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41 comments on Dick Morris: Bush=Jimmy "The Sweater" Carter?

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Whitehall on April 18, 2006 - 7:23pm

I was severely disappointed in Morris' article. Morris does come up with some good insights at times but this one just didn't make sense! Carter was a coward and a sniveler, eager to blame others and make excuses - Bush is a face-the-facts, take charge guy. Bush will not blab about why he does things when it is not wise to blab.

Call me unconvinced. Maybe Morris was trying to butter up some potential Democratic clients?

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costa rica Johns on April 18, 2006 - 10:58pm

Bush is a "face the facts take charge kind of guy?"

ROFLMAO!

You don't often find any humor at this site, other than the gallows type.

You were joking, right?

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fallout on April 19, 2006 - 8:30am

Whitehall often tries to get a rise out of TOD posters.

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Whitehall on April 19, 2006 - 11:53am

Maybe it's more accurate (and fair) to say that Morris got a rise out of me!

I lived (and suffered) through the Carter years. His policies where failures, his decisionmaking processes inept, and this judgment suspect. His behavior as an ex-president has been terrible! He was the one that handed a done deal to Clinton on the North Korean nukes, the one where they admitted to lying. He's played kissy face with Castro. He's given the stamp of approval to several illegitimate "elections" in Venezula and Iran.

Personally, I think the State Department should revoke his passport.

As to the "nuclear engineer" boast, he had, what, six months navy training? He was clearly over his head and out of his depth during the Three Mile Island accident.

We are here to discuss energy policy, economics, and technology together. Of course those topics stray into general politics where our opinions are much more divergent.

If you are secretly hoping that peak oil will create chaos and extreme social and economic disruption, then you want a guy like Jimmy Carter at the helm. He is a proven failure at dealing with energy issues.

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LarryWalker on April 20, 2006 - 11:37am

"He's given the stamp of approval to several illegitimate "elections" in Venezula and Iran."

Please supply (objective) documentation that that any election in Venezuela was certifiably "illegitimate". Name-calling by Bush administration officials does not count.

For extra credit, compare and contrast those elections with the last two US presidential elections. Pot, kettle, black????

Larry

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fallout on April 20, 2006 - 11:55am

Try a google search for "failure", and see what POTUS's name pops up most often.
Most of us here on TOD lived through the Carter years. Your experiences are hardly enlightening.

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Oil CEO on April 21, 2006 - 5:04am

fallout, give him a chance. He's right and you know it. Whitehall, I'll back you on this, but not to the point that I alienate fallout, cuz I have a lot more to discuss with him.

Goddamnit, you guys make this so easy. You should see how they play this game over at Daily Kos. I think they hand out valium early in the morning.

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Whitehall on April 21, 2006 - 2:42pm

Everyone has an opinion. I took issue with Dick Morris' and I'm by no means the only one. Did you read Taranto's book on presidents? Carter did just beat James Buchanan and I'll give you that - experts don't YET rate him the worst.

Obviously, history can not yet judge G.W. Bush. That's for the voters to do and the fact that he won re-election is the judgment that counts for now.

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fallout on April 25, 2006 - 10:07am

Hehehe...have you seen the Rolling Stone article?
Historians actually rate GW among the worst presidents in history, and quite possibly THE worst.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/profile/story/9961300/the_worst_president_in_history?rnd=1145977567 178&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1069

You guys are just whistlin' past the graveyard.

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vermont on April 19, 2006 - 9:13am

"Carter was a coward and a sniveler, eager to blame others and make excuses - Bush is a face-the-facts, take charge guy."

You cannot be serious!

Carter has demonstrated amazing resourcefulness, courage, and integrity over the years. His efforts to illuminate our energy addiction, and take very real steps toward conservation was decades ahead of its time - clearly too much so to achieve lasting traction. Yes, he made mistakes as president (I didn't vote for him second time around), but considering his lifetime of service and achievement, he deserves far more respect then you give him.

Bush is certainly a take-charge guy - no doubt about that. However, he takes charge based on a highly subjective set of assumptions about reality, and surrounds himself with those of a similar mindset. At a time in history when we desperately need visionary leadership, we have a twisted neo-conservative administration whose political missteps in both domestic and foreign policy has been disastrous. The true extent to which the Bush administration's policies have harmed civilization will be seen in the light of history, as the consequences of his "face the facts - take charge" policies play out.

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fallout on April 19, 2006 - 9:49am

Carter also has nuclear engineering experience, an engineering degree, active duty service in the US Navy, and a Nobel Prize on his resume.

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