Faint Damnation
By Mitch Berg
Getting called “the worst president in history” by The Worst President In History?
Former President Carter says President Bush’s administration is “the worst in history” in international relations, taking aim at the White House’s policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.
The criticism from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented for the 39th president, also took aim at Bush’s environmental policies and the administration’s “quite disturbing” faith-based initiative funding.
Listen to me now and hear me later, Goofytooth: you were the worst president of my lifetime. As you phumphered and droned about human rights, you actively connived with the bloodthirstiest regime in history for baldly base political purposes.
You were, are, and shall always be a morally repugnant scumbag.
On the plus side, your incompetence and the sheer horror you unleashed upon this nation turned me – at 16, very much a liberal Democrat – into a conservative by age 20.
So I have that for which to thank you.
But that, as they say, is all.
May 21st, 2007 at 5:51 am
“I’m not thw worst President! Being in the bottom five qualifies me to identify my peer group!”
I was very much like Mitch. 1976 was my first vote, and it was for the lovable penut farmer from Georgia. In 1979 I bought a used car with a loan at 21% interest. In 1980 I pulled the lever for this fraud again, mainly because I fell for the lies about Reagan. By 1984 I understood so much more, and became a Reagan Democrat.
May 21st, 2007 at 1:40 pm
I’ll never understand why conservatives (Mitch, Lileks, Kermit) love telling people how they used to be lefties.
It doesn’t make you a better conservative, okay?
It just means you used to have really lousy judgment which may or may not have changed significantly.
May 21st, 2007 at 1:51 pm
It doesn’t make you a better conservative, okay?
Tell it to Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill.
It just means you used to have really lousy judgment which may or may not have changed significantly.
No, it means that we’ve seen both sides of the argument and made a rational choice, as opposed to blindly following something we picked up as kids.
It may not make us “better” conservatives, but it does mean that we’ve thought a lot more about the choice.
And when I say “may not”, I mean “probably does”, and it shows.
Ipso Reagan.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:39 pm
SNARKFIGHT!
May 21st, 2007 at 3:02 pm
jb is just jealous cause he didn’t get aqll those hippie chicks back in the 70s.
May 21st, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Ah yes, the horror. The sheer horror! Remember those horrible days, from 1977 to 1981, when our hard-earned freedoms were taken away, our women raped, our babies slaughtered at the hands of the Carterites. The days when a word from Jody Powell could send a man to the gallows. What a terrifying man!
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:59 am
In terms of “horror”, I think of Carter not as a Count Dracula himself, but as the person who foolishly invites him across the threshold.