McCain: Carter a 'lousy' president

McCain's criticism of President Carter was absolutely childish and totally inaccurate. The dishonest right-wingers who bash Carter all the time have conveniently forgotten history. Jimmy Carter had many accomplishments despite those that deviously conspired to bring him down. Remember the truth: Not one of the Iran hostages died. Carter worked for peace and accomplished a middle east treaty that left us with hope, and Egypt and Israel diplomatic normalization that has lasted to this day! Jimmy Carter is a great statesman. Perhaps the last one in the USA alive today. God Bless Jimmy Carter!

McCain just lost my vote.

Oh yeah, Carter was great. The man responsible for the greatest foreign policy debacle in the history of the United States. This idiot called Khomeini a great man, as he was undermining the Shah.

He is and always has been a lightweight.
Oh, do research the Saudi bank connections since his peanut farm days.
He is still on the payroll.

President Carter has said enough ugly things about our current president. Also, he has been talking too much about a number of other matters. If Senator McCain wants to call him "a lousy president," Mr. Peanut has it coming.

Good call by McCain but I think he is wrong about Obama.

Carters irritating ignorance of foreign policy persists even today despite a great success in the Israel-Egypt peace process during his presidency.

True, Obama equally lacks understanding of foreign policy and history is already beginning to prove him wrong on Iraq.

But Obama is a listener and a learner and will bring a vitality and new ideas to the office that McCain is incapable of.

Still, lovely to see the self-opiniated, self-rightious Carter getting a kicking!

Yeah, Carter kissing Breshnev is a lot worse than Bush holding hands with a Saudi sheik.

Jim above apparently did not live during Jimmy Carter's Presidency like I did. He was the worst all time President this country ever had. When he left office he had the lowest all time approval rating of any president. Jimmy Carter brought the United States to the brink of bankruptcy. If you look at what Obama says he wants to do, then we will indeed have a second Jimmy Carter. Hopefully if he wins, the Congress will wake up and get him to change his mind. There is a good chance of that as Obama has changed his mind on every issue so far.

He wasn't a great president if you lived in the Bronx during his presidency. He authorized the government to pay for the fire insurance that Bronx landlords could not get. This started a mass burning of their own property to get the government to send them big checks... and they did. Thanks Jimmy Carter for burning down my neighborhood. His kind of shortsightedness and lack of practicality should never be seen again in the White House. Trading Hope for Reason is not a good deal.

are you a moron? you choose to ignore all the problems that jimmy carter left behind. inflation anyone? the fact that he lost in a landslide election to reagan speaks for itself.

Thanks for reminding us about Carter's 'accomplishments' in the middle east and saving a few hostages. But was McCain wrong in blaming Carter for the failure of the economy during his term? Would you prefer a president that did more for the middle east than for his own country?

I don't think Obama is Carter. He's worse than Carter, because he doesn't even have as much experience as Carter in politics when Carter ran for president. It's not clear that he has a vision on foreign or domestic policy. All he's got is a slogan called Change and nobody has ever defined what this change is about, what does he want to change, and from what to what. This man has no substance whatsoever. He is a phony!

To Jim above I say you are very wrong:
Jimmy Carter's peace deal between Egypt and Israel was based upon a massive amount of US foreign aid to both Egypt and Israel that continues to this day. I think its fair to say that Carter bribed both Egypt and Israel to make peace at the expense of American taxpayers.

Carter also laid the groundwork for islamic extremism in Iran by failing to support the Shah at a crucial time. If the US had supported the Shah he would have crushed the islamic revolt in Iran and saved the US years of problems.

Carter also dismantled much of the CIA's covert activities and intelligence gathering abilities because he didnt feel that it followed Christian principles. His action crippled our intelligence gathering abilities for a generation.

I dont know who is a worse president George Bush or Jimmy Carter. Both were bad presidents of different political parties.

Some of the energy policies that Jimmy Carter supported, if they were in place and built upon now, we wouldnt be in the position we are in now

No, the hostages didn't die, but they lost a chunk out of their lives, and the would-be rescuers that Carter sent weren't so lucky. The treaty between Egypt and Israel was largely Anwar Sadat's work. Carter, to his credit, assisted. He also assisted in allowing the current Islamic regime to assume power.

In the Israeli-Palestine area, Carter cleared the way for Yasir Arafat's assumption of the Palestinian mantle, with disastrous results for both peoples.

And he was a forerunner of the Clintons in blaming others for his deficiencies as president. Instead of "the vast right-wing conspiracy" which lately has morphed into rampant sexism, Carton blamed the American people for the malaise that he claimed accounted for the economic shortcomings of his administration.

Reagan's "morning in America"campaign is what brought us hope.

McCain is right to call Carter a lousy President. In fact he is a lousy ex-President with his public rebukes of US policy on foreign soil, his anti-semitic opinions about the Middle East, his cavorting with enemies of the US like Hugo Chavez, Ahmedinajad of Iran and others, and his disgracefully incompetent negotiations with North Korea who easily pulled a fast one on him and Madelaine Halfbright.

His "leadership" provided us with 20% interest rates, skyrocketing inflation and gasoline lines. He deserted the Shah of Iran and enabled the creation of an Islamic state there. His response to the hostage crisis was pathetic and resulted in the deaths of American soldiers in a failed raid carried out by a demoralized military under his timid command. All of the hostages were released the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as the Iranians knew that they were no longer going to deal with a whimp as President of the US.

The most notable accomplishment of Carter's tenure was that he could screw up so much in just 4 years.

The lesson some of us have learned from Carter is that weakness invites trouble from our enemies. With Obama as President, we will no doubt be in store for a reminder.

Jim, what planet are you living on? God bless Ronald Reagan for he saved us from all of the Carter follies (freed Eastern Europe from the Communist yoke and restored our economy which had been crippled by Carter's taxes and stupid energy policies.) Not only was theguy imcompetent, but it has also since come out that he is essentially a miserable person to all who know him. Check me on this, but I think that the inflation rate hit its all-time when he was president.

Typical "Globe" propaganda. I tried to post a rebuff to the preceding nonsense and failed. Will you post this comment, or are we all to believe that Jimmy Carter was not a total fraud and waste as president. God bless Ronald Reagan who saved use from the pathetic 4 years.

jimmy carter will always be known as the worst president in history! He stands side by side with chavez , castro and allowed our iranian captives to be tortured.
The previous blog should read his history.The iranians quickly returned our captives when Reagan made his entrance because the iranians knew that he would not tolerate this situation and would make iran pay dearly.carter is your typical left wing politician who practises appeasement and embraces our enemies regardless of their actions.carter is an ass of significant proportion
and history will report him as such. America does not need left wing purveyors of
late term abortion, gay marriage and open borders like carter and his followers.

I think when we sick or need help ,We are going to see a skill doctor not intern. don't we. We need action in live but not speech and we should think twice and hardest . Before we action , don't sell yourself as Halliry Cinton for money from Brarack. Money can buy something that for sell but our country and our Leader is not for sell. We need the

Not too articulate to call an entire Presidency, "lousy" . All do some lousy things and some commendable things so a one word assessment sounds more like James Carville or Rushbo.

John McCain - should he occupy the White House - will need to thank his "lousy" predecessor for quite a few things - the B-2 Stealth Bomber high on the list as a weapons platform and technology tour de force that was begun in Carter's administration. Carter worked with some unsavory characters in the Middle East and got some tangible results - there are no miracles there but it was progress.

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It's funny McCain is saying that because half the people who voted for Obama in the primaries weren't even born when Carter was president. All this is doing is help reinforce the idea that McCain is old and out of touch. Besides, it does nothing to address the real concern that McCain is going to be a continuation of the current failed policies. Mister Straight Talk can't give a solid answer, and that's why he will never be elected president.

I can only hope that Obama is half the man President Carter was and is to this day. Sadly I don't or can't hold out hope that he will be elected president. Unfortunately I feel the days when a good person, man or otherwise, could be elected to office in our country ended about the time Carter left office.

Hmm. . . Just imagine. . . If we had listened to Jimmy Carter and declared the "moral equivalent of war on energy" we would not: A--be fighting a war in the Middle East--B--we would not care NEARLY as much about the price of oil-- and--C--let me see, oh yes, we would already have a vibrant alternative fuels industry. Yup, Carter was lousy alright--lousy with good ideas that got panned by Republicans. Just to name ONE (of the many weapons systems that originated in the Carter Administration), The Warthog fighter craft pretty much made the invasion of Afghanistan possible. In fact, it was the Carter vision of a leaner, meaner military that was realized in full flower by the present administration and made current Pentagon activities possible.

McCain has yet to make ANY credible argument for why he should lead this country other than the fact that MANY years ago, he served in the military and, oh yes, did he remind you that only republicans can handle terrorism? Sen. McCain should emulate rather than lambaste Jimmy Carter and remember his many very real contributions that continue to this day.

If John McCain's idea of statesmanship is swallowing the propaganda the Bush administration proferred in the run up to the war and invading Iraq while Osama Bin Laden was hiding in Afghanistan, I'll take Carter's foreign policy any day.

We started a war without any cause. It has lead to the deaths of thousands of Americans and over a hundred thousand Iraqi civilians. Bin Laden remains at large. The debt from this war has burdened our economy, weakened the dollar, driven oil prices up, and diverted us from moving ahead as a nation. That is the result of McCain style statesmanship.

John McCain is simply the wrong man for president. He's proven it.

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Speaking of lousy presidents, how about the one in office right now that supports McCain and he emphatically supports in return...?