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| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
haha no man I'm just saying it's not one sided, like how a lot of people say she wants just creationism taught in school. I went to catholic school for 10 years and they "taught" both even there... just giving us all sides to let us make the decisions for ourselves.
About Carter... No he just did the following (to name a few):
-Gas lines, 13.5% inflation, 21.5% prime interest rate, 7% unemployment, had to order government controlls of thermostats in commercial buildings to "conserve energy"
-Signed American ownership (and a massive strategic point) of the Panama Canal back to Panama and into the hands of an unelected general.
-invited Rob Mugabe to the white house in 1980 and fully supported his rise to power in Rhodesia, even though a different guy was elected prime minister. Carter got the world press to declare that election null and void, and look what's happened under Mugabe since.
-allowed american hostanges to stay in tehran for 444 days... thinking dialogue would set them free. no surprise they were released the day Regan was sworn in.
-Hugo Chavez was saved from recall by the voters in Venezuela in 2004 with Carter "monitoring" the election. The election was suspicious on many fronts. The exit polls conducted by an independent New York poling firm declared one half hour before the polls closed that Chavez had been defeated. When the official results were announced, Chavez was declared the winner by nearly the exact opposite percentages as the independent poll had determined. Jimmy Carter certified the Chavez victory anyway.
-In 1994, without governmental authority, Jimmy Carter went to North Korea and brokered a deal with Kim Jung Il that was supposed to keep that rogue state from attaining nuclear weapons. Jimmy's "negotiation" called for the United States to provide the North Koreans with $4 billion worth of light water reactors and $100 million in oil in exchange for a promise not to develop weapons plus assurances that inspectors would be allowed in. On Aug. 28, 2003 North Korea announced that it possessed nuclear weapons.
-Perhaps the most egregious and far reaching of the Jimmy Carter failures was his bringing down of the Shah of Iran in 1979, to be replaced by radical Muslim cleric Ayatollah Khomeini. The history of Iran is such that a secular government friendly to both the West and their trading partners along the ancient trade routes, such as India and China, had been an important stabilizing element in Mid-east politics for centuries. Jimmy Carter pressured the Shah, a longtime friend of the United States, to leave Iran. Then he denied him asylum and medical treatment. At the same time he supported the fundamentalist Mullahs who opposed the Shah. A religious revolution followed and the rise of Muslim fundamentalism had begun in the Middle East. The terrorism and overall unrest that plagues the world today can be properly traced to this specific failure of the Jimmy Carter presidency.
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i'm no presidential historian so we'll just call it a tie between bush and carter.  the list of bush gaffes is surely to be as long, if not longer, when the consequences of his administration have time to fully play out. remember, this financial crisis is already being called the worst since the depression. think about that? if we are going to blame the president for all economic conditions occurring during his term, we need to remember that bush had 8 years to correct the path of easy money and predatory lending. Everyone thinking home ownership is their god given right (which bush championed) is the root of the current economic problem.
as for carter's foreign policy mis-steps, i'm not going to attempt to defend anything as i'm not fully informed on those situations. However, think about the anti-americanism that has spread throughout the world in the past 8 years. That doesn't come easily.
I'm not even going to start listing bush's negatives because we all know about them.
Last edited by jerZ07002 on Sep-24-2008 at 05:13
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