How have we come to a place where someone who asks God to help him/her understand the Lord’s bidding is seen as a self-righteous ”Christianist” by those who see in a fallible politician a Messiah?

Ginny, one must remember all gods are jealous gods. Despite what they might say, the “Obamians” do not reject religion per se. They simply reject (and condemn) all religions but their own. Something David Berlinski said in his recent book, THE DEVIL’S DELUSION, about Richard Dawkins comes to mind: “The physical concept in which Dawkins has placed his confidence in is something that is either infinite or inscrutible, or otherwise unknown. Men have come to faith on the basis of far less . . . . His atheism not withstanding, Dawkins believes that he is a ‘deeply religious man.’ He simply prefers an alien cult.”

I was around during the Carter years also as I watched a $35,000 floating rate Bank note begin at 91/4% and drift up to 23%–practically killed me. BTW, the nature of your posts leads me to believe you are my long-lost blood brother; if not, can I at least be your drinkin’ buddy?

You forgot the Camp David Accords, while you were brown-nosing Carter.

Carter’s deregulations were entirely in the transportation industries (rail, airline, and trucking), and were merely continuations of policies initiated under Nixon and Ford. To counterbalance that, he ADDED the Federal Department of Energy.

The tax cuts were in one specific area, otherwise taxes were increased under him.

And, as for his “appointing a Federal Reserve chairman who stops inflation”, Miller may have been appointed to do that, but he did a rather sucky job considering inflation peaked in 1979 at 13.3%. It would have been hard for his subsequent pick, Volcker, to have taken it in another direction.

OTOH, excluding the Camp David Accords (which actually wound up doing very little good in the long run), Carter’s foreign policy was a complete shambles, leading to a pissant Iranian government thumbing their nose at one of the two greatest superpowers for well over a year.

Military? Well, he screwed the pooch on that one with idiotic indecisiveness, demanding a multibranch hostage rescue operation which wound up being aborted halfway into it, and making, once more, America into a laughing stock. And all during this time, Russia is blustering its way to conquering the world despite having no hand at all to play the game with, and no money to put into the pot. But Carter and the left were certain that the USSR was going to win in the end.

Sorry, Jay, *I* was around then.

I *know* what a complete, utter, and absolute f***up Carter was.

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And we’ll be lucky if Obama is not substantially worse than Carter on EVERY front.
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I sure hope not. Trust me.

The seventies SUCKED.

Big time.

I think that we will soon find out.