Topic: Jimmy Carter

Days Of Malaise, Full Of Contempt

Elitists: As Democrats hurtle toward an electoral nightmare in November, the best explanation they can offer for popular discontent is to call voters ignorant. In the summer of 1979, President Jimmy Carter gave the most incompetent address in the history of the ...
Did you hear the one about Jimmy Carter thinking he was the original tea party candidate? But alas, it isn't a joke because it is President Carter himself who believes he is the original beneficiary of tea party fervor. In an interview ...
Presidents and their books that reached No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list, the dates they reached the top and the numbers of weeks they were No. 1 (not necessarily consecutive weeks).. Jimmy Carter, "An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of ...

More Goo-Goo Than Gipper

A number of pollsters have noted that Barack Obama's approval rating is about the same as Ronald Reagan's at a similar stage of his presidency. I think a key reason for the difference is that Reagan had a consistency to his policies ...

What Keeps Obama Awake at Night

The bond market collapses, as China and Japan boycott the Treasury auctions. The dollar tanks big time, gold breaks $2,300, and silver explodes to $50. Ben Bernanke has no choice but to engineer an interest rate spike to dampen inflationary fires and ...

Back to the Wilderness

The article presents the text of a speech delivered by " American Spectator" editor-in-chief R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. at the magazine's 2008 Robert L. Bartley Annual Dinner, in which he discusses the future of the U.S. conservative movement in the wake of ...

CURRENT WISDOM

a book review in the "Washington Post" of "A Remarkable Mother" by Jimmy Carter; a commentary by Campell Brown on CNN regarding Barack Obama; and a comment by Hendrik Hetzberg in "The New Yorker" regarding Hillary Clinton. Instead of simply distancing himself ...
Romney taunts Democrats with memories of Carter; Republicans finding renewed hopesFormer Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney reflects conservatives' growing confidence when he taunts Democrats, saying " They were enthralled by Barack Obama's promise of near-Biblical transformations," Romney said in comments prepared for Saturday's ...

Obama: racism not 'main issue' in health debate

US President Barack Obama does not think racism is " "The US leader, in a media blitz to shore-up popular support for health care reform, is taking to all five major Sunday news shows this weekend, after commandeering prime-time television earlier this ...

Obama: racism not 'overriding issue' in criticism

US President Barack Obama does not think racism is " "The US leader, in a media blitz to shore-up popular support for health care reform, is taking to all five major Sunday news shows this weekend, after commandeering prime-time television earlier this ...