But not here!
Carter's already getting the "strange new respect" treatment from the media, and I won't claim that he was uniformly awful, but he was awful enough to qualify as a piss-poor specimen of a chief executive, and he was a much more slippery character than his carefully-managed image would suggest. The best thing that can be said about him is that he made possible the election of Ronald Reagan.
IBD is running a 10-part article on Carter's term of office; article in pdf format is linked at Ace's sidebar.
The best analysis (as well as the funniest) of the Jimmy Carter Story was included in the book, Public Nuisances, by R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr, published in 1979. It's been out of print for years, but if you find it in a used bookshop somewhere, I highly recommend that you pick it up (used copies are also available online from a variety of sources).
Update Via friend and commenter, JeffS...
You don't even have to cross the Dem/Repub divide.
ReplyDeleteCompare Carter on the Palestinian question to Bill Clinton for example. Carter's fantasies vs Clinton's realism and honesty.
Both Carter and his spouse seem to have been - to put it kindly - rather poor judges of character.
ReplyDeleteThe First Lady was a pal of The Reverend Jim 'Drink your damn kool-aid' Jones and John Wayne Gacy. And Jimmy - well, look at this.
https://gab.com/Peachykeen100/posts/113738978072739212
Remember when The People were protesting Chavez' blatant election-stealing and St Jimmeh 'certified' the election during the flight down?
ReplyDeleteInternational opinion was running against Fidel Jr. so he had to tamp that down.
They tell you not to speak ill of the dead, so the only thing I'll add is
Not history's greatest monster. But still, a small venal man obsessed with his own moral purity and sanctimony. He always had more than a whiff of the Pharisee in the Temple about him.
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