China and Russia - "friendship pact"

[CavemanJ]

Mk10 225th hate to burst your bubble, but the state of the economy can be credited mainly to Alan Greenspan, who is a Reagan appointee.  The markets, and the economy, will have a short term reaction to political events/decisions made by government leaders around the world.  But generally speaking it's a couple years after a president leaves office than the changes he started actually begin to take effect.

[jihad]

Americans realized that Carter was foolish, naïve and dangerous. In 1980 they took to the polls and voted for Reagan-Bush.

 Ineffectual or not - he was the last American president with any integrity.

[AKDejaVu]

 

Ineffectual or not - he was the last American president with any integrity.

I actually agree with the aspect of this statement that pertains to Jimmy Carter's integrity.  However, I don't only believe he was the last president with integrity, I believe he was the ONLY president with integrity that served in the second half of the last century.

AKDejaVu (and I'm a republican)

[leonid]

I used to work at a bookstore in Seattle, and we had Jimmy Carter in for a reading a number of years ago, maybe six years.  After the reading the person in charge of the store's reading series took Mr. Carter and his wife, Roselyn, out for dinner.  He asked Jimmy if he'd ever thought about running for president again, and Jimmy said, no, and that he was getting much more done outside of office than he could ever hope to in office.

[Mk10 225th]

Absolutely Caveman old boy, and thank God we had an administration who was smart enough to recognize that fact, and stay out of his way!

I have long been an admirer of Mr. Greenspan.  I have always appreciated his intelligence, and his habit of telling people everything he wants them to know, and not necessarily telling them everything HE knows.  He is a smart man, and I'm glad he's decided to stick around for a bit.



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