Shame a lot of folks don't follow that.
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famous bob
mopar misfit
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I remember setting in gas station line waiting to buy overpriced gas at the time , highest interest rates in history , and he gave away the Panama canal , now china is trying to take it over !!!------------------------------jimmy Carter, Barak husein obumma , Joe biden , cant get any worse !
I don't know how old u are , but he was one of the worst 3 presidents of my time .
I remember setting in gas station line waiting to buy overpriced gas at the time , highest interest rates in history , and he gave away the Panama canal , now china is trying to take it over !!!------------------------------jimmy Carter, Barak husein obumma , Joe biden , cant get any worse !
So you judge moral character by the size of your bank account ?
BTW , you should do some historical research on the policies that caused those economic woes .
And I thought Gerald Ford was a decent man as well ….
67Dart340GT
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Being a good man doesn't necessarily mean a good president. I can't speak for Carter's moral character, because I never met or knew him personally. I did see the havoc created under his presidency though. None of us knows the real person who is in the office of president unless we are in that inner circle, the public perception is managed closely. My interpretation of Carter as a man is that he was a good person, but the interpretation of him as president is different.
Carter was also in that wave when the cumulative view on the US government (specifically the president) was morphing - we recently came off the Kennedy assassination, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, Watergate, Nixon' resignation, the Iran hostage fiasco, etc, etc - definitely not the honeymoon stage... I say this because context is very important, I am honestly not trying to knock Carter as a person, just trying to put things in perspective. RIP Jimmy Carter.
The hostage crisis was not due to anyone but the Iranians.. and there release was delayed by the Reagan transition team . They made a deal where if they would hold off releasing them until after Reagan took office ( happened a few days after inauguration) they would sell them arms ( Iran Contra) . That was much later admitted to by his staff.
Not sure how the US could have prevented the oil embargo ? Diplomatic policy I suppose …
As for high interest rates and inflation some was due to Nixons fiscal policy . His advisors warned him it would hurt the economy years down the road but Nixon said “That’s their problem “ as reported by his own economic advisor decades later . Ford had to live with the consequences and could have been reelected if Nixon had listened and Ford not pardoned him . I really don’t get the whole pardoning presidents for their crimes… throw their asses in real prisons just like they would anyone of us !
Not sure how the US could have prevented the oil embargo ? Diplomatic policy I suppose …
As for high interest rates and inflation some was due to Nixons fiscal policy . His advisors warned him it would hurt the economy years down the road but Nixon said “That’s their problem “ as reported by his own economic advisor decades later . Ford had to live with the consequences and could have been reelected if Nixon had listened and Ford not pardoned him . I really don’t get the whole pardoning presidents for their crimes… throw their asses in real prisons just like they would anyone of us !
Yeah I'm poor enough to have a 05 Ram, 2010 SRT Challenger, 71 Cuda with a Gen 2 Hemi, and a 74 Duster. That's what 2 jobs got me.
gunbunny
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If you're referring to the OPEC oil embargo, that began in 1973.
To also refresh your memory of those times, January of 1974 Nixion signed into law the national max speed limit of 55mph. Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, and Carter won the 1976 election against Ford.
It's too bad those who cannot wish well of a former Commander in Chief cannot keep their mouths shut so the rest of us can. Not everyone wants to be a member of the political forum, which is where this will end up unless some of yall can stop with the BS.
RIP.
on a personal level he did things right, a heathy body and soul made him make it to 100 years old.
on a personal level he did things right, a heathy body and soul made him make it to 100 years old.
Back during the oil crisis, the oil tanker ships were lined up in Brooklyn near the Veranzano bridge till the price went up.
Nice spin and cherry picking, but it doesn't belong here. Follow your own advice on fact checking and know where to put it.
famous bob
mopar misfit
no b.s. on my part . all facts ...
famous bob
mopar misfit
exactly why we need to be energy independent AGAIN !!
JDMopar
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About 4 months after I went to work for Carolina Power & Light, President Carter made a visit to Asheville, NC in Oct. of 1978. The line crew I worked in covered the area that The Asheville Airport is in, so we had to patrol every inch of the line that fed the airport, and the immediate area to make sure there was no power outage during his stop due to any foreseeable problem. When we had that task completed, we had to setup trucks at each switching point along the line just in case something did happen, we could correct it ASAP. Jimmy McAdams (R.I.P. Jimmy Mac) and I were stationed at the airport substation and had our line truck parked by the gate of tarmac so we were within sight of the sub. We got a visit by SS agents before Air Force One arrived. They checked our ID's, checked every bin on the truck, under the hood, under the seat, even checked in the bucket on the boom. Thanked us for our job and went on and left us alone. When Air Force One landed, we had a perfect vantage point to see it all. At the time, AVL was still kind of a small town airport, unlike what it is today. Plane rolled up on the tarmac in front of the terminal, President Carter gets out, walks down the steps they rolled up to the plane and gets in the limo. He came out the gate right at our truck! He had the window down and was waving at folks as they drove by. Jimmy Mac & I were standing on the platform behind the cab, where the boom controls were, facing towards the gate. President Carter looked right up at us and waved, then gave a thumbs up. Funny how you remember details from something that happened so long ago. The candles on my 21st birthday cake hadn't hardly cooled off at the time and now I'm 67. Still remember it like it was yesterday.
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