Obama-- the second coming of Jimmy Carter

[Maple]

McGurn: They Once Loved Jimmy, Too - WSJ.com

In a polarized nation, on the eve of another divisive contest for the White House, those seeking a unified America are not without hope. For amid the partisan bickering, there remains one principle on which all Americans are agreed: Any comparison to Jimmy Carter is always and everywhere a put-down.

Given Mr. Carter's Democratic affiliation, it's mostly Republicans and conservatives who traffic in Jimmy Carter allusions. That makes for something of a yawn, as Mitt Romney is finding out with his claim that the community organizer from Chicago is worse than the peanut farmer from Georgia. More in the man-bites-dog category is when one of Mr. Obama's own sticks the Carter tag on him.

So it must have stung when the New York Times's Maureen Dowd recently quoted an unnamed Democratic senator moaning that "we are watching him turn into Jimmy Carter right before our eyes."

 

[Zona]

Greatest thread ever.

 

[Maple]

Greatest thread ever.

Thank you and so true, the three things that Carter and Obama have in common is that they are both inept and incompetent, they both have high IQ's and they both are Nobel Peace Prize winners. We will send Obama down to Mexico to help Carter build some houses there in 2012.

 

[Full-Auto]

Greatest thread ever.

Thank you and so true, the three things that Carter and Obama have in common is that they are both inept and incompetent, they both have high IQ's and they both are Nobel Peace Prize winners. We will send Obama down to Mexico to help Carter build some houses there in 2012.

He might not want to go to Mexico.

Hes got some splainin to do.

 

[Lakhota]

Obama-- the second coming of Jimmy Carter

I wish. President Carter was/is a good man.

 

[whitehall]

Barry ain't as smart as Jimmie was and he doesn't have nearly as much political fortitude but he is slicker and he has the desperate media on his side. Jimmie Carter had his brother Billy as comedy relief but Barry calls the woman who raised him a racist so there ain't much comedy relief there. Barry's father was an alcoholic bigimist and that's not much to laugh about. All in all Carter was an honest fool who led us down the path to disaster but Barry is a sleazy dishonest slickster with media support and a band of radical reolutionaries who would do anything to get him reelected and he is far more dangerous.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Snag here is you’ve got not ‘second coming’ of Ronald Reagan.

 

[hellofromwarsaw]

Both great men. Carter had bad luck- the Iran Hostage crisis killed him, along with Teddy and the Dems- he wanted austerity, a la Raygun (nobody knows that). Obama knows D.C. much better. Will go down as great if he can get reelected. Today's GOP is a total BS nightmare...

 

[Oddball]

Obama-- the second coming of Jimmy Carter

I wish. President Carter was/is a good man.

Exactly.

Barry Obolshevik ain't even that.....He's a spoiled rotten little manchild, with a major chip on his shoulder.

Whereas Carter was merely incompetent, Little Lord Obammyroy is a blind ideologue who didn't get the memo that the 60s' hippies and bums lost.

 

[hellofromwarsaw]

"hippies and bums lost" -QED, Raygun/Rush polarizing tools...

 

[hellofromwarsaw]

"Barry Obolshevik ain't even that.....He's a spoiled rotten little manchild, with a major chip on his shoulder.

Whereas Carter was merely incompetent, Little Lord Obammyroy is a blind ideologue who didn't get the memo that the 60s' hippies and bums lost."

Will you LISTEN to this Rush/Savage/WHATEVER BS psychobble from the dittoheads> Whata pile of CRAPPE!!

 

[Oddball]

Learn to use the quote function, dumbass.

Oh, and I don't need media windbags to think for me, projectasaurus rex.

 

[hellofromwarsaw]

Sure, Rush...LOL!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Jimmy Carter was incompetent but decent and an American, Obama is the most anti-American, despicable scumbag who ever disgraced this nation

 

[oreo]

McGurn: They Once Loved Jimmy, Too - WSJ.com

In a polarized nation, on the eve of another divisive contest for the White House, those seeking a unified America are not without hope. For amid the partisan bickering, there remains one principle on which all Americans are agreed: Any comparison to Jimmy Carter is always and everywhere a put-down.

Given Mr. Carter's Democratic affiliation, it's mostly Republicans and conservatives who traffic in Jimmy Carter allusions. That makes for something of a yawn, as Mitt Romney is finding out with his claim that the community organizer from Chicago is worse than the peanut farmer from Georgia. More in the man-bites-dog category is when one of Mr. Obama's own sticks the Carter tag on him.

So it must have stung when the New York Times's Maureen Dowd recently quoted an unnamed Democratic senator moaning that "we are watching him turn into Jimmy Carter right before our eyes."

Here's another DOWNGRADE on Obama from another Prominent Democrat.

In his New York Times Sunday Review essay “What Happened to Obama?” Emory University psychology professor Drew Westen summed up the president’s lack of experience with devastating succinctness.

“Those of us who were bewitched by his eloquence on the campaign trail chose to ignore some disquieting aspects of his biography: that he had accomplished very little before he ran for president, having never run a business or a state; that he had a singularly unremarkable career as a law professor, publishing nothing in 12 years at the University of Chicago other than an autobiography; and that, before joining the United States Senate, he occasionally, as a state senator in Illinois, voted ‘present’ on difficult issues,” wrote Westen, author of The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.
[...]

“There’s no question in my mind that Obama is a one-term president,” says one passionate Democrat. “Even if he were a great president, this economy is a calamity. And in the end, ‘It’s the economy, stupid.’

http://conservatives4palin.com/2011...-to-being-elected-thanks-for-nothing-dems.htm

 

[Oddball]

Jimmy Carter was incompetent but decent and an American, Obama is the most anti-American, despicable scumbag who ever disgraced this nation

Shit....At least Jimmah signed up for a hitch in the Navy.

 

[hellofromwarsaw]

Bring back the Fairness Doctrine- you shmucks are programmed...

 

[Zander]

When Obama loses in 2012 historians will point to this time, when he lost the limousine liberals that Maureen Dowd represents. They'll tak about how he refused to be a leader and accept responsibility for anything and instead kept blaming Bush, Wall Street, Rich People, Jet Owners, the Tea party, his racist grandmother, global warming, cow farts, bad luck, his angry wife, etc..etc...anyone but him!!

He's doing what he's always done, blaming others and voting "PRESENT" .

 

[auditor0007]

McGurn: They Once Loved Jimmy, Too - WSJ.com

In a polarized nation, on the eve of another divisive contest for the White House, those seeking a unified America are not without hope. For amid the partisan bickering, there remains one principle on which all Americans are agreed: Any comparison to Jimmy Carter is always and everywhere a put-down.

Given Mr. Carter's Democratic affiliation, it's mostly Republicans and conservatives who traffic in Jimmy Carter allusions. That makes for something of a yawn, as Mitt Romney is finding out with his claim that the community organizer from Chicago is worse than the peanut farmer from Georgia. More in the man-bites-dog category is when one of Mr. Obama's own sticks the Carter tag on him.

So it must have stung when the New York Times's Maureen Dowd recently quoted an unnamed Democratic senator moaning that "we are watching him turn into Jimmy Carter right before our eyes."

Carter had two choices; he could let Paul Volker do what he did, raising interest rates to astronomical levels in and effort to curb inflation, or he could have put pressure on Volker to ease up, which would have made much more credit available and may well have led to a much quicker turnaround. The problem is that it may also have led to even higher inflation at a time when the inflation rate was already in double digits.

It really was a no win situation for him. I was in high school during the Carter years, and even then I was very much into politics and what was going on. What I know is that at that time, as a high school student, I had a part-time job and had a car I bought on my own. My father was employed and actually took a new job that increased his pay by 50% during that time.

 

[eagleseven]

Sadly, I think Carter would be an improvement...