Reminder: Jimmy Carter Is
Our Worst Ex-President
The Federalist,
by
David Harsanyi
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
10/4/2019 3:13:52 PM
At the age of 95, Jimmy Carter is now the longest-living U.S. president in history. “Great men are a dime a dozen,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough noted on the former president’s birthday. “Jimmy Carter has always been something far greater than that. He has lived his life as a good man. And that is exactly what America needs right now.”
Now, I realize the Trump-obsessed Scarborough is attempting to juxtapose the former president with the present one. But the canonization of Carter has always been transparent revisionism. Habitat for Humanity or not, the world would have been a far better place had Carter retired from the world stage after his presidency.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 10/4/2019 3:25:40 PM (No. 197774)
Carter or Obambi? BOth were horrible. I pick Carter a sthe worst. Obamib did everything with dictatorial decrees like the Cental American despot that he was. And Trump has undone them. Carter on the other hand, di it with the support of hard core faascist controlled Senate and House so it is a lot harder to undo the damage he did. Carter deregulated the S&L industry thus leading to its collapse and taxpayers getting hammered. He was the most ardent supporter of Islamic terroism with his wild support ot the overthrow of the Shah of Iran. And he guaranteed decades of dependency on OPEC by destroying domestic production. These are but a very few of his destructive highlights. As to a great man? Well, only the Good die young!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mackrand 10/4/2019 3:33:02 PM (No. 197778)
Retired as an infant would be more like it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LesUNo 10/4/2019 3:33:43 PM (No. 197779)
Not even close. President Carter runs a distant second to Obama. Carter served his country and I never doubted for a second that he was a patriot. Obama hates this country and set out to fundamentally change (destroy) it. His successes have become more apparent with every passing day. I disagree with Carter’s politics. I despise Obama.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 10/4/2019 3:44:22 PM (No. 197783)
What kind of hogwash is this? DingleBarry #44 blew Jimma out of the water within his first 20 days in office!
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No! No! Don't kid yourself. Obama's incompetence coupled with his hatred of white people and the founders of our great country and the communist leaning sycophants around him make him the worst. To refer to him as "president" turns my stomach.
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At least President Carter is still teaching Sunday school.... that has to give him a leg up over Our Dear Reader!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lakerman1 10/4/2019 4:18:57 PM (No. 197813)
Allow me to offer a brief history lesson about the origin of the deep state.
It began with Jimmy Carter. He campaigned for president, making two promises. First, he would never lie to us. Second, he would reform the federal civil service.
Carter selected, as his U.S. Civil Service Commission head, one Alan "Scotty" Campbell, who had Just begun as Dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and formerly was Dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. (Campbell held a doctorate in Government from
Harvard, and was a classmate of Henry Kissinger. And Campbell's assistant at Maxwell was Dirty Donna Shala. Campbell had no interest in Personnel Management, and openly expressed disdain for the field.
Campbell proceeded to supervise the design of Carter's civil service reform. The U.S. Civil Service Commission was disbanded and replaced with the Office of Personnel Management, with Campbell as the first director, along with a complicated Merit Systems Protection Board and a Federal Labor Relations Authority. (The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 provided for these changes, along with collective bargaining rights for most federal employees, and a senior executive service, GS 16, 17,18.) The regulations associated with the Act were hideous, cumbersome, and sometimes idiotic.
Campbell, a WWII veteran, changed the rules on Veteran's preference points, meaning a person using preference points could only do that one time in his or her federal career. Campbell also eliminated the PACE exam, up until then used to qualify manger types - PACE was not yielding enough minorities and women, so the rule was changed - applicants underwent resume reviews to make hires by the feds. (30 % of resumes contain material misrepresentations.)
Thus, the roots of the deep state were planted, thanks to Carter, Campbell. The rest is history.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bgarrett 10/4/2019 4:35:36 PM (No. 197826)
no he aint. Obamas worse
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lftrn97 10/4/2019 4:36:48 PM (No. 197830)
Moved to Georgia in 1982 and just recently found a copy of my first mortgage. 19.5%. Some habitat for my humanity. But I'm white.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Bohallx 10/4/2019 4:46:49 PM (No. 197834)
The WORST ever President was Buchanan. He did nothing to keep the Civil War from happening.
The next worst was his predecessor, Frankln Pierce. He also did nothing to keep the Civil War from happening and Millard Filmore actually signed all the bills making up the Compromise of 1850 ~ some historians imagine there was no immediate blowback from the compromise but ALMOST instantly local militia organized to stop slave catchers all along the Ohio River ~ and did so. The Abolitionist Movement grew very rapidly after that, and eventually the party that became known as the Republican Party was born.
From the Democrat standpoint, Fillmore is the worst President, even though he's among the least known.
Then we come to modern times, and the next worst, after the creeps who did their level best to keep slavery AND fight a civil war, we find Obama, then Carter
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BarryNo 10/4/2019 5:01:22 PM (No. 197848)
I want to modify the headline.
Barak Obama is our WORST President.
'Jimmah' was simply or most incompetent.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ben Around 10/4/2019 5:06:33 PM (No. 197858)
I disagree with the author when he says "the world would have been a far better place had Carter retired from the world stage after his presidency."
The world would have been a better place if Carter was never president.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ming 10/4/2019 5:13:11 PM (No. 197861)
I actually think LBJ was the worst. He did more damage to this country with the escalation of Vietnam and the Great Society programs that we are still feeling their punitive effects today. Obama and Carter were pikers and distant seconds.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MickTurn 10/4/2019 5:30:35 PM (No. 197868)
Nope, Obummer Hands DOWN!!
Carter was a nincompoop Obummer was a Communist Muslim out to destroy America...and still trying!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Gallo3 10/4/2019 6:49:28 PM (No. 197919)
Tough to say whom is the worst- we have had so many; Wilson, FDR, JFK, LBJ, Carter, The Bushes, Clinton, Blessed Hussein, pretty much take your pick.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 10/4/2019 6:56:57 PM (No. 197921)
Jimmah is single-handedly responsible for every single Muslim terrorist attack anywhere in the world since 1978. Even the lone wolf types who only manage to kill or injure one person. Muslims were fairly docile until Carter helped depose the Shah and brought the insane mullahs out of exile. It is a great tragedy that he has lived this long.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Italiano 10/4/2019 8:16:10 PM (No. 197964)
A bitter, venal individual, as is his wife, but Carter didn't start hating his country until we booted his sanctimonious ass out in 1980. Obama came in hating it, did far more long-term damage and the worst may be yet to come.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
anniebc 10/4/2019 9:32:26 PM (No. 197993)
I vote obambi.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
JackBurton 10/4/2019 10:19:12 PM (No. 198023)
Give Obama some time.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
JimBob 10/5/2019 3:29:18 AM (No. 198116)
I have to disagree with the author.
Jimmah is the #3 worst President, behind Bubba the Horndog.
Bubba is #2 behind Hussain O.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
watashiyo 10/5/2019 3:30:29 AM (No. 198118)
Giving away Iran and the Panama Canal was a historic debacle. And don't forget his mishandlings of 54 Americans held hostage for over 440 days by the Iranian terrorists. Major embarrassment!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 10/5/2019 5:31:02 AM (No. 198150)
I would have agreed until Obama came alone but I now believe Obama has deservedly earned the title.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
franq 10/5/2019 7:52:13 AM (No. 198229)
I can still remember the gas lines. The Nukulah Engineer had us well on the way to Venezuela malaise. A botched desert raid. Giving away the Panama Canal. My first mortgage was around 13%. He was bad. But not the worst.
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