There Jimmy goes again

By John Stallings

It seems like only yesterday that we heard Ronald Reagan say “there you go again” to sitting president & his democratic opponent James Earl Carter Jr. in one of the presidential debates. I thought it was, though short & pungent, one of the best lines I’d ever heard a politician use. Reagan has been in his grave now for about three years but Mr. Carter is still engaging in the kind of trash talking that prompted those words out of his mouth so many years ago.

When Carter called the Bush administration the worst in our history it amounted to “the pot calling the kettle black.” It’s not the first time Carter has stuck "foot-in-mouth;" it’s the continuing saga of a bitter, spiteful, vain petty former president. I figured out a long time ago that Jimmy Carter felt he was better, purer, nicer, holier & smarter (and probably toothier) than the rest of us so we might as well get used to his yammering. This latest tirade is really so very Carter-esque.

Jimmy Carter is smart. Wasn’t he at one time nuclear physicists? But it seems he so often exemplifies the man who knows everything except the things worth knowing. Does anyone remember the gas lines that were wrapped around several corners during his tenure in the early eighties? I should be ashamed to admit it but the first time I voted in a national election was in the eighty-four election & did so to cast my vote against four more Carter years.

Then there were the foreign policy debacles not the least of which was the Iranian U.S Embassy hostage crisis. The Carter administration twisted like a snake on hot coals for a year but never was effectual in getting the captives released. While Reagan was giving his inaugural address the captives were flying homeward because when the Ayatollah Khomeini took one look in Reagan’s eyes he knew the jig was up.

I think it’s obvious that Carter never got over the post-1980 defeat & must have a burr the size of West Texas under his saddle. Poor baby. He was such a good boy for a while. He traveled abroad promoting fair elections & even got a Nobel peace Prize (In part probably because the judges wanted to show up Bush.)

Why then, Oh why -this anti-Bush tirade? Well folks, he’s smarter than we are, can’t you see; smarter than all of us put together. That much you can figure out just by listening to him yammer.

John