On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:03:16 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


During Carter's presidency the United States was beset by stagflation,
suffered massive fuel shortages, and struggled through several major
crises including the invasion of the American Embassy in Tehran and the
subsequent holding of embassy personnel as hostages by Islamic Radicals.

He introduced a staggered increase in the payroll tax in a failed
attempt to bolster the Social Security. In foreign affairs, Carter
pursued the Camp David Accords (failed), the Panama Canal Treaties (as
in giving away a strategic component of national security) and the
second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) (unilateral
disarming).

The final year of his term was dominated by the Iran hostage crisis,
during which the United States struggled to rescue diplomats and
American citizens held hostage in Tehran.

By 1980, Carter was so unpopular that he was challenged byTed Kennedy
for the Democratic Party nomination in 1980. Carter eventually received
the nomination but lost the election, in a landslide, to Republican
Ronald Reagan.

Only three postwar presidents have gone lower than the current President
Bush - Jimmy Carter (lowest) , Nixon and Harry Truman. And only one has
had a higher disapproval rating, Nixon. Carter's concurrent (as in
during his Presidency) negative rating ratio was 5:1 - the lowest of ANY
modern President.

Partisian my ass.

OK, I'll bite.

Who appointed Paul Volcker to the FED?

What Panamanian signed the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty?

What would prompt a nice conservative like RR to send arms to Iran, just two months after
they release the hostages?

If Carter's initiative to be energy independent by 2000 hadn't been dismantled by RR, do you
think we would be in Iraq today?