Jesse Jackson wants to cut Obama's nuts off

[El Kabong]

....forget it....ask any American and they will tell you Carter was and still is a piece of shit but don't believe me. Carter didn't do ANYTHING about the embargo and you know what's better than nothing?? SOMETHING but Carter is a pussy and his little Iranian buddies let him down

[Kirkland Laing]

....forget it....ask any American and they will tell you Carter was and still is a piece of shit but don't believe me. Carter didn't do ANYTHING about the embargo and you know what's better than nothing?? SOMETHING but Carter is a pussy and his little Iranian buddies let him down

The fuel embargo ended in 1974 Lyle. Carter didn't take office till 1977. Unless he had a flux capacitor it'd be almost impossible for him to do anything about the embargo. You'll have to blame GOP president Gerald Ford for that one.

The traitor Ronald Reagan was the guy with the Iranian buddies, not Carter.

I'm asking you Lyle, not just any American. I'm wondering what specific things you know that show Carter as a bad president. I'd also be willing to put money on the fact that five years from now you'd gladly have voted for a Jimmy Carter in the 2008 election. Unfortunately for you it doesn't look like either of the available candidates will be as good a president as Carter was, and that's going to cost you money.

[Kirkland Laing]

....forget it....ask any American and they will tell you Carter was and still is a piece of shit but don't believe me. Carter didn't do ANYTHING about the embargo and you know what's better than nothing?? SOMETHING but Carter is a pussy and his little Iranian buddies let him down

The fuel embargo ended in 1974 Lyle. Carter didn't take office till 1977. Unless he had a flux capacitor it'd be almost impossible for him to do anything about the embargo. You'll have to blame GOP president Gerald Ford for that one.

The traitor Ronald Reagan was the guy with the Iranian buddies, not Carter.

I'm asking you Lyle, not just any American. I'm wondering what specific things you know that show Carter as a bad president. I'd also be willing to put money on the fact that five years from now you'd gladly have voted for a Jimmy Carter in the 2008 election. Unfortunately for you it doesn't look like either of the available candidates will be as good a president as Carter was, and that's going to cost you money.

Come on Lyle, stop dodging and answer the post.

[El Kabong]

Hey how about you ask all the Americans you know about what Carter did....it doesn't matter WHAT he did the effects were bad end of story

[Kirkland Laing]

Hey how about you ask all the Americans you know about what Carter did....it doesn't matter WHAT he did the effects were bad end of story

I think that any American that was paying attention thought that Carter did an excellent job under the conditions he was working under.

Now what are these bad effects you speak of?

[El Kabong]

Well if you think that it only confirms the fact that your views on American politics come from a EUROPEAN standpoint.


Unemployment and inflation....both waaaaaaay up in the Carter years and as President he was correctly held accountable for that and he was destroyed by Reagan. And Carter made America lose face again and again

[Kirkland Laing]

Well if you think that it only confirms the fact that your views on American politics come from a EUROPEAN standpoint.


Unemployment and inflation....both waaaaaaay up in the Carter years and as President he was correctly held accountable for that and he was destroyed by Reagan. And Carter made America lose face again and again

The inflation was caused by a GOP president printing money to pay for a foreign war and increased government spending, plus the increase in the oil price caused by printing all those dollars/oil shocks that no president could control. Sound familiar? Exactly the same thing is happening now and if the next president doesn't have the balls of Jimmy Carter and do what he did to kill inflation you'll be paying for $10 gas from your ever-shrinking paycheck in a few years.

Year Inflation Unemployment (1)
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1961 1.0% 6.7%
1962 1.0 5.6
1963 1.3 5.6
1964 1.3 5.2
1965 1.6 4.5 < Vietnam war spending increases
1966 2.9 3.8
1967 3.1 3.8
1968 4.2 3.5
1969 5.5 3.5
1970 5.7 5.0
1971 4.4 6.0
1972 3.2 5.6
1973 6.2 4.9
1974 11.0 5.6 < First oil crisis
1975 9.1 8.5
1976 5.8 7.7
1977 6.5 7.1
1978 7.6 6.1
1979 11.3 5.9 < Second oil crisis
1980 13.5 7.2
1981 10.3 7.6
1982 6.2 9.7
1983 3.2 9.6
1984 4.3 7.5

You can see here that unemployment actually fell during the Carter years.


And If Carter hadn't raised interest rates inflation would have kept on soaring
under Reagan.

Carter dealt as well as he could with the situation he was dealt and was the only president
out of the Nixon, Ford, Carter era with the balls to tackle inflation.