Of all people, Jimmy Carter is lashing out at Bush over the global financial crisis, saying the Bush administration's "atrocious economic policies" are to blame.
Whether Carter was to blame or not, it took us how many years to come out from under financial woes that set in during his administration? Isn't this sort of like Karl Marx lashing out at Hitler for the Holocaust?
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Politics, it seems to me, all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour
Jimmy 'Home interest rates were 17% under me and the economy was in staglation,military in a shambles and a small handful of hostages in Iran for a year" Kotta should be muzzled .
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"Banning guns is an idea whose time has come."
- Joseph Biden
Associated Press 11/18/93
"Be thankful that we're not getting all the government we are paying for." Will Rogers
Colmes is PAID to be the lost liberal on Fox. That's his function, to make liberals look like idiots and conservatives our heroic saviors. I have to say Colmes does his job very well, even makes Hannity look halfway intelligent, and those Klingon eyebrows he's got only helps create the image.
They made the mistake of putting a liberal with a brain across from Hannity the other night. Robert Gibbs tore Hannity a new one, then handed his butt to him on a platter.
I don't care who y'are, dat's funny right dere.
Jimmy Carter is a great man. Smart, but he was too honest to be a President. He was really out of his league around all the crooks in Washington. No wonder he did so badly. But yeah, he should just bite his tongue and stay out of the current mess.
Jimmy Carter is a great man. Smart, but he was too honest to be a President. He was really out of his league around all the crooks in Washington. No wonder he did so badly. But yeah, he should just bite his tongue and stay out of the current mess.
Do you have a receipt for the bill of goods Carter sold you?
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"Banning guns is an idea whose time has come."
- Joseph Biden
Associated Press 11/18/93
"Be thankful that we're not getting all the government we are paying for." Will Rogers
Being a failed President is one thing, but that's not the sum total of who he is and what he's done for the world. He's still a great man and humanitarian. Are you guys THAT uneducated or are you both complete fools? Or did I just ask a rhetorical question?
Being a failed President is one thing, but that's not the sum total of who he is and what he's done for the world. He's still a great man and humanitarian. Are you guys THAT uneducated or are you both complete fools? Or did I just ask a rhetorical question?
The economic mess during Carter's administration was very bad, but let's be real and agree that the US president doesn't have much control over the economy. Basically, the US economy under Carter was sinking because of protectionism and high taxes on business that discouraged innovation and growth. This wasn't substantially Carter's doing -- it was the continuing trajectory of economy policy over many years. We had become very, very uncompetitive. Reagan changed all that. And Reagan didn't do it on his own -- he articulated a different vision of economic policy and built concensus among politicians of both parties and then moved forwards with their support.
I have my beefs about Carter -- big among them being my dislike of his recent extreme partisanship -- but I also can acknowledge that he has sincerely tried to act to achieve good ends. For example, I believe he has sincerely tried to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli problem. That is a very long standing, festering problem that needs to be resolved, and it isn't going to be resolved by giving Israel carte-blanche to advance their interests entirely to the detriment of the Palestinians, continuing to gobble up Palestinian lands with new settlements. I don't believe either Clinton or Bush have acted in any substantive and sincere way to resolve that issue.
Hilarious . . .
