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As the mullahs wait for a president who will give them their deal back, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar seek the blessing of Jimmy Carter, who for 444 days failed to secure release of 52 American hostages from Iran.
Jimmy Carter never met an anti-American dictator he didn’t like and the Georgia Democrat was even more clueless on the domestic side. On his watch, inflation, unemployment and a stagnant economy gave rise to the “misery index.”
Carter, who mentions not a single American hostage by name wrote, “Since I had refrained from exerting military force to punish the Iranians, the failure to secure the freedom of the hostages made me vulnerable to their allegations that I was an ineffective leader.”
Carter’s pick for ambassador to the UN was Andrew Young, “a superb ambassador,” Jimmy said, “who always supported freedom and human rights and I trusted him completely.” Carter failed to note that Young proclaimed Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini “some kind of saint.”
Carterdid mount an effort to rescue the hostages but defined it not as a military operation but a “humanitarian mission.” This was so Carter could boast that he was “the first American president in fifty years who has never sent troops into combat.”
Carter’s pacifism encouraged the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and he wasn’t exactly a model ex-president. Carter regularly ran his mouth at Reagan and other sitting presidents. In 1991 he publicly opposed the Gulf War and asked Arab leaders to pull out of the American coalition
He called attempts to capture Somali warlord Farah Aidid “regrettable” and invited Aidid to visit him in Atlanta. Carter visited Syria and jollied it up with Assad. In 2002 Carter met with Fidel Castro and touted Communist Cuba’s “superb systems of health care and education
Jimmy Carter never met an anti-American dictator he didn’t like and the Georgia Democrat was even more clueless on the domestic side. On his watch, inflation, unemployment and a stagnant economy gave rise to the “misery index.”
According to Carter, a lower standard of living was “inevitable” and “the only trend is downward.” Even so, as Carter told Douglas Brinkley in 1995, “allowing Ronald Reagan to become president was by far my biggest failure in office.”
On January 20, 1981, the first day of Reagan’s presidency, Iran released the 52 American hostages. More than 30 years later, Carter wrote, “I have never known what caused the Ayatollah to delay granting their freedom until I was out of office.”
The prospect that Reagan would use force might have had something to do with it. The Islamic regime was hoping for the re-election of Jimmy Carter, someone they could push around. A similar dynamic exists today.
POTUS 44 gave the Iranian mullahs everything they wanted, and even shipped them planeloads of cash. President Trump pulled out of the Iran deal and imposed tough sanctions. When the regime got rough, Trump sent a carrier battle group and said Iran might officially cease to exist.
As a state politician, Carter hailed the racist Lester Maddox as “the embodiment of the Democratic Party.” One of Carter’s campaign leaflets charged that opponent Carl Sanders “had paid tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.”
President Jimmy claimed to have repulsed an attack by what aids described as a “killer rabbit,” and was the only president to file a UFO sighting with the Air Force. Carter took one single-semester, non-credit course in nuclear physics, then claimed to be a “nuclear physicist.”
Jimmy Carter remains a strong contender for the worst president and worst ex-president of all time. For Democrat candidates, on the other hand, he’s an extraordinary and inspirational guide. Look for more exciting episodes of “The Loser Apprentice” as 2020 approaches.
