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Obama: The Jimmy Carter Connection
The Wall Street Journal has an interview of America's worst president in history, Jimmy Carter, where he speaks highly of Barack Obama. In it, Carter states:
"Obama will be almost automatically a healing factor in the animosity now that exists, that relates to our country and its government"
I am not sure how Carter can come to this conclusion. Obama calls for the immediate abandonment of Iraq to terrorist and sectarian thugs which will allow Iran to surge into the fledgling democracy and rip asunder all that has been built in the last few years. Unless the "healing factor in the animosity" is that which is borne against us by terrorist groups like al Qaeda and nations that export terrorism, like Iran and Syria, then maybe he's right.
I have no doubt that abandoning Iraq today will have a similar impact as our abandoning South Vietnam in 1973. I also have no doubt that people like Jimmy Carter think that abandoning an ally to totalitarian regimes is a good idea.
Carter, during his time as president, did more to damage this nation's credibility than any other president in history. He did it with one simple act: He abandoned the Shah of Iran which fostered the rise of a tyrannical Islamo-Fascist regime in that country, and which then spread throughout much of the region.
The Shah of Iran may not have been a great leader of freedom, however he was a friend of the West, and was slowly moving his nation to more Western values. When he was deposed by the Ayatollah Khomeini, this threw Iran backward a thousand years as far as social progress is concerned.
Perhaps Carter likes Obama because he sees the potential of someone becoming a worse president than he was. In that, he could be right, although I think Hillary is far more capable of being a worse president than Carter was. Both, however, are very dangerous to this country and neither one is capable of any "healing" that this great nation needs.
Based on Carter's performance as President, anyone that he thinks would be great is going to be a bad president. One-term wonders can still do a tremendous amount of damage in a short time. Just look at what Carter did to Iran. It's been 30 years and we are still dealing with the fact that a pre-Western government was replaced by a pro-terrorist totalitarian theocracy.
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