Recycling Jimmy Carter

Sometimes I think that whatever Obama is paying his advisers it's obviously to much.
The parallels between Obama and Jimmy Carter become more appaernt every day.

Jimmy Carter was a do nothing president who's foreign policy was basically "hands off" whatever will be will be.
He stood by and watched the Iranian revolution unfold allowing 52 U.S. diplomats to be held as hostages in Iran.
That was after he sat back and did nothing to temper run away inflation, unemployment and rising energy costs to cripple this country.
Towards the end of his first term in office he finally ordered the U.S. military to attempt a rescue of the Iranian hostages to try and bolster his sagging poll numbers because he knew the American public was getting tired of the "malaise" he inflicted on us.
Like everything else the peanut farmer touched it was a disaster.

Now after the beheading of an American reporter,James Foley, it comes out that Obama ordered a rescue operation to liberate him and other hostages.
It failed.
Obviously Obama's advisers don't pay much attention to history. Comparing these two "rescue" operations is a no brainer and just confirms the notion that Obama is at least as bad if not worse than Jimmy Carter. The sad part is that it only took one term to realize what a failure Carter was, we have to suffer through 2 terms to get it about Obama.

Hows that 'Jobs Pivot' Working out?

Obama's done the job pivot thing so many times he should be falling down dizzy. According to the new jobs report for June things are looking up. We added 288,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 6.1%. As always I'm sure these will be revised in the next week or so but that doesn't stop some of Obama's cheerleaders from gushing over the news.

Of course they ignore the other side.

Record Number of Americans Not in Labor Force in June

(CNSNews.com) - The number of Americans 16 and older who did not participate in the labor force climbed to a record high of 92,120,000 in June, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
This means that there were 92,120,000 Americans 16 and older who not only did not have a job, but did not actively seek one in the last four weeks.
That is up 111,000 from the 92,009,000 Americans who were not participating in the labor force in April.
In June, according to BLS, the labor force participation rate for Americans was 62.8 percent, matching a 36-year low. The participation rate is the percentage of the population that either has a job or actively sought one in the last four weeks.
In December, April, May, and now June, the labor force participation rate has been 62.8 percent.
Before December, the last time the labor force participation rate sank as low as 62.8 percent was in February 1978, when it was also 62.8 percent. At that time, Jimmy Carter was president.~snip~

That reflects a huge number of Americans who have become so disillusioned and frustrated with job prospects that they have given up completely and as their unemployment benefits run out they just drop from sight. At least as far as being included in the jobs report.
I would think that anyone with a brain would know that employment prospects are pretty dismal and anyone who remembers the Carter years would be going through deja vu.
Things ain't as rosy as Obama's defenders want you to believe.
If you accept the spin then you won't believe your lying eyes.

Syria and an Echo from the Past

DISH had one of their "free weekends" with HBO and some other movie channel this weekend and one of the movies they showed was "ARGO". Ben Afflecks treatment of the story behind the "Canadian Caper", the rescue of 6 Americans from Iran during the Iranian hostage crisis which lasted for 444 days. ( November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981)

I'd been meaning to watch it for some time but never got around to renting it from Amazon so it was a pleasant surprise to see it offered for free over the weekend.
There seems to be some controversy over several things in the movie from Affleck in the starring role, he's not hispanic don't you know, to the stereotypical portrayal of Iranians in the film.
But there seems to not be a whole lot of discussion about the flaccid response from a spineless democrat in office at the time.
Jimmy Carter.
Lets face it old Jimmy allowed Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini to show the world how impotent and weak he was for 444 days costing him a second term and the election of Ronald Reagan.
Yeah sure he attempted a rescue but it failed costing the lives of 8 servicemen and a couple of aircraft pretty much topping the cake of Carters malfeasance and incompetence.

Why this is important to think about is because we have another milquetoast wannabe in office rattling sabres over Syria. A ideological Carter clone. The difference this time is instead of sitting back and doing nothing Obama wants to strike just enough not to get laughed at, in other words he's looking to simply save face.

The last thing this country needs is to enter another crisis on the world stage with another weak and feckless leader. The history should be plain to anyone with a thinking brain.

On the plus side ARGO did remind me of some of the cool music of the late 70's.

  

Surviving Hope and Change

Unfortunately it doesn't do any good to say I told you so but I don't see how anyone can spin this into a positive.
Unemployment is down because so many people have given up. Simply because the jobs are not out there.

People Not In Labor Force Soar By 663,000 To 90 Million, Labor Force Participation Rate At 1979 Levels

Things just keep getting worse for the American worker, and by implication US economy, where as we have shown many times before, it pays just as well to sit back and collect disability and various welfare and entitlement checks, than to work .The best manifestation of this: the number of people not in the labor force which in March soared by a massive 663,000 to a record 90 million Americans who are no longer even looking for work. This was the biggest monthly increase in people dropping out of the labor force since January 2012, when the BLS did its census recast of the labor numbers. And even worse, the labor force participation rate plunged from an already abysmal 63.5% to 63.3% - the lowest since 1979! But at least it helped with the now painfully grotesque propaganda that the US unemployment rate is "improving."~snip~

For those who need charts they are at the link.
Unfortunately it's just not the democrats and pandering RINO's who don't understand how the economy works. Just go to facebook and choose some liberal "progressive" time lines and behold the number of ninnies that are out there.

There's one guy I read who claims that if only the minimum wage was raised by several dollars then welfare will basically disappear................ I know right?

I realize that there are some people who would rather sit back and collect from uncle sugar and not bother to work at all but the reality is that Obama and the democrats are doing everything they can to stifle business and kill jobs. A lot of those who've dropped out of the workforce for disability, welfare and other entitlement benefits are doing it to survive.
Want to stimulate hiring?
Remove the uncertainty of Obamacare, get the democrats to quit threatening to raise taxes, create a budget and repeal bullshit regulations that burden business.
Do at least that much and then see what the participation rate is or we can continue on this path and see if we can out malaise the Jimmy Carter era.

A Simple Choice

I gotta tell you that reading the polls and various prognostications on who will win this election befuddles the hell out of me.
After watching more and more people lose their jobs, the price of gas and groceries go up, the Obama administrations exploitation of our warriors and then the abandonment of our ambassador and brave citizens in Benghazi, how could this election possibly be close?
In 2007, during Obama's campaign, I saw people posting all over the internet about how John McCain would be just another G.W. Bush and anyone would be better than that.
Well we've had near four years of "anyone but Bush" and are paying the price of expediency over reason.

So the question Ronald Reagan posed during his final debate against Jimmy Carter in 1980 has come full circle to echo among voters now.



Come next Tuesday vote responsibly and end this national nightmare.

Random Stuff

Couple of pictures from  facebook that I saw and wanted to share.

This one I got from Barack Obama's Dead Fly, just something to remind us of who else are the enemies of freedom and civil rights.
Obama has eclipsed Carter in the number of countries seized by Islamic radicals under his watch ever. Carter lost just one, so far Obama has 2 and counting.

This is from ForAmerica.
I'm old enough to remember the four years the POS on the right was in charge of America's "malaise", somehow I don't think Obama being to the left of Carter in this pic wasn't intentional.
In the almost 6 decades that I've been alive I never thought I woud live to see anyone worse than Jimmy Carter.
Boy was I wrong.