"Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is set to arrive Sunday on a historic trip to Cuba, where no U.S. chief executive has visited in more than 70 years."
posted on May 13, 2002 01:16:29 AM newAnother real President ... >>SIGH!<<
Carter was indeed a real President, but he wasn't a popular President by any stretch of the imagination. In the 66+ year history of the Gallup polls no President has ever received a lower approval rating than Jimmy Carter (21%). Even Nixon at the point of his resignation had a higher approval rating.
posted on May 13, 2002 01:44:54 AM new
Well being from GA back when Carter was President, we thought it a joke, how he got elected, he was a joke as governor. Nice man, but no major brain, and little concept or understanding of foreign affairs.
Poor Jimmy, but I never could trust a guy who always grins!
posted on May 13, 2002 05:41:56 AM new
"no major brain"
Here is a man that is a nuclear engineer - a skilled cabinet maker - enough of a politician to become president of his nation - a naval officer - a framing carpenter - a business man who can run a huge seed peanut business (which is not like 40 acres and a mule) and a published author.
Yeah he is real dense. A lot of people would be happy to have accomplished one of those as a life goal.
He made the mistake of speaking honestly to the American public instead of dropping sound bites on them according to what the polls said. He gave us too much credit.
posted on May 13, 2002 10:55:43 AM new
Well, now that this Adminsitration has shown its complete inability to perform foreign affairs without pissing everyone off from the get-go, now they are getting smart and sending in the Democrats. They wouldn't use Gore, for instance, because he could run again against Bush. Clinton is still way too popular with Amereicans and every foreign leader abroad, so he would overshadow Bush. That leaves poor ole Back Woods Farmer Boy Done Good, Jimmy Carter. He's safe to send in. The funny part will be when they need to send in the other Democrats to help them to run this country; because as sure as the sun is going to rise in the morning, Bush's complete lack of foreign capability is going to get much worse and he'll get Jesse to go next.
But Cuba. The right-winger Republicans of Cuban descent are in Congress screaming. Fifty years of economic embargo has not dislodged Castro, so the thinking is to start up economic ties again. Instead, these right-wingers want TIGHTER restrictions! I think that this is pointless. Castro is old and will not be there much longer: why keep the Cuba people angry at us and punish them further? Castro was a Big Enemy during the Cold War because he harbored the Enemy so close to us. Now, there is nothuing left to harbor and who cares that he is running a small communism down there? Soon enough, the Cubans will be restored to a Class system with themselves at the bottom rung at the hands of the large Multi-national corporations that own our government.
posted on May 13, 2002 11:37:39 AM new
Jimmy Carters problem he was too honest to be in Washington DC. Clinton may have been a crook, but dumbya and his buttkissers are worse. How any party that claims to be moral and conservative could spend 70 million to hear clintons sex live still puzzles me.
posted on May 13, 2002 01:52:00 PM new
Carter would have gotten, and deserved so, the credit for that hostage release if the Reagan puppeteers didn't literally buy a few days from the captors.
Clinton was not a crook. The crook is George Bush and all his buddies who tell him what to do next: for example, Carl Rove, and Cheney. I wish that all we have to puzzle about is Bush's sex life but unfortunately that's not the case. Our very lives are at stake with Bush as our unelected leader.
