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To: LLCF who wrote (68475)	12/24/2013 1:40:45 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 71588

Carter is underrated. Of course since he's rated so low that isn't much of a hurdler of him to clear. He wasn't a good president, but some of the things he did were good. His main deficit was that he was a poor political leader. He often didn't deal with situations in a strong way, and he projected pessimism. He had a few good policies, but even when he got it right it wasn't taken far enough. I agree that in general presidents do get too much blame and too much credit, at least about the economy (which is often what people care about most). I'd even agree that from the right Obama got too much blame for the economy (just as Bush did from the left). But he does deserve blame for his policies (PPACA, general increase in regulation and regulatory uncertainty, lack of control over spending that was only checked by the Republicans taking the house and then by the sequester, etc.) Look for sizable socialist swing coming Not likely, but unfortunately I don't think a sizable swing to limited government is likely either.

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