Jimmy Carter Ran Against Washington, and Then Washington Ran Against Him
Daily Beast,
by
Eleanor Clift
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
5/5/2019 6:34:12 AM
Jimmy Carter won the presidency in 1976 because he understood the mood of the country, and because his message of populist reform reached disaffected voters in a way that eluded other more established politicians vying for the nomination in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. His signature lines, “I’ll never tell a lie,” and I’ll lead, “a government as good as its people,” as well as his promise to curb the excesses of the CIA, which had come to light around the time of Watergate, outshone and outmaneuvered a field of 17 candidates that included
Reply 1 - Posted by:
plomke 5/5/2019 7:29:51 AM (No. 77680)
My eternal gratitude to the OP for posting yet another article behind a paywall.
Saving us from the rantings/screechings of the late and unlamented Clift.
Wait...shes not dead,only her career is,oops...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Pluperfect 5/5/2019 7:54:48 AM (No. 77692)
There is no paywall. But try this:
https://outline.com/f2AKsh
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
fobo 5/5/2019 8:25:39 AM (No. 77693)
one might hope for a barf alert this early on a Sunday morning. I couldn´t read beyond "revered former president." Carter should have a shrine to Obama thanking him that he is no longer the worst president in modern history.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 5/5/2019 8:32:32 AM (No. 77689)
I used to enjoy listening to her on a black & white Saturday PM show because it solidified my pre-pubescent feelings that Leftist were both hateful and ugly.
Who WAS that Host ?
Mooooorton ?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FunOne 5/5/2019 8:55:34 AM (No. 77684)
I lived through the Carter administration--high interest rates, high unemployment, waiting in long lines for a ration of gas hoping your car didn´t run out of fuel before it got to the pump. Can´t have enough fuel to heat your home to reasonable levels. Back-stabbing the Shah of Iran who was the best friend the US had in the Gulf, and one who kept his Arab neighbors under control. Gave away the Panama Canal. Iran hostage crisis that was only ended the very hour that Ronald Reagan became President.
Carter was a disaster. But I assign him "second worst" only because I don´t think he hated America like Obama does.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
philsner 5/5/2019 9:11:25 AM (No. 77685)
It´s the daily beast, and it´s Eleanor Clift.
A paywall isn´t necessary. Just pass.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
poliposter 5/5/2019 9:20:18 AM (No. 77678)
Indeed there is a paywall after the first two paragraphs.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
poliposter 5/5/2019 9:25:24 AM (No. 77683)
Okay, so there is a paywall but the entire article is only 3 paragraphs. I have never been a fan of Clift´s but she is part of the old Democrat party, not the new SJW party. Dems are divided, Carter was a uniter. Clift is hoping for another Carter to appear because she knows Democrats have no chance with the field of extremists running for President.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 5/5/2019 9:45:58 AM (No. 77688)
Yes,there´s a paywall, and if Carter was a "uniter" what happened to him? There have been few ex-presidents more bitter and critical of their successors than Jimmy Carter, who peeks out from behind his veil of charity and goodwill to fire a verbal morter, and then ducks for cover again so people revere him as such a model citizen.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
cactus 5/5/2019 11:13:30 AM (No. 77694)
If you had to drive across West Texas at 55 mph during the Carter years, you know why he lost his reelection bid.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 5/5/2019 11:45:11 AM (No. 77691)
He was my first president as a young voter, and boy I could not wait to dump his nasty tush back in Georgia. Reagan was the best president ever until Trump came along. Carter ruined his presidency himself, DC just didn´t do anything really but stand out of the way.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bubby 5/5/2019 11:53:52 AM (No. 77686)
#10 LOL! They still would be driving! I live in Texas and at 55 mph it would take forever to go anywhere! Texas is so spread out some ranches and farms have driveways of 15 miles!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
red1066 5/5/2019 11:58:06 AM (No. 77690)
Much like Obozo. It´s almost impossible to think or find anything good about the Carter years. Like many have stated however, Carter has to thank Obozo for replacing him as the worst president in U.S. history.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/5/2019 12:11:13 PM (No. 77687)
Nothing like 22% interest rates to raise the endearment of the American people. Thanks Jimmy. Don´t ever come back!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 5/5/2019 1:04:38 PM (No. 77679)
OK, I see an article about Carter, and then I see it was written by Eleanor Clift.
An article about Carter written by an insightful author MIGHT get a click, but less than 50% likely because Carter was a fool and still is, and is entirely irrelevant to anything today. I lived through Carter, and have no real desire to consider him any more than I absolutely have to.
But, add in the fact that the author is the low IQ leftist Eleanor Clift, and that moves my chance of clicking to zero. I really do not care what Clift "thinks" (and I use the term very loosely) about anything. And what she thinks about Carter, is even less interesting than that.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 5/5/2019 6:37:22 PM (No. 77681)
Carter was the most clueless president of my lifetime. I well remember the 55 MPH law, high interest rates and inflation. The turnaround under Reagan was dramatic, convincing me that conservatism was the correct approach to governance.
Carter was incapable of making the hard decisions. Iran declared war on America by invading the embassy and taking hostages. The meekness of the US response set up the tragedies to follow. Carter´s spinelessness was a catalyst for the decades of bloodshed that followed.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 5/5/2019 7:24:27 PM (No. 77682)
So Carter won narrowly and then what? In 1980 the Democrats were routed and didn´t regain the White House for 12 years. Dems only win under unusual circumstances.
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