Boy, for me to be in TOTAL agreement with Maani, MRFreeze and Patrick Henry has GOT to be amazing!

Carter employed Paul Volcker, who set us on the road to recovery from those horrible times of high unemployment and high interest rates.  Serious sickness required bitter medicine, and it worked, although Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts nearly sank, it again…Why do you THINK he had to agree to a tax increase?

Carter fully understood the difference between protecting Israel and protecting the venal and vile Likud bloc.  He detested the obnoxious short-sighted Menachem Begin, preferring the charming, although very bloody, far-sighted Anwar Sadat.  Yet he put that aside TOTALLY to find a way to make peace between Egypt and Israel, a peace that has lasted 32 years, a peace for which he should have THEN won the Nobel Peace Prize.

My only objection to Jimmy Carter as President was that he didn’t know how to manage Congress and the Press.  Can you IMAGINE what he could have achieved with Reagan’s ability to charm and cow his opponents, and to get the press to ALWAYS make him look good?

I had NO sympathy for Kennedy in 1980, being for Carter all the way.

But Carter, like Clinton and now Obama, was devoured not just by the GOP (which is to be expected and part of the game) but by his OWN party unfaithful, the so-called “progressives”.  They attacked him with a viciousness that was shocking for such a fine man.  Penthouse (Yes, I read it as a young single man), supposedly Liberal,  published “The 100 Lies of Jimmy Carter”.  Jerry Falwell got away with lying about Carter.  The press ROASTED him for changing the part in his hair!

Notice that the GOP NEVER does that to their President, no matter HOW venal and vile he is—they wait till after he’s gone, like now.

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Anyone who thinks ted kennedy was anyone’s best friend must
surely have stolen leefeller’s stash of tequila or is sitting around
drinking it with him. Myself, I would not help lee drink the
tequila but would sip in the occasional shot of vodka.

ted kennedy = 90% of the profits, everybody else splits the
remaining 10%. That is trickle down and it is a shame that the
whole kennedy fortune isn’t publicized but hey, the elite DON’T
want the people to know what they are doing.

Paul:

Let’s not forget that Carter was also the one who put solar panels on the White House - he was years ahead of the curve on green energy.

As well:

-He was radically pro-civil rights, and was the first Southern governor to openly oppose racial discrimination, and appointed more African-Americans to statewide office than any other governor

-He was personally opposed to abortion, but supported Roe v. Wade

-He was against the death penalty, and stated it even as the Georgia legislature passed a new death penalty statute.

-He declared amnesty for draft dodgers

-He gave the Panama Canal back to Panama

-He declared a federal emergency at Love Canal and created the Superfund law, paving the way for the burgeoning environmental movement

-He was the first president to state that the energy situation (i.e., OPEC, reliance on foreign oil, environmental degradation) was “the moral equivalent of war.”

-And, of course, he coordinated and signed the Camp David Accords.

Peace.

Even today I see those bumper stickers that say Carter was th worst president in
American history…......and I have to laugh. Just look at where we’ve been lead by those
who followed him. It doesn’t take a genius to see that the weasels broke into the hen
house and destroyed a perfectly good country.

Inherit The Wind,

I was in the military in SoCal while Carter was in office and my friend was trying to buy a house in Mission Viejo, the mortgage rates charged by the banks were around 18% at the time.

I believe this is what sunk Carter in the re-election, voters vote with their wallet.

PatrickHenry, September 17 at 7:35 am Link to this comment

Carter telling the truth again.
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Yup.  And Carter has a legitimate 30+ year grudge against Ted Kennedy.  Everyone seems to have forgotten that a MAJOR factor in Carter’s loss in 1980 was the unprecedented challenge to him in the primaries by Kennedy.
 
Remember Carter saying if Kennedy runs “I’ll kick his ass!”?
Remember the reporter asking Kennedy why he wanted to be President and he had a colossal Sarah Palin moment? No answer!
Remember at the convention when as the candidate, Kennedy refused to actively stand with him, standing off like Hamlet?

Kennedy damaged Carter terribly when the party needed cohesion because the Iran hostage crisis and the stagflation were GREAT grist for Ronald Reagan.

It wasn’t until after that, when Kennedy resigned himself to the fact that he wasn’t going to be President that he actually became a good senator and not so much of a playboy.  But by then Carter was gone and Reagan was initiating the march toward what eventually became the Teaparty.

Carter telling the truth again.

While Carter did some regrettable things, he is head-
and-shoulders better than any president we have had
since.  It’s quite telling how vociferously his own
party (the Democrats) fought him on every major
initiative.

“The United States has only one party - the property
party. It’s the party of big corporations, the party
of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and
the other is Republican.”
(Gore Vidal)

Nothing-new here.  Kennedy was credited with killing health care during the
Nixon administration.

It’s amazing that in death Teddy all of the sudden was given a soul, a work ethic, and scruples.

Teddy was a self serving prick. Like Robert Byrd, no democrat was ever better at blowing his own horn for doing a mediocre job, and of course taking credit for shit he never accompliced.

The dimmos always looked to poor impotent Teddy for leadership in tough times. But Teddy was always too busy chasing skirts and kicking skeletons to the back corner of his closet to give two shits for problems of his constituency.