Profile In Incompetence: The Worst President In American HistoryBy INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, September10, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Jimmy Carter became our 39th president at the young age of 52. He was a one-term governor from Plains, GA, where he managed the familypeanut farm and taught Sunday school. He was also a graduate of theNaval Academy and served seven years in the Navy, leaving as alieutenant.
He came to power in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the resignation of President Nixon. The public wanted change and someonenew, and Carter was an ambitious, hands-on politician who promised better days. As good as his intentions were, however, the things hetried were not successful. In fact, he created far more serious problems than he ever solved.
The centerpiece of Carter's foreign policy was human rights,and he did achieve one noble success0a peace treaty between Egypt'sAnwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin.
Unfortunately, that later led to Sadat's assassination at the hands of Muslim radicals.
Many people felt Carter was a good man who worked hard and meant well. But he was naive and incompetent in handling the enormous burdens and complex challenges of being president.
He wrongly believed Americans had an 'inordinate fear of communism,' so he lifted travel bans to Cuba, North Vietnam and Cambodia and pardoned draft evaders.
He also stopped B-1 bomber production and gave away our strategically located Panama Canal.
His most damaging miscalculation was the withdrawal of U.S.support for the Shah of Iran, a strong and longtime military ally. Carter objected to the Shah's alleged mistreatment of imprisoned Soviet spies who were working to overthrow Iran's government. He thought the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, being a religious man, would make a fairer leader.
Having lost U.S. support, the Shah was overthrown, the Ayatollah returned, Iran was declared an Islamic nation and Palestinian hit men were hired to eliminate opposition.
The Ayatollah then introduced the idea of suicide bombers to the Palestine Liberation Organization, paying $35,000 to PLO families whose young people were brain washed to kill as many Israelis as possibleby blowing themselves up in crowded shopping areas.
Next, the Ayatollah used Iran's oil wealth to create, train and finance a new terrorist organization, Hezbollah, which later would attack Israel in 2006.
In November 1979, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranians stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. Not until six months into the ordeal did Carter attempt a rescue. But the mission, using just six Navy helicopters, was poorly executed. Three of the copters were disabled or lost in sand storms. (Pilots weren't allowed to meet with weather forecasters because someone in authority worried about security.) Five airmen and three Marines lost their lives.
So, due to over confidence, inexperience and poor judgment,Carter undermined and lost a strong ally, Iran, that today aggressively threatens the U.S., Israel and the rest of the world with nuclear weapons.
But that's not all. After Carter met for the first time with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, the USSR promptly invaded Afghanistan. Carter, ever the naive appeaser, was shocked. 'I can't believe the Russians lied to me,' he said.
The invasion attracted a 23-year-old Saudi named Osama binLaden to Afghanistan to recruit Muslim fighters and raise money for ananti-Soviet jihad. Part of that group eventually became al-Qaida, aterrorist organization that would declare war on America several times between 1996 and 1998 before attacking us on 9/11, killing more Americans than the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
On Carter's watch, the Soviet Union went on an unrestrained rampage in which it took over not only Afghanistan, but also Ethiopia, South Yemen, Angola, Cambodia, Mozambique, Grenada and Nicaragua.
In spite of this, Carter's last defense budget proposed spending 45% below pre-Vietnam levels for fighter aircraft, 75% forships, 83% for attack submarines and 90% for helicopters.
Years later, as a civilian, Carter negotiated a peace agreement with North Korea to keep that communist country from developing nuclear weapons.
He also convinced President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to go along with it. But the signed piece of paper proved worthless. The North Koreans deceived Carter and instead used our money, incentives and technical equipment to build nuclear weapons and pose the threat we face today. Thus did Carter unwittingly become our Neville Chamberlain, creating with his well-intended but inept, unrealistic and ullibleactions the very conditions that led to the three most dangerous security threats we face today: Iran, al-Qaida and North Korea.
On the domestic side, Carter gave us inflation of 15%, the highest in 34 years; interest rates of 21%, the highest in 115 years; and a severe energy crisis with lines around the block at gas stations nation wide.
In 1977, Carter, along with a Democrat Congress, created a worthy project with noble intentions- the Community Reinvestment Act. Over strong industry objections, it mandated that all banks meet the credit needs of their entire communities.
In 1995, President Clinton imposed even stronger regulations and performance tests that coerced banks to substantially increase loans to low-income, poverty-area borrowers or face fines or possible restrictions on expansion. These revisions allowed for securitization of CRA loans containing subprime mortgages.
By 1997, good loans were bundled with poor ones and sold as prime packages to institutions here and abroad. That shifted risk from the loan originators, freeing banks to begin pyramiding and make more ofthese profitable subprime products.
Under two young, well-intended presidents, therefore,big-government plans and mandates played a significant role in the current subprime mortgage mess and its catastrophic consequences for the U.S. and international economies.
Hardest-hit by the mortgage foreclosures have been the citizens that Democrats always claim to help most-inner-city residents who fell victim to low or no down payment schemes, unexpected adjustable rates, deceptive loan applications and commission-hungry sales people.
Now we're having to bail out at huge cost Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the very agencies that were supposed to stabilize the system. In time, this should improve the situation. But the party of Carter and Clinton that midwifed our mortgage mess now wants to betrusted to take over and have the government run our entire system of health care!
And everyone is blaming Bush for our current problems.
Hi
This letter may seem that I am angry, I AM NOT, frustrated with the main stream everything of this world YES I AM! BPA gives way to the rest!
BPA in our hard plastics. Did you get that, think baby bottles (the very bottle that I last gave to our precious Avery), sippie cups (That I went out & bought these two cups that light up, this grandma will throw all unsafe away!) (My Munchkin's cups are good!! Yeah! I did something right!!), water bottles, kids plates, forks, spoons, plastic ware, plastic cups, plates, etc, etc, etc. (Munchkin brand straw cups & sippie cups & most of their items are BPA free) Go Munchkin! (you can get 4 at Sams for the price of 1 at most regular stores.) Why is everything that is healthy for us MORE expensive!
This is something that really irritates me beyond belief. For years, I'm talking 15 years at least, the alternative health professionals have warned of the BPA threat. The FDA has silenced it using that they are fanatics. Just one month ago the FDA came out and said all plastics are safe. Now after this study exposed the BPA, the FDA comes out with EMERGENCY warnings to throw them away, they lead to heart disease, diabetes, cancer, etc, etc. Yes we are going to all die of something. But this is beginning to be a pattern, of which I will take the advice of what main stream everything calls FANATICS over the main stream anything, ANYTIME. Get a grip on reality, do you know that the alternative health professionals first told the medical community and the public that toxins and other chemicals were passing through the skin into the body. They first used sublingual (under the tongue) & patches that go on the skin for delevery of nutrition & homeopathic solutions and tablets. Now the medical community uses it & when they first introduced the (new) technology the FDA & medical fields went crazy with praise. I'm not a crazed health alternative person, but I BELIEVE in treating the body in whole (natural & medical together) But I'm losing more and more patients with the mainstream everything. God's nature is best all the time.
Think about it, mainstream calls those of us (Christians), who chose to vote for people who do not kill babies, support homosexual community, support immodest behaviors & speech that is full of evil words, as fanatics. Now those who vote for people who support these things are saying that they vote for them because they do more for people who can't help themselves and the economy of our country, and support the rights of other's to chose what they want. Talk about helping those who can't help themselves, what is an unborn baby? Oh yes that is right, it is above most mainstream peoples pay grade to call a baby a life at conception. That is wonderful, then listen to GOD who calls a baby a life from conception! And I pray for those who place (financial needs of this world, in voting leaders into office that will uphold all evil but keep the economy good), to change their mind.
It is a long reading, but one that clarifys to me what is important in the entire world. Please know that I meditate on scriptures every day & I also pray for patients, but strength to stand against what I must in this spiritual warfare we fight here on earth. God bless and keep each of you in His care.
Love & Prayers
Php 4:1 Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.
Php 4:2 I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to be of the same mind in the Lord.
Php 4:3 Yea, I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.
Php 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.
Php 4:5 Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Php 4:6 In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Php 4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
Php 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Php 4:9 The things which ye both learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
Php 4:10 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me; wherein ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked opportunity.
Php 4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.
Php 4:12 I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.
Php 4:13 I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.
Php 4:14 Howbeit ye did well that ye had fellowship with my affliction.
Php 4:15 And ye yourselves also know, ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving but ye only;
Php 4:16 for even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my need.
Php 4:17 Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increaseth to your account.
Php 4:18 But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.
Php 4:19 And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Php 4:20 Now unto our God and Father be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
What better way for this grandmother who adores her girls, update on their growth and at the same time send a greeting! A new season is coming our way very soon! As we enter this new season, may all of you be touched in some way by the awesome God we serve. And may each of you touch another life in some way that will touch their hearts & encourage them to serve God. God bless & keep each of you in His care.
You know it simply amazes me at the sit back and see or do nothing attitudes among Americans. That attitude is about ready to be the cause of many aspects of "God" in this country being taken away from us. And those statements that we constantly hear when ever the subject of "Thank God we live in a country where we can freely worship God" may be a thing of the past. God speaks to us over and over in His word about the arrogance of nations. Think about it. Please go to this poll on NBC the link is below. Right now 50% to 50% believe that the words, "In God We Trust" should be taken from the currency of America. Rome fell from within, what is within the USA. Obama spouts how we are not just a Christian nation any more, neither was Rome and Rome prided themselves being all things to all men. "Do you see this? Do those words ring any recent bells? Are we the modern day Rome?" Just some questions to ask ourselves, especially if we find our mindset more in agreement with the liberal thinkers of this world. And if you really think that these polls don't make a difference, think again they make a great statement to all those who are placed in office to represent the people in their districts and states. Will it one day be against the law for us to send this same email?
When we worship God this morning, let us each ask ourselves if there is any compromise being made in our mind & hearts to what we are doing to fight the spiritual warfare waged against sin. Are we leaving the door cracked to the world so that we or our children won't be too weird to the world? And do you fully realize how much of the world is coming in that little crack in the door? I'm not asking you anything that I don't already ask myself daily to guard against, what appears fine, but is evil in the sight of the Lord.
Love & Prayers
Deb Griffin AKA: Mom & Grandma
Always remember:
God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
God has been with you before difficult moments
He will then continue on & bring you through difficult moments
Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God.
"Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly,
and leave the rest to God."
Please take the time to vote.
Here's your chance to let the media know where the people stand on our
faith in God, as a nation. NBC is taking a poll on "In God We Trust" to
stay on our American currency. Please send this to every Christian you
know so they can vote on this important subject. Please do it right
away, before NBC takes this off the web page.
Poll is still open so you can vote.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10103521/
This is not sent for discussion, if you agree forward it, if
you don't, delete it.
By me forwarding it, you know how I feel. I'll bet this
