Carter was the worst liberal ever. He is the guy primarily responsible for America's decline into a nation of useless, lazy degenerates. Carter destroyed our military, destroyed our economy, destroyed our Faith, destroyed everything with his liberalism. Awful human being.
Carter is a complicated figure in history. What is interesting about Carter is that he was probably the only president in modern history who really walked the walked when it came to the role of religion in his life and politics. Even after leaving the White House, Carter would teach Sunday school at his church in Plains, Georgia every weekend he was home. Carter was widely ridiculed for his famous "Crisis of Confidence" speech where he warned of the warship of self indulgence and consumption. But that may have been the only time a US president was at all close to the spiritual teachings of Jesus Christ.
On foreign policy, Carter was simultaneously one of the most successful US presidents and possibly the worst. The Camp David Accords ended 40 years of war between Israel and Egypt. That treaty has held to this day. That is easily the most successful peace treaty in modern history. But at the same time, Carter fell for Zbigniew Brzezinski's hawkish foreign policy on communism and set in motion the neo-liberal interventionist policy that caused the US to support the mujahadin in Afghanistan, which would later become Al Qaeda and would set the stage for Reagan to support Central American death squads. Zbig often was able to persuade Carter to ignore Cyrus Vance's efforts at detente with the Soviets and instead set up the arms race and geopolitical chess game that Reagan played. It was also Zbig who had Carter take a hard line against the revolution in Iran, which set up the hostage crisis. Zbig thought that the US should have supported the Shah and allowed the Shah to come to the US after getting Kissinger to threaten to come out against the SALT treaty if he did not let the Shah come to the US for cancer treatment.
Carter is mostly panned for the economy. But Carter had nothing to do with the oil embargo that caused inflation to spiral out of control. Carter and Volker were able to get inflation under control and set up the US economy for Reagan to come in and take all the credit.
Biden stumbling through his eulogy would be perfectly appropriate.
Why would you say such a thing? You don't have the least amount of respect about anything you post. You are such a tool. Every time you post its just more B.S.
The boycott - Worst presidential decision ever? Gotta be up there. Europe didn’t even do that for the Berlin games (albeit before the war).
Well, there was the African boycott of the 1976 games and the 1984 boycott by the eastern bloc. Nothing new. There have been some others but these are the ones I remember the most.
I really wonder if this guy feels good about himself tonight. Like, does he have a family, responsible for others, has a job, impacts others, etc? And yet goes on a message board anonymously and "had a take." Like is he smiling? Is he regretting it? This board is fascinating.
Jimmy Carter “was a terrible president but an even worse former president,” thunders National Review’s Philip A. Klein. His “true legacy is one of economic misery at home and embarrassment on the world stage.” “He left the country in its weakest position of the post-World War II era” and “spent the rest of his life meddling in U.S. foreign policy” in a “manner that could fairly be described as treasonous.” And that’s to say nothing about his “obsessive hatred of Israel.” We’ll see “an effort to rewrite history and claim that the 39th president was underappreciated and that people have been too harsh on him. But the truth is that historians have not been harsh enough.”
In 1952, when a Canadian nuclear reactor suffered a partial meltdown, officials turned to a young Navy sailor who could deal with the situation: 28-year-old future president Jimmy Carter.
