Reply #22: I hope you don't mind, while on another board (a board wherepeople on both "sides" meet)...

[Just-plain-Kathy]

...I posted your Carter brag list. Here's the reaction I got...

PULEEZE!!!!! Are you kidding us? Carter was the biggest disaster that ever hit this country. Dear Kathleen you are spinning revisionist- He got the hostages out?
Surely you jest! He spent 444 days waffling about what to do. It was only till Reagen got elected that Khomeini Changed his mind. Carter had nothing to do with it. Did you happen to try to buy house during the Carter economy. Try 13.5% mortgage rates- then he had the nerve to blame on the US Population. The Panama Canal treaty? Oh thats great! He sold the rights to the Red Chinese. Very nice accomplishment. And as for Formalizing realtions with China that groundwork was done by Nixon NOT Carter. maybe you can fool some younger memebers on this forum lady but I witnessed your Peanut farmer in action.

...And here was my reply...

K9, “That Khomeini changed his mind”?? “That Khomeini” didn’t dare kill one hostage under Carter’s watch; and Carter didn’t sit idle. Our military made a rescue attempt called Operation Eagle Claw, we lost FIVE airmen. How many of our soldiers and members of our civilian army died or were maimed under Bush‘s failed war? ... By the way, it was obvious “that Khomeini” was being spiteful when he let the hostages go just minutes after Carter left office.

...About those high mortgage rates during the Carter administration. Think about this, people actually had the money back then to buy homes and pay those rates. Under Bush, people are foreclosing on their homes left and right, all because they’re losing their jobs to people in China.

And as far as China goes...we’re so in debt to them, Bush got China owning us. Everyone owns us, we’re in debt to everyone. Our dollar is becoming worthless under Bush.

PS. Praise Carter because when Carter left office he didn’t join some investment firm like George HW Bush (a firm that profited so much from his son’s war that they recently bought over 7% of our NASDAQ), Carter became a champion for the homeless. Bush just produces more homeless.