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Jimmy Carter was the best person the states have had as president in the last fifty years at least.
Then we go and vote Ronald Reagan in after.
What’s with Republicans and voting for celebrities?
50 years? The presidents before him were Ford, Nixon and LBJ, so going back to Eisenhower at the least.
He was a good human being, but I don't think anyone would call him a good president.
What was wrong with what he did?
I don't recall the details, but the economy wasn't doing great and I don't think anything he did helped. Inflation was really bad.
I'm sure he did good things, but I think that's what he's remembered for - that and the whole Iran hostage crisis thing.
I never heard about him taking hostages.
People hate Jimmy Carter?
My dad does and I've never been able to get him to give me an actual reason why. Like most of his shitty opinions
Fucktards, yeah.
He was beat by one of the most popular presidents of all time. Hindsight being what it is, he was beat by one of the most destructive presidents of all time.
Sure are a lot of Reagan defenders around here.
My father is a lifelong democrat. My mother is a naturalized citizen from Great Britain. I was in high school during Jimmy Carter's presidency. I was mocked in high school for making a presentation where I advocated for disarmament.
All that being said, the presidency of Jimmy Carter was one of the scariest and most upsetting presidencies I can remember. I had never experienced inflation of that level before. The gas shortages and rationing and concern about whether we were going to have the ability to carry out the basic functions we needed to complete was real. It was the first experience we had with worldwide terrorism, and there were over 300 Americans being held hostage in a foreign land with no sign of progress.
Jimmy Carter was no doubt a good man. I believe he was woefully underqualified to run the country. I know that he is lauded these days, but I'm telling you from the perspective of someone who lived through his presidency, it was not a good time for me or my family.
As one of the posts here makes clear, he wasn't even good from a Democrat point of view.
It's interesting because it was after my time but hindsight kind of showed he was right in principal but wasn't a great statesman and couldn't do the political calculations behind the scenes to rally his own party much less unit both sides.
I vaguely know about Ollie North and how the hostage situation before his second election run sabotaged his campaign but that seems to be more a nail in the coffin rather than the only reason for his failure.
How do you think Jimmy carter failed to address these issues policy wise?
Read the post by TrippyFocus. I didn't realize it at the time, but he literally caused them.
"He's history's greatest monster!"
Said the Simpsons, sarcastically.