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Interviewed by the show CNBC Meets, Carter repeated his belief that the failed mission to free American hostages held in Tehran killed his chances, but then added that had he gone to war, America would have rewarded him with a second term in 1980.
How is that incorrect?Carter is the same guy who told a law school graduating class that the "US electoral system is inherently dishonest". He is worse than incompetent. He is a raving A-hole.
Most people were angry at his gas price control policy which caused the long lines at the pumps and his farm policies which caused large amounts of farms and ranches to go under.
Not his foreign policy on Iran.
carter was wrong abut everything during his presidency. He has learned nothing. The fact that he even feels the need to say somehting like this today is simply pitiful. He didnt get trounced in the last major landslide because he wasnt tough on Iran.
Jimmy is smiling these days. He lived to see a President that makes him look good.
Most people were angry at his gas price control policy which caused the long lines at the pumps and his farm policies which caused large amounts of farms and ranches to go under.
Not his foreign policy on Iran.
You mean the fake gasoline shortage brought to us by Corporate America?
Jimmy is smiling these days. He lived to see a President that makes him look good.
George W. Bush
I'd suggest consulting the dictionary for the definition of "contingency" before you post again and look like the idiot you are.Just saw an interview with the author of a new book. If Carter had lost in 1976, Gerald Ford, with Kissinger as his Sec. of State, would have attacked Cuba. Thank God for Carter. Ford and Kissinger had it planned but agreed they should wait until after the election.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/w...p-plans-to-attack-cuba-records-show.html?_r=0
MIAMI — Nearly 40 years ago, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger mapped out secret contingency plans to launch airstrikes against Havana and “smash Cuba,” newly disclosed government documents show.
Mr. Kissinger was so irked by Cuba’s military incursion into Angola that in 1976 he convened a top-secret group of senior officials to work out possible retaliatory measures in case Cuba deployed forces to other African nations, according to documents declassified by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library at the request of the National Security Archive, a research group.
The officials outlined plans to strike ports and military installations in Cuba and to send Marine battalions to the United States Navy base at Guantánamo Bay to “clobber” the Cubans, as Mr. Kissinger put it, according to the records. Mr. Kissinger, the documents show, worried that the United States would look weak if it did not stand up to a country of just eight million people.
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Guess your memory is faulty. I was in the military during the Carter years. Also during Ford, Reagan, Bush 41, and Clinton. The Carter years sucked. I was working for the DoD during Bush and now Obama. In comparison Carter was better than Obama when it comes to defense issues. The number one issue that keeps coming up is a glaring lack of leadership. During the Carter years we were over managed. Micro-managed. And our budget cut to the bone. During Obama nobody seems to know what the fuck is going on half of the time. Clinton was a better president than both Carter and Obama. Much better. Still, I would prefer Reagan in a micro-second.Jimmy is smiling these days. He lived to see a President that makes him look good.
George W. Bush
Formerly the worst. Obama eclipses Carter by quite a bit.What a load of horseshit.
Reagan won by a landslide. Hell my dog could have probably beaten Carter.
He was probably the worst President in our history.
He should go back to his peanut farm and hide.
We got the hostages back because the Iranians knew Reagan would attack.Carter is correct
America looked at him as weak and ineffective in dealing with the Iran embarassment. If he had played tough guy, launched an attack and kicked some Iranian butt...the country would have rallied around him
But with 30 years hindsight, it is obvious that Carter was correct. We ended up getting all our hostages back alive and unharmed. That would not have happened if Carter had attacked
We got the hostages back because the Iranians knew Reagan would attack.Carter is correct
America looked at him as weak and ineffective in dealing with the Iran embarassment. If he had played tough guy, launched an attack and kicked some Iranian butt...the country would have rallied around him
But with 30 years hindsight, it is obvious that Carter was correct. We ended up getting all our hostages back alive and unharmed. That would not have happened if Carter had attacked
History lesson. Hostages not released until until Reagan's innuaguration.carter was wrong abut everything during his presidency. He has learned nothing. The fact that he even feels the need to say somehting like this today is simply pitiful. He didnt get trounced in the last major landslide because he wasnt tough on Iran.Carter is correct
America looked at him as weak and ineffective in dealing with the Iran embarassment. If he had played tough guy, launched an attack and kicked some Iranian butt...the country would have rallied around him
But with 30 years hindsight, it is obvious that Carter was correct. We ended up getting all our hostages back alive and unharmed. That would not have happened if Carter had attacked
I guess it depends what you consider a "success"
1. Is a success getting 52 American hostages home alive and unharmed?
2. Is a success having the US look strong on the global stage
If you consider #1 to be a success, then Jimmy Carter was a success
If you consider #2 to be a success, then Carter was a failure
Save us from your fantasiesCarter had nothing to do with getting those hostages home, Iran was fucking scared shit less that Ronnie was going to drop the hammer on them and they let they hostages gocarter was wrong abut everything during his presidency. He has learned nothing. The fact that he even feels the need to say somehting like this today is simply pitiful. He didnt get trounced in the last major landslide because he wasnt tough on Iran.Carter is correct
America looked at him as weak and ineffective in dealing with the Iran embarassment. If he had played tough guy, launched an attack and kicked some Iranian butt...the country would have rallied around him
But with 30 years hindsight, it is obvious that Carter was correct. We ended up getting all our hostages back alive and unharmed. That would not have happened if Carter had attacked
I guess it depends what you consider a "success"
1. Is a success getting 52 American hostages home alive and unharmed?
2. Is a success having the US look strong on the global stage
If you consider #1 to be a success, then Jimmy Carter was a success
If you consider #2 to be a success, then Carter was a failure
Reagan was in office all of two hours when they were released. What was Ronnie going to do? bomb them?
Reagan should have gotten the Nobel Peace prize for getting them released without firing a shot.
Since Creation.Sorry, Carter is now the second worst Prez in modern history.
What is your brainwashed bs propagandized reason for that, again?Formerly the worst. Obama eclipses Carter by quite a bit.What a load of horseshit.
Reagan won by a landslide. Hell my dog could have probably beaten Carter.
He was probably the worst President in our history.
He should go back to his peanut farm and hide.
We got the hostages back because the Iranians knew Reagan would attack.
faux news Oliver North had been the main negotiator. During his hearings he repeatedly explained that he was "under orders from his superiors." North's plea of innocence was overlooked, and in May 1989, he was convicted of obstructing Congress and unlawfully destroying government documents. A few years later, when George H.W. Bush was president, North's conviction was expunged on the grounds that he had acted strictly out of patriotism.
Carter would have been reelected if he was the first black President.
