# I'm calling it: Obama is Jimmy Carter, and he is finished!!!!!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 12, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-calling-it-obama-is-jimmy-carter-and-he-is-finished/596022 "2011-09-12T05:33:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2011, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-calling-it-obama-is-jimmy-carter-and-he-is-finished/596022/1 "2011-09-12T05:33:25Z")
I V[COLOR=“BLUE”]I[/COLOR]VI[COLOR=“Magenta”][COLOR=“Magenta”][COLOR=“Magenta”]D[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]LY remember that crisp autumn day in November 1980. I was 20 years old. The “official” unemployment rate was about 6%, but realistically that’s because a lot of folks unemployment benefits had run out. The actual rate was about 12%. The local Dairy Queen would have a part-time position open and 300 adults 40+ years old would show up to apply. Inflation was over 14% and a gallon of gas was more than double what it had been 4 years prior. I was one of the first people in line at the polling place to vote him out of office that day. Jimmy Carter was/is a good man. I mean that. He truly wanted what was best for The United States. Unlike [IMHO] the Clintons or the Obamas he didn’t hate America. But, like Obama, Carter inherited a bad economy, and then made it worse. Why? Because he didn’t know WTF he was doing, that’s why. He failed because his ideas and policies sucked ass. They didn’t work, and they would have never worked at any other time in history, past, present, or future. . What I also recall is how the otherwise liberal/Democratic leaning media turned against him. Political cartoons in the daily paper from late 1978 onward made him out to be a little boy. Sitting small in a big chair. A miserable failure. In the last 2 months I’ve notice this happening to Obama. Why does a rat jump off a ship? Because the rat knows the ship is going down, that’s why!!! The policies, programs, ideas, laws and etc. endorsed by President Obama\*\* DO NOT WORK!\*\* And they are not going to work…EVER! He’s done. Regardless of who the Republicans put up against him, he will not win reelection in 2012. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-calling-it-obama-is-jimmy-carter-and-he-is-finished/596022)._