Jimmy Carter

I Think 4 Things

I think that if unemployment continues to hover around 9% and gas stays well over $3.00 a gallon, Democrats will have a hard time in 2012.  Ronald Reagan could point at Jimmy Carter in 1984 because the economy was genuinely better.  Reagan could ask, “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”  […]

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Obama vs. Bush

There has been much comment made about President Barack Obama’s assertions that the problems in the United States are still the fault of his predecessor, George W. Bush.  Conservatives are telling the President to stop living in the past.  Liberals are saying that conservatives are just mad because the truth hurts. Such commentary leads to

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Barack Obama and History

Every President ends up being measured against history.  Whether the measurement winds up looking positive or negative is based on a combination of what the President does, what fate hands him, and the political outlook of the person doing the measuring.  Liberals said that if Bill Clinton had gotten national health care reform passed, he

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