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Originally Posted by ngdawg
You're correct, I don't click your links. For every accomplishment you dig up, it'd be extremely easy to dig up a failing. You chose to not do so, but we are aware of what the man has done, both pro and con.
As Cyn has stated, our remembrances of the Carter Administration begin and end with long lines at the gas pumps, American hostages in the Middle East, the economical disasters, including but not limited to inflation, rising interest rates on credit and falling interest rates on savings(political opinions state he almost cost us the COld War with that stuff), increasing taxes to cover Social Security funding and witnessing a UFO. It's common knowledge that he won the presidency, not on his strengths alone, but because of the disgrace of Nixon and Ford's decision to pardon him. His weaknesses, including the inability to bring home the hostages, were why he didn't get a second term.
I find it ironic, by the way, that this man who also claims and is seen to be a staunch environmentalist, started a fertilizer business back when he was also a 'peanut farmer'.
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Yea, I'm not a big link clicker either, this is the net and its easy to find anything you desire to support your claims.
Carter, a good man, not the best president as they go, but certainly not the worst either. The hostages were however eventually released solely because of Carters work, even though Reagan was pres, he had nothing to do with the release. As I recall Reagan called the Iranians "Barbarians" and refused to negotiate.
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Finally, in September, Khomeini's government decided it was time to end the matter. There was little more advantage to be gained from further anti-American, anti-Shah propaganda, and the ongoing sanctions were making it harder to straighten out an already chaotic economy. Despite rumors that Carter might pull out an "October Surprise" and get the hostages home before the election, negotiations dragged on for months, even after Republican Ronald Reagan's landslide victory in November. Carter's all-night effort to bring the 52 hostages home before the end of his term, documented by an ABC television crew in the Oval Office, fell short; the Iranians released them minutes after Reagan was inaugurated.
On January 21, 1981, now-former President Carter went to Germany to meet the freed hostages on behalf of the new president. It was a difficult moment, fraught with emotion. Hamilton Jordan recalled that Carter "looked as old and tired as I had ever seen him."
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/...e_hostage.html
The UFO siting did diminish his credibility which is sad since he certainly wasn't the first or last human to see one. Many expert witnesses, who have everything to lose & nothing to gain, have seen & continue to see them today. He should have kept his mouth shut much as I should have.
Many of Carters detractors definitely suffer from prejudice towards southerners in general. Being a peanut farmer doesn't help this view. I much prefer an honest hardworking farmer to a corrupt career politician hell bent on securing middle east resources for the exploitation of his cronies.
I find it somewhat short sited to blame all the ills of the country on the president at that time. Unless that pres attempts to circumvent the constitution, bypass congress & remake the country in his own image.....
