A More Aggressive Carterism
It’s like Carterism on steroids. Like Carter with abs. Cooler, too, I guess. It wears shades sometimes.
I was having lunch downtown the other day with a couple of my crazed war vet pals I hadn’t seen in a while, one left, one right, and the right one says, “So, what do you think about Obama?”
Like he needed to ask. I gave it a couple seconds thought on how to do it simply, without running off at the mouth, and said, “He’s like a more aggressive Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter kind of sat back and let things happen to him. Obama goes looking for it.”
“Ha ha” says the right one. “A more aggressive Carter. I like that.”
Then the left one starts on about Bush this, Bush that, inherited blah blah blah, and it’s on.
Anyway, it turns out great minds think alike. Here’s a guy across the pond at the UK Telegraph saying the same thing:
If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people - not even Jimmy Carter.
Elaboration at the link. Thank you, Gerald Warner for enumerating just a few of the many ways Obama is aggressively, needlessly and destructively stepping in it. There is more Warner doesn’t note, in his abasement before Iranian, Russian, Cuban and Venezuelan despots, all of which echoes the Carter era. And that’s before we get to the economic part and the malaise. We’re still dealing with the consequences of Carter’s wretched and destructive passivism in Iran and Afghanistan, and in the broader Middle East, where the value and relative ease of humiliating the United States was noted. It’s unclear as yet what the consequences of Obama’s aggressive gaffes and missteps will be. Because he’s not done yet.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:50 am on Saturday, April 25, 2009
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April 25th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Because he’s not done yet.
Thanks. As if I didn’t already have enough trouble sleeping.
April 25th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Jimmy Carter on steroids/speed, but with a strong done of Gene McCarthy.
A lot of people are rereading Atlas Shrugged and The Forgotten Man, but an even more relevant book would be Allen Drury’s Come Nineveh, Come Tyre. Written in 1973, the issues are very much Vietnam-era Cold War. However. the personalities are eerily prescient. Suffice it to say that the new president, in a breathtakingly short time, squanders all that America holds dear without a shot being fired. While the enemy (I do not apologize for using that word.) is primarily internal today rather the external one of Drury’s book, there is much to ponder, and worry about.
April 25th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Pandemic beginning in Mexico, the 2nd largest supplier of oil to the United States.
That poor nation has only enough Tamiflu to treat 1 in 20 cases. How soon before the masses spill over our border and collapse our medical resources?
How sad is it that I can honestly see out President using the threat of a Pandemic to restrict personal freedoms, to restrict travel, lock down towns and cities, declare a national sate of emergency and institute martial law?
Remember that this president is schooled in the idea of never letting a crisis go to waste.
April 25th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
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April 25th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Oh man.. Carterism x3.. that is scary.
But this may prove more true than any of us wants. By cramming the outrageous Stimulus spending through congress and (already) expanding the money supply, our Leader may be pushing Carter’s inflation to the ‘hyper’ level.
Those of us that recall Carter’s double digit interest rates, unemployment rates and inflation may be yearning for those days instead of the ones in 2010.
Obama so arrogantly believes that because of who He is that He can avoid the same results as Jimmy Carter produced using exactly the same methods - increased spending, borrowing and expansion of the money supply.
Ugh.
April 25th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Yeah, I remember shopping for a new truck in ‘77 and having the dealer tell me with a straight face that he could get me a great deal on financing at only 22%…
I laughed all the way off the lot, with him looking at me wondering what was so funny. I hated Carter. I still do. the man is a world-class idiot, and he cost me two close friends who would likely be alive if he hadn’t been President.
Now I look at what’s going on and it’s deja vu all over again. The most worrisome part for me is knowing that my son is fixing to deploy shortly. If I could take his place, I’d do it in a minute.
April 26th, 2009 at 6:01 am
We’re in the Admin’s infancy but from this persons perspective Carterism x10, even 20, is probably going to end-up looking like a real bargain.
97 days in and ‘Truth Commissions’?
Vive la révolution, à la purge!
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