Thirty years later, Barack Obama is bringing us the long feared second term of Jimmy Carter. It is all too familiar. A popular democrat riding the wave of media hype after two terms of a scandalous and unpopular republican president. Carter did it in the aftermath of Nixon’s Watergate scandal, and now Obama does it amidst George Bush’s Iraq War debacle. If voters failed to learn their lesson from the first Jimmy Carter term, then history is our guide to what an Obama presidency would bring.
Their notions are frighteningly similar. Carter in the 70’s, and now Obama in this election, believe in raising taxes at home, pulling troops abroad, cutting the defense budget, and putting our reputation abroad above our safety at home. They even both share a fundamental misunderstanding of free market energy economics, and make false promises about government sponsored cheap petroleum alternatives.
The result of these plans is documented in Carter’s history. Poor economic policy at home led to massive stagflation, with full-blown economic depression saved only by the implant of Reagan’s Supply Side economics. Carter’s soft foreign policy was seen as a sign of weakness abroad, and instead of increasing our popularity around the world, we were viewed as a gentle giant. Our enemies took advantage of us by attacking U.S. soil and taking captive American citizens in Iran. And Carter’s weak foreign policy left us without a combat unit to save those hostages- for nearly a full year. Carter was so concerned about our reputation around the world that he refused to take affirmative steps to protect those 56 American lives. He was equally notorious for failing to protect American assets, as he gave away our 99-year lease in the Panama Canal simply because he thought it would look good. Carter’s presidential record is marred with sacrificing the safety of Americans, American assets, and America’s reputation all for the idealistic hope of a liberal European-ized America.
Yes, the media loves Senator Obama, just as they once championed Carter in his race to the White house. But surely this is not the change that we seek. It is a tired old game of soft politics at home to gain favor abroad. Diplomacy has its place in America, but on occasion so does strength in foreign policy. George Bush may leave the presidency in disgrace, but he will leave us with a safe homeland free from attack since 2001. That is no coincidence; it is the result of strong foreign policy and a showing of force abroad. Senator Obama has had multitudes of trouble even casting a vote in congress, imagine the measures of diplomatic bureaucracy that would overwhelm our country if he ever had to go to war, or even rescue captured Americans. In this day, during our country’s vast economic and military crisis, we can not afford another term of Jimmy Carter. We can not afford Barack Obama.
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Well spoken, sir. Obama is as big a threat to this country as Charlie Crist is for Brent Dorfman's anal virginity. Don't let the blood-sucking, ignorant, sycophantic liberal media fool you. Carter should have said on his peanut farm, and Obama should have stayed in the hood.
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