Former President Jimmy Carter Dead

[22lcidw]

Okay, let's be blunt about Carter's main flaw.

he was what we wanted him to be.

After Nixon and his shenanigans, America wanted a president who was honest and ineffectual, and that's what they got with Carter.

Most of the problems Carter inherited were beyond his control. Inflation was already spiraling out of control under Ford. The first oil shock came in 1974. And the Shah of Iran was going down and there wasn't much we could do about it.

America was digesting the ramifications of the costs of the Great Society and the costs of the Viet Nam War. Add in the Moon Program costs. We were tied into the Bretton Woods agreement which made our currency the World Reserve one. The costs in 1971 became excessive as the legislation of the mid 1960's started to grow exponentially. And has continued to do so today. Our fiat currency had one last thread left to gold as any nation that had investments in American dollars could have gold given to them in return for cashing out. And we did not have it. France wanted gold. The world saw some disarray. OPEC wanted a price increase for oil, and we were slow to respond. Watergate caused consternation and the government became ineffectual resulting in the first oil crisis. We then tied our dollar to Saudi oil. And Carter still screwed it up and we had a second oil crisis.

 

[eagle1462010]

So now the Right thinks Carter should have seized the oil companies and set gas prices?

The 'shortage' was a hoax, just another price fixing scam by the Too Big To Fail crowd and their Watergate Babies in Congress.

Wasnt a damn hoax waiting in gas lines

 

[lafayette]

Jimmy Carter: Election denier

From 2019, former President Jimmy Carter: "If fully investigated, it would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election and he was put in office because the Russians interfered on his behalf."

Jimmy Carter was an election supporter for 2020. You are the election denier.

 

[lafayette]

Yeah that is a load of bullshit

Yeah, its true that many officers and NCOs left the military because of the Sandanista scandal.

 

[lafayette]

Sure didnt

Ask Oliver Stone.

 

[Papageorgio]

You do realize that tRump is actually in the running for worst, but Jimmy is not, right?

Depends of which people and source you want to believe, this is all subjective, and constantly can change.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

I wonder if President Trump will be invited to the requiem? It would be something else if he was, particularly when DJT was disinvited from Bush and McCain funerals, and those guys are supposed to be "Republicans"

Of course Trump will be uninvited. Trump hurt all their little feewings. How else are they going to show everyone just how chickenshit they can really be?

Trump isn't a part of the permanent political aristocrat class. They'll never welcome him.

 

[JGalt]

You do realize that tRump is actually in the running for worst, but Jimmy is not, right?

Your mental illness is not my reality, bro.

 

[Picaro]

Wasnt a damn hoax waiting in gas lines

So? He didn't run refineries and gas stations, those were all run by private corporations.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

You do realize that tRump is actually in the running for worst, but Jimmy is not, right?

Carter paved the way for Khomeini to overthrow the Shah. We can thank Carter for the unrest in the Middle East, Hamas, the Houthis. There's no way to rehab Carter's presidency.

 

[Polishprince]

So? He didn't run refineries and gas stations, those were all run by private corporations.

If President Carter steps in and doesn't abandon the Shah, Islamonazis are unable to mess with the oil supply that Americans need.

 

[AsherN]

Carter pushed synfuel as a policy to replace petroleum. Guess what synfuel is made from? Peanuts. Carter was lining his pockets. Spare me the ******* adoration.

He sold his peanut farm upon taking office.

 

[berg80]

Had it not been for the failure of the hostage rescue mission we would have been spared an admin full of corrupt members, the S&L crisis, the decline of the middle class, Iran/Contra, and the most harmful thing of all to the country. The creation of the right wing media cohort that has evolved in to the most effective propaganda machine since the Third Reich, following Reagan's repeal of the Fairness Doctrine.

 

[JWBooth]

It was his administration that started this nonsense of the US (quietly) arming and ginning up Islamic terrorism to destabilize the world. **** him. Too many have died over this.

 

[Crepitus]

Depends of which people and source you want to believe,

Lol, no. Historians who specialize in presidential history are the only real source here.

 

[Crepitus]

Your mental illness is not my reality, bro.

Lol, dude^ thinks he has some sorta connection to reality!!

 

[Polishprince]

Had it not been for the failure of the hostage rescue mission we would have been spared an admin full of corrupt members, the S&L crisis, the decline of the middle class, Iran/Contra, and the most harmful thing of all to the country. The creation of the right wing media cohort that has evolved in to the most effective propaganda machine since the Third Reich, following Reagan's repeal of the Fairness Doctrine.

It was a lot more than the failure of the hostage rescue mission that made the people reject Carter's Little Pills in 1980. The collapse of the steel industry, inflation through the roof, mile long gasoline lines all contributed.

Carter era income tax rates were disgusting.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Yeah, its true that many officers and NCOs left the military because of the Sandanista scandal.

I was in during that time we did not lose any NCO's or officers. No more than usual turn over.

 

[Oddball]

It was his administration that started this nonsense of the US (quietly) arming and ginning up Islamic terrorism to destabilize the world. **** him. Too many have died over this.

More of the aforementioned incompetence....The CIA ran both ends of the Iran grift right under his nose.

 

[mikegriffith1]

I grew up during the Carter years. His economy was horrible.

The economy added 9 million new jobs under Carter, and Carter added far less to the national debt than did Reagan, Bush Sr., and Bush Jr.

I might add that under Carter defense spending rose from $452 billion to $516 billion, an increase of 14%.

Mind you, I'm glad Reagan won in 1980, but it is simply wrong to say that everything was horrible under Jimmy Carter.