LOL...an OTHER anti obama post by you....this time in disguise .

congratulations....you just joined seth on the Ignore list.

Carter is a brilliant, awesome guy and was a great president - for example, it was he who created the EPA, and brokered the peace between Egypt and Israel.

He got clobbered in 1980 because the public was pissed about rising inflation and the energy crisis (just like the Rethugs have to deal with today), because John Anderson drew away a chunk of the young progressive vote, and because Reagan came along and appealed to people's worst instincts in such a friendly, neighborly way.

Carter did make the horrible mistake of supporting the Shah up until the end - he felt honor-bound to uphold those longtime diplomatic commitments from what I understand, even though the Shah was a brutal dictatorial shitbag. Carter should have said to hell with propping up John Foster Dulles's monstrous creations and condemned him when he began killing Iranian protesters. If he'd done so, the Iranaian hostage crisis would never have happened and we'd be living in a very very different world.