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Stupid Right-Wing Tweets: Erick Erickson Edition
Yep, even after Barack Obama became the first two-term president since Eisenhower to win more than 51% of the popular vote in two elections, giggling wingnuts like Erickson are still using the "Black Jimmy Carter" line. And despite the...Show More Summary
Bill Maher: “[T]he Role Model For Every President Should be” … Jimmy Carter
C’mon give Maher some credit here: he’s not afraid to show his true colors. Even most liberals I know feel uncomfortable talking about Jimmy...
Jay Carney denies White House involvement with Jay-Z & Beyonce’s Cuba trip
Written by Doug Powers After it was reported that Jay-Z and Beyoncé traveled to Cuba to soak up some warm Havana weather and maybe get a chance to meet Jimmy Carter, even some of President Obama’s fellow Democrats, including Debbie Wasserman Schultz, were critical of the fact that somebody in the federal government gave the [...]
Reliving the Left-Wing Terrorism of the 1970s
(John Hinderaker) In many ways, it feels like we are reliving the 1970s, with the awful difference that Jimmy Carter has been re-elected. This story stimulates a sick sort of nostalgia; a hung over feeling, even though New Year’s Eve...Show More Summary
Carter Tries, Fails to Prove Republican Tax Policy Racist; Atwater Exonerated
Jimmy Carter began his political career supporting racial segregation in the South. He even launched his re-election campaign at Tuscumbia, AL, the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, as Ann Coulter reminds us in her new book Mugged: Racial...Show More Summary
James Marshall Crotty: Even An Obama Victory Might Be Market Positive
Even if Obama pulls out a November victory -- which still seems likely, despite the worst jobs number by an incumbent since FDR, and a Middle East that resembles the 1979 mess enabled by Jimmy Carter -- it still might be market-positive.
James Carter IV Got Tired Of His Grandfather Being A Romney Punchline
It was Jimmy Carter’s grandson who put a severe dent in the Romney campaign.
Carter, a freelance researcher, had been trolling the Internet for damaging videos and quickly realized the fund-raiser clip was his chance to get even with Romney for assaults on his family…
Jimmy Carter reveled in the discovery. Show More Summary
Is Obama Being Carterized?
Obama in 2012 is often compared to Jimmy Carter in 1980. Yet we might forget that the crisis with Iran for much of 1980, even despite the failed April rescue effort, helped Carter, who chose to play statesman secluded in the Rose Garden to deflect the bad news from the awful “misery index” economy. Show More Summary
Republicans pretend George Bush was never president while using Jimmy Carter to attack Barack Obama
Republicans would love it if they could convince everybody that Jimmy Carter was the worst president of the 20th century and that Barack Obama is even worse than Carter. To prove it, they've taken Carter's critical words from more than three decades ago in an attempt to describe current economic conditions. Show More Summary
Jeb Bush On Economy: Look, Over There!
Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't these the same people who are still blaming Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and even FDR for everything? President Obama often reminds voters of the dire economic conditions he inherited from the previous president's administration, but President George W. Show More Summary
Barack Obama's Approval Rating Even Higher Than Jimmy Carter's
Good news for the Obama campaign! His job approval numbers are… Well, they're not the lowest on record. And you've got to take your victories where you can get them… Barack Obama averaged 46.8% job approval during his 14th quarter in office, marking a slight improvement from quarter 13. His quarterly average approval rating has [...]
Obama Ranks Behind Carter, Nixon as One of the Worst President’s Ever
A poll of likely US voters rank Barack Obama below Jimmy Carter and even Richard Nixon as one of the worst president's of all time.
You know you're in trouble when . . . .
Not even Jimmy Cartercan stomach the Obamaforeign policy. Lots of GOPers like the narrative that President Barack Obama will be the second coming of Jimmie Carter, a one-term president pretty much rejected and reviled by his own party the moment he is out of office.That's low. Show More Summary
We’ve Reached the Penultimate Jimmy Carter Moment of the Obama Presidency
Chris Cillizza made me laugh out loud last evening when I read his column, which opens with a question: “Is it possible for a president — any president — to succeed in the modern world of politics?” There is nothing new under the sun, including this question. On January 19, 2010, I wrote about the ungovernability of the American Republic. Show More Summary
Fallows: Mitt, You're No Jimmy Carter
James Fallows: Mitt Romney informs us that the raid that took out Osama bin Laden one year ago was no big deal, because "even Jimmy Carter would have given that order." Grrrrr.... Jimmy Carter is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who spent 10 years in the uniformed service of his country. Show More Summary
First Thoughts: Obama, Romney spar on bin Laden:
The bin Laden political football … Romney says even Jimmy Carter would have made the call. Reminder: Carter did, and it doomed his presidency. … Romney disagreed with Obama in 2007 … Dems drive a message for another week … ‘Swiss Bank Accounts&rs …
Morning Must Reads: Growl
The Seals could hurt Obama in the end. James Fallows growls at Romney’s “even Jimmy Carter” line. A new task for Obama field workers this cycle: accounting for voter ID laws. How to assess Romney’s small-donor problem. They’ve called in the genealogists in Massachusetts. Robert Draper on the freshmen. Washington’s apostasy payoff. And the Smithsonian [...]
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MSNBC's Schultz and Wolffe Fret Over Romney 'Cheap Shot' at Jimmy Carter
On Monday's The Ed Show on MSNBC, as host Ed Schultz and MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe - formerly of Newsweek - discussed Mitt Romney's crack on President Obama that even President Carter would have had the sense to order the...Show More Summary
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The CNN Washington Bureau’s morning speed read of the top stories making news from around the country and the world. Click on the headlines for more. WASHINGTON/POLITICAL: CNN: Romney: 'Even Jimmy Carter' would have ordered bin Laden attack President Barack Obama on Monday appeared to call out Mitt Romney over what he said about going [...]