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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho remembers when President Carter got raked over the coals
For using the word, "malaise"?
Just one word and they condemned him for his inexperience. Where are those people now?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)malaise. are you there?
malaise
(269,103 posts)but it was the global malaise that brought me here back in 2004
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Oh I am on a roll today,, being a drummer and all....
roll
doesn't happen often..
I did laugh
Tactical Peek
(1,211 posts)the one that our whip-smart media christened The Malaise Speech.
Also: Carter was right.
Baitball Blogger
(46,751 posts)underpants
(182,849 posts)No, Carter never said it.
malaise
(269,103 posts)emulatorloo
(44,156 posts)selling out to Putin, controlling the house/senate/presidency, taking away people's healthcare, enriching their Wealthy base/ cronies, smearing Democrats, and telling HRC to STFU.
hurple
(1,306 posts)So they're probably all dead now.
DavidDvorkin
(19,480 posts)That makes all the difference.
drmeow
(5,022 posts)frogmarch
(12,158 posts)carrying his own suitcase when he moved into the White House.
OMG, it's hard to fathom the crap that's going on now, much less compare it to anything.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)Orrex
(63,218 posts)What a difference a decades-long Reagan-wrought catastrophe makes...
PBass
(1,537 posts)I may have been too young to pick up all the details, and maybe Carter wasn't as good of a president as I remember. But the biggest blow to Carter's presidency was probably the gas crisis, which IMO was probably Big Oil deciding that they didn't want a conservationist in the White House. Carter was working towards renewable energy in the 70's! And Reagan unraveled everything. Can you imagine how much further along we could be now, if Carter's policies and goals had been met?
Baitball Blogger
(46,751 posts)Probably hit the nail on the head. Market manipulation by forces that wanted to influence the direction of the next election.
malaise
(269,103 posts)gave Carter hell
MiniMe
(21,718 posts)Which Ronny Raygun manipulated.
MichMary
(1,714 posts)What I remember is his response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He decided we should boycott the 1980 Olympics, which just seemed passive-aggressive, and led to the Soviets boycotting the 1984 Olympics. He also reinstated draft registration. Not good.
Ron Green
(9,823 posts)Reagan was a liar, a smiling and facile one, and that's what lots of people want.