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carter is a deeply underrated president. he was handed a massive shit sandwich with the mideast conflict and the economic aftershocks of vietnam, and he did what he could, quite courageously in my opinion, to try and change the direction of the country toward frugality and energy independence. folks didn't cotton to that, mainly because most people seem to prefer happy talk, facile nationalism and chicken-in-every-pot talk, so they went with reagan. obviously the hostage crisis was a problem but i've never heard a con explain to me what THEY would have done to solve it, except they would talk tough. i'll give carter props over obama on that, at least he never negotiated with the hostage takers the way obama did during the debt ceiling debate.What was wrong with Jimmy Carter?
carter isn't going to go down as a great president, but i think he'll be remembered as better than average, esp. given the hand he was dealt. reagan, on the other hand, was a joke. but he really tapped into a cheap, facile nationalist streak among the hyper-con flag fetishists that's really easy to exploit.
Better than average? I would hate to see what you consider average, you must have a pretty low standard....
Carter, (he is a distant relative) was lost the day he arrived in DC, like a fish out of water, leadership requires a God given talent, you do not learn it in a Ivy League school, or any school for that matter, some of society's brightest could not lead you to the bathroom....
At this point, Obama has relieved Carter of the Worst POTUS in the last 100 years, history will clarify this in short order....
Now you just hold on there....
You've placed the very worst...Woodrow Wilson...just outside of your 100-year timeline. I demand a recount!