Posted by
NJ Mike on Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:46:52 PM
Here in my first blog here on Townhall I have a confession to make: The first time I voted in a national election (1980), I voted for Jimmy Carter. What can I say but that I was young and stupid.
With that in mind, if I ran into him today, I'd be very tempted to grab him by the throat, and hold him up against a wall and scream in his face "WHAT THE &*(&^*^* ARE YOU THINKING YOU STUPID &^^*%^$ IDIOT!!! YOU DON'T GO AND TALK TO ^&*^%%^ TERRORISTS!!!! ONLY AN IDIOT WOULD" (Note to his security detail: I'd be tempted but I wouldn't do it).
Idiot Jimmy should have looked at the results of the 1980 election, and went off and hid in Plains, Georgia for the rest of his life, hoping to be as well known as Franklin Pierce or Millard Fillmore. He was elected in 1976, mainly due to anger at the Republican Party for Watergate and at Gerald Ford for pardoning Richard Nixon (an act even his opponents say was best for the nation at the time). If it weren't for that, he wouldn't be anymore than the answer to a question in Trivial Pursuit. As President, unemployment and inflation was out of control, and we had to wait on long lines for gas. His reaction? Tell the American people we would have to accept a lower standard of living and he changed the part in his hair. In foreign affairs, he did get the Camp David Accords, but he also was instrumental in bringing down the Shah of Iran, which brought in the Islamic radicals we have now. With a record like that, he should have run away and hid.
But now through his Carter Center for Peace, he galavants around the world, makes nice to some of the most evil people in the world, and bad mouths his country. Before the 2004 election, he said he doubted the election here would be fair. What a comment for a former leader to say!!
With this in mind, that brings up two reasons we shouldn't vote for Obama. They are
- Like Jimmy was in '76, he is a Johnny-come-lately. Four years ago, nobody knew who he was. If he gets elected, and screws up the nation, we'll vote him out in four years, then have to put up with him for years to come.
- Any democrat that gets elected will have to treat president peanut with respect, and dignity. They would have to at least pretend to listen to that blithering idiot, and that will only encourage him. A Republican can just shake his hand and tell him to sit at the kids table, where he belongs.
Unfortunately, those who are 40 now were only 12 when he got thrown out of office by the Reagan landslide (He lost in the electorial college 489-49 and conceded before the poles in California closed) and so they don't remember him very well. Those under 28 can't remember him at all. We need to teach this large block of Americans what a complete and total failure Carter was a president and leader.
He should have stuck to building houses for Habitat for Humanity.
That's all for now.