Why is Jimmy Carter considered to have been a bad president?

[buddhallah_the_christ]

I regularly hear people refer to the Carter presidency as having been terrible. wikipedia tells me that the economy wasn't great, and the Iranian hostage crisis happened under his presidency, but nothing so terrible as to write his presidency off completely.

What made Jimmy Carter's presidency so bad that people don't feel the need to debate or elaborate when someone says he was the worst one?

 

[TheOldSchool]

Uh oh...

 

[DarkFury]

If you are reading Wiki then you did not live it. When you lived it you understand.

 

[Porker]

Why is Jimmy Carter considered to have been a bad president?

Because he was. He brought the country 20plus % interest rates and down to it's knees economically. BUT...compared to the current asshole he wasn't all that bad.

 

[westwall]

Why is Jimmy Carter considered to have been a bad president?

Because he was. He brought the country 20plus % interest rates and down to it's knees economically. BUT...compared to the current asshole he wasn't all that bad.

Jimmy was a nice man way out of his depth. Obama is an asshole even further out of his depth.

 

[candycorn]

I regularly hear people refer to the Carter presidency as having been terrible. wikipedia tells me that the economy wasn't great, and the Iranian hostage crisis happened under his presidency, but nothing so terrible as to write his presidency off completely.

What made Jimmy Carter's presidency so bad that people don't feel the need to debate or elaborate when someone says he was the worst one?

The remarkable thing is that he was probably the most fiscally conservative President we've had in the last 50 years or so (Nixon perhaps beats him).

 

[Roadrunner]

I regularly hear people refer to the Carter presidency as having been terrible. wikipedia tells me that the economy wasn't great, and the Iranian hostage crisis happened under his presidency, but nothing so terrible as to write his presidency off completely.

What made Jimmy Carter's presidency so bad that people don't feel the need to debate or elaborate when someone says he was the worst one?

He is almost as unmentionable as LBJ.

We got bitchslapped and hijacked by the Iranians, it was "so terrible", and the whole four years was an embarrassment.

Panama Canal now in Chinese hands due to Carter.

Telling people to put on a sweater if they were cold, because he could not ensue the world's oil market was open and stable.

Just a bad time all around.

 

[Uncensored2008]

The remarkable thing is that he was probably the most fiscally conservative President we've had in the last 50 years or so (Nixon perhaps beats him).

Just in case ANYONE had a doubt that you have utterly ZERO grasp of economics or finance...

Candy, ever hear of "wage and price freeze?"

Holy fuck....

 

[Uncensored2008]

He is almost as unmentionable as LBJ.

We got bitchslapped and hijacked by the Iranians, it was "so terrible", and the whole four years was an embarrassment.

Panama Canal now in Chinese hands due to Carter.

Telling people to put on a sweater if they were cold, because he could not ensue the world's oil market was open and stable.

Just a bad time all around.

I did love his speech on the inevitability of Soviet world dominance, and how America must simply accept a secondary role to our Soviet superiors. That was 1977. When the morons start trotting out that the USSR fell on it's own, I love linking to the Carter speech.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

I regularly hear people refer to the Carter presidency as having been terrible. wikipedia tells me that the economy wasn't great, and the Iranian hostage crisis happened under his presidency, but nothing so terrible as to write his presidency off completely.

What made Jimmy Carter's presidency so bad that people don't feel the need to debate or elaborate when someone says he was the worst one?

He is almost as unmentionable as LBJ.

We got bitchslapped and hijacked by the Iranians, it was "so terrible", and the whole four years was an embarrassment.

Panama Canal now in Chinese hands due to Carter.

Telling people to put on a sweater if they were cold, because he could not ensue the world's oil market was open and stable.

Just a bad time all around.

thats propaganda.Carter was the only halfway decent president we have had since our last great president JFK.Like JFK he also tried to do the right thing and get rid of the CIA,plus our govenment did not start any wars under Carter.

the proof is in the pudding on the CIA thing that he tried to reform them.soon as he got elected he fired bastard Fords appointee George Bush and replaced him with Stansfiled Turner who cleaned house and got rid of all covert operations.

soon as carter was out of office,Reagan got in and got the CIA back to its evil ways again reactivating the covert operations when he brought in William Casey who got the CIA back to its dirty tricks operations.

Carter also tried to do the right thing and also serve the people.Thats another example of a good president who did not get to serve in officer very long.the good ones never do.

 

[DarkFury]

He is almost as unmentionable as LBJ.

We got bitchslapped and hijacked by the Iranians, it was "so terrible", and the whole four years was an embarrassment.

Panama Canal now in Chinese hands due to Carter.

Telling people to put on a sweater if they were cold, because he could not ensue the world's oil market was open and stable.

Just a bad time all around.

I did love his speech on the inevitability of Soviet world dominance, and how America must simply accept a secondary role to our Soviet superiors. That was 1977. When the morons start trotting out that the USSR fell on it's own, I love linking to the Carter speech.

Damn I forgot about that speech. Cater was the FIRST to tour the world on the "It's ALL Americas fault" show. Obama has perfected it but Carter wrote it.

 

[prison/con.net]

He was and is a weak-kneed punk. He should have used a neutron nuke on Teheran and saved 1000's, perhaps one day millions of US lives by showing them what happens if you attack our embassies.

 

[Uncensored2008]

thats propaganda.Carter was the only halfway decent president we have had since our last great president JFK.Like JFK he also tried to do the right thing and get rid of the CIA,plus our govenment did not start any wars under Carter.

the proof is in the pudding on the CIA thing that he tried to reform them.soon as he got elected he fired bastard Fords appointee George Bush and replaced him with Stansfiled Turner who cleaned house and got rid of all covert operations.

soon as carter was out of office,Reagan got in and got the CIA back to its evil ways again reactivating the covert operations when he brought in William Casey who got the CIA back to its dirty tricks operations.

Carter also tried to do the right thing and also serve the people.Thats another example of a good president who did not get to serve in officer very long.the good ones never do.

ROFL

When do you turn 15?

 

[candycorn]

He was and is a weak-kneed punk. He should have used a neutron nuke on Teheran and saved 1000's, perhaps one day millions of US lives by showing them what happens if you attack our embassies.

 

[namvet]

I regularly hear people refer to the Carter presidency as having been terrible. wikipedia tells me that the economy wasn't great, and the Iranian hostage crisis happened under his presidency, but nothing so terrible as to write his presidency off completely.

What made Jimmy Carter's presidency so bad that people don't feel the need to debate or elaborate when someone says he was the worst one?

prime interest rate at 21%. try that out

 

[jon_berzerk]

Why is Jimmy Carter considered to have been a bad president?

because he is

in fact he WAS the worst president

until Barack Hussein Obama II came along

and swiftly moved into that spot

 

[suplex3000]

He also deregulated home brewing and the airline industry. The former is obviously kind of minor, but the later was a pretty big deal.
There are differing opinions on whether the Olympics boycott was a success or a failure, but it was certainly arguably a success.

 

[DarkFury]

He also deregulated home brewing and the airline industry. The former is obviously kind of minor, but the later was a pretty big deal.
There are differing opinions on whether the Olympics boycott was a success or a failure, but it was certainly arguably a success.

Check the fiscal viability of an airline back then to today.
NOT a smart move on his part.

 

[Disir]

The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski,
President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser

Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998
Posted at globalresearch.ca 15 October 2001

Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?

Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.

Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?

B: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today?

B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.

B: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.
CRG -- The CIA s Intervention in Afghanistan

That's why.

 

[Pop23]

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