Worst President?

Jimmy Carter has put his foot in his mouth yet again, calling the Bush Presidency "worst in history". Personally, I owe a lot to Mr. Carter. Way back in 1976 I was a pimple-faced high school student too young to vote, but with the rest of my Democratic family was on the Carter bandwagon. I recall debating my Republican friends daily over lunch on the virtues of how Jimmy Carter was going to take Washington by storm and clean the cesspool up.

By 1980, in the middle of my first year of college, I was working the polls supporting the man I thought would be the best candidate for president - Ronald Reagan. The Jimmy Carter fiasco was enough to make me vomit out any loyalty my family had traditionally held to the Democratic party and flush it into the sewer where it belonged. I witnessed, in those four short years, the stabbing in the back of Taiwan, the giving away of the Panama Canal, double-digit inflation, and of course, the Iran hostage crisis. Over 400-some odd days I watched the leader of the free world wring his hands and twiddle his thumbs while American citizens were humilated by brutal Islamic fascists, and our country was made the laughing-stock of the world. Carter sat by paralyzed, like a kid watching his little sister being beaten up by a bully.

Worst presidency ever? I am not a big fan of El Presidente Bush and his open borders, but I am afraid that in my book honor is not for him, but for YOU, Mr. Carter.