Sounds over dramatized. There is no way you can disassemble a Nuclear Reactor by only being in there a " Few Seconds At A Time ". You wouldn't even be able to get him in within a Few Seconds. I would buy a few minutes to an hour at a time and it would take many many men to do it even then.
Carter was a turd of a President.
Yes, Nixon and Ford before him and Reagan were so much better.
The Iran Hostage Crisis and the horrible rescue attempt Carter Ordered.
What, exactly, did Carter do wrong to cause the hostage crisis given he was correctly ending support for the Shah and there was a revolution?
What, exactly, did Carter do wrong in ordering the military operation, rather than things the military did wrong?
The hostages returned, all safely, without any ransom. What should he have done?
Carter withdrew American support from the Shah of Iran.
Which was the right thing to do, ending the US policy backing a brutal dictator we put in power with a murdering, torturing security force.
It was OUR policy that had led to the ability for the radical fundamentalists to come to power. They had a better democracy before that; we overthrew it for cheap oil.
Stagflation: High inflation rate with low economic growth rate.
Yes, look up the history; it was the fallout of the previous administrations. Carter put Paul Volcker in power, who did the things needed to get inflation under control.
While Reagan re-appointed Volcker while he fixed inflation, Reagan also then replaced him with the disastrous Alan Greenspan who is so responsible for problems since.
Carter gave away the Panama Canal
Which was the right thing to do. William F. Buckley agreed.
Carter set oil and natural gas price controls, combined with his abandoning of the Shah of Iran and the decreased oil from there as a result AND his ordering of no oil imports from Iran lead to the 1979 gas crisis.
Form Wiki:
Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations, under the presidency of Dr. Mana Alotaiba increased production to offset the decline, and the overall loss in production was about 4 percent.[2] However, a widespread panic resulted, added to the decision of U.S. President Jimmy Carter ordering cessation of Iranian imports to the U.S.,[3] driving the price far higher than would be expected under normal circumstances.
That darned Carter, ordering a panic, and boycotting Iran while they held our hostages.
Oh ya, and regulation:
Richard Nixon had imposed price controls on domestic oil, which had helped cause shortages that led to gasoline lines during the 1973 Oil Crisis. Gasoline controls were repealed, but controls on domestic US oil remained. The Jimmy Carter administration began a phased deregulation of oil prices on April 5, 1979, when the average price of crude oil was US$15.85 per barrel (42 US gallons). Over the next 12 months the price of crude oil rose to $39.50 per barrel (its all time highest real price until March 7, 2008.)
...in January 1980, Carter issued the Carter Doctrine, which declared that any interference with U.S. oil interests in the Persian Gulf would be considered an attack on the vital interests of the United States.[14] Additionally, as part of his administration's efforts at deregulation, Carter proposed removing price controls that had been imposed in the administration of Richard Nixon before the 1973 crisis. Carter agreed to remove price controls in phases; they were finally dismantled in 1981 under Reagan.[15] Carter also said he would impose a windfall profit tax on oil companies.[16] While the regulated price of domestic oil was kept to $6 a barrel, the world market price was $30.[
Oh, he began *deregulation*.
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter issued unconditional amnesty/pardon for all draft dodgers.
This was the right thing to do. A lot of principled people chose not to commit unjustified violence against Vietnamese people fighting for their freedom.
This decision prevented immoral persecution of people for opposing a war for installing a puppet dictator, and helped the nation put the war behind it.
There would have been much more divide in the country between those people serve no matter the justice of the war and those who did not want to be part of what they viewed as a wrong war, that did not help pretty much anyone, the country was better off with the pardon.
A laundry list of foreign policy blunders.
Like Camp David. Like making human rights matter in our foreign policy after decades of blind support for tyrants. Such a laundry list you don't post it.
70% Income Tax on the rich (Liberals loved him for that but it killed the economy)
You falsely imply he raised it to that rate. He did not. It was the same it had been since 1971 - under Republicans.
It did not 'kill the economy'. You post no evidence for your false claim.
The big problems of increasing inequality of wealth and debt began under Reagan, AFTER Carter. Carter was the last President without those issues, other than Clinton reducing the deficit to below zero. The lower tax rate on the rich has been a DISASTER for the country, limiting opportunity and productivity, increasing debt and concentration of wealth, leading in part to the greatly increased corruption of our political system.
Our country did far better with the higher tax rates in decades before Reagan than after. Growth, the stock market, employment, pick your measure.
And the rich did *just fine* then, with plenty of incentive for them - just not the huge excess that lead to plutocracy.
This is also what I remember and he is afraid of rabbits.
Typical right-wing propaganda - trivial, and false. This is your attack on Carter.
In April of 1979, Carter used a paddle on his boat in Plains, Georgia to splash a rabbit and prevent it from swimming too close to his boat. Thirty-one years later, CNN's Howard Kurtz asked him about the ordeal.
"I was fishing one afternoon
," Carter said on CNN's "Reliable Sources." "
and a rabbit was being chased by hounds... he jumped in the water and swam toward my boat. When he got almost there, I splashed some water with a paddle."
Carter says that the animal turned in the opposite direction and crawled out of the pond. A photographer then snapped a picture, and the legend of the "killer rabbit" was born...
So, Carter did what wrong making him a 'turd'?
The fact is, Carter had a higher success rate in getting his policies passed in Congress than any President after him.
Leading the nation to be a world peacemaker, to do the right thing more than it had, leading the economy away from the problems he inherited.
Making energy policy and reducing dependence on foreign oil a priority.
That was bad to you.
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