Comments on: Real money for some

By: RWE

RWE — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:50:32 +0000

A joke from those days:

Two guys were walking down the street and a pollster asks them who they would cast their votes for President, Carter, Reagan or the third party candidate, Anderson.

The first guy says “Reagan.”

The second guy says, “Well, I like Anderson quite a bit but I think I like Carter better, so that’s who I will vote for.”

The pollster thanks them and they continue on down the street. After a few minutes the guy who said he would vote for Carter turns to the other one and says “You know, I had no idea that Linda Carter and Lonnie Anderson were even running for President.”

By: RWE

RWE — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:43:09 +0000

Jay:

When Carter was running I decided I could not vote for him but all my family and friends in South Carolina said they were. In response I detailed the list of actions he said he would take and asked them if they agreed. They all said the same thing, that no, they did not agree with those actions but that was just a ploy on Carter’s part to get the liberal vote; he was really a conservative. I predicted he would be elected but would soon become unpopular.

6 months after he was elected and had done all those things they said did not agree with, I asked them what they thought. They all said the same thing, “That SOB! He actually did all those things! How could you expect to see a politician who does what he says he will? He double crossed us!”

By: 3Case

3Case — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:56:23 +0000

James Earl Carter, the Uriah Heep President.

By: ag

ag — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:23:55 +0000

Re: ” Fortunately for the country’s blacks, majority rule came sooner than Smith had in mind.” Fortunately? really?

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:39:37 +0000

The evening when Carter was nominated American agents for the Saudis told his key aid that they would contribute a lot of money to his campaign and then continue supporting his family if he would turn on Israel.
He did and continued expanding to supporting gangster regimes, perhaps for Chinese money.
Billy saved the Carter peanut business. Jimmy was a failure in the Navy.
I told people after he was elected that in a year it will be hard find someone who admitted voting for him. I lived in Virginia then. I did not say he was dangerous but I did not expect him to be so bad.
This time I said that O was dangerous as soon as I learned something about him.
I am sort of amused to hear conservatives say that the economy is not so bad and that the dems are talking it up to gain power.
This country is broke and the only way we can recover is to increase savings and interest rates to be able to refinance our debt. Economics is to complicated for economists especially academic economists who careers depend on good reviews of their theoretical and empirical papers by fellow academic economists who control the journals.
Professors except for some medical and science specialists were of no importance until WW1 and even then most of the technology was developed by people (all most all men) with BS degrees.
Lawyers in the 19th Century did not have to have go to law schools.
There is too much trust in professors, especially the ones who lust of publicity and power in DC.
I am a professor who many intellectual accomplishments. I know my limits. Bernenke and Klugman are full of themselves.

By: johnclubvec

johnclubvec — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:24:10 +0000

You guys are too stuck in the present. There are more interesting questions. Such as, what Senior Statesman role is President Obama going to play in four or eight years?

By: Anton

Anton — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:31:35 +0000

Carter was a boob before he got elected, he got worse in office as he demonstrated that he was also a dammnable coward. Now he is like a recurrent cancer, a persistent threat that just won’t go away, always attacking the host and destroying healthy tissue. He won’t be happy until the victim is dead.

“Mugabe became prime minister and was toasted by the international community and media as a new sort of African leader.” Too bad so many have followed his example.

Hey, wait a minute, that makes me think of another famous person who used thuggish tactics to get elected and is well-loved by the “international community and the media”.

By: Lifeofthemind

Lifeofthemind — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:52:31 +0000

That closing line is priceless, “The only thing that frustrates me about Robert Mugabe is that he is so damned incorruptible.” Blago must be realizing that like Kerensky, Shah Pahlevi, Louis XVI, Muzorewa and other losers his biggest failing was not being more ruthless.

By: geoffb

geoffb — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:12:59 +0000

Jimmy Carter is perfect in the role of giving political advise and opinions on politicians, both here, and especially abroad. He is always wrong.

He has been, and remains, consistently, on the side of the most vile and thuggish political actors. That is his most valuable contribution to the world.

By: Elroy Jetson

Elroy Jetson — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:38:41 +0000

West:
Perhaps it might have turned out better if the West had allowed the Bishop to rule for a while. Instead, it fell in love with the Marxist and his “intellegence and dedication”.
What a tragedy.