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    • Lmao....Stevie sure had me fooled  
    • Very good and decent man may he RIP. Found this interesting.  Mr. Carter is a fundamentally good man. His basic intentions have been for the good. He is a terrific Sunday School teacher. He is not driven by greed or power or the desire to be liked. He's honest, at least by his own metrics. But Mr. Carter has seven fundamental problems. He is smart and he knows it. He believes, once he had made a decision, that the decision is the best one that can be made. He believes the people are fundamentally good if only given a chance…except for those who disagree with him. He abhors drinkers. He is not inspirational. He is a micromanager. He only listens to Rosalyn and, when Bert was still alive, he would listen to Bert Lance. I knew people who backed Mr. Carter for governor and then were his first financial backers for the presidency. I know people who worked with him both in Atlanta and D.C. Mr. Carter always thought himself the smartest guy in the room, except perhaps, when Bert Lance was there. That, in itself, is not a problem. In most cases, Mr. Carter likely was the smartest guy in the room. Mr. Carter's problem is that he was not good at concealing it. In many ways, Mr. Carter is a humble man, but not when it comes to his intelligence. Over time, that tends to be overbearing and off-putting. Instead of having a group around him where everyone gives input and the President makes a decision based on their input and his own ideas, Mr. Carter, as I've been told, tended to not be very good at acting as if the input of others was valuable. That killed any hope at consensus building. Mr Carter alienated Ted Kennedy and Tip O'Neill partly because he couldn't tolerate their drinking. He did not need to drink with them, but he could have accepted them. Instead, he alienated both of them by acting as the teetotaling, judgmental, Baptist that he was. His failure to cultivate a working relationship with them, combined with his imperial approach at dictating what he wanted, resulted in a Democratic President with a Democratic Congress having the government shut down 5 times in his 4 years, along with countless juvenile spats, roadblocks, and a dysfunctional government. The Iran debacle was largely the result of Carter's naivete. He turned against one of our most reliable friends in the Shah. I know we put him into power, but he was our ally. Iran was a modern country. Women had more freedom than in any other majority Muslim nation. The Shah was ruthless against his enemies, but he was trying to survive in a world where only strength survives. But Mr. Carter was convinced the Ayatollah Khomeini was a good, humble holy man. So Carter abandoned the Shah and helped the Ayatollah return. Only to discover, and he was truly shocked by the discovery, that the Ayatollah was an evil, vengeful man. Carter was completely unprepared. He had ignored the warnings of his intelligence advisors. Carter owns Iran and that whole part of the world even today. Carter was a micromanager. He famously would obsess over who was playing tennis on the White House courts. He poured over invitation lists, didn't trust generals and plans. It's highly likely the hostage rescue attempt failed in part because of Carter's micromanagement. He was the smartest guy in the room. Why would he trust someone else? Mr. Carter never understood that a big part of his job was to inspire the American people. Instead, he chastised us. He may have told us the truth, but he told us in the manner of an overbearing school master. Carter was so bad at not being inspirational, even the left grew to dislike him. Had Bert Lance not been run out of Washington, perhaps Carter would not have failed so mightily. But the Democratic opposition led by Tip and Teddy, made sure Bert wasn't around. Carter was also amazingly petty. He was so petty that he treated the Reagans, on inauguration day, like lepers. Rosalyn was ungracious. Carter was rude. Carter never, never accepted that Reagan beat him. I admire his work with Habitat for Humanity. I admire his intellect. He is a good man. But he was a monumental failure as President.
    • Sooooo Stevie lied again, top of page 2 of this thread " Done  "  
    • So about 180 billion thus far. But we can't help (launder $$$$ through) ordinary Americans.    
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