Jimmy Carter: I never said Obama protesters were racist
posted at 3:38 pm on October 1, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via Breitbart. Evidently the entire country, including the White House, misunderstood what he meant by “intensely demonstrated” when he said, “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American.” That’s the money quote from the interview that aired on NBC on September 15 — just six days after Joe Wilson’s outburst and three days after the 9/12 Project’s massive rally in D.C. Compare and contrast the before and after below. I wonder which Obama aide was tasked with dialing him up and insisting upon this highly nuanced bit of revisionism. Rahm, you think? Or is this an Axelrod special?
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I’m sure Axelrod gave him a little nudge…
cmsinaz on October 1, 2009 at 3:40 PM
Axelrod is from Chicago, they shove not nudge. You must be thinking ouf Cass Sunstein.
Archimedes on October 1, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Isn’t there some rogue communist regime he should be helping to go nuclear somewhere? Or perhaps some sham election in some third world country he could try to legitamize with his presence?
wildweasel on October 1, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Once a nut … always a nut.
darwin on October 1, 2009 at 4:09 PM
For sure the White House coached him on using the Obama defense (also effectively deployed during Sotomayor’s hearings):
When asked about something you actually did say – DENY, DENY, DENY.
Stephanie on October 1, 2009 at 4:09 PM
I’m so sick of these blatant, lying, sh*theels…lies this egregious deserve the death penalty.
AUINSC on October 1, 2009 at 4:09 PM
partisan fool
stevo on October 1, 2009 at 4:09 PM
I stand corrected.
BobMbx on October 1, 2009 at 4:10 PM
I don’t have all the facts, but HE IS ACTING STUPIDLY!
Cybergeezer on October 1, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Depends on what your definition of “racist” is. Just like it depends on your definition of “Is” and of “rape”.
mjk on October 1, 2009 at 4:10 PM
my bad
cmsinaz on October 1, 2009 at 4:10 PM
I hear Iran’s building some stuff. maybe he wants to go over there. Before the IAF gets there.
mjk on October 1, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Maybe its a qualification to becoming a democratic leader…being divisive. They just can’t help themselves.
scalleywag on October 1, 2009 at 4:11 PM
It’s really sad to watch someone in the throes of senility.
I’ll try to remember Carter’s good deeds… after his presidency, when he pretty much kept his mouth shut and helped provide homes for people.
malclave on October 1, 2009 at 4:11 PM
if I remember right he was pushed out of Habitat for Humanity.. but I can’t remember why as it was a while ago that I read an article about it.
upinak on October 1, 2009 at 4:13 PM
I guess this means Obama called him and told him to cool it or something, but he did say it and what is more, Carter meant every word of it.
Terrye on October 1, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t
Wade on October 1, 2009 at 4:13 PM
That would make us “animositists”, not racists. So, he is correct.
Clarity.
BobMbx on October 1, 2009 at 4:14 PM
The Democrats ought to use Jimmah as their health care logo. When they get done, health care is going to be racist, too.
Cybergeezer on October 1, 2009 at 4:14 PM
completely off topic: I’m picturing in my head one of those neverending looping weebl’s cartoons (think the badger/mushroom one) where it would scrawl between faces of all sorts of random Americans, and a voice would sing, “Racist, Racist, Racist, Racist, Racist…” til it came up with a picture of Obama in one of those messiannic shots and then the voice would shout, “MESSIAH! MESSIAH!” then back to normal people’s faces, and “Racist, Racist, Racist, Racist…”
Dark Eden on October 1, 2009 at 4:17 PM
By and large, those homes built by “volunteers” are now in pretty bad shape, and the owners/residents (in many cases) are suing HFA for damages, for structural failure, code violations concerning foundation work and grading, mold, etc…
“My free house is falling down….I’m suing”!
BobMbx on October 1, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Does this mean Carter’s one of the cowards Eric Holder was talking about?
Django on October 1, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Allahpundit: So, first you put together a faked video of Carter on MSNBC, got it posted on MSNBC and discussed throughout the MSM, and now you are claiming on Hot Air that Carter is lying about those same faked statements. How could you?
Loxodonta on October 1, 2009 at 4:19 PM
My mom is eighty-nine and her sister is a little younger. We had to take their car keys away because, her sister drove from Lovelady,Texas to Trinity,Texas to go to church and on the return trip she ended up at Dallas,Texas, 160 miles away. She did this twice in one month. I told my mom that she could not drive, because they may end up in Alaska and wonder where all of that snow came from.
Johan Klaus on October 1, 2009 at 4:21 PM
I guess peanut head doesn’t know about youtube, where you can replay his original comment over and over again.
LODGE4 on October 1, 2009 at 4:22 PM
I was 20 years old when Carter was first elected, and I don’t remember any really clever slogans. Carter’s election was mostly a backlash against the Nixon Administration, which, despite some foreign-policy success, was caught in the Watergate scandal, where high-level White House advisors tried to cover for the Watergate burglars, instead of firing them on the spot, which could have nipped the issue in the bud. President Ford, who succeeded Nixon, compounded the problem by pardoning Nixon.
Nixon had also campaigned on a slogan to “Whip Inflation Now”, after runaway spending on Johnson’s “Great Society” programs and the Vietnam war had ignited inflation, but Nixon’s anti-free-market wage and price controls had been a failure, and energy prices went sky-high (for that time) when OPEC countries, especially Saudi Arabia, suddenly cut crude oil exports, and there were price controls on domestic crude oil.
Carter had campaigned against the high inflation, energy shortages, and corruption of the Nixon Administration, although Ford managed to close a huge gap in the polls and lose by only a few percent. Carter didn’t win for who HE was, but by not being Richard Nixon.
Once in office, Carter signed into law huge tax increases, which stifled the economy, while inflation became much worse, and rationed energy consumption (people with odd license plates could only buy gasoline on odd days of the month), while his cowardly foreign policy led to deals with the Soviet Union that they never followed, and the revolution in Iran leading to 50-plus American diplomats held hostage until the end of Carter’s term.
Just as Carter won election by not being Nixon, Obama won election by not being George W. Bush. So we got a President worse than Nixon then, and a President worse than Bush now.
Steve Z on October 1, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Senility isn’t pretty.
My collie says:
CyberCipher on October 1, 2009 at 4:23 PM
The man is on drugs. It’s as simple as that. He’s like every other old 60s burnout hippie. We’re lucky he doesn’t take his clothes off and pee in the corner.
Jeff from WI on October 1, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Lucky he he set the record straight before any school text books were wrtten.
SayNo2-O on October 1, 2009 at 4:25 PM
He must think we’re pretty stupid.
ronsfi on October 1, 2009 at 4:26 PM
He is senile, period.
Theworldisnotenough on October 1, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Basically the problem with Carter and Garofalo and Olberman and Maher and… is that they are flaming racist bigots themselves. When they accuse everyone else of doing what they themselves are guilty of, it’s called displacement. A flashing red light is the emotional intensity they can work themselves into. They more they rage the more clearly normal people see their obviously aberrant behavior and either feel sorry for them or, as in my case, ignore them.
davo on October 1, 2009 at 4:32 PM
What ever happened to that Christian – “don’t judge another” thingy, Jimmuh?
How are those Iranians doing since you took down the Shah?
Don L on October 1, 2009 at 4:34 PM
Billy was the smarter one.
Jim Treacher on October 1, 2009 at 4:34 PM
NixonFord had also campaigned on a slogan to “Whip Inflation Now”, after runaway spending on Johnson’s “Great Society” programs and the Vietnam war had ignited inflation, but Nixon’s anti-free-market wage and price controls had been a failure, and energy prices went sky-high (for that time) when OPEC countries, especially Saudi Arabia, suddenly cut crude oil exports, and there were price controls on domestic crude oil.They did not cut production by one drop. They placed an “embargo” on sales to the US. Interestingly enough, crude is sold as a commodity on the open market through brokers. The effect of the “embargo” occurred only in the minds of Americans who were allowed to “think” we had less oil, when in actuality we did not. So what caused the long lines? Panic. People refused to drive past a gas station without filling up, no matter how much was in their gas tank. This caused an initial “shortage” of gas because the normal supply and distribution systems could not make up for the constant demand, so gas stations ran out of gas, right up until the normal delivery truck showed up. There was no shortage of gas. Ever.
He also told us that it was all our fault, that we needed to suck it up, turn down the heat, and put on sweaters. He thought of Americans as if they were like the aliens in “Independence Day”, merely locusts consuming everything.
Worst. Ever. (till now)
BobMbx on October 1, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Well and unfortunately, the churches were promoting Carter because he was a “Christian.” My grandparents told me this and they admittedly voted for Carter because of that fact and they are some of the most conservative people you will ever meet.
MobileVideoEngineer on October 1, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Haven’t you done enough damage to this country, Jimmy? I know you hate America and its people, but fer cryin’ out loud, GO AWAY!
RadClown on October 1, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Just wanted to add that many view Carter as the Father of the Iranian Revolution
Rod on October 1, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Hey Jimmy, “Just STFU!”
—–
Thanks, I feel much better.
Branch Rickey on October 1, 2009 at 4:43 PM
I’m not sure about dementia, considering how minimal his brain functions were when he was in his prime.
Probably just typical liberal behavior. Anyone remember a liberal admitting a previous mistake? No, me neither . . . .
Sowell Disciple on October 1, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Gerald Ford could have defeated Jimmuh Carter in 1976 and saved us the disaster of his presidency if he’d chosen Howard Baker (a popular southern Senator from Tennessee) instead of Bob Dole (who did nothing but change feet in his mouth for the entire campaign) as his running mate. Carter’s margin of victory over Ford was razor thin in the states of North Carolina, Texas, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Just having Baker on the ticket might have propelled the GOP over the top in these states and thus given Ford a victory in the Electoral College (though maybe not the popular vote). Unfortunately, the story broke the week of the convention that Baker’s wife had undergone alcohol rehab several years before making him damaged goods. Still, even with all the strikes against him, Ford somehow managed to make it a close race. If he’d had another week I think he could have pulled it out.
Percy_Peabody on October 1, 2009 at 4:45 PM
LIAR!
Bicyea on October 1, 2009 at 4:46 PM
I was in high school when Carter was president. Wasn’t yet old enough to vote (so you can’t blame me for his election), but I do remember sitting in the mile-long gas lines. My dad would send me down to the gas station on the days we were allowed to buy gas, and I’d sit there for hours behind the wheel, inching forward and doing my homework while I waited for my turn to buy whatever amount of gas we were being allowed to purchase at that time.
From what I remember, Steve Z is correct that the Carter vote was mainly an anti-Nixon vote. But I also think that Carter, like his ideological successor Obama, got a big boost from the MSM. I remember reading quite a few fawning articles about Carter during the campaign. He was depicted as super-smart (a nuclear engineer! a political genius who came from nowhere to win the governorship of Georgia, and then the Democratic presidential nomination!), highly principled (a Sunday School teacher! a devoted family man!), and that most desireable thing (at the time), a Washington outsider who’d never been part of the corrupt Nixon/Agnew crowd.
AZCoyote on October 1, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Carter was a nobody.
He came completely from left field.
The advantages he had …
1. Like Obama – no one knew much about him. So he ran as a kind of a “good ole boy” from the South. He was religious and is famous for his Playboy interview quote “I have committed adultery in my heart” – which means he’d thought about having sex with other women – and by his logic he was guilty of the sin. Carter was the ultimate Liberal stealth candidate. As Liberal as Karl Marx – but with a Southern background and the religious credentials to prove it. Remember that – in ’76 – the Republican takeover of the South hadn’t yet been completed. There were still a few old Southern Democrats around and apparently enough people were fooled into believing Carter was one. Jimmy Carter carried every state in (claimed) Confederate States of America except for Virginia. Go back and look at this map to see how times have changed – note that California was GOP territory then.
2. The Republican, FORD – was a RINO. He wasn’t popular. He wasn’t elected either. He became POTUS after Nixon resigned – then he pardoned Nixon – which didn’t do his popularity any favors. He faced a rebellion in the party in the form of CONSERVATIVE RONALD REAGAN – he beat Reagan – but instantly everyone knew the GOP had picked the wrong guy.
3. Carter had military bonafides – he was a nuclear submariner.
4. His campaign slogan, well one of them was … “I will never lie to you”.
HondaV65 on October 1, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Homebuilders were always getting the shakedown from Habitat to help build a poor person a house on the weekend. Builders laughed at these do-gooder liberals and their ignorance of the home building process. Concrete must set up 72 hrs, 24 hrs between coats of drywall or paint, bldg inspections at each stage(try to get a plumbing inspector on Sunday)etc! Any home built in two or three days will be substandard, yet the pasty-faced bankers, realtors, and touchy-feely bunch showed up with their soft little hands to show how to build for the poor! Carter and his wife milked this for years until the truth finally came out! The building profession is made up of skilled, dedicated professionals who try to provide a quality product. Liberals think volunteers off the street can provide the same. I’m surprised that they don’t attempt surgery on the weekend for the poor! Just get some liberals together and they can do brain surgery part-time on the weekends! Yes They Can!!
Marco on October 1, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Once a peabrain, always a peabrain.
maverick muse on October 1, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Would someone please rid us of this man, or at least throw a shoe at him?
Mangy Scot on October 1, 2009 at 4:57 PM
How could you?
Loxodonta on October 1, 2009 at 4:19 PM
What are you talking about?
maverick muse on October 1, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Jimmy Carter – isn`t he the guy that brought the world modern day Iran? The rise of fanatic Muslims?
albill on October 1, 2009 at 5:01 PM
The saddest thing, if you can be sadder than this hump, is that the unthinking Democrats, which is most of them, actually believe he was a good president. Sort of points to why they would think that Dingle-Barry has any type of clue as to what he is doing.
outnumberedinparadise on October 1, 2009 at 5:01 PM
I really didn’t say I had Lust in my heart.
chemman on October 1, 2009 at 5:01 PM
The man is truly deranged. Lock him up in the asylum.
jediwebdude on October 1, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Carter is revising this on his own… he wouldn’t listen to either Rahm or Axelrod… they’re both Jews, so he hates them.
lionheart on October 1, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Great Analysis.
chemman on October 1, 2009 at 5:06 PM
psst…he never served on a nuclear submarine. He was on diesels (DBF!), and was preparing to attend nuke school when he resigned his commission.
(Being a former submariner, I feel duty-bound to point out this misconception wherever I see it)
BobMbx on October 1, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Credit the MSM (when credit is due). The reporter stammered here and was earnest. Carter crossed her up with his 180 degree flip. Kinda like Edwards: Two Jimmys. This stuff will compound.
clorensen on October 1, 2009 at 5:08 PM
He was misquoted from the git go on this. What he said was “I have rust in my heart”, not “lust”. He was answering a general question about the age of Presidents, and how he felt currently.
BobMbx on October 1, 2009 at 5:14 PM
OT:
Ed and AP should post the vid from Beck today about “What Would Sotomayor Do?” WWSD about which city should be awarded the Olympics.
Hilarious.
How can Levin get so mad at Beck? Beck is hilarious and right on today.
WWSD
Sapwolf on October 1, 2009 at 5:16 PM
Jimmah got spanked by somebody. When will these lefties figure out that just because they are a bunch of knuckle-dragging racist democrat plantation massas, it doesn’t mean the rest of us are. I’m tired of them projecting all their hatred and bigotry on the rest of us. I think we all know how Jimmah “Obama’s a boy” Carter feels about the black race. Now he wants to earn his redemption on our backs. Get help, Jimmah. You’re a freakin’ mess.
Rational Thought on October 1, 2009 at 5:23 PM
I used to at least give this guy credit for not being a liar. Now even that’s gone.
Hening on October 1, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Would they stop and look at how F’d up the country is right now? I can’t blame Bush either in his latter months on duty. He signed off on things to shut Pelosi’s mouth. Pelosi thinks we’re a giant Macy’s. Carter? He needs a tape recorder and good set of headphones to hear himself.
johnnyU on October 1, 2009 at 5:30 PM
It pains me to say this but here goes.
I think Carter in that CNN interview was referring to The Emory University Townhall Meeting, not the Brian Williams NBC interview:
Transcript of Former President Jimmy Carter’s Remarks on Racism at an Emory University Townhall Meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009
Question: Do you still believe that racism is an issue that President Obama is facing in passing bills in Congress?
President Carter: Yes, I do. Let me answer this question very carefully.
I think it is completely legitimate, and to be expected, to have tough, sometimes even unfair debates about major issues that face our country. Health care is one. I think it is within the bounds of political propriety, for instance, for opponents of President Obama’s proposal to raise the false claim that there are death squads, and that everybody that is over 65 years old is going to be deprived of medical care, to let them die early. Those are the kinds of claims that have been made against them. That’s okay.
But when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the President of the United States of America as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they waved signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kinds of things are beyond the bounds of the way Presidents have ever been accepted, even with people who disagree.
And I think people that are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African-American. It’s a racist attitude, and my hope is, and my expectation is, that in the future both Democratic leaders and Republican leaders will take the initiative in condemning that kind of unprecedented attack on the President of the United States.
gradyman on October 1, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Don’t know why my link didn’t show.
http://www.cartercenter.org/news/editorials_speeches/emory-racism-091609.html
gradyman on October 1, 2009 at 5:32 PM
No Jimmy. YOU ARE!
johnnyU on October 1, 2009 at 5:35 PM
I disagree. What he really said was, “I have mush in my head”
ya2daup on October 1, 2009 at 5:42 PM
This clarification from Carter is obviously cause for the awarding of another Nobel Prize.
Do they have a ‘Lying My Frickin Ass Off’ Nobel?
Oh, wait. They gave that one to Al Gore.
Dang it…
catmman on October 1, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Really folks Carte is going senile slowly but surely. I watched theis process up close. The saddest part is that the media is keep giving him a platform to embarass himself. And yes I do feel a little sorry for him, even the worst president of the 20th century deserves to fade into the sunset with some dignity.
Theworldisnotenough on October 1, 2009 at 5:48 PM
You are a racist if you think Jimma Carta called you a racist!
jukin on October 1, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Carter is out-of-touch.
No sign said bury Obama. I saw it. It said:
“Bury Obamacare with Kennedy!” Nobody at the Tea Parties EVER said to hurt Obama physically.
Carter is an a*s. Hopefully, he has some advisers that are telling him he is an a*s.
He is divisive and his brain is deteriorating. He needs to fade away and get off the scene and let us handle it.
Sapwolf on October 1, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Thanks for confirming.
I always suspected that much of the legitimate home construction industry has a lot of contempt for the holier-than-thou attitude of that org.
Sapwolf on October 1, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Axelrod. Rahm would have simply doubled down.
I R A Darth Aggie on October 1, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Don’t you get it? Men of such high intellect speak in ways that us poor dolts will never understand. The nuances they incorporate in their statements requires a person of very high intellect and experience to comprehend. You poor souls….one day, with heaping servings of Hope and Change…you too will understand.
Opposite Day on October 1, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Public senility of a President is a sad thing to watch.
Mallard T. Drake on October 1, 2009 at 6:16 PM
It takes a really special person to not only be the worst President in history, but the worst ex-President in history as well.
ynot4tony2 on October 1, 2009 at 6:19 PM
If it’s timed JUST right, Jimma will get there about 15 minutes ahead of the IAF. That would deal with two… ah… birds with one stone?
oldleprechaun on October 1, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Luckily we only had to see it for the four years he was president. Unfortunately it took a couple of decades for us to clean up the mess he left. How long it’ll take after Obama is anybody’s guess.
Oldnuke on October 1, 2009 at 6:40 PM
But this senility has been going on since he was 53 (when he became President).
Christian Conservative on October 1, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Carter just picked on the Barack Obama trick of throwing his supporters under the bus. He apparently thought it looked like fun, and decided to try it out.
Any one of the “useful idiots” who have been defending him for the past few weeks, or even praising him for his candor, now looks like a penny waiting for change!
Trochilus on October 1, 2009 at 6:42 PM
The bad thing, is, urrr ahhh ummm, HE ISN’T THE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY anymore!! :)
DanaSmiles on October 1, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Mr. Carter, yes you DID say that Obama protester’s were racists. You, Mr. Carter, are a liar. End of discussion.
And, for your information, I have found that the real racists are the liberals like yourself Mr. Carter. That is why they go around calling everyone who criticizes Obama’s policies “racist”. It is self-projection.
MeAlice on October 1, 2009 at 7:07 PM
As soon as Carter started the sentence with “I think…”, anyone beyond the age of reason knew the words that would follow would be pure ass-hattery, wrapped in bull$hit.
Roc on October 1, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Sad, sad, goober turd.
gbear on October 1, 2009 at 7:33 PM
“YOU LIE”!!!!!
Lying ass Old Peckerwood!
Winebabe on October 1, 2009 at 7:42 PM
What a lying sack of horse squeeze. The media of course won’t call him on it because they want to believe what he really said. Candy is a sack full too. I notice Roselyn looks as bitter as she did on the day of Jimmah’s consession speech after getting his sorry lying ass kicked by Reagan.
wepeople on October 1, 2009 at 7:51 PM
If only we could harness the energy the idiot Liberals generate with their backpedalling, we wouldn’t need to drill here, drill now.
Talk about a renewable energy source.
gopmom on October 1, 2009 at 8:04 PM
He’s 85 years old today.
DanaSmiles on October 1, 2009 at 3:41 PM
OOps ! Where is my compassion ??
Happy birthday you senile jew-hating d*ckhead.
cableguy615 on October 1, 2009 at 8:06 PM
O/T:
Have some fun a Chuckles Johnson’s expense.
Scroll down to
Or go to here and click Then and Now
And Treacher has a funny Twit here.
Geochelone on October 1, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Lying, anti-semitic, incompetent, old fool…
SG1_Conservative on October 1, 2009 at 8:13 PM
People keep assuming that Carter is sane and lucid. I’m not so sure. Have we really ruled out dementia?
highhopes on October 1, 2009 at 8:17 PM
When will Carter, this steaming pile of human feces, simply kick the bucket.
Jeff from WI on October 1, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Jacka$$.
TN Mom on October 1, 2009 at 8:26 PM
I am really, really sorry.
I voted for Jimmah, twice, once for Gov.(was in V/Nam for his second term),once for President.
I’m a southerner, slow learner, I was young and dumb.
Besides, I was a Navy man, he was a Nukey Poo.
I thought he had a brain, as well as a heart.
Once I learn a lesson, it stays learned.
I am now proud to say, Joe Wilson, is my congersman.
Open The Door on October 1, 2009 at 8:37 PM
I never thought that He was Presidential, same as the current Pretender in Office. But that is just me and rest of US that have read the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and cared enough to Fight for it for others and see Our Nation having to fight for it all over again.
Ain’t we special?
old trooper2 on October 1, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Jimmy Carter no longer has SS it is only for 10 yrs after presidency!
xler8bmw on October 1, 2009 at 8:38 PM
The above analyses of how Carter came to be elected are pretty accurate.
The media had a major impact. Gerald Ford was portrayed as a bumbling buffoon. Carter, on the other hand, was heralded as a moral intellectual. And naturally, the sheeple bought into it all, at least enough of them to get the guy elected.
After four years of absolute destruction and inanity, no amount of propaganda could convince anyone that Carter was anything short of an imbecile and the worst president of all time. Thus was Reagan elected. (The media, having had success in portraying Ford as an idiot, tried the same technique on Reagan and have continued to portray Republicans in that manner ever since, despite any evidence to the contrary.)
So in a peanut shell, here’s how the general impression of Jimmy has evolved since his first campaign to be prez:
-He’s honest and moral and brilliant.
-He’s the worst president ever, but at least he was smart and honest and had good intentions.
-He’s the worst president ever and really wasn’t that smart, but at least he was honest and had good intentions.
-He’s the worst president ever, but seems to be getting senile. He still seems to have good intentions, however.
-He’s the worst president ever and definitely senile. He’s become bitter and mean spirited. What’s with his anti-Semitism?
-He’s not only the worst president ever, but a bitter, mean, hateful and senile old goat.
justltl on October 1, 2009 at 8:40 PM
You’re memory may be dimmed by kindness.
Carter broke the long post-Presidential tradition of saying nothing bad about his successors. He was an irritant during the Reagan and GHW Bush presidencies. He was quieter during Clinton’s term, and got noisy again after January 2001.
massrighty on October 1, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Incidentally, my own personal impression of the known anti-Semite Carter, has evolved from my initial impression way back when of “What a dick,” to my present impression of “What a dick.”
justltl on October 1, 2009 at 8:48 PM
I bet he was building a trapdoor for himself in the foundations. He’s that nuts.
Well he still threw a monkeywrench into America’s diplomacy by pointedly hugging dictators Clinton wanted ignored.
That’s how BAD Carter is–he had Gingrich Republicans hollering “Shut up and let Albright do her job!”
Chris_Balsz on October 1, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Jimmah’s body has outlived his brain.
petefrt on October 1, 2009 at 8:53 PM
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