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To: Druss who wrote (421)	10/18/1999 10:43:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3246

Totally ridiculous. Carter was a grotesque failure as President. Just as you are at history. >>Jimmy Carter was the main driving force behind the Helsinki Accords. These accords have been a major pillar of American foreign policy used by every president since Carter including Ronald Reagan when he wasn't falling asleep in policy meetings. The accords are the first recognition of human rights as a basis of American relationships world wide. What a maroon. You have no idea what you are talking about. The Helsinki Accords were negotiated by Republicans and signed by Gerald Ford one year and half before Carter even disgraced the Oval Office. >>Carter was also rightly credited as the major factor in getting Egypt and Isreal to agree to a peace treaty. Both sides credited him as working a miracle. Another joke. Carter bribed two nations with US cash not to make war on each other - some miracle. We're still paying for it and it comprises most of the foreign aid budget. Carter was a disaster in both foreign and domestic policy. Maybe if Carter had slept more and didn't spend so much time scheduling the tennis courts he wouldn't have been the celebrated failure that is his renown. Even so, it took Afghanistan to wake him up after years of sleep. The US was at its nadir under Carter. Recall that President Reagan inherited an economy characterized by a 13 percent annual inflation rate (two years in a row), rising unemployment, interest rates higher than 20 percent, a top tax rate of 70 percent applicable to so-called unearned income, annual, unlegislated, bracket-creep-induced tax increases affecting every wage earner, a currency under attack around the globe, a free fall in U.S. industrial competitiveness -- all the product of a thoroughly discredited Carter policy more adept at generating stagflation than non-inflationary growth. Carter is and shall remain a small footnote in the rise of the great world world leader and last lion of the 20th Century, Ronald Wilson Reagan.

To: Druss who wrote (421)	10/19/1999 12:31:00 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

How did Carter apply the Helsinki Accords with respect to the Iranian Revolution, the Afghanistan overthrow of the Soviet puppet regime, and the myriad other conflicts? Where were they on Cambodia, which was the greatest holocaust since WWII? There's a million other areas I could go into. Helsinki Accords were a joke. It's good for PR and little else.

To: Druss who wrote (421)	10/19/1999 8:49:00 AM
From: Bill	Respond to of 3246

Oh, I get it... this is a joke. Right?

To: Druss who wrote (421)	10/19/1999 8:56:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 3246

James Earl Carter is also remembered to have responded to Sam Donaldson of ABC News with this frightening admission when asked by Sam why Carter wasn't aware of the possibility of the Soviets invading Afghanistan: "They [the Soviets] lied to me!" Duh... Jimmy... He also told Reagan during the 1980 Presidential debates that he had to ask his 13-year old daughter what was the most important issue facing America. (She responded that it was nuclear proliferation -- maybe she should have been president. Double Duh... Jimmy... And among many other gaffes, missteps and failed foreign policy initiatives, there still stands out the infamous attack on Carter by a voracious bunny rabbit. Captured on film for posterity (but probably not appearing in the Carter Presidential Library) the photos depict the Mighty Jimmy heroically fending off an attack by an 18-inch bunny. The president used a boat oar, as I recall. Father Terrence