Mike Luckovich for September 19, 2010

HOWGOZIT: Try reading up on Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan (our first gay President!), even US Grant, though he wasn’t as bad as people think, and of course Calvin Coolidge, who helped bring on the Depression…

Needn’t go back that far. Try the Cheney/Bush co-presidency who destabilized the mid-east by preemptively invading a sovereign country and nearly causing the second great depression.

Habitat for Humanity is an evil commie plot. Peace is just a pornographic plot to end the profits at Lockheed-Martin, Ratheon and Boeing. I mean the guy “lusted in his heart” for crying out loud! What a degenerate!

A GOOD president will lead us into MORE senseless wars! If he’s REALLY GOOD he’ll pick a REALLY TINY nation like, well, Grenada or Panama, with no military per se, only police forces that we can REALLY win against!! Of course even then our “friendly fire” casualties will exceed actual casualties inflicted by the enemy, but that’s the cost of “glory”.

We need MORE leaders wearing flight suites with HUGE codpieces crying “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”!!

No guts, no glory!! Well, of course unless the glory seeker has a good press office, a gullible public, and no guts at all.

Toxic testosterone.

Women have suffered a lifetime of hearing how they get bitchy a couple days a month.

It’s time to recognize that men can suffer from toxic testosterone 24/7. Examples of the cost in lives and $$ from male hierarching, chest thumping, peacock tail spreading, and power grabbing are boundless.

For example, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held off support for the Afghan campaign in 2002 for six months, until he could wrest control from the CIA — American interests and lives be damned! Reports from the Bush II administration are chock full of one example after another of this kind of personal power mania.

It should be no surprise that male Democratic administrations were vulnerable to the same hormonally driven insanity.

Wow, Mike actually has the gumption to go after THE sacred cow of the liberal Georgia Democrat cabal. The only thing bigger than Carter’s ego is………..damn, I can’t think of anything bigger. Oh wait, maybe it’s cynthia tucker’s opinion of herself!

“Carter was the first former President to go abroad and criticize the foreign policy of a successor. That’s pretty degenerate.”

Annnnnnd Cheney started speaking out against the current sitting president almost immediately.

’^ But. Not. Abroad.”

Yes, like no news agencies “abroad” every follow American programs. Like nothing that ever happened on the US political scene ever made it out of the US. Remember how domestic political disputes were cast in the light of “emboldening the terrorists”?

It’s a small world. What is said in DC no longer stays in DC.

Jimmy Carter Blames Ted Kennedy For Killing Earlier Health Overhaul

For what it’s worth: http://tinyurl.com/23hbz92

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You miss the point. Ex-Presidents have previously criticized their successors about domestic policy. Not foreign policy. Of course the European press will pick up domestic criticisms. Where Carter, the man with a 20%+ misery index and the worst President of my lifetime went astray is in criticizing foreign policy. Politics stop at the water’s edge.

And why is it important that a former president NOT criticize the foreign policy of his successor? Is this not America where we have free speech? Or does that cease once you leave office? Sure, it’s a courtesy, but I’ve seen so many courtesies violated that this one seems rather mild.

Funny how the Republicans and conservatives keep bashing Carter as “the worst President,” or even as Lib put it “the worst President of my lifetime.” Richard M. Nixon, anyone?

VHAMMON - xlnt post ! MOTIVEMAGUS - yes, rmn was pretty rotten…

Carter was far worse than Nixon. Nixon opened up China. Carter closed the Mideast.

Domestically if you had to live with the misery rate over 20% it made Nixon look like Washington.

We talk about our unemployment and inflation today of 10% and then remember under Carter it was literally twice that.

Nixon opened up China..(?)….hmmmm, well, that is true. Wonder how much of that caused everything we buy to come from China? Scary…………..

Libertarian, remember that we are now massively in debt to China, since they have successfully combined capitalism and totalitarianism? This is good why?

I highly doubt this is the first time Lukovich has skewered Carter.

motivemagus

Because we, as a nation, failed to appreciate the crucial importance of balancing the budget and reducing the deficit. Both parties equally guilty hence TEA party. Blame us not the Chinese.

War On Poverty? Nixon cut its budget.

It’s way too Communistic to help people lift themselves out of poverty.

Secret plans to end the Vietnam War by not ending it.

Well that’s All-American.

Carter called W the worst President in US history.

You know what they, “takes one to know one.”

Carter’s comments are from his diary, written over two decades ago. He wasn’t Teddy’s “BFF”. Carter’s major “sin” with the opposition was failure to release the “hostages” in Iran. The negotiations taking place behind the scenes that led to their release just five minutes after Reagan was sworn in, and “Iran/Contra”, might cause some to wonder just WHAT was being negotiated in secret, by WHOM! How convenient that “W” came into office and proclaimed an extension on how long the actions of Ronnie and his daddy would remain classified as “top secret”.

It is no secret that THE WORST president will be firmly confirmed in history books 20-50 years from now, as “W”.

I don’t think that Carter was a particularly good president, though I think in general he is a much better man than most presidents. But calling him the worst of all time is simply nonsense. He was ineffective, not actively bad. George W. Bush wins hands-down for getting us into two wars dishonestly, paying for it with Chinese loans while cutting taxes for his rich friends, giving no-bid contracts to Cheney’s own company while cutting resources for the troops and for veterans, and leaving us with a massive burden of debt so terrifying that Obama didn’t do ENOUGH stimulus to make the economy come back faster because Congress was afraid of the debt we already had, and continued tax cuts (for the rich) in the stimulus package, which does squat for the economy. (Some good economic news: housing up 10.5%.) And that leaves out Bush’s personal faults - just focusing on his performance as president. Nixon was dishonest and criminal and also tried to undermine the Constitution, but at least he was smart.

Brilliant detail: the umbrellas.

“Where Carter, the man with a 20%+ misery index and the worst President of my lifetime went astray is in criticizing foreign policy. Politics stop at the water’s edge.”

Libertarian, the concept of “water’s edge” is kinda overrated when Deutsche Welle, RFI, BBC and whatever the Russian agency is calling itself nowadays need 10 seconds to access whatever Fox, CNN or NBC are running on their front page.

As for Carter, I think he might well be one of the more underappreciated presidents of the US. No, he didn’t singlehandedly cure cancer, neither did Nixon or Ford. Yet he managed to make a step for peace in the middle east, reduced the debt-to-GDP ratio (last president except Clinton to do so). Heck, he might be the only ex-president in US history to criticize his OWN party (see his reaction to Mark Rich). I wonder… he’s a Democrat who claimed to have Moral Values, maybe that’s reason enough for some of the vitriol aimed at him.

I’ll tell you this about Nixon: He was no Ronald Reagan (and thank GOD for that)!