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forty percent of the hour was just eaten up by it.
It's like a it's like a Carter esque inflation, if
you will. It just kind of took a portion. It's
like a tax, you know, inflationary text. It just took
part of the hour as part of Jimmy Carter's funeral
coverage here at WBT listening to the funeral today, I
don't know, like with all of those accomplishments that they
were citing, like, how did Jimmy Carter only serve one term?
He was apparently the man, He was an awesome president.
I don't understand what happened. It was before my time.
I don't recall the election. I was like three years old,
so I don't remember those times, but just listening to
all of the things that he did and paved the
way for. And apparently, like all this time, I've been
under the impression that inflation was a huge problem for
Carter and that he solved it but then lost and
then Reagan got to enjoy all of the the fruits
of Carter's inflation busting. Well, he didn't actually have policy.
I guess it was putting vulgar in charge of the FED. Yeah, yeah,
so I don't know. I mean, here, I thought Jimmy
Carter one because he had the Watergate scandal, the backlash
against Gerald Ford for pardoning Nixon, and basically any Democrat
would have kind of walked in and it's all he
had to do was really win the Democrat primary, which
he did, and then things were really, really, really bad,
so bad that they threw him out and brought in
Ronald Reagan. That's what I thought. But apparently I was
mistaken all of this time that Jimmy Carter was apparently
like the best president we have ever had. I cannot
fathom why he only had one term. Now, some other
things Jimmy Carter, they usually point to Jimmy Carter's legacy
after he served the four years and all the stuff
he did, and usually it's about the building of all
of the habitat houses, and that's not to be denied,
not at all that he did a lot of good
work for that. But he also did some other stuff.
You know, there were other things that Carter did, like,
for example, in January of nineteen ninety six, he went
out and met with leaders of Hamas. That would be January,
and then a couple months later Hamas started a whole
bunch of suicide bombings. They murdered sixty five people, so
there was that. He then met again with the Hamas
people in April of two thousand and eight while it
was launching a whole bunch of missiles at civilian targets. Also,
the former president harbored a quote fondness for Yeser Arafat,
who was kind of sort of the godfather of modern terrorism.
He said the relationship transcended politics and was based on
their emotional connection and the shared belief that they were
both ordained to be peacemakers by God. Yaser Arafat peacemaker
as we all know him to be. Carter apparently also
tried to cram Arafat into the Camp David peace talks
after Israel and Egypt had already cut a deal, which,
according to David Harsani at The Washington Examiner, Carter really
didn't have a whole lot to do with It was
Israel and Egypt. Now, Harsani says, to be fair, the
only people Carter is inclined to extol more than Palestinian
terrorists are communists. And I don't mean communist in an
ambiguous pejorative sense. I mean like actual Kamis. The esteemed
Georgian never met an Eastern European strong man that he
didn't admire. Soviet flunky Edward Jirek of Poland was among
the most enlightened leaders, to quote Carter, in the whole world.
This guy was. How about Tito of Yugoslavia. He was
a man who quote believes in human rights, said Carter.
Romania's Chichescu was dedicated to enhancing human rights. You get
the idea here. Even as the world was running out
of communist dictatorships for intellectuals in America to whitewash, Carter
was seeking them out and lifting them up. And then
of course there was Fidel Castro. I'm not talking about
the Prime Minister of Canada. That's baby Fidel. Carter famously
became the first ex president to visit the Cuban dictatorship
and praised its superb systems of healthcare and universal education.
He participated in gross propaganda events with Castro as political
prisoners rotted in cells and families were held in a
captive state. Oh and then there was Ugo Jades. Remember
that guy Carter didn't merely back Chavismo as it was called,
as so many progressives did. He legitimized one bogus election
after the next in order to keep the man in power.
When Chavez died of cancer in twenty thirteen, Carter lamented
the loss. Like Hamas, Carter implored Americans to give communists
Daniel or Tega give him a chance, just like you know,
give Hamas a chance. As President, Carter helped facilitate Ortega's
rise in Nicaragua, welcoming him to the White House in
nineteen seventy nine. The murderous Sandinistas became a cause celeb
for Democrats into the nineteen eighties. And remember also, Carter
was not appointed by anybody to do these things. His
post presidency was dedicated to undermining the will of US voters.
Journalist Lance Morrow best described him as the anti President,
which I wonder if that might be shading just a
little bit of the nostalgic look back on all the
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email that says, Pete, let's put aside all the canonization
of Carter. He was a good man who did much
after he was out of office, but no one should
have ever been in charge of the launch codes who
pronounced it nuclear. That's fair. James, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hello James, Hey, hey, hey, your rhetorical question about why
did this wonderful man think since slice bread uh lose
the election after one term?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Double digit inflation and double digit interest.
Speaker 1: Rates yep, stagflation.
Speaker 3: My first mortgage was thirteen percent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, A lot of people don't understand and how high
those rates were when they've grown up with rates under
five percent. You know, that's true.
Speaker 3: It was unbelievable. And basically, as far as his foreign
policy was concerned, he's the one that gave us all
the wonderful things that we've had going on for the
last thirty years in the Middle East.
Speaker 1: No, I've been told at the funeral there that he
made us energy independent and such. That's yeah, that's what
I was reliably informed today, James. I do appreciate the call. Look,
there was really one terrific result that occurred after the
Carter administration was shown the door, which was Reagan. Without Carter,
I don't think we would have had Reagan. And as
Frank Hill wrote at the North State Journal n sjonline
dot com, it could happen again starting on January twentieth
at noon this year that Americans, having seen the last
four years of Biden, much like after seeing four years
of Carter, Americans are like, WHOA, yeah, we don't want
this anymore, and then course corrects the country back to
a center right disposition. David Harsani also pointed out that
Carter famously brokeered quote unquote a treaty with North Korea
in nineteen ninety four. Remember that, deliberately undercutting the Clinton
administration's efforts to stop that communist state from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Carter was not empowered to enter into agreements on behalf
of the US or anybody else for that matter, but
he struck one with Kim Ol sung and then publicly
released it to try to pressure the Clinton administration into capitulation.
Carter admitted this. He said, I hope that it would
consummate a resolution of what I considered to be a
very serious crisis. A Clinton aide called his actions quote
near traitorus. Indeed, if anybody ever deserved to be prosecuted
under the Logan Act, it was Jimmy Carter for that.
Carter's defenders whitewash his long unsightly history by treating the
former leader of the most powerful nation on the planet
as some well meaning naf whose only goal was merely
to broker peace. Hey have you heard about all the
houses he built? Yeah? But in truth, he was a
middling political talent who lucked into the presidency after Watergate,
took it upon himself to spend his life legitimizing some
of the most nefarious people and regimes on the planet.
See that's my assessment of Jimmy Carter. And had the
eulogies not glorified this man as they did today, I
probably wouldn't have said anything, but they did, so I did.
Oh last thing, Peter Schweitzer says, remember this. In January
nineteen eighty four, Carter went to the Soviet ambassador as
a private citizen and urged the Soviets to do what
they could to make sure Reagan did not get re elected. Yeah,
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