Carter vs Bush

I'll take Carter, sweater and all.

Bush's poll numbers are causing many a commentator to compare the heir to a political dynasty to a peanut farmer.

Jimmy Carter was a political victim of forces beyond his control. In the eyes of a majority of americans he was not fit to handle the numerous crisis during his term, most damaging being the hostage crisis where Carter took an overtly cautious approach in the vein of JFK during the Cuban missle crisis, difference was the results. There has never been a more decent human being to occupy the White House as most historians have written. The presidency is sometimes best reserved for ruthless men.

Bush is ruthless. Bush grants himself powers never dreamed of by the framers of the Constitution. Bush ignores international law as well as domestic. Bush has made fashionable the radical Wilsonesque doctrine of preemptive war.

Bush's numbers are in the toilet because his failures are all encompassing.