyone else having problems with “the Blog” portion of the homepage using Internet Explorer? it works for me in Mozilla but not IE, I have to go to the Vault to get the blog with IE.

Yes, my “The Blog” section is loading below the “Top Picks” section.

ps. thanks for the memories

My thoughts exactly; whenever my kids begin to think things suck today, I can tell them I remember when Jimmy Carter was president.

Carter=loser

4shoes on May 21, 2007 at 11:47 AM

or just post:

Liar!

I think this is a simple case of the left simply not being able to tolerate the thought of a fellow enlightened leftist and/or European being pro-Iraq war, so they have to explain it away as a character defect that conveniently lays the blame at the Bushitler’s feet.

posted at 9:53 am on May 21, 2007 by Allahpundit

Oh exactly, no doubt. Blair is always a fun topic to discuss with Liberals. It’s like that Star Trek episode where they overload the computer with the “Everything I say is a lie” “I am lying” trick. Their heads start to smoke. So it’s a survival tactic I think.