Good day all. Yesterday, it was announced that former President, James Earl Carter, was now at home and receiving hospice care. Basically, Carter, at 98, is in the final stages of his life.
Without a doubt, all the obituaries are being updated, however, none of them will really tell it like it was. Jimmy Carter was a flat out disaster as President of the United States. My headline for this post referred to him as the third worst president. Up until Obama, he was THE worst president. (Some may argue that James Buchanan was the absolute worst since his actions led to the Civil War)
When Obama came in, he quickly surpassed Carter for incompetence, ineptitude and flat out hatred of the United States. Say what you will about Carter, he was loyal to the nation. Now we have President* Joe Biden, and he, like Buchanan is ripping the country apart. It seems that Carter hung on long enough to see his stock rise against two of his successors. Now it seems that his time has come. Here are the details from Fox News:
Former President Jimmy Carter will spend his “remaining time” at home receiving hospice care instead of receiving additional “medical intervention,” The Carter Center announced Saturday.
“After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention,” a statement from the organization reads. “He has the full support of his family and his medical team. The Carter family asks for privacy during this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers.”
Frankly, Carter doesn’t have all that many admirers, certainly almost none from his time as President. About all anyone might admire was his building and repairing houses under habitat for America. His foreign policies as president allowed the Soviet Union to reach it’s maximum influence, and Carter’s weakness and ineptitude had people wondering if the Russians might have launched World War III.
It was Carter’s policies that led to the Fall of the Shah of Iran, the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini and the take over of the American Embassy. This became known as the 444 days of disgrace. The one attempt to rescue the hostages in the embassy was badly planned and failed miserably. Carter’s tendencies to micromanage things didn’t help.
Carter’s economic polices were a disaster for the United States, (Now being replicated and expanded on by the Dementia Patient in Chief) I remember gas lines, high interest rates, high inflation rates and a general feeling of hopelessness. Carter’s answers to these problems was to wear a sweater and tell people to turn down their thermostats.
The political end for him came when he gave an address on the economy that resulted in an accidental headline being used by the Boston Globe. It was meant as a joke, but someone missed it and it and over 160,000 copies were sent out before they caught the mistake and changed the headline. The headline used? It’s become an American classic and summed up the Carter years perfectly. The headline was “Mush from the Wimp.”
Carter was such a disaster that he was a one term president, and the Greatest President of the 20th Century, Ronald Reagan was elected. President Reagan tapped into the anger at Carter and the Democrats by the average American and was able to serve two terms and put the United States on an economic path that took 4 presidents to undo. Basically, Reagan was the Donald Trump of the 20th Century. (The Deep State wasn’t the threat it is now or they would have removed Reagan the same way they went after Trump. The Cold War was still a thing back then and that unified most of the Country)
I am not going to miss Carter when he finally kicks the bucket. He was a flaming incompetent, first as Govno of Georgia and later as President of the United States. He can go knowing that he lived long enough to see two presidents who were even worse than he was scam their way into the White House. Good bye and good riddance to him.
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I kind of have to disagree with your rankings. The worst was Buchanan, then the proto-Fascist Woodrow Wilson, then Barack Obama, then Biden, THEN Jimmy Carter. Madison and Nixon follow close behind Carter. Madison was a giant in producing the Constitution, a massive failure as President. Nixon would rate higher except for getting suckered by the CIA into Watergate.
Carter at least realized his administration was screwing up and took action before the 1980 election to try to reverse the trajectory – he started rebuilding the “Hollow Force” military (creating momentum for Reagan), sanctioned the Soviets over Afghanistan, replaced William Miller with Paul Volker as Chairman of the Fed, cut back on some aspects of the regulatory state (see the reduction in regulatory power of the Civil Aviation Board, for example, as well as deregulation of beer production – opening up homebrewing and the craft brewing industry), and he managed to broker the Isreali-Egyptian peace treaty.
That balances against his clear failures – a flawed energy policy, overspending by Congress, screwing a black-led, legitimately elected multiracial government in Zimbabwe, sucking up to the People’s Republic of China, the Panama Canal agreement, the appointment of Burt Lance, creation of the Department of Education and the flawed Head Start program, and his support in his pre-Presidential days of segregated schools (a Biden flaw as well)
Biden has all of the flaws of Carter but none of the redeeming characteristics. Obama had an ego that made him unable, unlike Carter, to admit mistakes and to reach out to those he disagreed with (Carter often had better relations with Congressional Republicans than Democrats.
The incompetent and truly corrupt Grant administration has got to rank up there somewhere. Don’t they teach about Frank Belknap or Teapot Dome anymore?
I was in basic training during the run-up to the 1980 election. Even as a recruit I was rather shocked when the Senior Drill Sergeant told us (during the absentee voting lecture no less) that “Only a communist would vote for that peanut farmer!”
I recall that Col. Tom Kratman, retired and current Baen author once remarked that when they heard that Reagan had beaten Carter, they clembed onto a roof and yelled “Banzai!” (Shogun was airing around then as I recall)
My Dad was a JFK/Sam Nunn/Scoop Jackson Democrat who first voted for a Republican when McGovern ran against Nixon, and for Ford only because he knew him from being a kid delivering telegrams in Grand Rapids when Ford practiced law there after returning from the Navy in the 40s. By 1980 he was a Reaganite senior NCO who also referred to Carter as “that Peanut Farmer.”
Dad had been one of the Special Forces troops who violated orders to wear his Green Beret in a formation for JFK at Bragg, where Kennedy officially gave them permission over riding the Army establishment generals in the Pentagon. The move away from Kennedy to the far Left on foreign policy alienated him and caused him to move to the GOP. He wasn’t as educated as people like Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Elliot Abrams, but he was, like them and Reagan, the classic neo-Conservative who broke the post-1932 Democrat dominance of national politics.