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Holy crap, it's not like this started with Obama.
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Just pointing out the current disrespect towards the office.
Bush Is 'the Worst in History' In Foreign Relations, Carter Says
Associated Press
Sunday, May 20, 2007
LITTLE ROCK, May 19 -- Former president Jimmy Carter called President Bush's international relations "the worst in history" and also took aim at Bush's environmental policies and the administration's "quite disturbing" faith-based initiative program.
The criticism came in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which reported Carter's remarks Saturday. The denunciation of a sitting president was unprecedented for Carter, a biographer said.
The former president also lashed out at British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Asked by BBC Radio how he would judge Blair's support of Bush, Carter said: "Abominable. Loyal. Blind. Apparently subservient. And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world."
In his interview with the Democrat-Gazette, Carter, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, criticized Bush for having "zero peace talks" in Israel. Carter also said the administration "abandoned or directly refuted" every negotiated nuclear arms agreement, as well as environmental efforts, by other presidents.
"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history," Carter said. "The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations . . . has been the most disturbing to me."
Carter said that Bush's policy of preemptive war, "where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened," was "a radical departure from all previous administration policies."
Carter also offered a harsh assessment for the White House's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, which helps religious charities receive billions in federal grants.
"As a traditional Baptist, I've always believed in separation of church and state and honored that premise when I was president, and so have all other presidents, I might say, except this one," he said.
Carter spoke while promoting his new audiobook series, "Sunday Mornings in Plains," a collection of weekly Bible lessons from his hometown of Plains, Ga.
"Apparently, Sunday mornings in Plains for former President Carter includes hurling reckless accusations at your fellow man," said Amber Wilkerson, Republican National Committee spokeswoman. She said that it was hard to take Carter seriously because he also "challenged Ronald Reagan's strategy for the Cold War."
"This is the most forceful denunciation President Carter has ever made about an American president," said Douglas Brinkley, a Tulane University presidential historian and Carter biographer. "When you call somebody the worst president, that's volatile. Those are fighting words."
In February, Carter indirectly criticized the Bush administration at the funeral of Coretta Scott King, when he alluded to its handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
"The struggle for equality is not over," Carter said. "We only have to recall the color of the faces in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi -- those most devastated by Katrina -- to know there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans."
The comments drew a scornful reply from Bush's father, former president George H.W. Bush.
Check out what the good Doctor has to say on the subject. The Presidency ain't what it used to be. We are currently living through very dark unprecedented times...
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 3/11/13: Congress, Drones, and The Imperial Presidency - YouTube
I agree. And it's sad that so many of our contemporaries dislike Jimmy Carter because of the bad luck his presidency suffered. He is a good and decent man, qualities we might never see again in a U.S. President.Carter is actually the only decent president we have had since JFK, our last great president. carter is the exception to the last 50 years of every president being worse than the previous one.[...]
The sense of morality has so seriously declined in American politics the corrupted atmosphere is probably intolerable to a decent, honest individual.
Why would your cousin want to shake hands with a man who did such harm to his country?My cousin, way more liberal than I am, met Bush and shook his hand. I have no problem with people calling out Presidents on their policies. But when you emphasize middle names (Hussein), and claim that the President ordered the killing of Americans (Benghazi); then that's completely disrespectful.
Has nothing to do with the office...everything to do with the moron occupying it.
Barack Obama has been ranked as the nation's 14th best president - tied with Lyndon B. Johnson and James Monroe.Historical rankings of Presidents of the United States
No. - President - Party
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16 Abraham Lincoln Republican
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic
01 George Washington None
03 Thomas Jefferson Dem-Repub
26 Theodore Roosevelt Republican
28 Woodrow Wilson Democratic
33 Harry S. Truman Democratic
07 Andrew Jackson Democratic
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican
11 James K. Polk Democratic
35 John F. Kennedy Democratic
02 John Adams Federalist
04 James Madison Dem-Repub
05 James Monroe Dem-Repub
36 Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic
44 Barack Obama Democratic
40 Ronald Reagan Republican
06 John Quincy Adams Dem-Repub
22/24 Grover Cleveland Democratic
25 William McKinley Republican
42 Bill Clinton Democratic
27 William Howard Taft Republican
41 George H. W. Bush Republican
08 Martin Van Buren Democratic
19 Rutherford B. Hayes Republican
38 Gerald Ford Republican
39 Jimmy Carter Democratic
21 Chester A. Arthur Republican
20 James A. Garfield Republican
31 Herbert Hoover Republican
30 Calvin Coolidge Republican
37 Richard Nixon Republican
23 Benjamin Harrison Republican
43 George W. Bush Republican
12 Zachary Taylor Whig
10 John Tyler Whig
18 Ulysses S. Grant Republican
09 William Henry Harrison Whig
13 Millard Fillmore Whig
14 Franklin Pierce Democratic
17 Andrew Johnson Democratic
15 James Buchanan Democratic
29 Warren G. Harding Republican
Historical rankings of Presidents of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I doubt history will be kind to those who have denigrated the nation's first "black" president over the last 5 years!
Wiki is your source?
Listen up shit stain any list that places woodrow wilson in the top ten best president shows that listen to be laughable.
Wilson the man who signed for an income tax, that took away the States checks and balances of the government. The man who basically created the mess we are in that is a fucked up list.
Why would your cousin want to shake hands with a man who did such harm to his country?My cousin, way more liberal than I am, met Bush and shook his hand. I have no problem with people calling out Presidents on their policies. But when you emphasize middle names (Hussein), and claim that the President ordered the killing of Americans (Benghazi); then that's completely disrespectful.
amen to that.I cant believe that cousin of his shook hands with mass murderer of innocent women and children Bushwacker.thats sick.
He's on your side after all.Why would your cousin want to shake hands with a man who did such harm to his country?
amen to that.I cant believe that cousin of his shook hands with mass murderer of innocent women and children Bushwacker.thats sick.
Barack Obama has been given a Free Pass. The American Media is a corrupt disgrace. No other President in history has received the Free Pass this current President has. I'll have to let you decide for yourself why that is. Barack Obama and his followers are the last people on Earth who should be whining about being mistreated. He's gotten away with the most heinous crimes against the People. He has not been held to the same standards past Presidents have. So please spare us all the self righteous indignation. He's had it made like no other has. So stop the whining. No one's buying it.
I absolutely could not agree more. We have (literally) witnessed the death of journalism in this country. With prior administrations, the media spent every waking hour digging. Hunting. Searching. For one thing that they could use AGAINST the prior administration.
Barry has the media in his back pocket. They worship him. They adore him. They REFUSE to print or broadcast ANYTHING that might be construed as "bad" for this clown of a president.
Just like the media in Nazi Germany.
yeah, the US media was really on the ball regarding the iraq invasion.
He's on your side after all.amen to that.I cant believe that cousin of his shook hands with mass murderer of innocent women and children Bushwacker.thats sick.
That's a stretch.. You sure about that?
-Geaux
It is strange how the left confuses dislike of Obama and his policies with dislike of the Office of the Presidency.
Perhaps it's because they had the two confused while President Reagan and the President G.H.W. Bush and President G. W. Bush were in office.
He's on your side after all.
That's a stretch.. You sure about that?
-Geaux
You want to re-write the constitution?
That's a stretch.. You sure about that?
-Geaux
You want to re-write the constitution?
No, but Obama does and the left machine
-Geaux
Why would your cousin want to shake hands with a man who did such harm to his country?
amen to that.I cant believe that cousin of his shook hands with mass murderer of innocent women and children Bushwacker.thats sick.
He was the President of the United States. I didn't like him, but if you love this country then you look him in the eye and shake his hand. He's on your side after all.
according to YOUR logic,if you were a citizen of germany back then during word war two,if you didnt like Hitler,you would still shake his hand.
amen to that.I cant believe that cousin of his shook hands with mass murderer of innocent women and children Bushwacker.thats sick.
He was the President of the United States. I didn't like him, but if you love this country then you look him in the eye and shake his hand. He's on your side after all.
your post is so idiotic its sick. what part of that post did you not understand that that bastard Bushwacker is a mass murderer of women and children?
You want to re-write the constitution?
No, but Obama does and the left machine
-Geaux
Oh really?
And no one else has ever wanted to?
Let's see what are the major problems facing this country...
Illegal immigration - that's been a problem for 40+ years
the middle east - 40+ years
economy - since 1776
and so on and so on...
The left and right will always battle each other. And that's a good thing. But every time the shit's hit the fan in this country - pearl harbor, russia, 9/11, etc. - we've always been on the same side.
I hated Bush. Absolutely HATED him. But I always thought that he felt he was doing right by this country. And we all make mistakes. So I would still shake his hand.
Its one thing to hate your boss for the way he treats people and still shake his hand,i got no problem with that,but to shake the hand of a mass murderer is just plain sick.
