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10-14-2002, 12:43 PM

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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Yes, it's a shame the comment regarding President Bush was made. Carter had rights to the award on his own, and didn't need President Bush's help.

You make it sound like it is Bush's fault Carter didn't get credit. How about placing the blame squarely where it belongs, on the people who made the statement.

As for Carter's humanitarian efforts - quite good. You slam his foreign policy, but that was likely the one aspect of his Presidency that was undeniably on-track - and is, incidentally, a big reason he recieved the award.

YOU apparently didn't have to be out with your neck on the line with HIM as the leader. He had without a doubt the worst foreign policy of any president in my life time. At least for people who had to risk their lives backing his moves/policy or lack there of.

He will not be seen by history as the best President for at-home matters, and it has been said more than once that his foreign efforts too much overshadowed domestic efforts. But, as for the economy, I believe IIRC it was during his presidency that we were first dealing with stagflation - a new economic threat that defied both the Smith and Keynes economic models. I'll also defend some of his restrictions on the CIA - to a point. Though I think he was a bit *too* restrictive, I also think President Bush's recent campaign will show us the perils of not being at least *somewhat* restrictive.

I think we will have to see just how History will reflect Bush' erfforts both in intelligence gathering and in how to deal with terrorist threats and Outlaw nations that refuse to conduct business in an ever more civilized manner. His Axis of Evil list is not something he or even this administration just made up. I think the French and the people of Bali have recently had a couple of little problems caused by the very people we are currently trying to do something about (no not the Iraqi thing). hamstrining your intelligence agencies over who they can and cannot talk to to get information in the "real world" is completely stupid...in my opinion.

I know I had decided not to respond to your posts from now on, but since I can only seem to get in here mondays and tuesdays...I figured what the heck.