BllFs6 wrote:
Hi

Couldnt help myself buttt.......

Isnt it kinda sad about Jimmy Carter?

The saddest thing about Jimmy Carter is that he's been the target of a
right-wing smear campaign for thirty years.


Probably one of the (actually, not hyped) smartest presidents we've had in a
long time....and most arguably the most moral/upstanding one...

What's "arguable" about it? I don't think there has been a President on
the same moral plane since at least Coolidge... if ever...

....yet despite all these positive points, he was
a pretty crappy president in action......makes you wonder about the "system" as
much as the presidency doesnt it?

What is "crappy" about what Carter did? Perhaps you were against the
national energy conservation initiative because you think wasting energy
is a better idea? Maybe you did not know about the conventional arms
limitation treaty, which did more to stabilize 3rd World politics than
any other action ever undertaken? Maybe you think the Camp David accords
were "crappy"?

President Carter had a bad tendency to micromanage, and he had no
concept of using patronage for political leverage. He got undermined at
every turn by those who profit from the system... the Iran hostage
rescue mission disaster was his only really big failure. If you can
think of others please tell us.

History will place Carter much higher on the scale than any other
President since Truman. Just wait a hundred years or so

DSK