The Week in Radical Leftism – James Earl Carter Edition!

Happy New Year everyone! As a Nation the countdown is down to 17 days until we’re finally unburdened by what has been in the Obamiden* occupation! Let’s start off the year right by giving Jimmy Carter a fitting tribute. Back in 2007 the Investor’s Business Daily newspaper (Now Issues and Insights) wrote “Profile in Incompetence: The Ten Part Series on The Worst President in American History”. Although the articles are no longer available on line, Ace of Spades tracked down a .pdf of the entire series that you can read here. And because it’s in an individual .pdf I can’t link to each part individually, and unfortunately don’t have the time to build a web page for each part. Luckily, at 21 pages it’s easy to scroll through and read one piece at a time. To summarize:

Part One: Look Who’s Talking

So Jimmy Carter calls the Bush administration “the worst in history.” This from the man who wrecked the world’s greatest economy and made a nuclear Iran and North Korea possible.

Part Two: ‘Malaise’ Maestro

When it comes to economic performance, there’s no contest: Apart from the early years of the Depression, Jimmy Carter’s brief tenure as president was the worst in the 20th century.

Part Three: Carter Planted Seeds Of Al-Qaida

After being told over and over by President Jimmy Carter that America’s ability to influence world events was “very limited,” the Soviet Union believed him and invaded Afghanistan. And al-Qaida was born.

Part Four: Iran: Carter’s Habitat For Inhumanity

In the name of human rights, Jimmy Carter gave rise to one of the worst rights violators in history — the Ayatollah Khomeini. And now Khomeini’s successor is preparing for nuclear war with Israel and the West.

Part Five Carter’s Red Carpet

On President Jimmy Carter’s watch, more territory was lost to tyranny than at any other time since Yalta. And he’d have us return to those thrilling days of yesteryear.

Part Six: A Feeble President

When men of strength are presented with difficult problems, their responses are firm and decisive. Jimmy Carter spent four years as president of the United States responding with weakness.

Part Seven: Friend Of Dictators

In foreign policy, Jimmy Carter proved his presidency the worst ever by subordinating U.S. interests to his vague “human rights” policy. All he did was enable dictators to take him to the cleaners.

(Side note – In between writing and publishing I came across this article on where the Panama giveaway has taken us today.)

Part Eight: Camp Hype

It’s often asserted that while Jimmy Carter’s presidency was marred by error and incompetence, the peace deal he brokered at Camp David was an unmitigated triumph. Time to pop that bubble, too.

Part Nine: Carter’s Oil Crisis

Of all the errors Jimmy Carter committed, none has earned him more well-justified scorn than his handling of the 1970s energy crisis. True enough, he didn’t cause it. But he did make it much, much worse.

Part Ten: Carrying Over Carter’s Ineptitude

In 1976, Americans thought they were sending an outsider to the White House. Today, the same policies so thoroughly discredited by Jimmy Carter’s disastrous presidency define the Democratic Party.

OK, of all of the parts this last one aged the least well, particularly the critique of John Edwards’ “Spying on Americans”. Hey, I can admit when I’m wrong. I take no shame in admitting it never entered my thought process that we could ever elect a president as malevolent as Barry O who would weaponize the US government against its own citizens – Lois Lerner and the IRS for starters. Then during his third shadow term, we got to absurdity on a Monty Python skit level where Air Marshals were diverted to join the January 6thg Reichstag Fire persecutions, even having an Air Marshal being directed to follow the wife of a fellow Air Marshal. But I digress.

I have to add two of my own moments that erased for me any notions of the “bad President but a decent human being” narrative. The first was  when her used Coretta Scott King’s Funeral to trash Dubya while Dubya was sitting right behind him and couldn’t respond. At the time Bill O’ Reilly wrote a good response. Then in 2019 he publicly parroted the Blue Anon conspiracy theory that President Trump’s first term was somehow illegitimate because or “Russian Interference”. And while Carter’s work with Habitat for Humanity was commendable, it doesn’t erase how much misery his presidency brought to the world.

I know, it’s wrong to speak ill of the recently deceased, and while I agree with that sentiment, those days have passed. For that matter, even the Radical Leftist bomb thrower cartoonist Ted Rall took a blowtorch to Carter’s legacy.  When we’re at a point culturally of it being mainstream Democrat thought to cheer on the assassination of a husband and father of young kids because they’re mad how Barry O took a blowtorch to our health care industry, that’s a problem. As Kurt Schlichter often points out in his columns, I’m just playing by the new rules. I like the old rules better, but until The Radical Left feels enough pain they’ll have no incentive to change. So this is where we are, and frankly, looking at how Carter planted so many seeds of today’s Radical Left, this feels like a fitting tribute.

Jimmy Carter pushed the Russia Hoax & called Trump an illegitimate president.

He supported Hamas.

When he was POTUS, he controlled the tennis court schedule at the White House – though USA was in crisis.

Don't allow the corrupt corporate media to pretend that he was a saint.

— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) December 30, 2024

Iran before Jimmy Carter: pic.twitter.com/uuRVSVVDeO

— Sarah Raviani (@sarahraviani) December 30, 2024

White House Insists Jimmy Carter Is Still Sharp And Focused Behind Closed Doors https://t.co/SLkhhWPDLd pic.twitter.com/tZc2eWj1zb

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 1, 2025

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