Perhaps you did not like my responses, but I responded on every point that you raised. Habitat for Humanity is a wonderful charity and had Carter limited his post-White House years to working for worthy charities, then I would have no complaint.

 

Correct me if I am wrong, but political kidnappings and terrorism became widespread in the Middle East only after Carter helped radicals in Iran overthrow the Shah and then admitted the Shah to the US for medical treatment. Without Carter and his cowardly handling of the hostage crisis the Islamo-fascist terrorism in the region would have been a much smaller problem for Carter's successors, including Reagan.

 

If Reagan's decision to pull troops out of Lebanon and his administration's decision to deal arms for hostages sent the wrong message to terrorists, which I agree they did, then he sent a much different message when he later bombed Libya. Tens of million of people were freed from the shackles of the Iron Curtain, due in large part to Ronald Reagan's vision and leadership. How does that compare to Jimmy Carter's humanitarian scorecard?

 

Judging by the way our national media constantly defends Carter's pathetic record (let us not forget Carter's popularization of the "misery index"), I can only conclude that history's lessons have once again failed to take hold. As fewer and fewer of us actually remember firsthand the disaster that was Jimmy Carter's presidency, the whitewashing of Carter's stain on American history will probably succeed.

 

 

Was Munich under the Carter presidency? (1972)

 

There were many planes hijacked in the early 70's before Carter was president.

 

BTW, I was there firsthand for the Carter presidency. I too remember much of the bleak times in the late 70's but it wasn't created in a vaccum and didn't happen just in those four years. :thumb:

When voters got a chance to correct their mistake, they did so by a landslide margin. Ironically, Carter made the misery index one of his main issues in the '76 campaign and the misery index grew to record levels during his single term. I was shocked that the donning of cardigan sweaters had no impact on inflation, unemployment, or interest rates. :eek:

 

I am thankful that Jimmy Carter was not our first president because he might also have been our last one. Fortunately for us, our founding fathers believed that the Revolutionary War was necessary. Carter seems to consistently view past and present events from the non-American perspective.

 

 

 

I'm not sure that was Carter's point. From the description of his statements he was saying it was unnecessary and England did not have to go to war if they had chosen a political solution. Thereby, the colonies would have not needed to go to war.

 

 

BTW, for giggles, here is the misery index for recent presidents:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_index_(economics)

Uh, I beg to differ on that count, too. Carter studied nuclear physics and graduated in the top ten percent of his U.S. Naval Academy class in 1946. You may not agree with some of his policy decisions, but it's tough to make a case that he is not a smart man.

 

I think what he is referring to is he should think before he speaks because some pretty idiotic things do come out of his mouth.

 

But then again that can be said for a lot of politicians, both republican and democrat.

 

I will give them though that being in the public spotlight will cause them to do that but there are just too many lack-of-thought statements that do come from Jimmy Carter.