Do people actually think that Jimmy Carter was a good president?

Question

Tell me why you think he was ? Or why he was not ?

Ok, I was asking as President.

Answer 1

On Thursday, January 11, 2007, 14 members of the Carter Center's advisory board resigned, telling Carter in a letter “We can no longer endorse your strident and uncompromising position. This is not the Carter Center or the Jimmy Carter we came to respect and support.” Just last month Ken Stein, a fellow at the Carter Center, turned in his resignation letter in which he said that the book was "replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions and simply invented segments."

Not long ago, Israel gave up all of Gaza, making painful sacrifices for peace. The response by the Palestinians has been to launch more than 1,200 rockets into Israeli civilian areas.

Perhaps Carter cares deeply about human suffering. Let him convince them that they're being held back by their failure to recognize Israel, their past peace agreements and their refusal to renounce terrorism.

If Carter wants to focus on saving lives in the Middle East, he should pay more attention to the Iranian President, who says he wants to wipe Israel off the map while he is developing nuclear weapons.

Answer 2

I don't think that any rational person with a grasp of history could honestly believe that Jimmy Carter was effective at his job as president.
The problem is that to many people would like to attach likability to job performance. He is a very likable man and by all accounts probably a very good man. However, as a chief executive his record is absolutely dismal.

Answer 3

I think historians of the not-too-distant future will be a lot kinder toward President Carter than most of the people who responded to this question.

Don't judge a man 'til you've walked a mile in his shoes, and keep in mind the legacy left by some of the other Presidents in the mid-late 20th century:

Truman gave the go ahead to drop 2 atomic bombs on Japan, something no other nation has done to date.

The Nixon-Agnew Administration: Neither of the 2 individuals elected in 1968 finished out their term of office

Clinton -- well, embarassing no matter which party you are!

Bush -- I've heard 5th graders who can put together a sentence better than he can, and who look more intelligent when they speak.

Given that lot, Carter fares pretty well given the circumstances he inherited and that he never had the full support of his own party.

But I agree that overall he has been a wonderful resource since he left office.

Answer 4

He was an ineffectual President. He has done more good work as an ex-president that all of the other living ex-presidents combined, though.

My honest feeling as to why he was ineffective as president is that he was too nice and honest for the job.

During his term, the economy suffered double-digit inflation, coupled with very high interest rates, oil shortages, high unemployment and slow economic growth, most of these were the fault of the poor economic policies of the Nixon Administration, however. The thing he will be remembered for most, however, is the Iran hostage crisis.

In 2002, Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor shared by only to other US Presidents - Theodore Roosevelt (1906) and Woodrow Wilson (1919)

Answer 5

He will be known for the gas lines, the Iranian crisis, the high interest rates and a poor economy that was created by his micromanagement and inability to understand economics.

He could've gone down in history as a compassionate ex-president except for his constant berating of our current president.

Most ex-presidents have the class to respect the office of the president, but he chose to go overseas and constantly say bad things about Americans and our foreign policy. He should've learned from Clinton and Ford on how to conduct yourself after you're voted out of office.

He got a Nobel Peace Prize for a plan that actually failed, so it turned out to be a mistake. They tend to give the Peace prize to activists these days whether they create peace or not. It's unfortunate. It's like the oscars :-)

Personally I used to like him, but more and more I'm beginning to believe he is a truly evil man disguised as a kindly old country boy. He doesn't fool as many as he used to.

Answer 6

His Mom thought He was a good President. I think She was heard saying " Finally ! A President without an accent"

Answer 7

Jimmy Carter was a nice gentleman and he might have been an effect governor in GA but Congress rarely cooperates with a governor because its not from 'their' ranks. So not much got done. I remember his leadership as the time of the 'gas lines'.
Jimmy Carter kept saying things like 'we need to live with less than what our parents had' and similar remarks. He very much gave an air of discouragement to the country as a whole.

Answer 8

Jimmy Carter has done more out of Office than he did in Office though, his signign of the bill for Cubans to come into U.S. soil was a disaster.

Answer 9

inept while in office and since as well except for his participation in Houses for Humanity. The only thing of note was the failed attemp to rescue the hostages in Terhan. The taking of hostages, war was declared and we should have responded with a military invasion and kicked *** things would be a whole lot different then and now

Answer 10

Carter has already went down in history as: The Worst President in American History".\

These little kids on Yahoo might not know about Carter, but ask Anyone who held a job while he was president.

(Clinton couldn't even come near to beating him out.)