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I am amazed the criticism that Carter takes when he is the only president who didn't use his time in office to become rich like his predicessors and those who followed.
He is apparently one of the few truly moral persons who held that office.
I am amazed the criticism that Carter takes when he is the only president who didn't use his time in office to become rich like his predicessors and those who followed.
He is apparently one of the few truly moral persons who held that office.
he was also a lousy president. i admire many things about the man, but he wasn't up to the job.
Just to keep it simple, let's go one at a time.
Oil imports were reduced by 50 % from 1977 to 1981.
Considering that this was a major goal of his administration, and no one has accomplished anything near that since, is it allright to credit the man with this ? Is that no big deal ?
(Clinton actually did a much better job making government smaller and being fiscally responsible).
Demand fell and the Alaska pipe came on line. Iran went kaput with production and OPEC production fell over all. The result was a surplus and cuts in production.
All that doesn't change the fact that Carter was the man who told the nation we must reduce our dependance on foreign oil. Same thing we're being told now, 30 years later.
why is jfk never on this list......
but worst i lived through....carter......
biggest bonehead manuver.....nixion and clinton getting caught......
We only get 10 choices and I didn't think anyone would pick Kennedy as the worst in the last 100.
he is not even close to the worst but he is an interesting discussion ..... but he always ends up off limits.....
Well, he didn't live long enough to suck as much as he would have. And, of course, he gets the sympathy waiver because he was assassinated. No one likes to speak ill of the dead, especially under those circumstances.
I am curious as to why people think that FDR was a bad president. He was certainly popular in his time. Carter I can easily understand, Clinton I can understand, but why FDR? I can understand Johnson as a bad president, maybe not worst all time, but bad.
For me it would break down like this: worst liberal would be Carter
worst conservative would either be Hoover or Bush
No Ray, the liberals have done that all by themselves. Mainly by trying to rewrite the constitution. Like when Gore said that the constitution was a "living document"???WASHINGTON - Talk about a civics lesson: A high-school senior has raised questions about political bias in a popular textbook on U.S. government, and legal scholars and top scientists say the teen's criticism is well-founded.
They say "American Government" by conservatives James Wilson and John Dilulio presents a skewed view of topics from global warming to separation of church and state. The publisher now says it will review the book, as will the College Board, which oversees college-level Advanced Placement courses used in high schools.
The practice of self censorship is increasingly apparent here in Texas, where battles over textbook content are epic. For years, publishers have been held to the fire by conservatives who could make or break a textbook. But now, critics say, publishers are allowing conservative groups likely to raise the biggest fusstodiscuss content before the books are made available for public review.
"The publishers know the religious right will go after a handful of books every year and nobody wants it to be their book," says Samantha Smoot, executive director of the Austin-based Texas Freedom Network, a watchdog group that monitors the religious right. "Texas has really become a testing ground, when in comes to textbooks, for what the far right is able to get away with."
For more than 40 years, Mrs. Gabler and her husband, Mel Gabler, pored over textbook publishers' offerings with a zeal and thoroughness that public school teachers could only envy.
Sphinx-like in their dedication and ferocity, they guarded the schoolhouse door against factual errors and what they perceived as left-wing bias. Usually one and the same in their view, the
Damn liberal media. I bet they are the ones who for the last 50+ years have been tryng to make "liberal" a dirty word.
This sort of implies that one man (the President) is the one solely responsible, or in charge... when it seems an administration is a collection of interests, powers and people. One of whom happens to be the public face.
I am amazed the criticism that Carter takes when he is the only president who didn't use his time in office to become rich like his predicessors and those who followed.
He is apparently one of the few truly moral persons who held that office.
Demand fell and the Alaska pipe came on line. Iran went kaput with production and OPEC production fell over all. The result was a surplus and cuts in production.
All that doesn't change the fact that Carter was the man who told the nation we must reduce our dependance on foreign oil. Same thing we're being told now, 30 years later.
Any fucking moron could tell that dependence of foreign oil was not a positive thing... but with all the talk, Carter actually did WORSE in terms of current term actions of energy need.. He was bound and determined to push towards alternatives, yet knew that by a technological standpoint it was not feasible whatsoever..
he is too easily credited with a drop in foreign oil imports, without taking into consideration the overall situation at the time...
The bozo failed in every aspect of leadership during his term as prez.. and whether he was a nice guy or had good intentions at heart, does not detract from that.. It's like pipe dreaming, while the castle falls down around you
"This is a problem that's been a long time in coming. We haven't had an energy policy in this country."
That's exactly what I've been saying to the American people -- 10 years ago if we'd had an energy strategy, we would be able to diversify away from foreign dependence. And -- but we haven't done that. And now we find ourselves in the fix we're in."
Difficult to say, but I voted for Reagan. The man's domestic policies were an orgy of neoliberal expansion.
Well, just to be cruel, I'm gonna advance a direct and unabiguous challenge to you to DEFINE: "Neo-liberal Policies and to SPECIFY WHAT "REAGAN" Initiated policies you 'feel' falls under this absurdity.
Now understand I fully expect you to be wholly unable to support this and that is the reason for the challenge...
Now that doesn't mean that I don't expect you to try... only that like your contest of the assertion of President Hussein's Marxism, that you'll AGAIN end up proving yourself to be dead wrong and a fool in general.
