@Eric.

1) For one thing, during the Carter era there was an ACTUAL recession, not the “If we keep saying it’s a recession maybe people will start to believe it” we’re in now. A recession requires two consecutive quarters of negative growth. This is not happening now, and, as far as I know, has not happened since 2001, and even then it was A) a leftover from the Clinton years’ dot-com bubble, 9/11, and the Enron scandal, none of which are attibutable to the Bush administration and B) SIGNIFICANTLY minor compared Carter’s 13.5% inflation, 7.5% unemployment, and 11% interest rate. What we have currently is a SLOWDOWN, not a RECESSION.

Point 2 I will not address as I was one year old at the time.

3) Considering the Democrats’ response to every crisis is to ask the United Nations what to do, and then try to “understand” our enemies’ “grievances” then yes, I have every confidence they would have screwed up the response to 9/11.

To paraphrase Joe Lieberman, if you had your way Saddam Hussein would still be in power. You cannot convince me that the world would be better off if that was the case.