Pretty Bad But Not Jimmy Carter Bad
Gerard Baker in the Times of London:
You know how bad things have got when Jimmy Carter’s critique of your presidency is taken seriously. This week the former US President attacked the current one, saying that, “as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world”, George Bush’s Administration had been “the worst in history”. It’s one thing to have to listen to Bill and Hillary Clinton claim that things were better when they were in the White House, but Jimmy Carter? Being told by Mr Carter that you’re the worst president in history is like being told by William McGonagall that your poetry stinks.
For the younger reader, perhaps already infused with a nostalgia that recalls the 1970s as a time of peace and prosperity, a brief reminder of the golden era of Carter is in order. It wasn’t all disco and flared trousers and sex without condoms. Also fashionable in those days were unemployment, inflation and communism.
The rest here. Good laugh, though Baker falls apart at the end, apparently not recognizing that America didn’t actually recover from Carter. It just put off the payments. Which is why Iran is still an issue today, and why Iraq is not simply about correcting 1,400* years of history.
Gerard thinks its 700. Whatever, not the issue.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:06 am on Friday, May 25, 2007
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May 25th, 2007 at 9:49 am
“All we’ve really learnt in the past five years is that even the US is probably not powerful enough to remake 700 years of history in five years. That doesn’t mean America is weak, just less strong than it thought it was.”
Apparently, not everyone has learned this.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:05 am
The country is in the grip of an unrelieved gloom about its condition.
And why would the country feel otherwise, if the media upon which we depend for information delivers nothing but doom and gloom?
the ingenuity of a people whose great gift is their constant capacity to recreate themselves. Who’s betting it won’t do so again?
Only the butt-kissing enablers of the doom-and-gloomers.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:38 am
This is the proof, Jimmy Carter thinks that Bush is the worst President, Carter really was unconcious throughout his presidency.
Though on the positive side he really did build a nations power and prestige-pity it was Iran under Khomeni.
It would be nice if, instead of dissing Bush, he could talk up his own legacy, its just he knows there isn’t anything worth talking about
May 25th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
well, he made woollie cardigans popular, didn’t he??
May 25th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Carter negotiated with Iran in order to save the lives of 50 Americans taken hostage.
By invading Iraq and toppling Saddam, Iran’s mortal enemy, Bush has essentially handed Iran control of a major crescent of the Middle East.
Which do you think is worse?