Andylusion
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A terrible president, how?If he does die, Schiff won't be pleased due to television coverage interrupting his public Shampeachment.
BREAKING: Former President Jimmy Carter checks into Emory Hospital for brain procedure
I wish him well. He might have been.... ok he was a terrible president, but he has been a semi decent human being out of office.
Hope he recovers.
Oh good heavens. Bad economic policy. Bad nuclear policy. Badly rushed attempt to free Iran hostages, which ended up leaving perfectly good, armed and fueled military equipment in a stadium in Iran (I believe Iran still has, and uses some of our US military helicopters). Price controls that created an energy crisis, and gas lines. My father was a school teacher in the 70s, and remembers coming in to rooms that had frost on inside of the windows, because they turned off the heat at night. Energy crisis. Let's turn off the heat in schools. Stagflation. We had the "Misery index".
Take a simple example. You know all those spent nuclear fuel rods we keep whining about? Do you know that you can reprocess those fuel rods, and covert them back into usable fuel? France, and Russia, and one other country, has been doing this for decades on decades. They don't have a big problem of what to do with spent fuel rods.
Do you know why we sit around trying to figure out where we can bury them in the ground, instead of reusing them? Because Jimmy Carter, in the 1970s, passed a law banning reprocessing spent fuel rods. Why..... Because Jimmy was worried that reprocessing could result in more nuclear bombs being built.
Not joking. This is real thing.
His policies, economic, social, political, all were some of the absolute dumbest crap I've ever read about. We are still even to this day, now 50 years later, still dealing with some of the bad policies put in place by Jimmy Carter.
And he was a notoriously weak president internationally. The Ayatollahs were intentionally screwing with him. They knew he wouldn't really do anything, like bomb them or have a special forces raid. They all knew that. That's why as soon as Reagan won, and was entering office, they knew not to screw with Reagan, and released the hostages.
He was a terrible president by any possible measure.
I respect Mr Carter for being a good person. I'll give him that. He was no Bill Clinton, or any other awful typical politician.
But good as he might be as a person... he was horrific as a president. Just horrific.
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