Jimmy Carter should be thanking God, in his daily prayers, for Barack Obama and Obama's election for finally there is someone that actually has the capacity to make jimmy Carter look good and appear as more of an embarrassment than Carter did in his years in office. Through the years the Democrats have had some decent leadership even though they had flaws, leaders such as Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson but in my opinion things end there abruptly with Carter a total embarrassment only superseded by Obama. Bill Clinton will be seen as a successful President but his successes came in great part due to the Republican Congress he had working with him and that he went along with. Newt's "Contract with America" and Clinton's getting out of the way of it and trying to lay low due to the Monica situation, allowed for us to eliminate the Debt and have a period of prosperity.
I can't say that all the Republicans have been shining stars either though. While I continue to think Ronald Reagan will go down as, or should, as one of the greatest Presidents ever even to the point of deserving such recognition as a place on Mount Rushmore, I am not so happy with the two George Bush's but believe both were immeasurably better than the Democratic counterparts that could have been President if they had lost. It's true that George Bush helped take us back into debt but he also kept the Nation safe after the September 11th attack on the country. He also had a very expensive war that followed but nothing compared to the money that Obama allowed to go out of the Government coffers and much off that into Democratic supporters that never did or will pay it back. Companies like Solynda or other energy companies that gave greatly to Obama and the Democrats got sweetheart deals whereby they got Millions only to conveniently go out of business and go bankrupt without paying back anything. The Shovel ready jobs were never shovel ready and Obama wasted far more than all Presidents before him taken all together. He was the greatest embarrassment and I fully believe detested the Nation he led and the Constitution that governed us. He never should have ever been elected and was never qualified to hold the office but was elected solely because of a convergence of things that all came together for his benefit. The first minority President. While that, to many, may seem as a great accomplishment I think that over time many Black Americans will wish it could have been another minority representative other than him due to his totally horrible job that he did. Rather than take race relations to a new and better level I think he set back race relations to an extremely low point. In part because any condemnation of Barack Obama was, by the media and Democrats, labeled as racist and that was just not the case. He was just a man far over his head in a position that he wasn't qualified for leading a Nation that he detested as proven by his many apology tours.
I think Eisenhower was a good leader and president and although Nixon was crooked as the day is long he was just stupid enough to get caught up in Watergate and be taken down. None of what he did though, I believe, will pale to compare to what was accomplished by the democrats and Obama during his 8 years of destruction. So Carter should remain quite and go softly and silently into that good night of rest ahead of him. He's had a good long life and his best years are the ones after he left office. Trump I fully believe can be in the mold of Reagan and be one of the better Presidents we have had but in order to do so he will have to overcome both Democrats and Republicans as well as an extremely hostile media that never has or will accept him as President. He can though in spite of all of them accomplish much.