Another Carter? You gotta be kidding.

I was a kid when Jimmy Carter was in office, but I remember a few things. I remember seeing hostages on the news and hearing Walter Cronkite tick off the days they had been in captivity. I didn’t understand much then, but I knew there were people who didn’t like us… and they were winning. I remember my parents constantly telling me what we couldn’t afford. Vacations. Bicycles. New clothes. I remember how excited my father was when Ronald Reagan was elected. I could tell he expected better days. He was right.

So you’ll have to forgive me for being perplexed that our country could so eagerly embrace the latest iteration of Jimmy Carter (that would be Barack Obama for those arriving late to the party.)

In The American Spectator, Jeffrey Lord reminds us of just how closely Obama’s policies and core philosophies mirror Carter's, and he asks a question I doubt many sitting on Obama’s bandwagon have considered:

IS IT POSSIBLE that America really wants to return to those depressing days of gas lines and leisure suits? Of malaise and shock over the aggressiveness of America's enemies? The days when the policies Obama is advocating raised unemployment rates, interest rates and inflation rates into the double digits? When America's enemies looked the President of the United States in the eye -- and found he really wanted to kiss them on the cheek?

Lord also details how many of Obama’s campaign platforms, from windfall profits taxes for oil companies, to taxing the “wealthy,” to an approach of appeasement on foreign policy are based on the astounding failures of the Carter administration.

For an Ivy Leaguer, this doesn’t seem to indicate much in the way of smarts.

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It’s a good read for those of us who remember Carter. And should serve as an eye-opener for those who don’t.