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By Susan

May 22, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this

I think Jimmy Carter was 100% right and shouldn’t be retracting or apologizing about anything. We need more people to speak out about the state of the country and the damage Bush and his administration have done.

By Bruce Wilcox

May 22, 2007 11:51 AM | Link to this

Connecting the dots, Georgia is in the bottom 40 in education, yet the highest in support of Bush.

President Carter was right, the nation is behind him, a Nobel vs. a Dumbbell. Btw…I loved his book.

By JustMe

May 22, 2007 11:54 AM | Link to this

I was so glad that a major politican (although retired) stood up and called a spade a spade. Bush should go down in history as the worst president we have ever had.

Thank about it - what has he actually accomplished? NOTHING!

By JustMe

May 22, 2007 11:56 AM | Link to this

Oh, I did forget the one thing that Bush did accomplish - he was able to get his wealthy oil friends even more wealthy.

By SAG

May 22, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this

Hmm, how fondly I recall the Carter years when the family would get in the car and wait in line for two hours to buy gasoline on our assigned days. If the stations still had gas on my days. With glee I wrote out the mortgage payments for my first home under the Carter administraion; I was only paying a nineteen per cent interest rate on the house back then. Thank Carter for the immigration mess we’re in today, he started it. Just Me, you must be living under a rock to think that Carter is major politican, or is it just me feeling this way? Carter is hoping historians will forget what a mess that slobbery old senile old man left for Reagan to clean up. How brilliant was Carters’ handling of the Iranian hostage situation, a roadmap to success! He managed that cisis so well, well…we sent him packing back to Georgia where he has grown old, unimportant, senile, useless, old and totally irrelevant. If Bush II is as bad as some seem to think he is and he was re-elected, what does that say for Carter that he could not be re-elected? I mean come on people, if the worse President in history, or so you say…could be elected twice, what is this saying about Carter? And Bruce Wilcox I bet your kids has contributed to that bottom 40 ranking you mentioned, from the likes of your post I bet that have contributed handsomely. What a confederacy of dunces Carter has looking out afer his legacy, he should be so proud!

By thinker

May 22, 2007 12:53 PM | Link to this

SAG:

I for one do recall those “hanging chads”. The question begs the answer, is everyone in the country better off than they were 12 years ago?

Please re-read the history FACTS and remind yourself how we got out of that Iranian situation. However it was spun that we didn’t trade for them, we “sold” arms to the Iranians and they just so happened to threafter release the hostages. Very coincidental. BTW, I don’t recall Carter getting us into a messy war with our sons and daughters being slaughtered like sheep without any end in sight…or am I missing something? What was the price of gas back then? How long has President Carter been out of office, and how many people have been in that spot with illegal immigration running rampant? Be fair and at least spread the blame for the mess we are in and stop blaming things on people from the past.

By JP

May 22, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this

I’m disappointed in Carter’s retraction. The statement was correct re: international relations—he should have repeated the qualifier he used, and explained the context, rather than apologize. Apology only gives the Right ammunition to call him “weak.”

By cnote

May 22, 2007 2:04 PM | Link to this

Talk about the “pot calling the kettle black”. Any lists of worst American Presidents of all time would have to have Carter at the top - at least for the last 50 years.

The Nobel Peace prize is meaningless. A small committee of Europeans doesn’t carry a lot of weight with me. Jimmy shamlessly campaigned for that award for many years and didn’t recieve it until he upped the America bashing.

I just read an article that this is one of the best American job markets ever, so overall I’d have to say we are better off than 12 years ago.

By George

May 22, 2007 2:19 PM | Link to this

Who cares what Jimmy says!

Did we all forget about “our great national malaise in 1978?” Did we all forget about gas shortages, inflation running rampant, interest rates in excess of 22%, the Panama Canal giveaway, and oh yes, the Iranian Hostage Crisis for 444 days?

President Carter’s “greatness” came way way after his Presidency ended. Habitat for Humanity accounts for much of that “greatness”.

Commenting on successor Presidents; however ineffective and unqualified they may be, is not any part of Mr. Carter’s “greatness” - it only detracts from it!

By Bruce Wilcox

May 22, 2007 2:55 PM | Link to this

SAG, are you old enough to remember “WIN” buttons, that was President Fords answer to the terrible economy he gave President Carter, it stood for Whip Inflation Now. As far as gas, we are now paying more, even adjusted for the cost of living back them, no gas lines, no one can afford it. And finally it was good old Ike that put the Shah back in power after the people ousted him. They don’t like puppet governments in the Middle East, now we know how Iraq will end. Do they teach history in Georgia?

By cnote

May 22, 2007 3:20 PM | Link to this

Take a look at “adjusted for inflation” gas prices right after Carter was thrown out of office.

http://inflationdata.com/inflation/InflationRate/GasolineInflation.asp

By Bruce Wilcox

May 22, 2007 11:11 PM | Link to this

cnote, by right after you mean under Reagan, would that not be correct?

Remember CAFE standards, at least President Carter took on the problem. I guess Bush just doesn’t want to tick off fellow oilmen.