[Case] Ah, Arlo, ever the breath of fresh air. I admire your patience in dealing with this nonsense. I think, like Will Smith in "I, Robot," I must be allergic to bullshit. It makes my blood pressure go up and you can hear me shouting through the keyboard.
------------------------------------ [Platt] Jimmy Carter, the worst president in U.S. history. Inflation rates at double digits, interest rates likewise. Completely feckless in the Iranian hostage crises. The leader of national "malaise." [Case] Another man disqualified for public service by having personal integrity. The only US president to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. The president who promised never to lie to us and paid the price for keeping his promise. [Arlo] Jimmy Carter is still MY president. Carter inherited a vile situation in Iran, fostered by the inept regimes of Nixon and Ford, not to mention an inevitable backlash from OPEC. From Wikipedia, "In 1973, during the Nixon Administration, OPEC (The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) agreed to reduce supplies of oil available to the world market. This sparked an oil crisis and forced oil prices to rise sharply, spurring price inflation throughout the economy, and slowing growth. Significant government borrowing for items such as the Vietnam War and the nuclear weapons stockpile helped keep interest rates high relative to inflation." For a good indicator of the trend Carter inherited, here is an index of inflation by year. http://www.miseryindex.us/indexbyyear.asp The trend began by Tricky Dick, and worsened by the inept Ford, was unstoppable. All we could do was weather it out. And so the wisest man to ever hold the office gets blamed for something that was not his creation. As for the hostage situation. This from Wikipedia, "Although the Carter team had successfully negotiated with the hostage takers for release of the hostages, an agreement trusting the hostage takers to abide by their word was not signed until January 19, 1981, after the election of Ronald Reagan. The hostages had been held captive for 444 days, and their release happened just minutes after Carter left office." No one is without flaw, and no president has ever not made mistakes. But rather than press on with arrogant indifference, Carter accepted and was humbled by his mistakes. If nothing else, his actions post-presidency have cast shame on all other living presidents, including Clinton and Pappy Bush. moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
