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The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry

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...the book, but attack the messenger. For those who have problems with the book, please stick to facts, not `Flying Monkeys'.

The thing I notice a lot is that people who obviously don't read the book but dislike the premise of the author, love writing negative reviews.

I used to really like Jimmy, but when he goes to Cuba and slobbers on Fidel, I started rethinking the president whom I always considered `nice, but incompetent'.

In retrospect, I think Jimmy is what changed me as a lifelong Democrat to start seeing the other side of the argument. Certainly if he is one of our best presidents, we need to reconsider the party's stand.

His similarities to Kerry, who has said he might appoint JC to a State Department level position, are sobering.

Having been directly affected by Mr. Jimmy Carter as President I think that Steven Hayward has done a great job of letting this country know what to expect when the protege's of Mr. Carter next sit in the White House and have control of Congress.

I serve (quite naively) in Mr. Carter's Army (1976-1980) and saw his disdain for the military in action. When provoked in Korea only 17 of our 55 tanks could move because we had no parts. We froze in the cold temperatures of March because our Commander declared it was spring so the heating oil was siphoned out of our heaters.

We can thank Mr. Carter for the rise of radical Islam with his lack of support for The Shah of Iran. And for those who think he was bad, Kohmeini killed more people in the first year of the Islamic Revolution than the Shah had in 25 years. The war on Terror? It started with Jimmy Carter.

When Saddam invaded Kuwait, Carter said the solution was for Israel to give up the West Bank and that would be it. When Kim Il Sun in North Korea wanted to move his nuclear development forward Carter, with the support of Al Gore and Clinton gave him light water for development in their aggrements. Carter said the PLO was like the United Way taking care of the people. Giving away the Panama Canal was Carter's way of apologizing to Panama, what did they need an apology for?

The only thing missing in this book is Carter's impact on the Federal Judiciary. His activist judges took God out of schools, turned criminals out to the streets, and changed our culture.

His Carter Center is funded largely by Arab money of questionable origins. His objective there is to try to carry on the policies that ruined his presidency. Why? Because Jimmy Carter wants to be America's Ghandi. Its all about Jimmy.... nothing more.

A good read for those who want to know why the Clintons and the next generation of Democrats are who they are, its Jimmy Carter.

Hayward gives a detailed account of Carter's failures as President, and perhaps even more tellingly, as ex-President.
One must always be wary of preachers of morality, and Carter's 'smug pious arrogance' is especially irritating when one considers the large donations he has pocketed from the Saudis while peddling and supporting their ideas on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Carter has attacked American policy and Presidents with indiscretion and unfairness.
This is a thoroughly researched and largely convincing work.

I have read through this book and have found the book to be an easy an interesting read. The book is fairly short as were Carters accomplishments and character. I wish there could be an update to this book which would go into the current housing market collapse and how it originated with the Carter administration.

A presidency emanates from a person's character. A president is defined by what he did, not what he said. Look at what Jimmy Carter have done during his presidency and you pretty much know his person. Likewise, look at what he has done after he became an ex-president (embracing dictators and despot leaders) and you get a clear picture of his person.

This book goes through Mr. Carter's entire public career, shows that in each office to which he was elected he won the elections by crooked means. It also shows that he could run the elections, but he was incompetent in holding these offices.

Clearly, Jimmy Carter is one of the worst, if not the worst, president in the U.S. history. This book reveals the real person of Carter. It is a worthwhile read, although I wish there were more excitement in the language.

At last, a book about Jimmy Carter that isn't self-written and self-serving. This should be required reading for the many people who believe Jimmy Carter is a harmless do-gooder.

What a legacy! So many of the problems we face today, both real (terrorism), and imagined (global warming), we owe to his abysmal presidency. As if that wasn't more than enough, he gifted us with Chris Matthews!

I have often wondered how one who failed so completely during his term in office has the audacity to meddle in current affairs, to the continuing detriment of his own country, not to mention Israel. Jimmy should have left office with his tail tucked firmly between his legs and his mouth shut, allowing a better man to handle the job. This book exposes the colossal ego that would not allow him to do that.

Worth reading by anyone willing to learn about a difficult time in our recent history, especially in an election year. This is a handbook on how not to pick a president.

If you actually sit down and read this book, you will find the following FASCINATING information on page 98, "President Carter at Home."

For context, remember that Carter's overwhelming domestic problem was inflation, which reached 13% during his presidency. I had read this book (rapidly) a few months ago, but came back for clues about how this particular disaster happened.

Well, the answer is obvious. Carter expanded the money supply. Not once or twice, but continuously. He seemed to have some vague idea that printing (or authorizing) more money would just generally be a good idea. But it's hard to say why Jimmy Carter did anything.

When asked about inflation, in April of 1978, Jimmy Carter said, and I quote: "It is a myth that the government itself can stop inflation."

OK, if you understand Basic Economics, you can pick your jaw up off the floor. But even more fascinating is what Jimmy went on to say. He said that inflation forced us to confront unpleasant facts about ourselves, such as the fact that some people were selfish and refused to make sacrifices for the common welfare.

So how did Jimmy Carter explain inflation? It obviously had nothing to do with his own constant expansion of the money supply. Nope, it was the fault of the idiots who elected him, those selfish American people.

This is your clue here: when Jimmy Carter starts explaining things to you, don't bother listening unless you want a totally unfounded guilt-trip.

Well, there he goes again...Dr. Hayward turns his brilliant mind and pen onto the worst President in the history of the Republic: Jimmy Carter. Unfortunately, Carter's ineptitude didn't stop with his miserable four years in the White House. For the 23 years since a bruised and humiliated electorate bounced him from office, Carter has labored to undermine the foreign policy of both his Republican AND Democrat successors. In this country you can say whatever you want to say. But when calls are made to foreign leaders urging them to oppose U.S. policy -- and often policy not just set by a President Carter didn't like but also supported by overwhelming bi-partisan majorities in Congress -- then an individual is attempting to bring harm to his country. Time seems to have dulled for Carter the realization that he was elected by the narrowest of margins in '76 and overwhelmingly defeated in '80. On whose behalf -- other than his own -- does he believe he is working? Bravo to Dr. Hayward for bringing these incidents to light -- seems the negative reviewers just can't handle the truth -- or the exercise of free speech when it is aimed at a bumbling icon of the Left.

A good detailing of probaby the most failed President in modern political memory. The nadir of modern liberalism, he boldly led this country into a downward spiral despite what the experts said: that it was impossible to have double-digit inflation, interest rates and unemployment at the same time. Jimmy Carter proved them all to be dead wrong. If you are imcompetent enough, you can achieve success. This was the same man who with the strength of character and conviction told the American people that he was unpopular because they were sick. Who else but Jimmy Carter could take two stalwart allies and turn them into bitter enemies? No one, I think. An anti-Semite and proud of it, Carter strove mightly to ensure that Israel would have enduring peace -- albeit the peace of the grave. At the height of the Cold War he consistently pursued policies at would lead to America's defeat. Is it any wonder that Carter, in 1980, suffered the most savage political beating of any sitting President in modern history? After the last rally on the eve of the election, while on Air Force One, when told by his aides he could not win he showed his mettle: he sat down with his wife and they wept. A visionary, he conceeded the election before the polls closed in the west, thus ensuring the defeat of many in his own party. We shall not see his like again -- or perhaps we have. He's in the White House now.

This is one of the most interesting books I have read on Jimmy Carter. This book goes beyond the actions he took in foreign policy which cost United State loosing ground in the Middle East.