Poll of the Day > Why won't Jimmy Carter run for President in 2020?

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He doesn't want to remain a one-term President, does he?

Fun fact: If Carter had decided to run again in 2004 he'd have been the same age Bernie will be in 2020
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Justin2Krelian posted...

Fun fact: If Carter had decided to run again in 2004 he'd have been the same age Bernie will be in 2020

This hurts my head...
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Because he'd rather have his elders, like Hillary, run instead.
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Carter has already been president and he was president in the midst of the worst economy in a long time in the 1970s and that's what got him defeated by Reagan. Carter inherited a crap economy from Nixon/Ford and he could never right the ship. He also had to deal with Lewis F Powell telling corporations how to seize control of the country's political and judicial institutions among other things and that's what they have done for the past 45 years.

They bribed and bought both parties with campaign money!

BUMPED2002 posted...

Carter has already been president and he was president in the midst of the worst economy in a long time in the 1970s and that's what got him defeated by Reagan. Carter inherited a crap economy from Nixon/Ford and he could never right the ship. He also had to deal with Lewis F Powell telling corporations how to seize control of the country's political and judicial institutions among other things and that's what they have done for the past 45 years.

They bribed and bought both parties with campaign money!

So?

Everybody loves him these days!

At least he can point to Obama and say, "See, I'm NOT the worst President ever!"
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dancer62 posted...

At least he can point to Obama and say, "See, I'm NOT the worst President ever!"

What?

BlackScythe0 posted...

dancer62 posted...

At least he can point to Obama and say, "See, I'm NOT the worst President ever!"

What?

Ya, why do people forget William Henry Harrison exists
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I remember reading that Jimmy Carter mostly failed as a president because he is a horrible leader. Like he couldn't even coordinate exterminators to get rid of a rat problem in the White House, so how could he be expected to be a decent president?
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Lokarin posted...

BlackScythe0 posted...

dancer62 posted...

At least he can point to Obama and say, "See, I'm NOT the worst President ever!"

What?

Ya, why do people forget William Henry Harrison exists

No like was he trying to suggest Obama belongs anywhere near a "worst" consideration?

Lokarin posted...

Ya, why do people forget William Henry Harrison exists

That's not fair. Harrison helped set the precedent for Presidential succession.
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BUMPED2002 posted...

Carter has already been president and he was president in the midst of the worst economy in a long time in the 1970s and that's what got him defeated by Reagan. Carter inherited a crap economy from Nixon/Ford and he could never right the ship. He also had to deal with Lewis F Powell telling corporations how to seize control of the country's political and judicial institutions among other things and that's what they have done for the past 45 years.

They bribed and bought both parties with campaign money!

Economy had a lot of problems then, but job growth was incredible in 1978, we havent seen it that fast since.
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Dikitain posted...

Like he couldn't even coordinate exterminators to get rid of a rat problem in the White House

Why would he be in charge of that?
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HelIWithoutSin posted...

Dikitain posted...

Like he couldn't even coordinate exterminators to get rid of a rat problem in the White House

Why would he be in charge of that?

https://tinyurl.com/yack9vmj

Our favorite chapter in the rodent wars comes from the Carter administration when the president threw his full weight behind the battle. A small mouse scampering through Carter's office started it in 1977. Carter called for traps and tried to get on with the affairs of state. But the mice kept intruding. One died and stunk up the Oval Office just before the president of Italy was ushered in. Another was rotting in some unknown spot when Latin American heads of state arrived for the signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.

Carter lost his patience. The General Services Administration takes care of the White House, and the Interior Department grooms the lawn, so Carter summoned officials from both to his office for a dressing down. He did not understand how he could rid a peanut warehouse in Georgia of rodents and the federal bureaucracy couldn't do the same for one little house.

The GSA blamed the Interior Department, saying all the rats were outsiders. But Carter wouldn't let the GSA off that easily. In the summer of 1977, he demanded a purge of the rodents along with confidential reports from the front. The GSA filled the house with 48 traps baited with nearly 10 pounds of poison. On Sept. 12, the GSA claimed a body count of 19, boasting that they believed the kill probably was even higher because of "several incidences of foul odors."

On Sept. 22, the GSA reported that it was winning the battle, and as evidence pointed to the desperate mice that were eating roots in the White House flower pots because they were starving. On Nov. 4, the GSA declared victory after deploying 296 traps and 141 poison "bait stations." The enemy casualties had risen to a high point of 38 in September, then fell to 10 in October and only one in November. The rodents were beaten.

Almost. Perhaps Carter wanted to leave behind a little something for the incoming Republicans, because the vermin reared their little heads again in the Reagan White House. Bush inherited them and, today, the sweet smell of air freshener is a sure sign of a coverup in the White House.

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Jimmy Carter is just too decent a person to be a decent president.

Why won't George H.W. Bush run for President in 2024? (not serious)
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