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pan6467 · 09-16-2006, 11:36 PM

What amazes me is the people on the Right keep bringing up Carter's presidency, yet as others have stated, noone has challenged what he said.

In fact by bringing more attention to it and just being all hateful with no debate, no true discussion other than how bad a president he was, and how he "weakened us" and basically saying, he had no right to say anything and should be shut up...... you weaken your whole stance.

Personally, I was 9 when he was elected in '76 and I was 13 when he left office.

Carter faced an uphill battle. Nixon and Agnew had pretty much destroyed faith in the government, we were coming out of an extremely expensive unpopular war, and the nation was alreadfy hurting.

Carter, really didn't do anything to help the nation or hurt the nation. Inflation, high interest rates and unemployment were pretty much coming anyway. There wasn't anything he could do to stop it at the time.

Carter also was too trusting and put in some people that were corruptable.

Carter, as a president, was probably one of the worst, but not because of what he did or didn't do, but because of what he walked into. The GOP and Nixon had pretty much left the nation in a mess. Carter's biggest strength is his diplomacy and intelligence on world affairs, his weakness was trusting the wrong people and quite frankly he wasn't cold hearted and self centered enough to be president.

But, he was what the country needed at that moment to save it domestically...... someone the people could trust and like as a person.

How will true history judge him in another 20+ years when it's been 50 years since he was president.... I really don't think he'll be thought of much. He'll go down as a Buchanan, Fillmore, Polk, Cleveland.

09-16-2006, 11:36 PM	#38 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	What amazes me is the people on the Right keep bringing up Carter's presidency, yet as others have stated, noone has challenged what he said. In fact by bringing more attention to it and just being all hateful with no debate, no true discussion other than how bad a president he was, and how he "weakened us" and basically saying, he had no right to say anything and should be shut up...... you weaken your whole stance. Personally, I was 9 when he was elected in '76 and I was 13 when he left office. Carter faced an uphill battle. Nixon and Agnew had pretty much destroyed faith in the government, we were coming out of an extremely expensive unpopular war, and the nation was alreadfy hurting. Carter, really didn't do anything to help the nation or hurt the nation. Inflation, high interest rates and unemployment were pretty much coming anyway. There wasn't anything he could do to stop it at the time. Carter also was too trusting and put in some people that were corruptable. Carter, as a president, was probably one of the worst, but not because of what he did or didn't do, but because of what he walked into. The GOP and Nixon had pretty much left the nation in a mess. Carter's biggest strength is his diplomacy and intelligence on world affairs, his weakness was trusting the wrong people and quite frankly he wasn't cold hearted and self centered enough to be president. But, he was what the country needed at that moment to save it domestically...... someone the people could trust and like as a person. How will true history judge him in another 20+ years when it's been 50 years since he was president.... I really don't think he'll be thought of much. He'll go down as a Buchanan, Fillmore, Polk, Cleveland. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"