Ex-Lousy President Jimmy Carter says the President George W. Bush administration is the "worst ever," a slam that's sure to cause a lot of folks to chuckle who spent much of the Carter years in the unemployment lines or dealing with rampant high inflation and sky-high interest rates, or watching Nightline chronicle the 444 days that Iran held Americans hostage while Carter did nothing useful.
The Carter years were marked by double-digit inflation and chronic high unemployment. The George W. Bush administration, by contrast, has presided over an economic boom that has created, on average, 100,000 new jobs every month, with low inflation.
Carter's administration was marked by high energy costs and energy shortages. Remember the gas lines? Remember the rationing? Gasoline may cost $3 bucks a gallon now, but at least there's no shortage.
During the Carter years our military atrophied, Soviet-style communism advanced around the world, and murderous Islamic fundamentalism began to fester and spread in the Middle East, all completely unchecked. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan during the Carter years.
Carter made "human rights" a centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy rhetorically speaking but it didn't do the Afghan people a lick of good. By contrast, the Bush administration liberated Afghanistan from the tyranny of the Taliban and ushered in democratic government in that country.
The number of people around the world liberated by America during the Carter years: 0
The number of people around the world liberated by America during the Bush years: 50 million.
There is one similarity between Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush: Neither of them can properly pronounce the word "nuclear." But there the similarities end.
Even with the difficulties in Iraq, it is simply preposterous to think that America was better off under Jimmy Carter than under George W. Bush.
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