Jimmy Carter "Democrats lost in midterms because of Republican irresponsibility"

[dm1333]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20024077-503544.html

Saw it on MSNBC last night as I was flipping through the channels.   Carter blamed the Democratic midterm losses on Republican irresponsibility.  I haven't been able to find the actual interview yet but I am sure it is out there.  I sat there slack jawed, amazed that he was that out of touch with reality.  So I guess when it all comes down to it, everything really is George Bushes fault! 

[Scout26]

Please, Mr Obama.  Follow Jihmmie's advice, I mean look what it did for his presidency.  I bet you can replicate his results !!!

[TommyGunn]

I always thought Carter was a bad president ... but I cannot believe -- at one point in time -- that I actually considered him sane.

[HankB]

I considered him woefully inept as President, moderately useful immediately afterwards with his "Habitat for Humanity" work, but in recent years came to regard him as an angry, meddlesome, embittered old man with a nasty streak of anti-semitism, who can't stand to be out of the limelight.

Now I have to agree - his sanity is in doubt.

(Seriously, blaming bad Republicans for a big Republican victory? No recognition that people were flushing bad Democrats? Did he manage to say that with a straight face, or was he just trying to be a troll to get another 15 seconds' of fame?)

[Angel Eyes]

From the article:

As for whether or not the current president has sought advice from a predecessor, Mr. Carter said with a smile, "He doesn't need my advice ..."

That's the first correct statement Carter has made in years.  Perhaps ever.

[Waitone]

Jimmuh Carter // Lady Gaga.  What's the diff?

[Perd Hapley]

Jimmuh Carter // Lady Gaga.  What's the diff?

She sounds more intelligent, and is more competent in her chosen field?

[sanglant]

smoking peanuts is bad for your health sanity.

[MechAg94]

"I was blessed when I was president by a very encouraging and almost incredible degree of bipartisan support," Mr. Carter said. "It was quite unlike... what is present here with President Obama since he has practically zero Republican support in the House or Senate."

He is not the only one to try to whine about this.  It still doesn't make it right.  IMO, there was a time in Obama's first year when some of those moderate Republicans were begging for Obama to throw them a few bones so they could cave in and compromise, but he thought he was holding all the cards and turned up his nose.  Look at what they did pass:  Trillion dollar stimulus for Dem cronies, a 2000+ page health care bill no one read, and an even larger bank regulation bill that doesn't address what happened in 2008. 

It isn't just his lack of action on some issues, but people don't like his actual accomplishments either.  You can't reasonably blame that on Republicans.

[grampster]

I was a sentient adult when Carter got elected.  I couldn't believe it actually happened.  Then came 4 years of him.  After that, for awhile, I just sort of figured he was just a well intentioned boob, a nice man out of his depth.  He got elected on the rebound. 

As time went along I changed my mind about him.  He is an egotistical narcisist who has always been separated from reality.  Now, at the end of his life he is a hateful, anti American traitor.  The things he has said and done deserve the yanking of his passport and arresting him, trying him for treason and throwing him under a jail till he dies.  Then bury him in a paupers field in an unmarked grave.

[Doggy Daddy]

I was a sentient adult when Carter got elected.  I couldn't believe it actually happened.  Then came 4 years of him.  After that, for awhile, I just sort of figured he was just a well intentioned boob, a nice man out of his depth.  He got elected on the rebound.  

As time went along I changed my mind about him.  He is an egotistical narcisist who has always been separated from reality.  Now, at the end of his life he is a hateful, anti American traitor.  The things he has said and done deserve the yanking of his passport and arresting him, trying him for treason and throwing him under a jail till he dies.  Then bury him in a paupers field in an unmarked grave.

I had to keep looking at the poster's name on this to make sure it wasn't me.  I was afraid I had typed it and forgotten that I did.  I felt the senility creeping in.

You nailed my thoughts exactly, grampster.

DD

eta:  Lately, I've had the thought that his brother, Billy, was the competent one...  

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

I had to keep looking at the poster's name on this to make sure it wasn't me.  I was afraid I had typed it and forgotten that I did.  I felt the senility creeping in.

You nailed my thoughts exactly, grampster.

DD

eta:  Lately, I've had the thought that his brother, Billy, was the competent one...  

thats 3 of us  four if you count my old man who once speculated carter coulda been a sleeper agent from the cold war

[Stevie-Ray]

She sounds more intelligent, and is more competent in her chosen field?

Pfff...Kanye West sounds more intelligent than him.

[grampster]

a nice man out of his depth.   He got elected on the rebound. 

Heh heh.  You guys missed the obscure and well disguised pun.  Carter was a submariner, remember? 

The rest of the post was serious.

[Monkeyleg]

I remember the media making a big deal over Carter's submarine service.

"He commanded a nuclear submarine! You have to be really smart to do that!"

Yup. Look where all those smarts got us. 

[lee n. field]

Heh heh.  You guys missed the obscure and well disguised pun.  Carter was a submariner, remember?  grin grin

Oh he was, wasn't he.

I was thinking the "killer rabbit" incident.

[Doggy Daddy]

Oh he was, wasn't he.

I was thinking the "killer rabbit" incident.

The killer rabbit would have been toast if they hadn't taken his torpedoes away!

DD