Jimmy Carter the Worst President in American History!

[readwriteblue.livejournal.com]

There maybe some disagreement over which of our past leaders was the worst.
I nominate James Earl Carter. And if his drubbing in the media this past week is any indecation, I am not alone is this opinion. The New York Sun

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[sunpony.livejournal.com]

There maybe some disagreement over which of our past leaders was the worst.

Indeed. I think Bush is in the running. How many other Presidents have sent nearly 3500 troops to slaughter and created a training ground for terrorists?

The Sun article is hilarious. The oozing contempt and frequent generalizations make for a crass sort of elementary-school political analysis. And all of these cartoons merely insult, with no ability to either defend the current President or tease out what was wrong with Carter's administration (which was not great, but not as simply awful as Emperor Bush's cabal of political sorcerers). I think Carter, as a mediocre President himself, is in a good position to point out problems, because he has been there and made some mistakes of his own.

[hacksawbebo.livejournal.com]

I think any comic that has to reference a man's cultural identity in a negative light fails on such an epic level that it detracts from the argument as a whole.


I'd still say Nixon was the worst president ever.

[j0kerr.livejournal.com]

Heres a list of the Presidents worse to best by a group of people smarted and more educated than you or me.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007243

As you can see, Bush, both of them, are not the worst we have had.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

It's funny that they have to criticize Carter on the basis of "Billy Beer" and "malaise" (a word he never used). To me, it says something when irrelevancies and lies have to be dragged in to buttress a weak argument. Carter wasn't as bad a president as Reagan or Bush (any Bush). He didn't go to China like Nixon, but then he didn't break the law to spy on his enemies like Nixon, so I don't think he was worse than Tricky Dicky (who looks pretty good when compared to the insane clown posse that's hanging on to power by any means possible now).

Cox and Forkum lie about Carter "capitulating." But they're always full of shit, so no surprise there. Gorrell's attempt at character assassination is as devoid of content and good cartooning as ever. The guys with illegible signatures have nothing to say, so no refutation is needed.

[maggiesox.livejournal.com]

Height jokes? Lame.

[marksism.livejournal.com]

What about Hoover?

[adayinthelife.livejournal.com]

at least Carter didn't start a new Vietnam, destroy the justice department, purse illegal wiretapping, and generally send this country down the path of Hitler.

[desidono.livejournal.com]

Carter didn't send his flunkies to his AG's sickbed in order to try to get him to signoff on an illegal program that greatly expanded the power of the executive for domestic spying which almost lead to mass resignations in Justice. It's pretty sad when your far right wing AG won't even sign off on your shit, but the stuff that Card and Gonzales did at the President's order? Pathetic and disgusting.

'Nuff said.

[latenightapathy.livejournal.com]

Jimmy Carter: not the best president by any mean or measure, but certainly not the worst. that list above is hugely flawed for a number of reasons (some which have been stated), but especially because i'm betting it ranks them not only on what they did as president, but also what events they presided over, avoidable or not, due to prevailing and sometimes unavoidable circumstances, as well as personal fault.

[debergerac.livejournal.com]

Jimmy Carter the Worst President in American History!

he was bad but not the worst.

he's easily the worst ex-president in american history though.

[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

Andrew Jackson.

By far.