[ColossalContrarian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', ' ')
Above all, I'm suspicious of Carter because he's got a cottage industry going playing good cop to America's bad cop. For all we know this is all planned.. it's useful to the US to have a ex-president who can get in the door in places where we otherwise can't. And then Carter reports back to the sitting president / state department.

[ralfy]

Do not stop with Carter. For example,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Irani ... '%C3%A9tat

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ColossalContrarian', 'W')ouldn't it be nice if all of America's (and the world's) problems could be blamed on Jimmy? Imagine how much better the US and entire world would be without his presidency.

[PrestonSturges]

Carter got the Peace Prize for negotiating the Camp David Accord that brought decades of peace between Egypt and Israel.

And he created something like 9,000,000 jobs (well not personally).

He also created anitinflationary money policies to conquer the runaway inflation left by Nixon.

And he also got us on track to reduce military spending, so the conservatives decided he had to be destroyed.

Reagan reignited the Cold War with fudged numbers of Russia being an economic juggernaut with superwaepons (the old WMD scam). Read the story of the CIA's "Team B" study group and notice that Star Wars was brought to you by the same people that lied us into Iraq. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
Same damn script was recycled by the GOP.

[Sixstrings]

Thing about Carter is though, he didn't even get along with his own party. The Democratic congress opposed him.

He was known to be preachy and prickly. Now somebody like Johnson, there was a tough SOB Democrat who could push things through Congress. And then FDR way before him.

One of Obama's failings is in not meeting with congressmen enough. But they all have different skillsets, Johsnon was a real ballbuster he dragged those congressmen in one by one until he got what he wanted.

[ColossalContrarian]

It isn't easy to find politicians who won't tow the line like all of the rest and it will surely make you unpopular. I'm really not sure which is best at this point in my life, a president who caters to both the right and left or one who the right and left both dislike

[rangerone314]

Its simple why the the US relies so much upon military force: if you have the biggest hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

[Tanada]

So who still thinks Jimmy Carter was the Best/Worst President for the 1920-2020 period?

[Timo]

Carter was steampunked by the Arab oil embargo. That disrupted everyone's lives, and Carter was their scapegoat. He was neither the greatest, nor the worst president during that time period. I would suggest that he was better than average, though.

[KaiserJeep]

I believe that Obama surpassed Carter as the worst president recently. It's a combined rating that reflects the terrible bungling of foreign affairs, crime, fiscal policy, race relations, and energy policy.

[Lore]

Here's where presidential historians place the presidents.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he worst presidents, according to the survey, were James Buchanan at 42, Andrew Johnson at 41, Franklin Pierce, William Henry Harrison, Warren Harding, Millard Fillmore, George W. Bush, John Tyler, Herbert Hoover, and Rutherford B. Hayes.
http://www.usnews.com/news/history/arti ... presidents

[Newfie]

I've thought he was the best for a very long time. Some things he did disappointed me. But far less than any of the others.

Ike may be a good second, then down from there. But I was only little during Ike's term.

But that only carries from the late 50's forward. I wasn't around before then.

[Newfie]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', 'H')ere's where presidential historians place the presidents.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he worst presidents, according to the survey, were James Buchanan at 42, Andrew Johnson at 41, Franklin Pierce, William Henry Harrison, Warren Harding, Millard Fillmore, George W. Bush, John Tyler, Herbert Hoover, and Rutherford B. Hayes.
http://www.usnews.com/news/history/arti ... presidents

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', 'H')ere's where presidential historians place the presidents.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he worst presidents, according to the survey, were James Buchanan at 42, Andrew Johnson at 41, Franklin Pierce, William Henry Harrison, Warren Harding, Millard Fillmore, George W. Bush, John Tyler, Herbert Hoover, and Rutherford B. Hayes.
http://www.usnews.com/news/history/arti ... presidents