| − | According to Dan Rather, [https://steady.substack.com/p/jimmy-carter-1924-2024 Jimmy Carter was "a man of honesty.]" Carter's response to Reagan's victory in 1980 was to claim that Reagan won by conspiring to delay the release of the hostages held in Iran. This ludicrous "October surprise" theory obsessed the American political class for years and years. See "[https://anncoulter.com/2020/11/18/gee-why-cant-trump-accept-defeat-like-the-democrats/ Gee, Why Can’t Trump Accept Defeat Like the Democrats?]" A major theme of the Carter presidency was to claim that we would run out of oil and everything else in ten years time. That this claim proved to be untrue didn't even slow it down. Instead, it morphed into the global warming hoax. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 00:11, December 30, 2024 (EST) | + | According to Dan Rather, [https://steady.substack.com/p/jimmy-carter-1924-2024 Jimmy Carter was "a man of honesty.]" A major theme of the Carter presidency was to claim that we would run out of oil and everything else in ten years time. That this claim proved to be untrue didn't even slow it down. Instead, it morphed into the global warming hoax. |
| | + | As an ex-president, Carter was somehow even more vile than he was as president. His response to Reagan's victory in 1980 was to claim that Reagan won by conspiring to delay the release of the hostages held in Iran. This ludicrous "October surprise" theory obsessed the American political class for years and years. See "[https://anncoulter.com/2020/11/18/gee-why-cant-trump-accept-defeat-like-the-democrats/ Gee, Why Can’t Trump Accept Defeat Like the Democrats?]"[[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 00:11, December 30, 2024 (EST) |