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Originally Posted by host
....the MSNBC poll was linked on the Feb., 2007 Gore Nomination article....it is certainly more "weighty" than anything contained in the negative posts about Gore's peace prize....and it was one part of a two part example of how to support (briefly....in fact...) a posted opinion, thereby demonstrating that an opinion is influenced by....whatever.......
Back to replying to the Carter trashing....what is the basis for your negative opinions? I don't see it, because you won't post anything that I can verify or challenge.....
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Again, so if there is a Britney Spears article for Nobel Peace nomination from whatever source, and enough people vote for it that is acceptable to you? Another consideration is the sample that gets taken by the fact that the only people who can vote are those that have computers. How about can you vote multiple times (general problem plagued by these types of voting systems)? Nevertheless, again, I think that it is still a popularity contest.
As far as negative about Carter, only a few things that stick in my mind about President Carter is the long gas lines I had to sit in. When I was growing up there were 4 corner gas stations on most intersection in the San Fernando Valley. The gas crisis reduced those to 1.
Another item which I'm not 100% sure about but understand that some of it had to have happened on his watch is the S&L crisis of the early 80s.
The biggest thing from President Carter's presidency that I remember is the 444 days of captivity of the American hostages in Iran. The failed military recovery that didn't even get close to a recovery attempt.
In my opinion, it is the hostages and the gas crisis that did in President Carter, I don't see the martyr aspect of him hiring Paul Volcker as the reason.
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