Subscribe Feed (RSS)Was Jimmy Carter thought of as a good or bad president?
December 16th, 2008 by Admin | Filed under Politics.
anhjoel аѕkеԁ:
I’m looking back аt past presidents (аѕ wе come tο аח іmрοrtаחt election November 4th).
I wаѕ οחƖу a ƖіttƖе kid wһеח Jimmy Carter wаѕ president, ѕο I wasn’t aware һοw much οf аח impact һе mаԁе wһеח һе wаѕ іח office.
I understand һе іѕ still active politically; bυt wаѕ һе a president tһаt mονеԁ tһе country forward οr backward? Wһаt wаѕ tһе general consensus?
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Worst in my lifetime!
He had to be one of the most inept presidents in history. He violated civil rights, created gas lines, had double-digit inflation, and the Dow-Jones average never reached 1,000.
How do you think that individual Olympians would have reacted if George Bush had refused to allow them to attend the Chinese Olympics? Jimmy prohibited our athletes from going to the Olympics in the Soviet Union.
He allowed radical Islam to start by failing to help the Shaw of Iran, one of the US’s staunchest allies in the Middle East at the time.
His beer guzzling brother, Billy, was allowed to market “Billy Beer” relying on his holding the office of president to market it.
Foreign relations with other countries reached an all-time low during his presidency.
Jimmy Carter was asked in a Playboy (c) interview if he had ever cheated on his wife. His answer, “I.ve committed adultery in my heart as I’ve have lusted after other women.”
Jimmy Carter also wrote a lurid romantic novel that didn’t go over very big.
Carter also deregulated banks, oil, the trucking industry, the railroad industry, and airlines, leading to many of the problems we now face. Many of these industries are in big trouble now.
Especially bad was the Depository Institutions and Monetary Control Act (DIDMCA) of 1980. Althought it helped the banking industry explode at first, it lead to the excesses we see today and the devastating effect it’s having on the economy.
He also had the fastest decline in popularity of any president since polls have been taken. Harry Truman reached 22%. Jimmy Carter reached 28%. Until the past year, he held the next to the lowest rating ever.
Now George W. Bush is next to the lowest. Of course, it took him much longer to get there.
I haven’t heard much about him… infowars said the campaigner advisor of Obamas campaign led the ” catastrophic” Carter presidency.
Bad, bad foreign policy, bad economic policy. Worst president in my lifetime.
He was one of our best presidents, but was prevented from doing anything by Congress. This led to the perception that he was ineffective.
He meant well, but wasn’t a good president.
The only thing good about Carter was that he was the major reason modern conservatism was given a chance in 1980.
Bad. That’s why people say that this is the worst financial crisis since the Carter administration.
There’s also a reason Iran released our hostages on the first day of Reagan’s Presidency, and not on the last day of Carter’s.
His presidency wasn’t good. He did more good for the country and the world after his presidency than any other president has, however.
He was thought of as a bad president, and he was a bad president.
i think he was kind of unlucky with the economic conditions back then, and then hostage crisis.
but in general, I dont see him as a very powerful politician,
If not for the Carter Doctrine:
“Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.”
Which incidentally sounds like Bush doctrine, he wouldn’t be viewed as so bad of a President. But anytime the Middle East is destabalized, oil prices shoot up causing damage to our economy.
This is a fact that terrorists were depending on when they were trying to get Bush to invade it.
It was actually part of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ‘s plan distributed by weapon traffickers to other militant organization around the Middle East.
This is why nobody in their right mind can deny the fact that this war is about oil.
He started several programs to get us off foreign oil dependence, that was later cancelled by Ronald Reagan.
I remember waiting hours in line for gas and every evening on the news was started with day number ? of the our hostages in Iran. I remember the mood of the country was terrible. The day Ronald Regan was elected, the hostages were released and the mood of the country turned from hopeless to hopeful almost overnight. Carter was the worst President of my lifetime.
Jimmy Carter got a raw deal. When the country needed to heal from the Nixon corruption, he was a good choice. But he was not strong enough to command respect needed as the world changed. He was and is a bit naive about the existence of evil people. He had a weak economic team, but much of the problem was sown during the price controls of the Nixon years, which had to work themselves out no matter who was president. He did not have much of a future vision.
I don’t understand people. People should realize when an energy crisis hits or when demand goes up or down, it’s not the Presidents fault. Carter was just unlucky that the energy crisis happened during his presidency. Same thing with Bush. What did you think that the .com bubble wouldn’t burst? That’s the reason Clinton had it easy…not only that one of the trade agreements that was so one sided that Clinton signed did not benefit us, it benefited the Chinese, hence forth you had a lost of jobs, thanks to Billy boy….Bush took the flak for it. About the only thing I did not like about the Bush Administration was the decision to go to war with Iraq. BTW, the federal deficit did not increase due to the war (money was already there part of the military spending budget) , it was the tax cuts all of us wanted so bad. So when you hear tax cut run!!!! That just means there will be a tax increase in the future!
About the only things you can really blame a president for are foreign policy and domestic affairs. The economy seems to have a mind of it’s own sometimes.
Good hearted man, but certainly not one meant to run the country.
Carter to an extent was a victim of bad timing. He inhereted an inflation cycle from Nixon and Ford, whose efforts to stop it were complete failures. Carter’s initial efforts weren’t successful either, but in 1979 he appointed Vockler to the Fed to clamp down on the money supply, which Vockler did. The short term result was that interest rates shot sky high and a recession in 1980, an election year. The medicine worked and inflation came down in the early 80s.
Reagan wrongly is credited for fixing inflation, and Carter gets the credit for high interest rates. But Carter gets the bad rap for providing the medicine that cured the patient.
He was unsuited for the office and was consequently a terrible president.
After he lost the election, he became bitter over the loss and has never really gotten over it.
He has spent the past years trying to vindicate the Camp David Accords which has kept him constantly meddling in Middle Eastern affairs, constantly making them worse and worse.
His efforts at the supervision of “fair” elections have “blessed” the rigged elections of some of the worse dictators and enemies of the US around the world, like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
Carter has never understood that he should keep his mouth shut about criticizing the Administrations of his successors when he is abroad. It didn’t matter if it was Clinton or a Republican.
He always thought that they were wrong and that the US was wrong.
Obviously, no one else is as smart as he is.
The US made a major error in not re-electing him and he has been making us pay ever since.
He can NEVER build enough houses for Habitat to repay the damage he has done to the US image abroad.
Our enemies cheer him.
He is their favorite among our ex-presidents.
He is particularly loved by Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Palestinians.
His last book was so anti-Israel that it was called anti-semitic and the Jewish Board members of the Carter Center resigned in protest.
BTW, did you notice how quickly he was shuffled out of the Democratic National Convention??
He got into office with the burden of an economic downturn and energy crisis staring him in the face, much like what the next president will face.
Everything he proposed, the GOP led Congress would go against, so he was limited to what he could do–no matter how good the idea was. One major case in point, he insisted in no uncertain terms that the energy crisis proved that we should start working as hard and fast as we could on developing alternative renewable energy sources.
Looking back on it, and adding up all the Trillions of dollars we have sent overseas for oil, not to mention the Trillions of dollars spent on wars over there, so the flow of oil would be a sure thing–it is clear this was one more time that the GOP could not have been more wrong had they tried. Oh well, they made money for the defense contractors and the big oil companies, so I guess from the Republican standpoint–they are proud of themselves.
Bad but not as bad as Nixon or Reagan or Bush I and II. He’s like Obama with the Trilateral commission criminals pulling his puppet strings.