This morning Holman Jenkins has a marvelous piece on the Obama presidency vs. the Carter presidency, particularly with regard to how each man went about trying to reach his goals.
You want to know what a disaster our esteemed president is? How about a reasonable essay from a historically right-leaning editorial board speaking favorably of James Earl Carter, Jr.? Relativism is something else, innit?
To be sure, in a number of ways, Jimmy Carter was just as ideologically disastrous as is Barack Obama. But, as the editorial points out, Carter was at least an adult. His resume included words like Navy, businessman, and governor. He had come from a background that generated some measure of pragmatism—in approach, if not necessarily in philosophy—as opposed to a mystical fairyland where organizing parasitic federal bureaucracies communities and serving barely half of a Senate term are somehow enough when you can give a polished scripted speech.
Elevating Jimmy Carter: Barack Obama’s greatest legacy?
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This is the 1,985th post on BoWilliams.com. It appears roughly halfway through my blog’s sixth year …
I heard it said early on in this administration’s term that “every generation deserves a Jimmy Carter.” (This statement was completely LOST on a couple of my liberal friends who asked me (with a straight face) “what was so bad about Jimmy Carter?” I was EIGHT at the time and I understood he sucked.)
And yet here we are now, WISHING that our current president had some of Carter’s pragmatic attirbutes. God help us. For real.
I always thought Jimmy Carter was a good person, just not a good president. I’m not really sure the current is good in any fashion.