How Pathetic is Jimmy Carter?

Question

Jimmy Carter is always good for hearty laugh. He recently called the Bush administration the “worst in history.” Realizing he is and looks like a complete idiot he has since backpedaled and called his remarks “careless”. I would say so Jimmy! A major indicator of ones effectiveness in office is whether you can be re-elected. After four years in office the American people give you what amounts to a de facto job evaluation. Mr. Carter was voted off the Planet. He lost forty four states to Reagan. George W. Bush was re-elected with fifty-one percent of the popular vote -- the first outright majority for any presidential candidate since his father in 1988, and the first president since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 to be re-elected while gaining seats in both the House and the Senate. (Note: Clinton NEVER got over 50% of the vote.)

Carter introduced us to terms like “stagflation” which describes a period of out-of-control price inflation combined with slow-to-no output growth and rising unemployment. Contrast that with the Bush economy that has now added jobs for 44 straight months and has produced an unemployment rate that remains extremely low at 4.5 percent. Good old Jimmy did nothing while the Soviets invaded Afganistan and the Iranians held our sixty-three hostages for 444 days. If Neville Chamberlain were never born it would be James Earl Carter who would be the poster child of appeasement. Is the Taliban still in power in Afganistan? Is the Bath party still in power in Iraq? Is Osama Bin Laden not eating cockroaches while hiding in some remote cave? Therein lies the difference Mr. Carter. It’s one of many reasons why history will record your single term as a colossal failure.

You might want to consider this quote from Abraham Lincoln “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

Answer 1

Jimmy Carter is a " Peanut " he can't even find fault with Hamas

Answer 2

Where do I begin? I’m a Republican, but there’s no way I (or anyone) can agree with you.

1) You are an idiot.

2) If you’re calling a man who’s been the President of the United States, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and an Annapolis grad pathetic – you must have quite a resume.

3) I can accept that many people view Carter's presidency as a failure, but his many peacekeeping and humanitarian efforts speak for themselves – far from pathetic, moron.

4) Learn how to spell Afghanistan, freak.

5) Get your facts straight – Carter did not introduce stagflation – Ford did. Or have you forgotten Ford declaring war on inflation, his "Whip Inflation Now" policy, and all those damn WIN buttons?

6) I don't think you're blond, and I don't even think you're a woman. You’re some loser who regurgitates Limbaugh or plagiarizes Antle (http://www.amconmag.com ) and pretends to pawn it off as his own idea just to gain points on this web site. Get a life, loser!!!!

7) Quit believing everything you read/hear and maybe start thinking for yourself.

Answer 3

How pathetic are you? Bush won the 2000 election DESPITE the fact that Gore had a higher percentage of the popular vote -- or do you not remember the Florida scandal???
And, given the fact that Republicans are constantly attacking people for criticizing Bush because he is our president and derserves respect as the leader of our country, it is shameful that you would talk about a former president that way. Jimmy Carter may not have been the greatest president in the modern era, but he is a great man and has accomplished more than you could ever hope to achieve. You should respect the man and his accomplishments rather than try and cut him down for political ammunition.

Answer 4

The economy was... horrible under Carter... but, he did one thing that moves him from the bottom of the presidents (where you evidently put him) to a ranking much, much higher. He did - through his diplomacy broker a peace accord between Egypt and Israel - and the record will show that the peace has held. The number of lives saved - on all sides is uncountable.

Mr Carters belief in direct help in Habitat for Humanity is a model of a former president actually attempting to make the world a better place instead of resting on his retirement.

Answer 5

First of all, Christina Aguilera, Bush was NOT reelected. In order to have been reelected, he would have had to have been democratically elected the first time around. In case you have forgotten, thousands of people in Florida were denied their right to vote in 2000, just so Bushy Boy could be installed in the White House by his dad's friends in the Supreme Court. Also, in case your memory doesn't serve you correctly, it was Osama bin Laden, not Saddam Hussein, who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. However, for some reason, within 5 hours after the attacks, Rumsfeld ordered his staff to find as much "evidence" as possible linking the attacks to Iraq. It's obvious that Bush & Co. have always cared more about going to Iraq than about getting justice for the more than 3,000 people who burned to death on 9-11-01.

Answer 6

Wow a nuclear engineer (he can say nuclear not nucular) and Nobel Peace Prize winner and advocate of low cost housing for the less fortunate among us. What a horrible person Mr. Carter must be. He is quite correct when he says the current administration is the worst in US History. Most of the world agrees with Carter on that.

Carter made some mistakes while he was president, no doubt about it but he did some good things too. Actually it was he and not Reagan who NEGOTIATED the release of the American hostages in Tehran. Carter knew their capture would be the death knell of his presidency but he still went ahead and worked with the Iranis to get them released unharmed.

Answer 7

You have a point. You are a bit misguided in your facts however. You also fail to mention that vote county in individual states has changed since the time of Roosevelt and 51% is hardly an outright majority.

Answer 8

Give credit where credit is due. President Carter may not be all things to all people, least of all to this conservative, but he was good enough to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy and win the U.S. Presidency. That's a pretty good man.

By the way, he made his way to the top from pretty ordinary begnnings, has been faithful to his wife, and has worked hard for Habitat for Humanity.

Answer 9

Yeah Carter wasn't that great of a President, and probably would never have been able to handle all the problems Bush has had to deal with.

Answer 10

1. looks like you have proven Lincoln correct!

"Jimmy Carter is always good for hearty laugh. He recently called the Bush administration the “worst in history.”

Carter was right. Show us where he was wrong.

Answer 11

He is pathetic. Because of him, the Shah were overthrown. Because of that, we now have a government in Iran that wants to make nuclear weapons and wipe Israel off the map. Not to mention,he is not to friendly with the U.S. either. We're going to have to invade Iran soon. Thankfully, God's position is on our side.