He appeared magically on the political landscape. He cited his faith. He made pledges. He promised change...His smile was all embracing. He seldom got angry. He talked about his faith often. He promised change and hope. He told us that the mean and cynical government that we had come to expect from Washington was a thing of the past.
Millions of Americans, many of them who had remained uninvolved in American politics, listened. They trust him to be "different." His carefully crafted words led people to believe that he was something very different from the typical sort of Democrat. He would try something new. He was an idealist who was not wedded to failed ideals of the past.
Barry Obama? Nope, Jimmy Carter. I guess we could say that Barry will truly be Carter's 2nd term....Let's see how the Carter experiment ended:
It became painfully apparent that four years as Governor of Georgia was poor experience for the leader of the Free World. Carter supported on "human rights" grounds the overthrow of the Shah of Iran (our friend) and its replacement by the Islamic theocracy which still rules Iran to this day (our enemy.) He pursed domestic policies which called for privation instead of growth. Carter lied about the firing of U.S. Attorney David Marston, who had been investigating corrupt Pennsylvania Democrat congressmen.
When America faced a genuine crisis, the illegal capture of our embassy staff by the Iranian Islamic militants, Carter was utterly at a loss. He tried to talk to negotiate their release, but the regime with whom Carter tried to work with had no interest beyond utterly humiliating America.
Carter, after the Soviets assassinated our ambassador in Afghanistan and then invaded that nation, was "surprised" that Communism was aggressive and malignant. His response was to try to exert diplomatic pressure on the Soviets as well as trade sanctions. Jimmy Carter, well into the middle of his presidency, seriously seems to have considered that Marxist-Leninist regimes were somehow like another form of socialist democracy, that Moscow was no threat to America, and that the proliferation of virulently anti-American dictators around the globe was in our long term best interest.
Yeah, that was some good change, wasn't it? Please don't fall for the hype again...
Check out the rest of the article, a very good read.
