Is Obama really Carter Part II?
Conservatives consider the Presidency of a certain James Earl Carter to be an unmitigated disaster. Liberals would rather any reference to it would just go away.
What both conservatives and liberals agree upon is that Carter was percieved as weak by both our allies and adversaries.
The chronology of wimpiness...
When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Carter responded by not allowing American athletes to participate in the 1980 Moscow Summer Olypics.
The Russians won the medal count with 195 total medals, 80 of them gold. I guess Carter showed 'em.
The Panama Canal was given away to a two-bit dictator; the CIA was gutted; American aid was cut off to El Salvador, which was fighting a Communist insurgency at the time, but gave more than $90 million in aid to the Marxist Nicaraguan Sandinistas.
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Conservatives consider the Presidency of a certain James Earl Carter to be an unmitigated disaster. Liberals would rather any reference to it would just go away.
What both conservatives and liberals agree upon is that Carter was percieved as weak by both our allies and adversaries.
The chronology of wimpiness...
When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Carter responded by not allowing American athletes to participate in the 1980 Moscow Summer Olypics.
The Russians won the medal count with 195 total medals, 80 of them gold. I guess Carter showed 'em.
The Panama Canal was given away to a two-bit dictator; the CIA was gutted; American aid was cut off to El Salvador, which was fighting a Communist insurgency at the time, but gave more than $90 million in aid to the Marxist Nicaraguan Sandinistas.
Read more...
posted by Vir Speluncae Catholicus at
7:54 AM
4 Comments:
The Panama Canal was given away to a two-bit dictator
That was Reagan, no??
From my research, both Canal Treaties were done in the carter Admin.
The implimentation may not have happened until Mr. Peanut was voted out of office.
The Carter problem IMHO was one of competence. The Obama problem is similar, although I think he is worse than President Carter was.
I meant to say the Carter problem was one of INcompetence.
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