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The R.I.P. Thread

Rubashov said:
The last honest, decent man to serve as President too.
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I don't disagree with this statement. He was a good man. He was an awful President and booting him from office marked morning in America, but as a human being he gets the highest of marks. It is enough to make one think maybe our system wasn't set up to be run by good men.
 
Carter, like Biden, was guilty of being President when the tide was out.

The worst political decisions Americans have made have been based on blaming the current administration on the status of the tides.

Presidents don't control the tide or inflation. Only the stupidest of stupid people believe otherwise, so like 52% of the U.S..
 
Sardines said:
Carter, like Biden, was guilty of being President when the tide was out.
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I don’t agree with that at all. Biden is a moron. Even when his brain wasn’t addled by old age, he was still a moron. Obama’s Sec Def famously said Biden had been "wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."

Carter was not a moron. Carter was intellectually brilliant. Carter’s problem is that he couldn’t lead people. Contrary to your opinion of Presidents not being able to address inflation, Carter did address 70’s stagflation. It was solved by Fed Chairman Paul Volker who abandoned Keynesianism by jacking interest rates to the sky to tighten the money supply.

Ronald Regan gets the credit for ending the era of stagflation, but it was Carter who recognized the wisdom of Volker’s different approach and put him in the position to solve the problem. Carter installed Volker, not Regan. Carter intellectually knew what to do but he was not capable of galvanizing a nation out of malaise. Regan did have the charisma and command to lead a nation, so he gets the credit for having done so.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
I don't disagree with this statement. He was a good man. He was an awful President and booting him from office marked morning in America, but as a human being he gets the highest of marks. It is enough to make one think maybe our system wasn't set up to be run by good men.
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Morning in America? More like evening in America.
 
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