The Reality of Jimmy Carter

It's time to see substance over shadow

By Rich Kozlovich

Over the next few days we're going to be inundated with media clabber telling us what a wonderful humanitarian Jimmy Carter was.  Well, I'm not going to rejoice at his passing as is the wont of leftists when a conservative passes, but I'm not going to mourn it either, and I think a little clarity should prevail starting with Andrea Widburg's article with her saying:

Ultimately, Carter was a guy who lived a life of personal rectitude (he had the same wife for almost 80 years, went to church, etc.), but he left the United States and the world in much worse shape than they were when he found them

Leftist parents, whose draft dodging children fled to Canada, whined how sorry they were and wanted to come home now that all was safe.  So Carter pardoned them. He gave away the Panama Canal, and now we're seeing the consequences of that.  He passed the Community Reinvestment Act that caused the housing bubble that thirty years later crashed the economy to the tune of trillions of lost dollars. 

He created the Department of Education, another proven Carter disaster, and an expensive one at that.  His policies, like Biden's, caused inflation, economic malaise, and the energy crisis.  Most don't remember the energy crisis, but we faced long lines at gas stations all over the country.   But it was very real then, and it went on daily, and Carter's energy policies was the cause, and among the left, none of that's changed.

He abandoned the Shah of Iran allowing insane Islamists to take over, so they promptly took over the U.S. Embassy creating a hostage crisis that lasted 444 days.  After cutting the defense budget dramatically Carter oversaw a rescue mission that was a complete failure.   When Reagan was elected the Mullah's decided Reagan wasn't a wimp like Carter and ended that Carter driven fiasco.

Nonetheless, as a result of Carter's abandonment of the Shah of Iran, that nation became the nucleus for all the terror movements that's killed untold thousands ever since, and it's believed, and I believe it also, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan because they knew Carter was weak and stupid. 

He's credited with the Camp David Accords, and rightly so, but that one credible action doesn't give him a pass on the rest of his life.  Not to mention he was then, and until he died, a blatant antisemite, who never saw a leftist tyrant he couldn't love, a corrupt election that elected Democrats he didn't praise, and was convinced Trump was unfit to be President, with his great last wish to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris.   A cap on his life of failure.

Bill Clinton awarded Carter and his wife Rosalyn the Presidential Medal of Freedom saying:

“Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter have done more good things for more people in more places than any other couple on the face of the Earth,”

That was a lie!  The greatest man to have lived in the 20th, and 21st centuries was Norman Borlaug, who saved a billion people from starvation with his 'green revolution' of high yield crops, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides, and Carter would have been against that.  It's time to see substance over shadow.   Inflation, gas lines, incredibly stupid foreign and domestic policy to the tenth power creating failures that materialized disastrously for decades juxtapositioning how much long term damage an extremist administration like his could do.   Until the Biden became president Carter had the dubious honor of being the dumbest man to ever occupy the White House, a standard no one thought would ever be broken, until now.   

Here's why I could never be a politician.  I won't his celebrate his passing, but I won't mourn it either. 

• The Sainting of Jimmy Carter by “Christianity Today” Is a Farce - I was going to stay silent about the passing of Jimmy Carter, but reading the Christianity Today article was too much. I wish the best for Carter’s grieving family, and Carter should be lauded for his humanitarian efforts, his efforts to bring about peace in the Middle East, and for what I take was his sincere (if liberal) faith. But CT’s exercise in hagiography further destroys its reputation as a serious publication for evangelical Christians. A partial rundown:.........
• Jimmy Carter: His image vs. the reality I experienced covering his 1976 campaign  - The contrast that I observed between the meme that dominated the mainstream media and the Carter I witnessed closely on the campaign trail was night and day. In personal appearances including press conferences, Carter was often surly, angry, and short-tempered. This is often the case with national politicians, Minnesota Democrat Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, who ran unsuccessfully for the presidency multiple times, being another example that I witnessed close up. But with Carter it was different, because his whole public image in 1976 rested on his supposedly down-to-earth geniality and simpering mien. “I will never lie to you,” was one of the main themes of his 1976 campaign. ............
  
• The Carter Era is Over, And not just because he's dead., December 30, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield, 16 Comments -The Carter era is over not just because its eponymous figure kicked the last of a long line of buckets to reunite with the Ayatollah Khomeini and Fidel Castro on the world’s worst reunion tour in the world’s worst place, but because the era itself best epitomized by his legacy has come to an end.....
• Ask the Venezuelans how great an ex-president Jimmy Carter was December 30, 2024 by Monica Showalter Carter did much to legitimize the dictatorship in Venezuela as one that conducts free and fair elections. ....Amselem described in his long tweet-story how Carter paid a visit to Indonesia in 2004 and in his speech to the locals, launched into a series of verbal broadsides against U.S. foreign policy from the grounds of the U.S. embassy as the diplomats stared at each other, utterly stupefied.......
• Are the drones President Carter’s legacy? December 31, 2024 by Noel S. Williams Perhaps the message Carter cast into the cosmos has indeed been intercepted.....
• Scott Jennings Hits Jimmy Carter Over 'Borderline' Treasonous Legacy (Video) 
•  Jimmy Carter Was Never a Good Man.  And Carter and Biden have a lot in common. Outgoing President Joe Biden urged incoming President Donald Trump to learn “decency” from permanently outgoing former president President Jimmy Carter. Biden once set his sights high by trying to compare himself to FDR and JFK, now has to settle for being the second Carter. On his way out the door, the media continues to insist that Biden is a good man. And that Carter, despite presiding over one of the worst administrations in history, was a good man. Biden and Carter had many things in common, record unpopularity, crooked brothers, and empowering Islamic terrorists, but decency was never one of them.  Joe Biden was not a good man. Neither was Jimmy Carter.......
• As Media Fawns Over Jimmy Carter's Legacy, We Can See Their Rehabilitation Plans for Biden's Failed Presidency - After former President Jimmy Carter died on Sunday, hagiographies quickly appeared. Nobody wants to speak ill of the dead, especially if they’re Democrat, so this was to be expected.  However, what was truly astonishing in their tone was that Carter’s disastrous four-year term in the White House, from 1977 to 1981, included a bunch of stuff that just kinda, you know, happened to him. It wasn’t his fault, seriously!.............
• Carter appears to be as decent to others as Biden is honest and empathetic - The media and others spend a lot of time rewriting history and misleading the public. Jimmy Carter was a terrible president, but the media said what a genuinely nice person he was otherwise. Yet, here we see a story about how he treated people when the cameras weren’t on, and he reportedly wasn’t the “decent” man the media wants to portray him as.  Secret Service Says Carter Wasn’t ‘Decent’....such portrayals as a ‘total fairy tale’ perpetuated by the media. He also drew a parallel to Biden himself, noting reports that Biden allowed his German Shepherds to attack Secret Service agents. ‘What kind of decent person is that?’...... Carter would stage photo opportunities to appear relatable but allegedly behaved quite differently once the cameras were off.......‘He would actually tell Secret Service agents he did not want them to say hello to him on the way to the Oval Office because it was too much bother to say hello back.........One agent who drove Carter for five months and served on his detail for three and a half years said Carter never spoke to him, considering such interactions beneath him...