Obama creates Carter nostalgia

Stephen Green:

The Carter comparisons to President Obama are coming fast and furious now, even coming from at least one Senate Democrat. Nobody who wanted to go on the record with his name, of course — but just wait. It won’t be too much longer now before somebody slips, whether on accident or on purpose.

For a while now, Glenn Reynolds has argued that “Jimmy Carter is the best-case scenario” for Obama — because it’s been pretty obvious for a while now. But it’s only this morning that I figured out the why.

Carter, for all his silly notions, learned on the job and came up with some decent policies — eventually.

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It was Carter, not Reagan who started the deregulation that the Obama administration now opposes. Green finds some other points of interest.

Also see R. Emmett Tyrrell, "...  between Barry and Jimmy, Barry is worse. Consider the Prophet's performance on the tube during this financial crisis. He is actually calling for more spending, and the markets continue to tumble. His fabled cool is exposed. It is obliviousness."