OUR WORST PRESIDENT?

This thread seems to be gaining steam of late, which is unfortunate if you look at this critique of our President through the reading glasses of history. And you really only need to go back about 30 years, to perhaps the worst, and at very least the unluckiest, President ever.

This article summarizes it succinctly, but in shorter form:

- He slashed defense spending in his first term, to include crippling moves such as killing the B-1 bomber.
- In just the first hours of his Presidency, he took US missiles out of South Korea while obtaining no recompense from the Soviet Union. What's more, he even offered to remove all US troops from the Korean peninsula.
- He ignored Castro's incursion into Angola, while at the same time refusing to help fight Communist guerillas in El Salvador and the Communist government of Nicaragua.
- He refused to recognize Taiwan as a separate entity independent from China
- He mingled and praised dictators and thugs, a laundry list including Communist oppressors Tito, Ceaucescu, and Qaddafi.
- He surrendered the Panama Canal, which is now owned pretty much by China.
- He severely cut our national intelligence agencies.
- He cut off support for Iran's Shah, leading to one of the greatest foreign policy blunders in recent history, setting the stage for fundamentalist Islamic rule and an ominous shadow over the middle east.
- The Embassy siege in Tehran deserves its own bullet. 444 days of terror.
- We have him to thank for our support of Saddam Hussein... if the Shah had remained in power, there would probably not even be an Iraq-Iran conflict.
- Think about it - Hezbollah probably wouldn't have existed (it is after all a state-funded terrorist entity).
- His national deficits were 12 times greater than the Nixon administration.
- During his presidency, gas prices nearly doubled.... if you managed to wait in the long gas lines long enough to get it before it ran out.
- The economy tanked, and who did he blame? US, the American people!
- Interest rates, 21%.
- Inflation rate, 13%.
- Unemployment, 7%.

This is only while he was president. Unfortunately he continues to do serious political damage to our country even when long out of office.

- Carter didn't just oppose the current war. He opposed Desert Storm and the Cold war against the Russians.
- North Korea. Disaster. Carter was practically treasonous in North Korea, defying even the Clinton Administration and offering all kinds of concessions instead of threatening economic sanctions.
- He claimed there was nothing economically wrong in North Korea. HA!

Ladies and Gentlemen, we should not for one second be unsure of who the Worst President in the history of this nation was and still is.