Look at the rusty old pot trying to call the kettle black! Jimmy Carter, once again, proved his complete irrelevance by proclaiming “the Bush administration is the worst in history”. Now he’s backing up so fast you can almost hear him make a beeping sound. Mr. Bush quietly dismissed the remark as the ramblings of an old fool, though he is too much the gentleman to say it in so many words.
Instead of writing books in an effort to distract from his failures and traveling the world badmouthing America, Carter should have gone back to farming peanuts in Georgia a long time ago. In fact, looking at the damage he has done to our country in the past 30 years, he should never have left.
This is a man who took over a reasonably sound economy which he quickly decimated with 20% interest rates, 12% inflation, 10% unemployment and staggering Social Security taxes. He, also, managed to mishandle an oil energy crisis, sold out vital American interests in Panama and spent more than a year fumbling his way through the Iranian hostage crisis. He delighted in prancing around with petty dictators and terrorists like Yasser Arafat and set the table for today’s menu of terror. What Carter, unwittingly, began was finished by the next Democrat president, Bill Clinton, who served America an apathetic Middle Eastern buffet. All this damage occurred in just one term, after which he surrendered the keys of the country to Ronald Reagan, with just a 21% approval rating.
Is this someone who should be making derogatory remarks about President Bush? Mr. Bush inherited a recessive economy and has dealt successfully with the consequences of the most devastating attack in our country’s history, all the while weathering a barrage of constant undermining criticism from the Liberal Left. Yet, in spite of all this, he has kept us safe, maintained virtually full employment, 5% interest rates and inflation under 4%. He is rebuilding the military that, once again, was gutted by Socialist Democrats and has been unflinching in his pursuit of the Global War On Terror. While his approval rating is a mere 33%, it remains higher than the 26% rating recently garnered by the Democrat-controlled congress, and still outperforms anything achieved by Jimmy Carter.
It’s interesting to hear the worst president in modern times try to transfer that title to one of the finest. If President Bush was more aggressive in addressing illegal immigration and unbridled spending he would likely get my vote again, in spite of my previous post. As for Mr. Carter, he would do better to take that left foot of his, which always seems at the ready for oral insertion, and try standing tall on it for a change. Stop running down my president and my country, Mr. Carter. Take a good look in the mirror and take your place on the ash heap of history, which has your name on it in bold letters.
R.S.F.
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