"Carter was the greatest environmental president the country ever had."

[Truthseeker420]

He kept us out of endless wars. He protected the Alaskan wilderness (Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D) of Wisconsin once told me that "Carter was the greatest environmental president the country ever had.") He promoted a visionary energy policy. He countered the Soviet military threat. And since he left office, he has persistently promoted the cause of peace around the world. The landmark Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty he fashioned remains in force today.

Against the backdrop of an unnecessary trillion-dollar war in Iraq, it is instructive to recall how Carter avoided a similar morass when he negotiated the Panama Canal treaties, for which he was excoriated by Ronald Reagan's Republicans. When he left office, he was able to say with Thomas Jefferson "[D]uring the period of my administration not a drop of the blood of a single citizen was shed by the sword of war."

In the public mind, Carter continues to be judged as "ineffectual." Yet he started that treaty ratification process with fewer than 40 votes of the 67 needed. Pentagon generals advised him it would require 100,000 troops, rivers of blood, and untold treasure if the US did not return sovereignty of the canal to Panama.

Carter was keenly aware that retaining US control of the canal, as Reagan demanded, might result in another Vietnam-like conflict. Today, looking at America's open-ended wars in Southwest Asia, Carter should be thanked for his wisdom and vision.

President-elect Obama, take note: No matter how loud the clamor for war, if your instincts tell you it's wrong, remember Carter and don't be stampeded onto unnecessary battlefields.

Carter was truly the prophet without honor in his own land on energy policy. Thirty years ago, he preached conservation and alternative energy. A profligate nation – not to mention Congress and the vested interests – ridiculed him. Today, his ideas are mainstream.

Stop picking on Jimmy Carter - CSMonitor.com

 

[Sallow]

If many of the policies Carter espoused were followed..we wouldn't be having to deal with the Middle East.

The air and water would be much cleaner too.

Reagan ripping the solar panels off the White House was the harbinger of the return to old and dirty tech.

 

[Warrior102]

Carter WAS the biggest miserable failure ever to occupy the White House until he was dethroned by the current Commander-In-Chump.

 

[Warrior102]

Reagan ripping the solar panels off the White House was the harbinger of the return to old and dirty tech.

Did Carter and Clinton put them back on?

If so.... I missed that.

Link?

 

[Stephanie]

If many of the policies Carter espoused were followed..we wouldn't be having to deal with the Middle East.

The air and water would be much cleaner too.

Reagan ripping the solar panels off the White House was the harbinger of the return to old and dirty tech.

omg sallow...you're kidding right

 

[Sallow]

Reagan ripping the solar panels off the White House was the harbinger of the return to old and dirty tech.

Did Carter and Clinton put them back on?

If so.... I missed that.

Link?

Carter didn't get a second term. And Clinton was pretty much in the pocket of the oil industry. Those big tax breaks they got were from Clinton.

 

[Warrior102]

Reagan ripping the solar panels off the White House was the harbinger of the return to old and dirty tech.

Did Carter and Clinton put them back on?

If so.... I missed that.

Link?

Carter didn't get a second term. And Clinton was pretty much in the pocket of the oil industry. Those big tax breaks they got were from Clinton.

OK, so what's delaying Obama?

 

[Truthseeker420]

If many of the policies Carter espoused were followed..we wouldn't be having to deal with the Middle East.

The air and water would be much cleaner too.

Reagan ripping the solar panels off the White House was the harbinger of the return to old and dirty tech.

Global warming aside I don't know how anyone can be against clean water and clean air.

 

[Sallow]

Did Carter and Clinton put them back on?

If so.... I missed that.

Link?

Carter didn't get a second term. And Clinton was pretty much in the pocket of the oil industry. Those big tax breaks they got were from Clinton.

OK, so what's delaying Obama?

He's a little less in the pocket then Clinton. But he's there too.

 

[Warrior102]

Global warming aside I don't know how anyone can be against clean water and clean air.

Name one Republican, asswipe, who's against clean water and air.

One.

That's all ya gotta provide, nutsack.

 

[Stephanie]

If many of the policies Carter espoused were followed..we wouldn't be having to deal with the Middle East.

The air and water would be much cleaner too.

Reagan ripping the solar panels off the White House was the harbinger of the return to old and dirty tech.

Global warming aside I don't know how anyone can be against clean water and clean air.

WHO the hell is against clean water and clean air...STOP repeating bullshit you hear from others
it wonderful, Carter was good for the enviormenty, he was horrible for us and our country, that is why he wasn't re-elected...
read some history

 

[Warrior102]

Carter didn't get a second term. And Clinton was pretty much in the pocket of the oil industry. Those big tax breaks they got were from Clinton.

OK, so what's delaying Obama?

He's a little less in the pocket then Clinton. But he's there too.

So why didn't you include Obama and Clinton in your analysis of why the White House doesn't have solar panels. You singled out Reagan.

 

[Stephanie]

Can you imigane trying to run the white house on solar panels...leave it to Carter

 

[Staidhup]

As I recall it was a reluctant Richard M. Nixon who ushered in the era of the EPA which got the ball rolling. As for the Mid East, ask Egypt's Sadat, unfortunately he was assassinated because of his push to normalize relations with Israel. Then of course there was the Ayatollah and the rise of Islamo fascism. You are aware of the cause of the oil embargo and gas crisis of 73-74? You are aware Carter shredded the US intelligence community which never fully recovered? You are also aware that America was informed by the President one evening that our greatest day's were behind us and to accept it. You are aware that US foreign policy was a joke, right, and that the USSR did as she chose. Yep, that Olympic boycott really made a profound statement, didn't it. You do recall the inflationary economy under Carter? You do recall the myopic growth in GDP, loss of manufacturing jobs, unemployment, how about that prime rate? You do recall what a contracting economy was all about? Yep Carter was very effective, he retained control of both houses and accomplished absolutely nothing. Well one thing is for certain he didn't play golf while the economy floundered.

 

[Sallow]

OK, so what's delaying Obama?

He's a little less in the pocket then Clinton. But he's there too.

So why didn't you include Obama and Clinton in your analysis of why the White House doesn't have solar panels. You singled out Reagan.

Because he was the one that ripped them down.

 

[The Infidel]

Global warming aside I don't know how anyone can be against clean water and clean air.

Better yet, I don't know anyone who ACTUALLY wants dirty air and dirty water either... like the libs always seem to claim we on the right want

 

[Katzndogz]

If many of the policies Carter espoused were followed..we wouldn't be having to deal with the Middle East.

The air and water would be much cleaner too.

Reagan ripping the solar panels off the White House was the harbinger of the return to old and dirty tech.

Global warming aside I don't know how anyone can be against clean water and clean air.

At what cost? How much clean water would you have if you never drank water, took a bath, washed your clothes, stopped watering your lawn.

 

[skookerasbil]

Im laughing............

Nobody cares about Jimmy Carter. He's a fossil and riding around in a wheelchair

 

[ScienceRocks]

If many of the policies Carter espoused were followed..we wouldn't be having to deal with the Middle East.

The air and water would be much cleaner too.

Reagan ripping the solar panels off the White House was the harbinger of the return to old and dirty tech.

We have some of the cleanest water and air on earth for a major nation. George W Bush put the solar panels back.

Look at his energy policy and you will find long lines of cars at the gas station. This tells me that some of his idea's weren't economical. Why would you want to hurt people?

 

[ScienceRocks]

If many of the policies Carter espoused were followed..we wouldn't be having to deal with the Middle East.

The air and water would be much cleaner too.

Reagan ripping the solar panels off the White House was the harbinger of the return to old and dirty tech.

Global warming aside I don't know how anyone can be against clean water and clean air.

WHO the hell is against clean water and clean air...STOP repeating bullshit you hear from others
it wonderful, Carter was good for the enviormenty, he was horrible for us and our country, that is why he wasn't re-elected...
read some history

Yep,

You can be for the environment, but you work for the people when you're president. It's a balancing game and Carter failed.

Between 2001-2009 the use of solar and wind expanded greatly under George Bush. Funny thing is Obama has more or less kept Bush's policies and sped them up.(2001 had 4,200, but by 2008 it was 25,000+ mw)