The adulation given Carter is sickening as much as it is unwarranted. The best Ann adjective for him: incompetent. And ‘nucular’ as a pronunciation was grating. Just say ‘new-clear’ without pausing and you would have gotten it right, James Earl.
After he left office and started building houses, my older brother observed, ‘He finally has found a job he could do.’ Perhaps.
Republican Presidents are always tasked with cleaning up someone else’s messes, and Carter left plenty. Good thing Reagan was not incompetent: rather, just the opposite.
As the Babylon Bee has commented, Carter lived to see Biden takeover the position of worst recent President. Paraphrasing Hannibel Lecter, however, there's no topping Lyndon Johnson.
Thank you Ann for this column as it was sickening listening to the coverage. I lived through his Presidency during my later teenaged years and remembered long gas lines, high misery index that he coined and utter international humiliation with the hostage crisis, watching the count up every night on Nightline. That was an act of war and I remember the botched rescue attempt. He then loses to Reagan and becomes a spiteful and meddlesome ex-President who clearly hated the American people for throwing his sorry ass out of office. We were not good enough for him. I have no way of knowing but would bet he was hated by all the Presidents that followed him.
I was a senior in high school when the American hostages were taken by Iranian terrorists. During our lunch periods, my fellow senior male classmates would talk about what branch of the armed services we would end up in, as President Carter had established that we must register for the draft on our 18th birthday - which was fast approaching for me and my classmates. I have never forgiven Carter for that element of fear he brought to all of our lives, a fear that, unfortunately, most of us still live with every time a Dem is elected as our president.
Hi Peter. No, I grew up in Trenton, NJ. I have a ton of people out there with my last name - and I've met two other Jim DeLorenzo's over the past few years. Happy New Year!
W.E.B. Dubois published “Black Reconstruction in America” in 1935. It was the beginning of a thirty year campaign to rewrite the history of the Union occupation of the South.
He could not do this until the people who lived through the 1870’s were deceased.
The beautifying of Jimmy Carter is being done to deceive people younger than fifty. Carter was a fool who refused to grasp the soulless Soviets, or the heartless Shia.
Carter does not deserve a library. He does not deserve a statue. He doesn’t deserve a 50 cent postage stamp.
Please tell your kids. Don’t let this self righteous dork become the next Harry Truman.
The Left praised Truman even thought he was very unpopular when he left office. Truman had to tell the British that he would never use nuclear weapons if China invaded Korea. British Communist spies told the Russians and they told Mao. If Truman hadn't stated he wouldn't ever use nukes, China wouldn't have entered the Korean War. The Chinese didn't have nukes and were terrified of American nuclear weapons. In the Korean War era the US was by far the strongest country in the world. Trump is smart enough to refuse to answer restrictions on US military actions.
As a tiny, technical aside, he was also responsible, as Engineering Officer of the Watch, for cross contaminating the Reactor Air system of his submarine's Nuclear Power plant.
Without getting into boring details, that's quite an achievement. As in, 'How in the World Could Anyone Do That?!'
Agreed. It's the socialist's feel-good fantasy of not needing free capitalism. Nowhere in the history of socialism or capitalism have they created anything better than commie blocks for their citizens. And note that Jimmy Carter did not finance it. He was their spokesman and went around hammering nails so he could feel good about his fantasy. Did the organization help sone people? Sure. Perhaps, thousands of people. Compare that to the millions in gas lines, the millions of families suffering massive inflation and the rise of Iran and its proxies and you get a one-to-million ration of helping-to-hurting. I cannot think of any worse president.
In the nineties I was a member of a church that built HFH on weekends. I participated 2x, we were building a home for a single mom of six kids. I saw her once posing with her kids for the TV channel, joined by some guy she called their “stepdad”. Not long after another guy showed up and long story short, fisticuffs happened. They got it broken up by arresting the two men, apparently outstanding warrants?
While the cameras were still there, I found crack cocaine in the bushes whilst painting the outside wall. I shouted there’s “crack in the bushes get the police!” And was hushed up immediately by who seemed to be some sort of social worker, who told me be quiet the TV crew is still here.
Ooohhhhkaaay.
Didn’t participate after that. I don’t know why people who not only manage to do everything wrong in life but drag six kids into this nightmare get rewarded with a free house?
His Habitat for Humanity project was an unmitigated dud, and, honestly, anyone who volunteered to work on a house was lucky they got away without serious, permanent physical harm. I was one of their useful idiots and am still amazed that a building frame that I held up with about 10 people didn't crush all of us. The houses, if they haven't been condemned, are shite -- signs of water damage, structural (foundation) problems, rotting siding. That is what will happen if NGOs take over.
November 4, 1980 was the happiest day of my life…something I had prayed for throughout the 1970’s…the election of Ronald Reagan to the Presidency.
And January 20, 1981 was the funniest…for 444 days Carter and his rocket science boys fecklessly stumbled about with their thumbs up their collective asses while the Iranian savages laughed at America’s impotence. Within minutes of the first Reagan inauguration the Iranian laughter turned to soiling their sirwals (underwear) and the hostages were freed.
Coincidentally, domestic Americans were freed on the same day from the bottomless failings of the Carter administration and the daily updates on Amy.
Jimmy Carter = picked from relative obscurity by David Rockefeller, placed as an initial member of the Trilateral Commission, and then made president with a cabinet of Trilaterals. He was the peanut farmer from Globalistan.
The only reason he lasted so long in hospice was because he had Secret Service protection. Any other hospice patient would have been given the triple dose of "comfort medication" in the first month.
I'm here trying to find something positive about Jimmy Carter and the damage he did to the world while pretending to care about humans. I *think* he was at least honest and not a grifter like Biden(s)!
Let us also remember that Ronald Reagan had the wisdom and humility to curb our Middle East involvement after Israel's foolhardy invasion of Lebanon got 243 U.S. Marines killed in Beirut.
The chessboard is positioned for a repeat and AIPAC is riding its government assets hard, including Senators Tom Cohen (Cotten), Miss Lindsey Graham and rapture nut Ted Cruz. Ms. Adelson certainly expects a return on her $100 million Trump investment.
I have many friends that escaped Iran when the Shah fell. So sad. Back then Jimmy Carter, and until his death, sided with and continuously fooled by the extreme Islamists. He was the ultimate apologist. "How could people be so evil? They must have been oppressed, must be the jews fault" that's the logic embraced by Jimmy Carter. He was so convinced he was right he sacrificed our influence in the region and Iran for his false ideals. So bye bye American friend Iran. And bye bye Iran who went from the area's most multicultural and tolerant country to the world's leading sponsor of terrorism. Jimmy Carter set the middle east on fire..but that's okay. Libs, please look the other way, chill out, and tell yourselves that Jimmy Carter was a man of peace. Please do not judge him based on his accomplishments.
In Carter's defense, it wasn't just him, but the legions of imbeciles infiltrating our school systems and producing our first generation of Socialists, who voted for Carter. Nixon could have decided against giving 18-y.o.s the right to vote, just to win reelection, and might have tried not being such a crook; and Ford could have not been so quick to foist the Swine Flu vaccine on us. There really wasn't any other reason to vote for Carter in the minds of voters.
The adulation given Carter is sickening as much as it is unwarranted. The best Ann adjective for him: incompetent. And ‘nucular’ as a pronunciation was grating. Just say ‘new-clear’ without pausing and you would have gotten it right, James Earl.
After he left office and started building houses, my older brother observed, ‘He finally has found a job he could do.’ Perhaps.
Republican Presidents are always tasked with cleaning up someone else’s messes, and Carter left plenty. Good thing Reagan was not incompetent: rather, just the opposite.
People tend to forget, but at the time, Carter was considered to be the worst president in the modern era.
Hence, he and the media, spent over 40 years trying to rebuild his legacy.
As the Babylon Bee has commented, Carter lived to see Biden takeover the position of worst recent President. Paraphrasing Hannibel Lecter, however, there's no topping Lyndon Johnson.
Thank you Ann for this column as it was sickening listening to the coverage. I lived through his Presidency during my later teenaged years and remembered long gas lines, high misery index that he coined and utter international humiliation with the hostage crisis, watching the count up every night on Nightline. That was an act of war and I remember the botched rescue attempt. He then loses to Reagan and becomes a spiteful and meddlesome ex-President who clearly hated the American people for throwing his sorry ass out of office. We were not good enough for him. I have no way of knowing but would bet he was hated by all the Presidents that followed him.
I was a senior in high school when the American hostages were taken by Iranian terrorists. During our lunch periods, my fellow senior male classmates would talk about what branch of the armed services we would end up in, as President Carter had established that we must register for the draft on our 18th birthday - which was fast approaching for me and my classmates. I have never forgiven Carter for that element of fear he brought to all of our lives, a fear that, unfortunately, most of us still live with every time a Dem is elected as our president.
Are you from Pelham Manor? I have a dear friend with your name.
Hi Peter. No, I grew up in Trenton, NJ. I have a ton of people out there with my last name - and I've met two other Jim DeLorenzo's over the past few years. Happy New Year!
If one is a gastroenterologist, that is my friend
There was a photo of all living American Presidents. Carter was standing alone away from the other Presidents
Jimmy Carter = Joe Biden with a functioning brain.
...and no....that's not as good as it may sound.
W.E.B. Dubois published “Black Reconstruction in America” in 1935. It was the beginning of a thirty year campaign to rewrite the history of the Union occupation of the South.
He could not do this until the people who lived through the 1870’s were deceased.
The beautifying of Jimmy Carter is being done to deceive people younger than fifty. Carter was a fool who refused to grasp the soulless Soviets, or the heartless Shia.
Carter does not deserve a library. He does not deserve a statue. He doesn’t deserve a 50 cent postage stamp.
Please tell your kids. Don’t let this self righteous dork become the next Harry Truman.
The Left praised Truman even thought he was very unpopular when he left office. Truman had to tell the British that he would never use nuclear weapons if China invaded Korea. British Communist spies told the Russians and they told Mao. If Truman hadn't stated he wouldn't ever use nukes, China wouldn't have entered the Korean War. The Chinese didn't have nukes and were terrified of American nuclear weapons. In the Korean War era the US was by far the strongest country in the world. Trump is smart enough to refuse to answer restrictions on US military actions.
As a tiny, technical aside, he was also responsible, as Engineering Officer of the Watch, for cross contaminating the Reactor Air system of his submarine's Nuclear Power plant.
Without getting into boring details, that's quite an achievement. As in, 'How in the World Could Anyone Do That?!'
"You had one job!"
And can we please quit glorifying Habitat for Humanity?
Gee, have six kids with five dads, get several criminal records, be unemployable, and you get a free house???
Agreed. It's the socialist's feel-good fantasy of not needing free capitalism. Nowhere in the history of socialism or capitalism have they created anything better than commie blocks for their citizens. And note that Jimmy Carter did not finance it. He was their spokesman and went around hammering nails so he could feel good about his fantasy. Did the organization help sone people? Sure. Perhaps, thousands of people. Compare that to the millions in gas lines, the millions of families suffering massive inflation and the rise of Iran and its proxies and you get a one-to-million ration of helping-to-hurting. I cannot think of any worse president.
In the nineties I was a member of a church that built HFH on weekends. I participated 2x, we were building a home for a single mom of six kids. I saw her once posing with her kids for the TV channel, joined by some guy she called their “stepdad”. Not long after another guy showed up and long story short, fisticuffs happened. They got it broken up by arresting the two men, apparently outstanding warrants?
While the cameras were still there, I found crack cocaine in the bushes whilst painting the outside wall. I shouted there’s “crack in the bushes get the police!” And was hushed up immediately by who seemed to be some sort of social worker, who told me be quiet the TV crew is still here.
Ooohhhhkaaay.
Didn’t participate after that. I don’t know why people who not only manage to do everything wrong in life but drag six kids into this nightmare get rewarded with a free house?
His Habitat for Humanity project was an unmitigated dud, and, honestly, anyone who volunteered to work on a house was lucky they got away without serious, permanent physical harm. I was one of their useful idiots and am still amazed that a building frame that I held up with about 10 people didn't crush all of us. The houses, if they haven't been condemned, are shite -- signs of water damage, structural (foundation) problems, rotting siding. That is what will happen if NGOs take over.
Thank you for posting this. I suspected as much, sadly.
November 4, 1980 was the happiest day of my life…something I had prayed for throughout the 1970’s…the election of Ronald Reagan to the Presidency.
And January 20, 1981 was the funniest…for 444 days Carter and his rocket science boys fecklessly stumbled about with their thumbs up their collective asses while the Iranian savages laughed at America’s impotence. Within minutes of the first Reagan inauguration the Iranian laughter turned to soiling their sirwals (underwear) and the hostages were freed.
Coincidentally, domestic Americans were freed on the same day from the bottomless failings of the Carter administration and the daily updates on Amy.
There is a message in this history for Hamas.
I remember 11/4/80 like it was yesterday. I was euphoric.
Jimmy Carter = picked from relative obscurity by David Rockefeller, placed as an initial member of the Trilateral Commission, and then made president with a cabinet of Trilaterals. He was the peanut farmer from Globalistan.
Thank you Ann for setting the record straight
The only reason he lasted so long in hospice was because he had Secret Service protection. Any other hospice patient would have been given the triple dose of "comfort medication" in the first month.
I’m remembering a movie called “Soylent Green”. Gosh
And Billy Beer
Reality.
I'm here trying to find something positive about Jimmy Carter and the damage he did to the world while pretending to care about humans. I *think* he was at least honest and not a grifter like Biden(s)!
Agreed. He was a fool with a double-standard that favored evil masked as compassion, but financially he was a fairly honest fool.
Let us also remember that Ronald Reagan had the wisdom and humility to curb our Middle East involvement after Israel's foolhardy invasion of Lebanon got 243 U.S. Marines killed in Beirut.
The chessboard is positioned for a repeat and AIPAC is riding its government assets hard, including Senators Tom Cohen (Cotten), Miss Lindsey Graham and rapture nut Ted Cruz. Ms. Adelson certainly expects a return on her $100 million Trump investment.
A fool and his mouth (hyours) fleeting. Get your facts staRIGHT....
I have many friends that escaped Iran when the Shah fell. So sad. Back then Jimmy Carter, and until his death, sided with and continuously fooled by the extreme Islamists. He was the ultimate apologist. "How could people be so evil? They must have been oppressed, must be the jews fault" that's the logic embraced by Jimmy Carter. He was so convinced he was right he sacrificed our influence in the region and Iran for his false ideals. So bye bye American friend Iran. And bye bye Iran who went from the area's most multicultural and tolerant country to the world's leading sponsor of terrorism. Jimmy Carter set the middle east on fire..but that's okay. Libs, please look the other way, chill out, and tell yourselves that Jimmy Carter was a man of peace. Please do not judge him based on his accomplishments.
In Carter's defense, it wasn't just him, but the legions of imbeciles infiltrating our school systems and producing our first generation of Socialists, who voted for Carter. Nixon could have decided against giving 18-y.o.s the right to vote, just to win reelection, and might have tried not being such a crook; and Ford could have not been so quick to foist the Swine Flu vaccine on us. There really wasn't any other reason to vote for Carter in the minds of voters.
He ran as Pat Caddell said as a Naval Academy conservative but then governed in a switch as a left dumbkin.