Jimmy Carter=Mega Dooshbag

[Ed W]

Serendipity is a wonderful thing.  I came across this quote early this morning:

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Yeah, Eisenhower, what a doosh.  Feeding people and acting on Christian belief is so obviously a loser's tactic.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Ed, the problem is that he came along at a time before the Republican party had been co-opted - nay, hijacked - by the RWRE.  As was Gerald Ford - same kind of guy.

You can see the results of that hijacking all around you.  The class warfare - rich upon poor.  The unprecedented and unconscionable transfer of wealth - poor to rich.  The Imperialistic Voyeurism of America in the form of unending war AS economic policy.  The sellout of the legislative branch of government to big business, particularly big oil and defense (and sometimes both at the same time!  As in Halliburton's no bid money grab in Iraq).

Eisenhower warned us.  We didn't listen to him.  Rather, we listened to the shrill harpies of the nattering nabobs of negativity - the Murdochians amongst us.

How you liking it now??

Think we will ever figure it out?  (One small symptom that we are learning would be - quit electing Inhofe type characters.)

[Teatownclown]

Jimmy Carter's October Surprise Doubts

Special Report: Ex-President Jimmy Carter tells an interviewer that he isn't sure what to believe about the longstanding suspicions that Republicans went behind his back in 1980 to stop him from freeing 52 American hostages in Iran, a failure that contributed to his political demise. But Robert Parry reports that there is a wealth of historical evidence.

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/05/12/jimmy-carters-october-surprise-doubts/

" If Carter had freed the hostages and won a second term, the United States might have continued on a path toward alternative energy, the federal deficit would not have soared as it did under Reagan, and deregulation of corporations would not have opened the environment and the financial sector to such dangers." My favorite part of the article!

[Conan71]

He was toast without the hostage crisis. 

[Teatownclown]

Perhaps....the article focuses more on the forces of evil within our government and the bad outcomes from policy decisions that precipitated during the early 80's.   

[JeffM]

He was toast without the hostage crisis. 

...and Dubya was toast without 9/11.

[Conan71]

...and Dubya was toast without 9/11.

You had me at "hanging chad"

[Teatownclown]

You had me at "hanging chad judges"