Carter, Gore, & Arafat Won Nobels. Carter was Arguably the Worst President in History?

Question

Is there a link between doing a lousy job politically and getting a Nobel?

Answer 1

Makes you realize the Nobel Organization is a Political organization with an agenda.

Answer 2

Carter was hardly the WORST president this country has ever had. To get to those gents, you'd have to go back to the 1910s (lassaiz-faire economic policies that set the country up for the Great Depression), the 1880s (blatant and rampant corruption at all levels of government), or even the 1860s (ineffectual leadership during Reconstruction) to get that record holder.

I think our current president is really doing his best to be the all-time record holder though....What with being caught on four seperate occasions "manufacturing" the news, the rampant political corruption and scandal all around him (like flies to sh*t), the half-baked story of why we needed to go to war, the SUSPICIOUS way he got into office in the first place (Floridians are REALLY not that stupid, folks), the questionable fiscal policy that now has us in debt for $9 trillion (the GDP is only around 13 trillion per year)... I could keep going, but what would be the point? It's looking like he might personify that disctinction a little more than Carter by the time it's all said and done...

Answer 3

a. No "arguably" about it, Jimmy Carter was the worst president this nation has ever had (double-digit inflation, high mortgages, gas shortages, weak military, bungled Iranian hostage crisis, giving away the Panama canal, etc.)
b. The Noble Peace prize is always awarded to the most popular left-wing, American-bashing, capitalism-hating, socialist active in the media at the moment. IT isn't worth diddley-squat to the rest of us.
c. Arafat won it, and after he master mined the massacre of the Israeli athletes. He also signed several peace treaties, only to then go on Arab TV and tell his followers to continue fighting. Those Swedish communists just loved that!
d. If AlGore had won either his home state of Tennessee, OR Clinton's home state of Arkansas, he'd have been elected president. He lost the presidency fairly and squarely. He knew how the electoral college worked. And, yes, he also did a lousy job as vice president.

Answer 4

Uh...Drew? You said:
Thanks to Carter we experienced:
* 13% inflation rates
* 7 million unemployed Americans
* Energy crisis
* Spread of Communism
* Gutting of our military
* Iran hostage crisis

You're a little bit misinformed, there, bo. All except for the last item on your little list there was already underway during the Nixon/Ford administrations. Everything except for the Iran hostage crisis (which even Zbigniew Brezinski, Carter's National Security Advisor, co-founder of the Trilateral Comission and a hardline NWO shill, has admitted was more or less manipulated, mainly by the CIA...ever heard of the "October Surprise"? Do your homework next time, old sport.)

Carter was a notoriously weak president, but the worst? Not by a long shot, folks. George W Bush has gotten the lowest approval ratings of any president in US history- way lower than Nixon or Johnson, even. The figures don't lie. Face it, love him or hate him (I don't care either way; I know he's just a puppet), George W Bush, when it's all written down, will probably go down in history as the worst of the lot. His often stated quote of, "I don't care what the history books say 'cos I'll be dead" is just a defense mechanism. And possibly his admission of illiteracy.

And I don't think you'll be seeing any of the current Administration being called to Stockholm any time soon. Jimmy Carter got his Nobel Prize for his humanitarian work, not his presidency.

Answer 5

Carter and Gore both won their prizes for work done AFTER they left office. I am curious as to this continual need on YA to define politicians as frozen in time. Gore was perhaps the best VP of the 20th Century. Carter while not a good President did then devote over 20 years of his life to humanitarian causes. While he has recently tarnished a lot of the good he did with his anti-Semitic statements the good he did does still stand

As to Arafat he shared his prize with Begin, and while both were terrorist they at least tried for Mid East peace which is more then any of the others leaders have managed to do

Answer 6

If doing a lousy job gets one a nobel prize bush would have won the last 7 years.

Answer 7

Not exactly a group I would wish to be a part of. The Nobel society has become a joke. Their award means nothing anymore.

Answer 8

That's great that Carter got a nobel peace prize for trying to bridge the gap between two FOREIGN countries. Too bad he couldn't do more for his OWN country. Thanks to Carter we experienced:

* 13% inflation rates
* 7 million unemployed Americans
* Energy crisis
* Spread of Communism
* Gutting of our military
* Iran hostage crisis

But hey, I hear he was a nice guy.....

Answer 9

If one of the hate mongers in your crowd would have won the Nobel prize, you'd be calling it the most significant recognition of accomplishment known to man !!!

REGARDING CARTER
I know it's easy to mimmick what you've heard, but here is a little info about Carter that maybe you haven't considered.

Jimmy Carter started sanctions against the USSR.( over the Afganistan conflict) This caused great hardship with their economy. THEN he started sending covert funds to the Afganistan Freedom fighters. This caused great pain in USSR with families of USSR soldiers that were being sent home in body bags. A brilliant foriegn affairs policy that was quickly adopted by President Ron Reagan as soon as he got into office. Great dissent regarding this war was commonplace across the USSR, leading to the country's eventual dimise.
All of which, mistakenly, has been credited to Ronald Reagan.

AS WE ALL KNOW----WORSE PRESIDENT HONORS WILL BE GOING TO

GEORGE W BUSH

Answer 10

No but there is a distinct link among anti-Capitalists, Anti- Americans and anti-semites. Being all three would practically gurantee you the prize.

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