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Well not that old, what would these forums and threads look like in the '70s with Carter being president? I think living through a President gives a person alot more experience about his successes and failures than just reading about them.
I detested Carter from the start since his FEC destroyed a group that I belonged to for giving $250,000 to his opponent to campaign with and forced them to pay a fine of that amount along with another $250,000. The group was Citizens Against Union Control of Government and it is very obvious why the Carter administration wanted them to go.
In that same election the NEA (National Education Association), not yet admittedly a union, gave Carter $4.5 million for the purpose of campaigning. Now in return Carter had promised to give them a Cabinet level position which is still known as the Department of Education.
I see no difference in these two things other than the fact that Carter did win the election. Most NEA members voted for him but when the FEC had to punish the NEA for giving that money without getting a vote of the membership allowing it to happen they were forced to return each member's amount of the total $4.5 million. Very few people, I knew, forced them to pay them their share but I insisted on my $4.65 and got it.
This was a perfect example of why unions and government just don't mix so I was against Carter from the beginning.
I so well remember the president of our local association telling two of my government students that they had been talking to me too much when they went into his class running old Hymie, as those two called him, down. They let him know that probably I had been listening to them too much. I was very proud of high school seniors being conservative as those two were.
Ohh good grief if I made some kind of homosexual reference it wasn't on purpose so again what makes him different from Obama?
james, carter did an interview with playboy where he said he had been faithful to his wife but had lustful thoughts. carter was an ok president. he was able to broker a peace between Israel and Egypt.
His attempt to get the hostages back from Iran was a dismal failure. That one would have generated a sticky thread all its own, like the birther threads have done.
Thanks guys, I'm just trying to figure out how bad Obama would have to be to not get re-elected, since it doesn't happen that often.
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