Many of the best CIC’s of the past would not measure up today but Ol’ Jimmy rates up there with silent Cal and James Buchanan as total failures only Jimmy did it in modern times and they didn’t and I agree with the staatement that Jimmy’s an anti-semitic and, isn’t he a Sunday school teacher? We put so much pressure on one position that only Jesus Christ could measure up and he has another job and I’m sorry all you atheists but I’m making a point. The current crop we have is only pathetic and they all seem to be cut out of the Jimmy mold but, I really don’t want or think that any of them or any I’ve seen run in the last 20 years are what we need.

Thank God for the electoral college because the masses in the WORLD and the US are becoming too ignorant, and may always have been, to put the right man in office. We’ve got too many that vote for their own selfish reasons and forget about the rest of the country and the world.

Teddy R. was in my opinion the best after Washington but we and the world have nothing to offer like that because of eroding social and moral values so we’ll have to take what we get and it’s the best around unless you want to change to a totalitarial way of life, I don’t.

Lets let some of the movie star type personalities that think the way to Nirvana is having the western world lay down its arms first, go live in these countries anonomously and see how it really is. Let them practice their open minded life styles and see how bad the US looks after that and then let them come back and see if they will support the weak minded crop of presidential hopefuls that are running today.

Everybody that thinks the US President should conduct foreign policy as though he were Ghandhi, I have two words for them-Jimmy Carter.

That old Killer Rabbit isn’t the worse President we ever had, but by God he is definitely up there in the top five.

Probably a little of both, but the real reason is that he’s a a glaring anti-Semitic racist.

Thanks for your service HH. I have to note, though, it’s simply the way of the world. We flatter ourselves with delusions of self-determination: we go to school, study hard, and try to get a good job and pat ourselves on the back when we succeed. But all it takes is a guy crossing over the double yellow line into our car or a guy with a shotgun entering the jewelry store while you’re browsing to change your life forever.

Every American President is subject to being a ‘laughingstock’ at the hands of a small country: can I turn your attention to Iran’s neighbor? Before Iraq, Bush and Clinton had Somalia. Reagan had Beirut. Nixon and Johnson had Vietnam.

Iran was special perhaps that there was so little that Carter could do without provoking the death of 53 Americans. But a little perspective is in order: nearly as many Americans have died in Iraq since Thanksgiving.

Jimmy Carter’s reputation amongst the right wing as the ‘worst president ever’ (at least among those who have never heard of James Buchanan) is based on two events: the hostage situation and the skyrocketing gas prices sparked by OPEC. Two things he or any president would have little control over.

I believe Jimmy Carter is smart, and he means well. I think competence has nothing at all to do with intelligence, though. Some people simply wish in one hand and they believe by sheer force of will that they can create reality where there is none.

People who look at reality look at what DOES work. Natural Law. They say “Gosh, not enough people are buying my blivets. I must not be pricing them right” so they LOWER the price. Others say “Gosh I’m not selling enough blivets, so in order for me to make more money, I must RAISE the price.”

President Carter was the latter during his term and continues to be. He simply doesn’t have the understanding to know how things work.

Sorry for waxing poetic, folks, but the difference is clear. There are too many Malthusians. They shouldn’t be given positions of authority. Period.