https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2011/04/06/50-reasons-why-jimmy-carter-was-a-better-president-than-barack-obama/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 09:44:52 -0400<![CDATA[I think I first discovered P.J. O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s classic &#8220;50+ Reasons Why Jimmy Carter Was a Better President Than Bill Clinton&#8221; in one of his anthologies, almost a decade after it first ran. Written in 1993, at the perigee of the Clinton presidency, after what historians will refer to as ObamaCare Mark I had been mercifully euthanized, but before the GOP recaptured both houses of Congress, in retrospect, it seem to some to be a little overwrought. Clinton took a minor recession, that had already begun to recover before he took office, demonized it into &#8220;The Worst Economy in 50 Years,&#8221; and then governed in the wake of its pre-existing recovery. Barack Obama needed what the more conspiratorial would argue was an economic crisis arranged to break his tie with John McCain to win. Clinton, who ran as a quasi-conservative, was smart enough not to completely crash the economy by spending like a drunken Keynesian (see also, failure of HillaryCare to pass), and was also fortunate enough to be in the right place when the World Wide Web took off &#8212; and to largely stay out of the way.]]>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:02:16 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2011/04/06/50-reasons-why-jimmy-carter-was-a-better-president-than-barack-obama-n253808