Who remembers when President Carter got raked over the coals

[Baitball Blogger]

For using the word, "malaise"?

Just one word and they condemned him for his inexperience. Where are those people now?

[pangaia]

1. Let's ask 'malaise.' LOL

malaise. are you there?

[malaise]

14. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah I know that speech very well

but it was the global malaise that brought me here back in 2004

[pangaia]

18. YAY!!! Couldn't resist.... RESIST!!!

Oh I am on a roll today,, being a drummer and all....
roll


doesn't happen often..

[malaise]

19. Love it

I did laugh

[Tactical Peek]

2. I even remember that he never used the word "malaise" in that speech,

the one that our whip-smart media christened The Malaise Speech.

Also: Carter was right.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Good point.

[underpants]

11. Patrick Buchanan came up with that

No, Carter never said it.

[malaise]

15. True but it was known as the 'malaise speech'

[emulatorloo]

4. Where are they now? Destroying our country,

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]

5. Well, it was the late-70's

So they're probably all dead now.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. But he was a Democrat

That makes all the difference.

[drmeow]

21. THIS! eom

[frogmarch]

7. Carter also was criticized for

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]

10. And wearing a sweater! n/t

[Orrex]

12. While Trump is praised for shitting on the tile rather than on the carpet

What a difference a decades-long Reagan-wrought catastrophe makes...

[PBass]

8. My impression is that Carter got screwed over.

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]

9. Knowing how the world works now, you

Probably hit the nail on the head. Market manipulation by forces that wanted to influence the direction of the next election.

[malaise]

16. Big oil and big city pols on both sides

gave Carter hell

[MiniMe]

17. That and the Iranian Hostage Crisis

Which Ronny Raygun manipulated.

[MichMary]

20. There were a lot of issues

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]

13. Carter is a truth-teller, albeit sometimes a naive one.

Reagan was a liar, a smiling and facile one, and that's what lots of people want.