True or False?

[WriterDom]

We'd be living in a safer, more secure world if Jimmy Carter had won reelection in 1980.

 

[KillerMuffin]

That's funny. Of course not. Jimmy Carter may be the only human being whose sum and total "dark" side is saying Darn It in mixed company.

The rest of the world isn't so rosy and generally doesn't listen to him very much. I don't think the Taliban would care what he said. To them he's an infidel.

 

[Guest]

 

[Pyper]

He seems like a nice guy, but didn't he do a crappy job being president? Don't flame me, I wasn't even born so I could be wrong.

 

[cymbidia]

If Jimmy Carter had won back then, we might not be despairing the backwards slide our government has taken in social programs now. The availability of abortion on demand and contraceptives for all, my hot-button issues, may not have become the tenuously viable issues they are today. All states, all middle and high schools, would teach Evolution as a matter of course and this [expletive(s) of your choice] pseudo-science (and i gag even giving it THAT much respectability) of creationism would be taught as theology, in the churches, where it belongs.

If Jimmy Carter had won back then, and his policies were endorsed and became the law of the land, then the United States today would still be basking in the very real goodness left behind by a truly unique President.

Just my opinion.
cym

 

[bluntforcemama]

Can I say "undecided"

 

[Purple Haze]

Marijuana would be legal.

We'd all be on the metric system.

People like to think Jimmy Carter invented inflation and gas shortages. Unfortunately he inherited these from the Nixon/Ford administration.

Countless things would have been different, but America chose the cowboy with the tax cut.

 

[Royal_Prince]

there would still be the pesky little matter of the cold war, and damn, when was the last time i heard the word inflation (when not speaking of gasoline)

 

[chal13]

President Carter?

I believe President Carter was a genuine nice guy, but a poor president.

 

[Madame Pandora]

Laurel and I are sponsoring one another through a 12-Step Program. Our goal is to abstain from any further political debate.

She is under orders to slap me if I get in the middle of another one of these and I'm honor-bound to do the same for her...

So...I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that my response my incriminate me (and cause me pain).

MP

 

[Laurel]

*SLAP!*

Oh, sorry. Just practicing.

 

[Madame Pandora]

OWWWWWWWW!!

HEY!!!

Did I mention I have an itchy trigger finger?

MP

 

[Laurel]

Yikes!

*runs for cover*

 

[Problem Child]

MP and Laurel...

Picture a couple of hollow-eyed, track-marked junkies sitting in a trailer watching Jerry springer, eating Doritos and washing them down with warm Pabst.

They eye each other nervously, the beautiful syringe of political debate lying on the coffe table between them.

Who will be the first to *snap* in this fruitless exercise in denial?

 

[fgarvb1]

I'm glad the peanut head jerk lost.! i say...

looking at a trailer house with a wicked assed evil grin on my face.
didn't he agree to give away control of the panama canal.?

 

[Madame Pandora]

John Anderson.

The country music singer? I love Seminole Wind, but I don't know that I'd want him as president...

<veg>

MP

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[Ally C]

Impossible to say really. That's a 'safe' answer I guess. How safe and secure would the world be / have been, I wonder?

 

[DarlingBri]

What Purple Haze said

 

[Laurel]

Madame Pandora--

No, silly, not John Anderson the country singer--Jon Anderson the lead singer from Yes!

Ian Anderson ran for President? I love it when he plays flute standing on one leg.

Oh, and MP...

*SLAP*

Just staying in practice...

I'll give myself a *SLAP* for even posting on a political thread, however witlessly.

*SLAP*

Ah, that's better.

 

[Cheyenne]

We'd all be speaking Russian now.

 

[Ally C]

that ...

... and drinking vodka.

 

[Madame Pandora]

And your sunburn it rapidly peeeels....

And your politicians all look like eeeeells

And your wise men don't know how it feeeeeeels

To be on WKRP in Cincinnati?

MP

Oh yeah *SLAP* Laurel

 

[Oliver Clozoff]

Re: MP and Laurel...

MP and Laurel... Picture a couple of hollow-eyed, track-marked junkies sitting in a trailer watching Jerry springer, eating Doritos and washing them down with warm Pabst.

They eye each other nervously, the beautiful syringe of political debate lying on the coffe table between them.

Who will be the first to *snap* in this fruitless exercise in denial?

LMAO! I'm dying to know the answer to this question as well. Come on, girls. What will it take here? Hmmmm...

Carter sucks! Reagan is great! JC loved peanuts, "lusted in his heart", oversaw the most severe inflationary cycle in recent American history, presided over a worse energy crisis than the current one, and got pushed around by a towel-headed tyrant in Iran. But at least he got Begin and Sadat together, right?

Reagan meanwhile slashed taxes, gobbled jellybeans, endearingly dozed off in meetings, made everyone feel like he was your good ol' grandpa that wanted to take you fishin', scared the Ayatollah into giving back our hostages right away, and most importantly got rid of the evil empire.

Now THAT oughtta do it. They're sure to fall off the wagon now, but if they don't I can always find something nice to say about Jesse Helms and Ed Meese.

So whatdya say, Laurel and MP?

 

[Madame Pandora]

*Tree in a forest*
*The sound of one-hand clapping*

Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

MP