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Originally Posted by Moses
Carter was merely incompetent. He honored the Bill of Rights and didn't spend money with reckless abandon like Johnson and Bush. I'll happily forgive mere incompetence.
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Carter wasn't incompetent at all. He actually was one of our smarter, better educated Presidents. I had the occasion to sit next to one of his cabinet members at a dinner (non-political) long ago. A Nobel Laureate who told me Carter was very smart.
But he was very unlucky--he was President when OPEC decided to turn off the oil spigot to the U.S. And when the Iranians kidnapped the U.S. Embassy.
Reagan was dumb, but lucky: the Arabs turned the oil flow back on, and the Iranians released the hostages. He was also the benefactor of Wolker's Fed policies to stop inflation caused by rising oil prices in the embargo. But he was another tax cut and spender, like Bush Jr, who left a recession to his succesor,
Bush, Sr. , and big budget deficits. Conservative? LOL.