News:

And we're back!

Main Menu

Is Obama Like Carter?

Started by chipwich, March 14, 2011, 06:43:59 PM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages 1 2
User actions

Admiral Yi

#15
March 15, 2011, 07:18:47 AM
Obama doesn't have a Reagan to squash him like a bug.

derspiess

#16
March 15, 2011, 01:12:28 PM
Quote from: The Brain on March 15, 2011, 06:51:19 AM
Obama is like Ford.

Needs more falling down.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Hansmeister

#17
March 15, 2011, 04:35:30 PM
Heh, I compared him to Carter during the campaign.

Savonarola

#18
March 15, 2011, 05:32:18 PM
Quote from: Hansmeister on March 15, 2011, 04:35:30 PM
Heh, I compared him to Carter during the campaign.

As a candidate he was like Carter: both men are fantastically gifted orators; both had limited political experience at the time they ran; both have written inspirational autobiographies. 

As a President Barack hasn't been much like Carter.    Carter was a notorious micro-manager allegedly even overseeing the schedule of the White House Tennis Courts; Barack seems to be better at delegating.  Carter tried to portray himself as just plain folks while Obama has wisely avoided doing the same.  Carter made human rights the cornerstone of his foreign policy, a change in direction from the previous administrations; while in Barack has continued the foreign policy of his predecessor. 

The biggest similarity, in my opinion, is that both men had problems working with the opposition and dealing with congress even when their own party controlled both houses.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Strix

#19
March 15, 2011, 08:20:05 PM
Quote from: The Brain on March 15, 2011, 06:51:19 AM
Obama is like Ford.

You can have him in any color as long as it's black?
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher

Razgovory

#20
March 15, 2011, 08:25:43 PM
Quote from: Hansmeister on March 15, 2011, 04:35:30 PM
Heh, I compared him to Carter during the campaign.

You compared him to Hitler too.  I doubt he'll level Europe and commit Suicide.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Eddie Teach

#21
March 15, 2011, 09:15:30 PM
Obama is clearly no Hitler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsWpvkLCvu4
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?
Print
Go Up Pages 1 2
User actions