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October 10, 2008
Jimmy Carter Weighs In on the Economic Crisis
For the first time in his overextended career, Jimmy Carter is doing us a service — by warning of the economic lunacy in store for us if we again allow an unmitigated moonbat into the White House. Never one to be encumbered by shame, Jimmy the Dhimmi is exploiting the financial crisis in a sordid attempt to score cheap political points against Bush to a foreign audience:
Former President Jimmy Carter said on Friday the "atrocious economic policies" of the Bush administration had caused the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Carter told reporters on a stopover in Brussels that "profligate spending," massive borrowing and dramatic tax cuts since President George W. Bush took office in 2001 were behind the market turmoil and economic crisis.
If Bush's tax cuts caused the crisis, presumably raising taxes in the face of what promises to be at best a severe recession would make everything better. Unsurprisingly, Carter also announced that he is rooting for Obama, who has admitted he will take precisely this predictably disastrous approach to the teetering economy.
Apparently too few people remember the economic doldrums of Carter's appallingly inept presidency. But if Obama does take power and implements his plans to inflict social justice through higher taxation, the resulting depression will be remembered for generations.
On a tip from Conan.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 10, 2008 10:47 AM
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Carter is insane, but sadly alot of Americans believe what he says. Carter started the whole ball rolling in the 1970s by lending money to people who really couldnt afford homes. It took 30 years for his master plan to implode the economy to work, but Im sure he is pleased that it finally worked.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 10, 2008 10:58 AM
Jimmuh is my go to guy for "atrocious economic policies." My memory of his reign of error is that he had the whole "atrocious economic policies" thing down cold.
Posted by: Fred at October 10, 2008 11:15 AM
Unfortunately, with the Democrats in charge, the "free media" will never expose he true cause of the financial disaster about to befall us. As Israel already knows, the enemy can lose a war and live to fight another day. But should Israel lose, there will be no Israel to recover.
Likewise, should the Dems win, it seems apparent to me that that true freedom may be a thing of the past, never to recover.
Posted by: Shayne at October 10, 2008 11:18 AM
billy carter was the smart one in that family.
Posted by: furballz at October 10, 2008 11:29 AM
One word pops to mind: "chutzpah".
Posted by: Peeved Guy at October 10, 2008 11:52 AM
Im wondering if Israel, should Obama win, will attack Irans nuke sites before Bush leaves office. Israel has already done a dry run over the Mediterranean Sea. Iran would likely not only target Israel but blow up the Saudi oil fields knowing it would cripple the US along with the rest of the western world. Imagine that on top of the market collapse. Time to stock up on essentials, food and guns? Yep.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 10, 2008 11:54 AM
No wonder the Dow tanks as Obama's poll numbers rise.
Posted by: V the K at October 10, 2008 12:37 PM
Wow Jimmy Carter offering financial advice. That’s sort of like having a convicted pedophile baby sit your kids. Jimmy carter is the most useless thing that was ever hatched.
Posted by: David at October 10, 2008 1:18 PM
Jimmy Carter is still a idiot still stupid and still blabbering THE PEANUT EATER KID CANT GET OVER BEING REJECTED BY THE LEGION OF SUPER HEROS
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at October 10, 2008 2:25 PM
I can't believe people are still paying attention to this idiot socialist.
Posted by: sal at October 10, 2008 2:33 PM
And inflation was WHAT during Peanut's reign as supreme duffus?
Posted by: Jimbo at October 10, 2008 2:53 PM
It's a shame that there are so many young people today who were not alive during the Carter years to know what an utter disaster his presidency was.
Posted by: ToddonCapeCod at October 10, 2008 3:26 PM
It was Carter that launched the CRA snowball down the hill.
Posted by: IOpian at October 10, 2008 3:43 PM
I wonder at the irony seeing his public service ad on TV for a pancreatic cancer charity and how the cancer killed his mother, his brother, his sister.....
Posted by: Shooter1001 at October 10, 2008 4:02 PM
Carter's a pinhead and always has been. My dad recently told me that my mom once had this to say about that anti-semitic whackjob and his administration - "I'll never vote Democratic again." And to my knowledge, she never did.
Posted by: SpideyTerry at October 10, 2008 5:49 PM
As someone pointed out, if anyone should know about atrocious economic policies, it's Jimmy. Obama, apparently has already absorbed Jimmy's foreign policy philosophy, which worked equally well during his administration.
Posted by: JJ at October 10, 2008 9:26 PM
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, and it's worth keeping in mind because, if the polls are right and historical trends continue, Obama is going to be our next president.
President's have to get stuff through the House and Senate, mostly. There's a limit regarding what we can do about executive orders and Supreme Court appointments, but a lot of the Democrats who are in the house and senate now are blue dogs. Many of the one's running for new seats are running right-of-center, to get the votes. They will respond to massive grass roots campaigns to vote against tax hikes, budget bills, global poverty initiatives, signing Kyoto, and more.
Obama might be our next president. But that doesn't mean we have to make it easy for him to get anything done. Every crappy plan, let's Washington hear about it. Phone calls and written letters get the most attention paid to them, emails not so much. Calling into C-SPAN and talkshows and Sunday shows that take calls also get listened to. Everytime Obama tries to advance a socialist agenda, if we fight back we will minimize it, reduce it, or defeat it.
And, if the Republicans nationalize the 2010 midterm elections the way they did in '94, we could get the house back, and neuter the Democratic majority in the senate.
Obama won't be a bad president, if we don't let him get much of anything done.
Posted by: Mr. Medical at October 11, 2008 7:04 AM
AIPAC hates it when President Carter speaks the truth.
I wonder why…
Posted by: nader paul mckinney at October 11, 2008 7:44 AM
DOT connecting time:
I have the: Carter/CRA/Clinton/Acorn/Fannie/Freddie/BarneyFrank/ChrisDodd/Dhimmicrat/Obama/AIG/WallStreet/Bailout/SubPrimeMeltdown Blues
Posted by: ConGris at October 11, 2008 8:55 AM
Without doubt, Jimmy Carter is the most incompetent and unproductive president in America's history. When he was president, inflation was greater than 20% and the U.S. suffered the most embarassing political debacle in our history. He did not do anything right, even the so-called peace deal with Begin and Sadat was fundamentally flawed. Now, he hopes we have no corporate memory, and he ponificates on the economy. Only an utter and total fool would pay him any attention, and I for one will never forgive him for his demeaning of our country. Shame forever on Jimmy Carter!!
Posted by: Above Average Citizen at October 11, 2008 9:08 AM
Hate to say it, but maybe we need a little reminder of what socialist idiots can do to this country. For anyone under 35, the last Dem they remember was Slick Willy, and he was a narcissistic pragmatist, not a 'true believer' in leftist ideology like Carter was and Obama is. To them, Carter is just a name in a history book, not a reality. I may have been young (10 when he took office), but I remember that peanut-grinnin' sumbitch and how we, as a poor family, got a hell of a lot poorer during his "moral equivalent of war on poverty". After a few years of Ronaldus Maximus, things got much better for us "po'" folks.
Maybe those idjits in San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, and Noooo Yawk could USE a wake-up call by getting what they want... only to find they've jumped from the frying pan into the iron-smelter of reality.
Who is John Galt?
Posted by: hiram13pm at October 11, 2008 4:48 PM
I agree, Hiram. We need a booster shot.
Posted by: Thulsa Doom at October 11, 2008 5:12 PM
Time to turn a few savage wabbits loose BUGS BUNNY WITH A UZI LOOK OUT JIMMY CARTER BUGS IS LOADED AND HAS A ITCHY TRIGGER FINGER ITS SOMETHING HE LEARNED FROM ELMER FUDD
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at October 11, 2008 9:17 PM
Oh how soon Jimmy forgets. Under his administration in 1979,
21.5% Prime Rate,
13.5% Inflation,
7.7% Unemployment.
Maybe those reports on peanut oil and dementia are accurate.
Posted by: BigDaddy at October 12, 2008 6:18 AM
"Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.'"
--- Lillian Carter
Posted by: Henry at October 12, 2008 7:54 AM
"a great malaise..."
Posted by: jj at October 12, 2008 4:13 PM

