Welcome Back, Carter

Gas in Great Briton: $10.25/US Gallon.

In North Carolina yesterday, Barack Obama woos “would be voters” about the rising costs hurting families and attacked his opponent on the housing crisis. Of course, Obama didn’t say his senior adviser, Jim Johnson the former Fannie Mae CEO and campaign “bundler” got special loans through Countrywide, MILLIONS in below-market loans. Obama attacks in his speech the housing industry for granting too many irresponsible loans the very loans that Johnson secured. Apparently Obama must thinks is okay for his friends, but not the public because it is reckless and careless. What hypocrisy and double standards this man running for the highest office in the country has—he says anything to get votes and why the public is blinded is a shame.

He doesn’t care about getting Obama’s young base. Hillary’s older women voters remember Carter and they are the ones in play here.

Yes, but a lot of Hillary’s base was alive & fully aware of what was going on when Carter was president. If BO is trying to woo them & the independents it could be some trouble. The ones that weren’t alive can see how Carter is acting now & might not want any part of some one that is comparable to him.

“I think McCain need to remember most of Obama’s voter base weren’t alive when Carter was president.”
The Obama supporters of that age haven’t noticed they aren’t a very large fraction of the voting population. Those who remember ‘malaise’ and ‘cut back on your heating oil’ are.
But the context is that Carter inherited the incredible disaster of the Nixon administration morally and the economic disaster of Kennedy/Johnson. He was incapable of changing it although he was elected on a platform of being a Washington outsider who would change Beltway politics. He failed miserably. He was as Peter Ustinov said, America’s greatest ex-President.
I like Carter a lot but I can clearly see the comparison.

This only highlights McCain’s age because MILLIONS of Americans weren’t born when Carter was in office and MILLIONS more who were born just don’t remember the Carter administration that was 30 years ago.
I am in my 40′s and I don’t remember it so I don’t think this is a good line of attack.
McCain=Bush is FAR MORE POTENT in people’s minds than Obama=Carter.

Seriously -Obama has worked “hand in hand”, with people that have fought to divide this nation, yet he says he is the “uniter”. Obama has contributed both his own money and our money (tax-payer’s money) to these people that have sought to divide us (need I list them for you). Obama’s only achievements to date have been his rhetorical speeches, like the one in North Carolina yesterday where he attacked the housing industry for granting too many irresponsible loans. Please someone tell Obama that Jim Johnson the former Fannie Mae CEO and campaign “bundler” got special loans through Countrywide, MILLIONS in below-market loans. I know, Obama doesn’t know anything about THIS friend either. But Obama is “happy” living in his million dollar home that he got for below-market value! This young cocky and ignorant man might just be the first dictator in America. And, I take that seriously!!!!!!!!

Smearing Carter will not help our children cope with the consequences of our greed. Carte knew what needed to be done–30 years ago. Remember this?
“What I have to say to you now about energy is simple and vitally important.
Point one: I am tonight setting a clear goal for the energy policy of the United States. Beginning this moment, this nation will never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977 — never. From now on, every new addition to our demand for energy will be met from our own production and our own conservation. The generation-long growth in our dependence on foreign oil will be stopped dead in its tracks right now and then reversed as we move through the 1980s, for I am tonight setting the further goal of cutting our dependence on foreign oil by one-half by the end of the next decade — a saving of over 4-1/2 million barrels of imported oil per day.
Point two: To ensure that we meet these targets, I will use my presidential authority to set import quotas. I’m announcing tonight that for 1979 and 1980, I will forbid the entry into this country of one drop of foreign oil more than these goals allow. These quotas will ensure a reduction in imports even below the ambitious levels we set at the recent Tokyo summit.
Point three: To give us energy security, I am asking for the most massive peacetime commitment of funds and resources in our nation’s history to develop America’s own alternative sources of fuel — from coal, from oil shale, from plant products for gasohol, from unconventional gas, from the sun.

To Seriously,
So what you are saying is that Obama finds the loopholes and just takes advantage of them…he doesn’t write the legislation. Well my friend this “two-faced” man will soon be able to contribute to legislation—flawed character and all. The sweetie was uncalled for.

The fact is Carter made himself a joke. Obama was already a joke.
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It’s no joke.
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Interest rate for home loan was 15% during carter’s term. All young kids want to pay 15% for their home loan. When government spends like Obama inflation will shoot up to the roof and get ready for the Carter-II

It is clear that not only is Obama Jimmy Carter reanimated, but he is considerably more liberal. At least Carter was a southern Democrat who at least tried to use some force againt Iran during the hostage crisis. IF THE DISASTER at “Desert One” (a helicopter crashed into a transport plane, both burned and the special ops assault to get the hostages back was cancelled.) hadn’t occured, Carter could have gone down as a hero, not a goat.
BUT…. OBAMA IS STILL THE MOST LIBERAL SENATOR. I’d rather have Carter back than Obama in the White House.

I am 38 and I remember Carter. His incompetence made me a life-long Republican even as a child.
Young voters may not remember, but older voters do. They are the ones more likely to vote anyway.

Say what you want about Carter, but he did not get 4,000 American soilders killed in an illegal invasion of a sovreign nation.
4,000 American mothers grieving to pay back Sadam for trying to snuff out Daddy.
Nice try, but not even close.

Melissa, I remember one of the issues Carter ran on. CHANGE!

Carter’s term is more reminiscent of Bush with the energy crisis. Either way, no one knows what Carter was all about anymore and will just see McCain as old and out of touch. Besides, it’s been a Republican as POTUS during the last 7 years of crisis.

obama was about 18 when carter left the white house and mccain was 53 a lot voters don’t even remember jimmy carter–also carter has done more for democracy since he left office than mccain will ever do–mccain as usual has to bring down a great american for his own purpose–also when are we going to talk about his first wife who has suffered from a car injury her whole life–mccain left her for an younger woman–talk about family values.

I actually think that Bush is a far worse president than Carter was.
Bush took a trillion dollar surplus and made it into a trillion dollar deficit.
Bush LIED us into an Iraq war that should never have been waged causing >4000 American deaths and made us less safe.
Our economy is the worst it has been in decades.
Bush is way worse than Carter ever was. Bush caused DEATHS. Carter never did.

kris in AL,
Bush lied. 4,000 Dead American men and women for a lie is way too high. Ask their parents.

kris in AL,
Bush lied. 4,000 dead sons and daugthers for a lie is too high. Just ask their parents.

Easy to say Bush lied. But did he? He may have hyped the war, but did he lie? What did he say that he knew not to be true?
In hindsight (as in all things) the decision is clear….we shouldn’t have invaded Iraq. But for all you Libs who spout the “he lied” and “war for oil,” you never mention Afghanistan. Why?
Post 9-11 was a strange time, very similar to post Pearl Harbor. Don’t forget how WE ALL FELT.
Maybe Iraq was a mistake, but was it an honest mistake?
By the way, don’t forget Iraq was in serious breach of the cease fire agreement which ended the 1991 Gulf War. Saddam’s military was firing missle and anti-aircraft guns at US/Allied aircraft patrolling the “no fly zone” (north and south) in Iraq. Every time they fired on our aircraft, they were committing an act of war.
So in the end, WE FINISHED WHAT SADDAM STARTED. He was an idiot, but now he is HANGED.

Kris in AL,
It’s never too high until the talk is about you.

Some things are worth dying for. You do realize that every US soldier serving in Iraq is their voluntarily? We do not have the draft. Anyone who enlisted prior to the invasion has had the option to get out or stay in.
Everyone dies. Not everyone dies for something greater than themselves. I’m to old to enlist. I would do so now if they would raise that age limit to 47.

From Wikipedia: The media discovered and promoted Carter. As Lawrence Shoup noted in his 1980 book The Carter Presidency and Beyond:
“What Carter had that his opponents did not was the acceptance and support of elite sectors of the mass communications media. It was their favorable coverage of Carter and his campaign that gave him an edge, propelling him rocket-like to the top of the opinion polls. This helped Carter win key primary election victories, enabling him to rise from an obscure public figure to President-elect in the short space of 9 months.”
Familiar stuff.

Oh and by the way…. Is Obama going to get a pass for dumping his church and pastor after sitting there for 20 years? As my wife says, this action gives her the worst feeling about Obama in that he jumped ship FOR POLITICAL REASONS.
He joined the church FOR POLITICAL REASONS. He quit his church for the same.

Kris,
Get real. You sound a lot like cheney. When asked about the 4000+ that have died in iraq his reply was, “they volunteered”. If we had a decent president this war would have been avoided. And since you are 47 why not sign up for the peace corps to improve relations that this administration has screwed up.

Carter – Nobel Peace Prize
Bush – Exxon Man of the Year

What you Libs don’t seem to understand…maybe because you have never been around the military or conservative people, is that most believe in the idea of expending humans lives for democratic principles.
Why did the USA declare war on Germany and Italy? They didn’t have any planes at Pearl Harbor? Why did Roosevelt (the Lib’s patron saint) feel the need to plunge the US into a World War?
Could it be that right now we are engaged in ANOTHER WORLD WAR?

Kris please research history:
1941: Germany and Italy declare war on US
Germany and Italy have announced they are at war with the United States. America immediately responded by declaring war on the two Axis powers.
Three days ago, US President Franklin Roosevelt announced America was at war with Japan, the third Axis power, following the surprise attack on its naval base at Pearl Harbor.

Kris – sounds good. Kind of like Bush if you keep repeating it you really start to believe it.

Repeating phrases like….war for oil…Bush lied…global warming is mans fault….bigger government is better….welfare will lift up the poor…government can do it better….social security is not in trouble….Obama is qualified….Obama never heard a word Rev. Wright said for 20 years… etc etc.
Is that what you mean about if you say it enough it must be true?

The first time Obama compared himself to JFK I said, “JFK? No. Carter? Yes.”

Vanessa: Obama is so dumb he needs help to find a VP whereas McCain can pick a VP himself. That’s what education did for Obama. Nothing. He is a know nothing do nothing and will do nothing if elected. What he says and does are two different things. He quit the church under pressure from the public. If elected guess who is coming to the white house? Wright, Ayers, Farrakhan, Father P. and his half brothers and sisters from Kenya that he never met yet in all these years. Evidently you do not have an understanding of politics and need to do some extensive studying. You say whatever comes into your head as usual. Obama wouldn’t know what to do from day one. But he will have plenty of help. Kennedy, Kerry, Richardson, Nancy, Dean, Reid, Biden and others. What a mess this country would be in. Our enemies must be dancing in the street already planning their next attack. They already know about Obama that’s why their so happy.

McCain also has a VP team committee. Their main job is not to find you a VP it’s the vetting process.
Obama will win traditional “blue” states, Wisconsin, Iowa, New Mexico, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Missouri possibly Indiana, Georgia and Mississippi (depending of AA turnout).

The Truth???
“Vietnam, S Korea, Central America, Chile, Panama were examples of places we “fought for freedom and democracy” and installed puppet governments. We lost every time and wasted thousands of lives in the process. Not to mention the billions of dollars.”
Let me see…I thought we stopped the invasion of South Korea by the Commie backed North? Isn’t South Korea today a democracy and a captalistic success?
Chile? Panama? Nicaragua? Are not all these countries relatively democratic, free market and successful? Even Vietnam (not to mention China and Russia) have adopted free market markets. Russia is no longer the Soviet Union.
I think you Libs are living in the past WHEN IN FACT THE CIA DID DO DIRTY WORK and that part of US history is not something we should be proud of. Same thing as Indian extermination, Anti-Chinese/Irish efforts, Chasing the Mormons all the way out to Utah, etc etc.
Overall, the USA errored and continues to error on the side of freedom and democracy.
Successes like Kuwait, WWII, WWI, our own Civil War are all examples of where this country spent billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives to “error” on the side of freedom, democracy and justice.
Go to some other country and hate us from afar!

At 47 years old, I remember Carter quite clearly. I couldn’t find a part-time high school job if my life depended on it. And while I was looking, gas jumped from .40/cents a gallon to $1.00 a gallon. Not to mention I got to watch nightly about the Iranians held American hostages for 445 days. Jimmy was an embarassment and BO will be as well. Change does not equal improvement. But hey, I only get one vote.

um, John. It was a lame, lame, comparison.
Bottom line, the Republicans have had 8 years and if you weren’t already rich when Bush took office, you are worse off now, than you were when he took office. He has been a poor, poor President, and you have stuck to him like glue. Take your lumps.

SERIOUSLY!, you wrote: “…in an illegal invasion of a sovreign nation.” There was NOTHING illegal about the invasion. Saddam Hussein agreed to the 1991 cease fire contingent on several conditions — including proving that he no longer had WMDs. After 12 years of failing to comply with ANY of the conditions, the UN Security Council issued its final ultimatum. When the UN Security Council showed signs that it had no intention of following through on its ultimatum, President Bush went to Congress and Congress gave President Bush the LEGAL authority to use our Armed Forces in Iraq. President Bush then issued his own final ultimatum to Saddam Hussein. Unlike the UN Security Council, President Bush acted on his ultimatum when Saddam Hussein refused to comply.
Now then you say that President Bush lied…a number of Democrats, including President Clinton, said that Saddam Hussein had WMDs back in 1998 when Congress gave President Clinton the authorization for regime change in Iraq. And several Democrats actually called Saddam Hussein an “imminent threat.” So where is your condemnation of the “lies” told by the Democrats?

Anne: You said the right words. Obama would say or do anything to get votes. What he says is not what he is going to do. Obama doesn’t care about this country, he doesn’t care about the blacks or whites, he is for himself and only himself. The people of this country are fooled by his RFK speech that he copied and studied. I read all about him. The reason he doesn’t want Hillary is because she would outshine him being a former first lady and knows politics inside out when he hasn’t started to learn yet. God help this country if he is elected because it will go into a disaster. I hope all the Hillary voters write her name in on the ballot or vote McCain. I know that you are aware of the fact that Nancy, Dean and Reid pressured the superdelegates to vote immediately because Hillary was going to take it to the convention. They hate her and didn’t want her as the nominee.

BO is a sponge. He knows nothing. He’s never owned or run a business. He’s never run any part of government. You have to judge him on the influences in his life because that is where he will draw his ideas (laughably). Like I said change does not equal improvement. Be very careful what you wish for.

Lets all agree Obama is smart. No one gets through Harvard yard without being smart.
The issue is what is he doing with his inteligence? Maybe he is using that to plan his acension to the Presidency? He know what he has to say. He knows how to say it.
Smart-Knowledgeable-Articulate
BUT… has he walked his talk?

Marianne Pepitone: I did not say that people did not like him because of the color to his skin..Millions of whites have voted for Obama..I said that its because of the color of his skin why you Marianne Pepitone don’t like him. One of the main reasons why Obama is the nominee is because a large bloc of whites voted for him..he won Iowa for heaven’s sake..but people like you cannot stomach a so called black man as president of these United States..You would much rather a white man as President even if the country is going down the tubes and the economy is in tatters..How is the economy Marianne? What about the forclosures and jobs loss and high unemployment rate Marianne? What about the 4000+ lives loss in Iraq and the 25,000 plus incapacitated Marianne? What about the soldiers who come home with post traumatic stress syndrome and are not the same husbands and fathers that left to go to a war that should not have been Marianne? You would vote for McCain who talks about Iraq, Iraq, Iraq and no domestic policy. A man who himself said that he does not know much about the economy. Heaven help us! Wake up America!

Obama = Carter?
Oh no!
Obama is WORSE than Carter!
Obama < Cater.
Nobody spent such big amount of money in campaign than Obama did.
How INEFFECTIVE he is? He lost so many big states even if he spent so much money.
People don't trust ADs, we know.
We don't like the fact that the presidency can be PAID.

well as my daughter (age 24) said to me “why would this be a bad thing?” She has only seen Jimmy Carter on Larry King and finds him to be a pretty amazing man.
and oh yes – the other thing she learned about him from her history book is that he advocated alternative energy and told us we had a crisis ahead and that everyone laughed at him and his sweaters. Lets not remind us of that…

For the historian: Germany declared on the U.S. first. For the hypocrite about the 4000 plus heroes. Where were you when harry truman sent troops into Korea – 50,000 died in that war. Where were you when Lyndon Johnson started his war – 57,000 dead. One death is too much. I’ll wager that you were one of those Obama draft dodgers. By the way – did anyone see the latest news –It seems that Obama just has this need to be associated with crooks and con men. First it was Rezko and now it is Jim Johnson. Obama got him to find him a suitable V.P. While Johnson got million of dollars $7 in fact from Countrywide. He also took millions from other sources while heading Fanny Mae. You should know about the subprime mortgage mess. Obama is sure running a clean campaign. Sure!!! Look for more on this from the Republicans

Vanessa
Those are not traditional “Blue” states. So the issue is which name will stick?
Actually they are both appropriate. Obviously this will not be won on the issues since Obama voters often don’t care what they are.
As a Hillary supporter who is now leaning McCain I hope that those who are not trolls here take a look at history…
I think Obama promises the world and can’t deliver much….where was the Democratic congress when we needed it?…that’s right they were voting pork barrel politics.
Obama’s pork barrel awards were to….the hospital where Michelle works which netted her a more than double pay increase….to the anti White priest Pfleger which allowed him to spread the ministry of hate….to Jones in the IL Senate which was quid pro quo for handing him legislation that Obama passed off as his own.
In 2005 Obama was in bed with the slumlord Rezko….
Tell the story!

The policies that Obama is advocating aren’t new or fresh, they are the same re-hashed garbage that didn’t work in the 70′s and won’t work now. I guess you need to look no further than his biggest cheerleaders: Kennedy, Kerry, Carter, etc.. He needs to get his head out of the clouds and get real. The country can’t run on hope and change.

Obama compared himself to Reagon.
How come he becomes Carter now?
Anyway who is Carter?
Another Emperor wearing New Clothes?
Why DNC does not even bother to mention him as America president?

Obama hasn’t been in the Senate that long and he earmarked over $91 millions (can be confirmed on his website); for example, his wife’s hospital where she got a huge payraise; over $225,000 to Pflger’s church….
Of all his years in the Senate, McCain earmarked ZERO, NOTHIGN, NADA!!! There have been so much pork barrel projects and MCcain has always proved that he’s fighting against these corrupt policitian (for example: 1Tanker). It’s a joke to say that McCain is surrounded by lobbyists. Well, if he does, then he must be really good because he didn’t give them a dime on earmark.

Irma, that was on Carter’s watch; I remember it well. And by the way…. Ford was the president before Carter. Guess you’re too young to remember that and slept through American History class.

Mccain is a fractious man on the wrong side of history and human events. He and his party will be relegated to oblivion in November. It is presumptuous to elevate Mccain as the competitor to Obama and dangle the losing proposition as an alternative for America. In the coming election majority of Americans are going to vote based on their deteriorating economic and political conditions, the sinister legacy of the Republicans to America.