President Joe Biden told a room full of rich Democrat donors that ailing former President Jimmy Carter had asked him to deliver his eulogy.
Biden, who was first elected to the Senate career in 1972, four years before Carter was elected to the presidency, made the boast at a fundraiser in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Carter, who at 98 is 18 years older than Biden, entered hospice care last month.
“He asked me to do his eulogy,” Biden said, before adding, “Excuse me, I shouldn’t say that,” according to a pool report.
“I spent time with Jimmy Carter, and it’s finally caught up with him,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/politics/jimmy-carter-eulogy-biden/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued</a>. “But they found a way to keep him going for a lot longer than they anticipated, because they found a breakthrough.”
Carter announced in August 2015 that he had brain cancer. Ironically, despite Carter’s well-documented animus toward the state of Israel that led him to <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2002/10/carterpalooza-jay-nordlinger-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">write speeches</a> for Yasser Arafat, it was an Israeli-tested drug called Keytruda that <a href="//721AC273-A7FF-4330-99CC-E020902A221E/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">helped</a> Carter battle life-threatening tumors. By December 2015, Carter revealed doctors found no evidence of the four lesions discovered on his brain.
In September 2019, having lived longer than any other president, Carter, just before his 95th birthday, commented on the two leading prospective Democratic candidates for president, saying of the presidency, “I hope there’s an age limit. If I were just 80 years old, if I was 15 years younger, I don’t believe I could undertake the duties I experienced when I was president.”
Carter was answering questions during his annual report at the Carter Center in Atlanta, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/868124c2ad2b410bbcac74418d77468d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>, which noted at the time that Biden and primary opponent Bernie Sanders would turn 80 during their terms if elected.
Carter’s comment came after someone asked if he had thought of running in 2020. He added that the presidency requires a president “to be very flexible with your mind,” adding, “You have to be able to go from one subject to another and concentrate on each one adequately and then put them together in a comprehensive way.”
Although he is still revered by many Democrats, Carter&#8217;s presidency is generally viewed as one of the greatest failures in the history of the American presidency. He oversaw a botched attempt to rescue 52 hostages held for 444 days by Iran; pulled U.S. missiles out of South Korea without consulting the Pentagon; signed the Panama Canal Treaty, thus giving up control by the year 2000; implemented price controls, and presided over an economy that by 1980 featured interest rates at a staggering 21%, inflation at 13.5%, and unemployment at 7%.

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Former Democratic President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-carter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Carter</a> once found classified government documents at his home that he then turned over to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-archives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Archives,</a> according to a new report.
The mishandling of classified documents is a chronic problem at the highest levels of the U.S. government, one person familiar with the matter told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-classified-documents-president-33df0355c72e9ae8fa4cb6ead13f6521" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>. At least several times a year, documents are located where they are not supposed to be and turned over to the National Archives.
On at least one occasion, Carter found sensitive government papers in his home in Georgia, the person told the AP. It is unclear when the discovery was made or when the documents were handed over.
Coincidentally, Carter signed the Presidential Records Act in 1978, though the law did not take effect until he was out of office and former President Ronald Reagan was in the White House. Before the law, presidential records were generally considered to be the president&#8217;s private property, not the government&#8217;s property, according to the AP.
The report about Carter comes after a series of classified document discoveries has hit one sitting president, one former president, and one former vice president in just the past six months. The FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort, in August to confiscate materials marked classified.
Attorneys for President Joe Biden found classified documents stored in his former office at a think-tank in Washington, D.C., and at the president’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, on four occasions. The FBI found more documents in the president’s Wilmington home when they searched the house on Friday evening.
An attorney for former Vice President Mike Pence <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-classified-documents-found-at-former-vp-mike-pences-home-in-indiana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> a batch of classified documents at Pence&#8217;s home in Indiana last week, which Pence promptly turned over to the National Archives, according to his team. The former vice president had his residence searched after the revelations about classified documents connected to Biden went public earlier this month.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed two special counsels to take over Justice Department investigations into Trump and Biden.
The bevy of recent discoveries has forced some Republicans and Democrats into an awkward dance about the leaders of their respective parties, both having kept materials marked classified at their private residences.
“They’re trying to attack former President Trump. Biden was chair of the Foreign Relations Committee” in the Senate, Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/23/biden-documents-democrats-concern-00079138" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>. “He should have known better. And they were trying to claim the high ground on this issue when the shoe was on the other foot. And I think it’s a very tough issue for them to have to navigate right now.”
Democrats have maintained that Biden has handled the discovery better than Trump.
“He has done well by cooperating every step of the way, unlike Trump, but he still has documents that I don’t understand why he’d have in his personal possession,” Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) said.

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Less than two years after President Joe Biden entered the White House, the United States has been crippled by record-high inflation and an energy crisis that has placed the economy in a functional recession. When he entered office, <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/273418/unadjusted-monthly-inflation-rate-in-the-us/">inflation</a> was 1.4% — a metric that has since sextupled to 8.5%.
The situation will sound awfully familiar to those who were alive four decades ago. President Jimmy Carter ascended to the White House when <a href="https://www.inflation.eu/en/inflation-rates/united-states/historic-inflation/cpi-inflation-united-states-1977.aspx">inflation</a> was 5.2%. When he left four years later, <a href="https://cpiinflationcalculator.com/1981-cpi-inflation-united-states/">inflation</a> reached 11.8% after <a href="https://inflationdata.com/articles/inflation-cpi-consumer-price-index-1980-1989/">approaching</a> as much as 14.8% in early 1980. 
Of course, the reason Carter ultimately left the Oval Office was the sweeping electoral victory of President Ronald Reagan. As the Great Communicator articulated during his acceptance <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-accepting-the-presidential-nomination-the-republican-national-convention-detroit">speech</a> at the 1980 Republican National Convention, Carter had cooked up “a new and altogether indigestible economic stew” — the ingredients being “one part inflation, one part high unemployment, one part recession, one part runaway taxes, one part deficit spending and seasoned by an energy crisis.”
Indeed, Carter responded to the 1979 energy crisis by slashing dependence on oil and instead <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carter-crisis/">focusing</a> on renewable sources — even pushing the goal of 20% nationwide solar power by the year 2000. Today, Biden is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pete-buttigieg-tells-americans-how-they-can-channel-their-pain-at-the-pump">addressing</a> fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine by pushing the goal of 50% electric vehicle adoption by 2030 — months after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/peter-doocy-asks-for-a-straight-answer-on-keystone-gets-the-runaround-from-jen-psaki">nixed</a> expansions to the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Incompetence is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, a characteristic that Carter and Biden share. Yet both administrations somehow blamed the American people for their own failures — a phenomenon that Reagan noticed.
“Ours are not problems of abstract economic theory,” he explained. “Those are problems of flesh and blood; problems that cause pain and destroy the moral fiber of real people who should not suffer the further indignity of being told by the government that it is all somehow their fault. We do not have inflation because — as Mr. Carter says — we have lived too well.”
Such examples from the Biden administration are manifold. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buttigieg-supply-chain-clog-happening-in-part-because-biden-has-successfully-guided-this-economy">pinned</a> supply chain bottlenecks on surging consumer demand, and former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jen-psaki-on-supply-chain-shortages-impacting-u-s-the-tragedy-of-the-treadmill-thats-delayed">mocked</a> Americans facing these issues by quipping about the “tragedy of the treadmill that’s delayed.”
Both administrations, however, had the audacity to increase spending even as inflation gripped the economy. Biden has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-signs-740-billion-inflation-reduction-act">signed</a> into law a not-so-aptly-named bill called the <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/inflation_reduction_act_one_page_summary.pdf">Inflation Reduction Act</a>, which posits that spending $740 billion and doubling the size of the IRS will help Americans more comfortably shoulder the burden of higher prices.
“The head of a government which has utterly refused to live within its means … dares to point the finger of blame at business and labor, both of which have been engaged in a losing struggle just trying to stay even,” Reagan said. “High taxes, we are told, are somehow good for us, as if, when government spends our money it isn&#8217;t inflationary, but when we spend it, it is.”
During his <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-accepting-the-presidential-nomination-the-republican-national-convention-dallas">speech</a> at the 1984 Republican National Convention, Reagan looked back on the first four years of his administration and warned the American people that if Democrats were permitted to regain power, they would once again implement a foolish economic agenda. Though the America of four decades ago had yet to witness so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion emerge as a governance philosophy, Reagan observed that blowout spending was conducted “in the name of compassion” as a “deliberate part of their official economic policy, needed, they said, to maintain prosperity.”
Likewise, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen entered her current post on a <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0003">vow</a> to battle the “crisis of systemic racism” in the economy. “Economics isn’t just something you find in a textbook,” she told her staff at the dawn of the Biden administration. “Nor is it simply a collection of theories. Indeed, the reason I went from academia to government is because I believe economic policy can be a potent tool to improve society.”
She also promised that any potential inflation “spurt” from Biden’s policies would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/despite-skyrocketing-inflation-janet-yellen-will-keep-pushing-for-biden-spending-agenda">fade</a> away by 2022. When that promise failed to materialize, she had nothing better to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/janet-yellen-admits-she-was-wrong-about-inflation-being-small-risk">offer</a> than a meek “I was wrong.”
In the 2020s, Americans carry smartphones and enjoy a somewhat less-elevated threat of nuclear war — yet the economically-illiterate philosophies of the 1970s are as pervasive as ever. There remains a holier-than-thou ruling class that spends your money under the facade of kindness and inclusivity — then sticks you, your children, and your grandchildren with the bill.

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Tuesday evening, CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten had a pretty pointed description of how Americans feel about President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s job performance in the Oval Office as well as the state of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/economy">economy</a> — in a word, it&#8217;s &#8220;awful.&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anderson-cooper">Anderson Cooper</a> interviewed Enten and asked him to explain recent data from the University of Michigan that measured consumer sentiment.
&#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s awful and how people feel about it is even worse,&#8221; Enten responded. &#8220;You know you look at the consumer sentiment right now, and what do you see? This is the worst consumer sentiment ever measured by the University of Michigan going all the way back since 1952.&#8221;
&#8220;Wow,&#8221; Anderson replied.
&#8220;Even if you double my age, that doesn&#8217;t get you back to 1952. And while, I&#8217;m young I&#8217;m not that young, right?&#8221; Enten quipped.
The CNN journalist also observed that inflation had been a significant obstacle to previous presidents&#8217; agendas.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have to remind you that inflation got Jimmy Carter,&#8221; Enten continued. &#8220;It killed that presidency.&#8221;
&#8220;And in terms of why are consumers feeling this bad?&#8221; the senior analyst continued. &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s pretty clear why they&#8217;re feeling this bad and that is because the Consumer Price Index is the worst it&#8217;s ever been in a midterm cycle since &#8217;74; It&#8217;s the worst it&#8217;s been in any presidential cycle or midterm cycle since 1980. So, it&#8217;s not much of a surprise. You can see it, it&#8217;s literally off the charts on the table on your screen.&#8221;
On Friday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-reaches-8-6-setting-new-four-decade-high">reported</a> that the &#8220;Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 8.6% between May 2021 and May 2022, meaning that inflation surpassed record highs.&#8221;
Anderson then asked Enten, &#8220;And how does President Biden&#8217;s performance rate?&#8221;
&#8220;Awful, I mean,&#8221; Enten began to say.
&#8220;I knew that was the answer,&#8221; Anderson interjected with a laugh.
&#8220;But the answer is awful, I mean you know, I&#8217;ll compare it to Carter at this point in his presidency,&#8221; Enten continued. &#8220;Right? Look at the disapproval rating Joe Biden has in inflation right now. It&#8217;s over 70%. Carter — Carter was not even there at this point in mid-1978. When you&#8217;re doing worse than Jimmy Carter is doing in the minds of Americans on inflation, you know that they&#8217;re holding you responsible for the conditions that are currently on the ground that are hurting Americans in their pocketbooks.&#8221;
The segment can be seen here:
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Bridgewater Associates co-CIO Bob Prince said on Tuesday he believes the economy is “on the cusp of” stagflation during an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The term “stagflation” refers to sluggish economic growth coupled with high inflation — and is especially characteristic of the economy of the late 1970s, in which an oil shock that occurred under the leadership of President Jimmy Carter induced a recession amid rising price levels.
When asked by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02d1R8ZOJ7g">Bloomberg TV</a> if he believes stagflation will hit the United States, Prince responded “we’re on the cusp of it” — and argued that the bond market has not properly recognized the threat. After being pressed on the timing of the stagflation, Prince appeared to avoid making a prediction.
&#8220;The markets are under-discounting the inflation picture,” Prince explained during the interview. “The sustainability, the self-reinforcing of the inflation is not discounted. The degree of tightening over time is not discounted.”
However, Prince said that the banking system has the most “low-risk asset portfolio in ages” because newly-printed money led to higher deposits, which banks used for stable investments such as Treasury bonds.
“Even if the Fed tightens, the banking system can sustain the flow of credit into the economy, and household balance sheets are much better than they’ve been in decades,” Prince remarked.
In an effort to curb inflation, the Fed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fed-jacks-key-rate-up-half-point-as-inflation-surges">increased interest rates</a> by a half-point earlier this month — which marked the largest rate hike since May 2000 and followed a quarter-point increase from near-zero levels two months ago.
Alongside Prince, other investors — including Pershing Square Capital Management CEO Bill Ackman — are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-hedge-fund-manager-sees-two-ways-out-of-soaring-inflation-and-neither-one-is-pretty">wary</a> about soaring inflation. “If the Fed doesn’t do its job, the market will do the Fed’s job, and that is what is happening now,” Ackman argued on Tuesday.
“The only way to stop today’s raging inflation is with aggressive monetary tightening or with a collapse in the economy,” Ackman continued. “There is no prospect for a material reduction in inflation unless the Fed aggressively raises rates, or the stock market crashes, catalyzing an economic collapse and demand destruction.”
Though a stock market crash is by no means desirable, an aggressive rate hike would increase the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-federal-reserve-just-raised-interest-rates-how-will-it-impact-your-family">cost of borrowing money</a> — likely slowing economic activity as a result.
Ackman condemned “various current and former Fed members” refraining from an aggressive stance on inflation over the past few days. Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic affirmed on Tuesday, for example, that the central bank should <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-cant-be-reckless-in-the-way-it-pushes-up-interest-rates-bostic-says-11653410349">exercise caution</a> while raising rates.
“The Fed has already lost credibility for its misread and late pivot on inflation,” Ackman asserted. “Current Fed policy and guidance are setting us up for double-digit sustained inflation that can only be forestalled by a market collapse or a massive increase in rates.”
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-sounds-off-on-whether-he-thinks-another-recession-is-inevitable">portraying optimism</a> about the state of the economy. During a press conference earlier this week, a reporter pressed Biden on “record-high inflation” and “enormously high gas prices” in the United States.
“Should Americans be prepared for a recession? In your view, is a recession in the United States inevitable?” the reporter asked. Biden replied “no” before listing gains in employment and a handful of large foreign projects in the United States, among other phenomena.

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Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Democrat President Joe Biden in an interview this week, saying that former President Jimmy Carter, who is widely considered to be one of the worst presidents in modern history, was more successful than Biden.
DeSantis made the remarks while speaking about how the media and Democrats are trying to divide Republicans, including pitting him against former President Donald Trump, and distract from Biden&#8217;s failures in office.
&#8220;They did everything they could to get Biden elected, the guy who campaigned from his basement,&#8221; DeSantis <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-trump-republicans-total-bunk">said</a>. &#8220;They never asked any questions about that. Well, now he gets in. And he had a disastrous first year as president said [sic] the worst first year president of any president since the 1800s. People compare him to Jimmy Carter. Carter was much more successful his first year than Biden has been.&#8221;
&#8220;So they know that, they know the Democrats are in for a shellacking in 2022,&#8221; DeSantis continued. &#8220;So they&#8217;re trying to change the topic, and they&#8217;re trying to drive dissension among Republicans. And so my message to people is, don&#8217;t take that bait. Understand what they&#8217;re trying to do. We need to be united and say we don&#8217;t like what the Biden administration&#8217;s doing. We offer a better course in Florida. I think other Republican states are offering a better vision in their states as well. And let&#8217;s go into ‘22 with a full head of steam with everybody united on the same team.&#8221;
Trump also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-issues-statement-over-reports-that-he-has-a-problem-with-governor-ron-desantis">dismissed</a> claims that he has a problem with DeSantis during a Fox News interview last month.
Trump made the remarks during an interview with Sean Hannity in response to a recent report from The New York Times, which claimed that Trump had a “long-stewing resentment” toward DeSantis because, according to The Times, DeSantis “has been acting far less like an acolyte and more like a future competitor.”
Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2022/01/14/desantis-uses-conservative-lifeline-as-trump-sours-on-him-1405741">added</a> the following background information:
<blockquote>Many conservative media stars, most of whom have long been some of Trump’s most vocal supporters, have been hyping DeSantis in recent months for the governor’s rejection of Covid-related mandates and constant hammering of President Joe Biden. But the support has increased in intensity in recent weeks, a spike easily noticeable on social media and podcasts throughout the conservative media ecosystem. That support is key in helping DeSantis further expand his footprint with influencers in Republican primary politics ahead of his 2022 reelection and as he weighs a 2024 White House bid.</blockquote>
Hannity said that he was recently informed that DeSantis indicated that there was not “any conflict or bickering” between the two and that it was “total BS” manufactured by the media.
“Is he right?” Hannity asked.
“Well, he is right,” Trump responded. “I get along great with Ron. Ron was very good on the Mueller hoax. He was right up front along with Jim Jordan, and all of the rest of them, they were fantastic. The Republicans really stuck together. And it was a great thing. And Ron was one of them. And Ron wanted to run and I endorsed him. And that helped him greatly.”
“And he went on and he’s done a really terrific job in Florida, and I think you know, Ron has been very good,” Trump continued. “He’s been a friend of mine for a long time. It’s totally fake news. I think Ron said last week, he said it very publicly, he says the press is never going to get in the middle of my friendship with Donald Trump, we’re not going to do that stuff. And he said it very strongly, I thought it was very interesting, actually. And very nice. But he said that, and I agree with him on that 100%. No, I have a very good relationship with Ron and intend to have it for a long time.”

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Democrat President Joe Biden&#8217;s economic approval ratings are worse than former Democrat President Jimmy Carter, who Biden has repeatedly been compared to throughout his first year in office.
&#8220;Carter&#8217;s economic net approval rating of -8 points in an early January 1978 CBS News/New York Times poll was the lowest around this point in a presidency before Biden&#8217;s -13 points,&#8221; CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/21/politics/joe-biden-jimmy-carter-economic-ratings/index.html">reported</a>. &#8220;The economy, and particularly inflation, was listed as the nation&#8217;s top problem in a late October 1977 Gallup poll.&#8221;
CNN noted that the average president at this point during their first year in office had a +5 approval rating on their handling of the economy, meaning that Biden was 18 points lower than the average president.
&#8220;Inflation, in particular, seems to be a big issue for Biden,&#8221; CNN added. &#8220;Just 28% of Americans approved of the job he is doing to handle inflation in a recent ABC News/Ipsos poll. This comes as more voters said they were concerned about inflation than any other issue in a December Fox News poll, and only 22% said the Biden&#8217;s administration efforts to get inflation and rising prices under control were helping. The plurality (47%) said they were hurting.&#8221;
The low economic marks from Biden come as the administration is failing to get control of the pandemic, something that Biden repeatedly promised that he would do while on the campaign trail.
More Americans have now died from the coronavirus under Biden&#8217;s leadership than died under former President Donald Trump, according to CDC data published last week.
The development comes as Biden’s approval rating continues to remain low as more and more Americans are disapproving of his handling of the pandemic than at any other point during his first year in office. The number of Americans who say that Biden is doing a “bad job” in responding to the pandemic has <a href="https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_US_121521/">doubled</a> from 23% during Biden’s first month in office to 46% as of last month.
The CDC <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210121045133/https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100klast7days">reported</a> back in January that on January 20, 2021, at 1:16PM, there were 400,306 deaths recorded in the U.S. from the coronavirus. Biden <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/20/biden-constitutional-noon-sworn-in/">officially</a> became president of the United States at noon on that day.
Since then, the number of people who have died from coronavirus under Biden’s watch is now greater than 400,306.
According to the most recent CDC <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211217230303/https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home">data</a> available at the time this report was published, 800,939 Americans have died from the coronavirus, which means that at least 400,633 Americans have died under Biden’s leadership. Other entities like <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html">The New York Times</a>, however, currently report the U.S. has 806,335 deaths from the coronavirus, a number that continues to climb daily with no end in sight.
Biden’s disastrous handling of the coronavirus pandemic is even worse when considering the fact that he had highly effective vaccines at his disposal from his very first day in office to get the pandemic under control.
Biden repeatedly promised while on the campaign trail that he was going to “shut down the virus,” and while its true that new variants have emerged, the fact remains that he has not “shut down the virus” and more Americans have now died under his leadership than under Trump.
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DISASTER: Joe Biden’s Economic Ratings Are Worse Than Jimmy Carter’s, CNN Poll Finds

Just over 40 years ago, President Jimmy Carter delivered an address to the nation, which was later dubbed the &#8220;malaise&#8221; speech.
With long gas lines across the country, sky-high inflation, and rising unemployment, Carter decided to blame Americans for the country&#8217;s woes.
&#8220;The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation,&#8221; Carter said.
Not exactly the message a president ought to deliver to worried Americans.
Things in America seem to be moving along the same path nowadays. The parallels are by no means perfect, but the optics are certainly similar &#8212; gas lines returning, inflation beginning to rise and unemployment ticking up.
GAS LINES
Back in 1979, oil production plunged in the wake of the Iranian Revolution and the coming Iran-Iraq War. The price of crude oil soared over the next year, more than doubling to $39.50 per barrel. The price spike prompted fuel shortages and long lines at U.S. gas stations.
The situation got so bad that motorists in America were forced to buy gas depending on their license plates: If the last number was odd, they could only buy on odd-numbered days, and those with even numbers could buy only on even days. Lines to buy gas got so long that people would sometimes wait in shifts: One person doing four or five hours then tagging out for another to wait hours more before reaching the front of the line.
Gas lines have now returned, but for a far different reason.
&#8220;Drivers along parts of the East Coast are feeling the immediate effects of the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline following a ransomware attack, reports CBS News&#8217; Laura Podesta. Some waited an hour or more on lines at gas stations before filling up or learning the pumps had run dry,&#8221; CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colonial-pipeline-shutdown-gas-lines-shortages-price-rises/">reported</a>. &#8220;In Marion, South Carolina, Yasheeka Wiggins said, &#8216;It was unbelievable. When I was driving today, I thought it was a catastrophe coming! I&#8217;ve seen all these cars waiting and I was like, OMG. I have to fill my tank up!'&#8221;
The cyber attack forced the closure of the 5,500-mile Colonial Pipeline, which moves more than 100 million gallons of fuel from Texas to New Jersey every day — nearly 50% of the fuel consumed on the East Coast, Fox News reported. The company has suspended all operations since the attack on Friday.
&#8220;From Virginia to Florida and Alabama, stations are reporting that they’ve sold out of gasoline as supplies in the region dwindle and panic buying sets in,&#8221; Bloomberg News <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/no-end-sight-u-fuel-222356167.html">reported</a>. The governor of North Carolina went so far as to declare a state of emergency over the situation.
But gas prices were already soaring before the cyber attack. A gallon of gas stood at $2.36 just before Biden took office but has risen to nearly $3, hitting $2.98 on Tuesday, <a href="https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts">according</a> to Gas Buddy. Still, that price hike is partly to blame on Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) nations, which in March enacted curbs on oil output in reaction to a decrease in demand due to the pandemic.
AAA predicts prices could rise three to seven cents per gallon this week and warned that there could also be &#8220;limited fuel availability&#8221; in places.
INFLATION
Carter took office after a recession, which stretched from 1973 to 1975. His term was hampered by what economists dubbed &#8220;stagflation,&#8221; with the economy experiencing both high inflation and low economic growth.
Fears of inflation have returned under Biden.
&#8220;Widespread shortages and production snags are driving prices higher for many everyday items, as an uneven economic reopening leaves Americans facing the unfamiliar risk of inflation,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/10/economy-inflation-prices/">reported</a> on Monday.
&#8220;Significant price increases have affected used cars, medical care, appliances, energy, food and cigarettes in recent months, according to government data. Gas prices headed higher on Monday — before ending the day almost unchanged — after a cyberattack forced the closure of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline,&#8221; wrote the Post. &#8220;Most economists expect prices for many goods and services to show continued gains on Wednesday when the Labor Department releases its next monthly inflation report.&#8221;
Under Carter, inflation rose from 5.8% in 1976 to 7.7% in 1978. After OPEC doubled oil prices, inflation averaged 11.3% in 1979 and hit 13.5% in 1980. 
The Post said that some economists, including Lawrence Summers, a former treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, &#8220;warn that President Biden’s free spending could ignite inflation that would outstrip wage gains and leave consumers struggling to make ends meet.&#8221;
Americans fear the worst. &#8220;More Americans expect inflation to increase over the next few years,&#8221; CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/10/americans-fear-highest-inflation-in-nearly-a-decade.html">reported</a>. &#8220;Overall, the expectation is that the inflation rate would be up to 3.4% one year from now — its highest level since September 2013 — and at 3.1% three years from now, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Survey of Consumer Expectations for April.&#8221;  That&#8217;s the highest level since September 2013.
Marketwatch, meanwhile, <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/consumer-spending-is-surging-but-so-is-inflation-11620419808">reported</a> that the consumer price index, &#8220;the main tool for tracking the cost of living, is forecast to rise in April for the 11th month in row, in data due on Wednesday. And the yearly rate of inflation could climb above 3.5% for the first time since 2011.&#8221;
UNEMPLOYMENT
Carter actually enjoyed a robust economy when he took office. The economy had grown by 5% in 1976 and achieved similar growth in 1977 and 1978. Unemployment actually declined from 7.5% in January 1977 to 5.6% by May 1979, with over 9 million net new jobs created during that time. But as the economy melted down, with rising inflation and the gas crisis, unemployment rose to 7.8% then, 8% in 1980 and hit 8.5% in 1981, when Ronald Reagan took office.
Biden, too, took over on an upturn. The COVID-19 pandemic crushed the U.S. economy, sending the unemployment rate soaring. The rate hit 3.5% in February 2020, just as the virus hit the U.S. But it soared to 14.8% by April 2021 before starting a precipitous fall, <a href="https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-unemployment-rate.htm">according</a> to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The rate dropped every month for 11 months as the economy rebounded, but in April, it ticked up &#8212; albeit by a tiny amount &#8212; to 6.1%. Still, economists expressed a bit of worry, especially about the anemic jobs report released that month.
&#8220;The relatively weak 266,000 increase in hiring last month means investors will give even more scrutiny to the upcoming batch of economic signposts,&#8221; Bloomberg wrote. &#8220;Although most economists doubt the labor market has gone soft, the report has generated plenty of second guessing.&#8221;
The Associated Press put a good spin on the rise, <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-covid-unemployment-data-april-report-20210507-shauwc6gsrbbxhrsdh2twssr7e-story.html">saying</a> &#8220;some businesses are struggling to find enough workers as the economic recovery strengthens.&#8221;
With viral cases declining and states and localities easing restrictions, businesses have added jobs for four straight months, the Labor Department said Friday. Still, the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.1% from 6% in March.
And like Carter 40 years ago, Biden put some of the blame on Americans. He said Monday that people collecting unemployment benefits under the American Rescue Plan must accept &#8220;suitable&#8221; employment when offered.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to make it clear that anyone collecting unemployment, who was offered a suitable job, must take the job or lose their unemployment benefits,&#8221; Biden said before adding: &#8220;We don&#8217;t see much evidence of that.&#8221;
Biden also blamed U.S. companies for not paying their workers enough. &#8220;My expectation is that as the economy comes back, these companies will provide fair wages and safe work environments, and if they do, they&#8217;ll find plenty of workers. And we&#8217;re all going to come out of this together and better than before,&#8221; Biden said.
Back in 1980, Reagan summed up the economic situation on the campaign trail. &#8220;Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.&#8221;
Reagan won in a landslide in 1980, winning 489 votes in the Electoral College to Carter&#8217;s 49.

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President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden sat down with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn during a visit last week to Georgia, but a photo from the get-together has suddenly set social media afire.
In the snapshot, the Bidens are kneeling next to two comfy chairs that hold Jimmy, 96, and Rosalynn, 93. Joe, 78, and Jill, 69, look like giants, while the Carters look like lilliputians.
The Carter Center on Monday <a href="https://twitter.com/CarterCenter/status/1389400596004970501" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">released</a> the photo of the couples &#8212; with no one wearing a mask &#8212; after the Bidens’ visit to the Carters’ home in Plains, Georgia, last Thursday.
​”​We’re pleased to share this wonderful photo from the​ ​@POTUS​ ​and​ ​@FLOTUS​ ​visit to see the Carters in Plains, Ga.! Thank you President and Mrs. Biden!​,” the center wrote in a tweet Monday night.
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We’re pleased to share this wonderful photo from the <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FLOTUS</a> visit to see the Carters in Plains, Ga.! 
Thank you President and Mrs. Biden! <a href="https://t.co/QcA33iUev4">pic.twitter.com/QcA33iUev4</a>
&mdash; The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) <a href="https://twitter.com/CarterCenter/status/1389400596004970501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Twitter users went to town on the odd photo.
“I’ve been staring at this photo for three hours. I’ve got to go to bed. Back at it tomorrow,” <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeSeiders/status/1389437986773692416?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">wrote</a> Joe Seiders.
“Filing under ‘why we don’t use the ultrawide lens indoors’,” journalist Jared Holt <a href="https://twitter.com/jaredlholt/status/1389421267833532419?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">wrote</a>.
“We voted for Biden because he’s a decent human being with sound policies but also because he and Jill are giants who will crush you if you make them angry​,” <a href="https://twitter.com/sistercelluloid/status/1389445017236815876" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">posted</a> one user.
Said another: &#8220;Glad I&#8217;m not the only who noticed. I know it probably has something to do with the angle this photo was shot and that people do tend to shrink as they age, but the Bidens look gargantuan next to the Carters. In any event, God bless the Carters and the Bidens.&#8221;
Another said the photographer was to blame. &#8220;My guess is the room was very small, so they had to use a wide angle lens to get everyone in. The choice of lens was correct, but someone should’ve fixed the distortion in photoshop before releasing it,” <a href="https://twitter.com/DemSwag_com/status/1389427729968287744" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">wrote</a> another Twitterer.
One <a href="https://twitter.com/JoSwedishMamma/status/1389563840279445508">said</a>: &#8220;These four are adorable but this is a perfect example why to avoid photographing portraits with a super wide lens. Anything on the edges will appear huge due to lens distortion. Must have been a very small room and no other option.&#8221;
Still another <a href="https://twitter.com/Deep_Fried_Dave/status/1389410756672765954">said</a>: &#8220;Here&#8217;s a quick example of removing the extreme lens distortion. A wide angle lens causes everything on the outer edges of the image to expand, and center to contract — the small room made a wide angle lens necessary.&#8221;
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Here&#39;s a quick example of removing the extreme lens distortion. A wide angle lens causes everything on the outer edges of the image to expand, and center to contract — the small room made a wide angle lens necessary. <a href="https://t.co/L9rVS5Xx0U">pic.twitter.com/L9rVS5Xx0U</a>
&mdash; DemSwag (@DemSwag_com) <a href="https://twitter.com/DemSwag_com/status/1389419655786373125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Another offered their own fix.
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There. I fixed it. <a href="https://t.co/dmjLiX3oXk">pic.twitter.com/dmjLiX3oXk</a>
&mdash; 🌊 Deonardo La Vinci 🌊 (@DeonardoLeVinci) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeonardoLeVinci/status/1389428550361657344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Others noted how it was odd Joe Biden didn&#8217;t wear a mask with such elderly people.
&#8220;The comments on this distorted photo are hysterical, but the fact that President Biden wears a mask when he&#8217;s alone on a Zoom call with world leaders but he doesn&#8217;t when he&#8217;s sitting with the Carters, a couple in their 90s, only proves that post vaccine masks are pure theater,&#8221; wrote a user.
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The comments on this distorted photo are hysterical, but the fact that President Biden wears a mask when he&#39;s alone on a Zoom call with world leaders but he doesn&#39;t when he&#39;s sitting with the Carters, a couple in their 90s, only proves that post vaccine masks are pure theater.
&mdash; Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) <a href="https://twitter.com/Joelmpetlin/status/1389535661263314945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;No mask? But they’ve been wearying [sic] masks EVERYWHERE, so why not with this very elderly, very vulnerable couple?&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/obianuju/status/1389437764442247169">wrote</a> another.

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Weird Photo Of Giant Bidens With Jimmy And Rosalynn Carter Sets Social Media Abuzz

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Former President Jimmy Carter, 96, and former first lady Rosalynn Carter, 93, have returned to church for in-person service after a year-long hiatus now that they have been vaccinated against COVID-19, their pastor announced earlier this week. 
“We’re so glad to have the Carters back,” said Pastor Tony Lowden at the Sunday service at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MBCPlains/videos/253915839513685/">according</a> to a Facebook livestream. “It’s been a year since they’ve been back—been in quarantine—and I can’t even tell you how many times he said to me, ‘When are you going to let me come back to church.’”
“To have him back here, at his home, a place where he wants to worship God means the world to him and his wife. It should also mean the world to us as well,” Lowden added. 
According to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/baptist-coronavirus-pandemic-jimmy-carter-rosalynn-carter-5d40e69bfc2a317faad05993f1be55bd">The Associated Press</a>, the Carters have been attending church in-person for the last two Sundays, and they were wearing face masks per the church’s policy. The church <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MBCPlains/?hc_ref=ARRgcV3pFsco7TSo_ajW4JhMq6GN0Hjkn6IQQIZ5eaXmOz6A4RgqJRgYCny1-HeyjVs&amp;ref=nf_target&amp;__tn__=kC-R">announced</a> Wednesday the face mask policy was a required by the Secret Service to “protect everyone in the building,” and no exceptions could be made. 
Other health precautions at the church include mandatory social distancing, capacity restrictions, temperature checks at the door, and reservation system. The Secret Service also wands all people entering the building for security reasons, according to the church. 
Back in mid-December, the Carter Center announced in a brief statement that the former president had consulted with his physician and was “looking forward to receiving the  COVID-19 vaccine when it is available to him.” It’s unclear when he was vaccinated, but Georgia has been prioritizing senior citizens for COVID-19 vaccinations. 
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Statement from The Carter Center:
After consulting with his doctors, President Carter is looking forward to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine when it is available to him. 
See our previous COVID-19 statement here: <a href="https://t.co/j4vj0wZ3yf">https://t.co/j4vj0wZ3yf</a>
&mdash; The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) <a href="https://twitter.com/CarterCenter/status/1339700012066979840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Carter did not attend the inauguration ceremony for President Joe Biden, who back in 1976, was the first senator to endorse the Georgian&#8217;s presidential bid, <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/president-jimmy-carter-not-planning-to-attend-biden-inauguration/NFW45K35WNELVAAB4ZYYXTE47I/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according</a> to a recent biography on Carter. 
”Biden would appear in dozens of states for Carter in 1976,” wrote Jonathan Alter in the Carter biography &#8220;His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life.&#8221; &#8220;He joked that at age 33, he was still two years shy of the constitutional age requirement to be president. So, since he couldn’t yet run himself, he was backing Jimmy.”
According to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/jimmy-rosalynn-carter-won-t-attend-biden-s-inauguration-n1252871">NBC News</a>, Carter was the first former president to confirm that he would attend the 2017 inauguration of former President Donald Trump. Carter had attended every inauguration since his own, up until Biden’s in 2021. A spokesperson for the Carter Center said in early January that the former president and former first lady were sending their “best wishes” to both Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

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Former President Jimmy Carter labeled police and the U.S. justice system “racially discriminatory” on Wednesday in a statement addressing recent riots that have rocked the country.
The death of George Floyd, a black man, in Minnesota on May 25 sparked protests that have spread to the largest cities across the country. Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Floyd’s neck for roughly nine minutes. The incident was caught on video that was spread over social media.
The protests have largely been hijacked with violent rioters and far-left activists from the decentralized group known as Antifa. Thousands of rioters and looters have pillaged and burned numerous businesses in Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, New York City, Washington, D.C., and other cities. Nearly half of U.S. governors activated National Guard units in response to the wave of violence and lawlessness.
Carter said that the violence, “whether spontaneous or consciously incited, is not a solution” and asserted that the “bonds of our common humanity must overcome the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.”
The former president went on to blame a “racially discriminatory police and justice system, immoral economic disparities between whites and blacks, and government actions that undermine our unified democracy” for the unrest.
Read Carter’s complete <a href="https://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/2020/statement-060320.html">statement</a> below:
<blockquote>Rosalynn and I are pained by the tragic racial injustices and consequent backlash across our nation in recent weeks. Our hearts are with the victims’ families and all who feel hopeless in the face of pervasive racial discrimination and outright cruelty. We all must shine a spotlight on the immorality of racial discrimination. But violence, whether spontaneous or consciously incited, is not a solution.
As a white male of the South, I know all too well the impact of segregation and injustice to African Americans. As a politician, I felt a responsibility to bring equity to my state and our country. In my 1971 inaugural address as Georgia’s governor, I said: “The time for racial discrimination is over.” With great sorrow and disappointment, I repeat those words today, nearly five decades later. Dehumanizing people debases us all; humanity is beautifully and almost infinitely diverse. The bonds of our common humanity must overcome the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.
Since leaving the White House in 1981, Rosalynn and I have strived to advance human rights in countries around the world. In this quest, we have seen that silence can be as deadly as violence. People of power, privilege, and moral conscience must stand up and say “no more” to a racially discriminatory police and justice system, immoral economic disparities between whites and blacks, and government actions that undermine our unified democracy. We are responsible for creating a world of peace and equality for ourselves and future generations.
We need a government as good as its people, and we are better than this.</blockquote>
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Now that he’s lived longer than any other president, former President Jimmy Carter, just before his 95th birthday, offered his sage wisdom, saying of the presidency, &#8220;I hope there’s an age limit. If I were just 80 years old, if I was 15 years younger, I don’t believe I could undertake the duties I experienced when I was president.&#8221;
Carter was answering questions on Tuesday during his annual report at the Carter Center in Atlanta, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/868124c2ad2b410bbcac74418d77468d">Associated Press</a>, which added, &#8220;Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders would turn 80 during their terms if elected.&#8221;
Carter’s comment came after someone asked if he had thought of running in 2020. He added that the presidency requires a president &#8220;to be very flexible with your mind,&#8221; adding, &#8220;You have to be able to go from one subject to another and concentrate on each one adequately and then put them together in a comprehensive way, like I did between Begin and Sadat with the peace agreement.&#8221;
As Jay Nordlinger, in his <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2002/10/carterpalooza-jay-nordlinger-2/">classic essay Carterpalooza!</a> in National Review in 2002, noted that Carter’s claim’s regarding Camp David have been inflated:
<blockquote>Carter has long enjoyed a reputation as a Middle East sage, owing, of course, to his role in the original Camp David accords. That reputation, however, rests on shaky grounds. Truth is, Sadat and Begin had their deal worked out before ever approaching Washington. And the facilitators they used were far from saintly Southern Baptists: They used the dreadful King of Morocco and the even more dreadful Ceausescu of Romania! When they had their plan essentially worked out, however, they called the White House …</blockquote>
Carter stated that he hadn&#8217;t settled on which Democratic presidential candidate he favors, saying, &#8220;I’m going to keep an open mind … One of the major factors I will have in my mind is who can beat Trump.&#8221;
There is an argument to be made that Carter at any age couldn’t handle the presidency; he served as President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. His presidency is generally viewed as one of the greatest failures in the history of the American presidency. He pulled U.S. missiles out of South Korea without consulting the Pentagon; he signed the Panama Canal Treaty, thus giving up control by the year 2000; he implemented price controls, and presided over an economy that by 1980 featured interest rates at a staggering 21%, inflation at 13.5%, and unemployment at 7%.
Carter’s bitterness toward Republican presidents, particularly President Ronald Reagan, is almost legendary; as recently as late June at <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/28/politics/jimmy-carter-trump-russia-interference/index.html">the Carter Center’s retreat</a>, he said of President Trump that a full investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election would prove that Trump didn’t actually win the presidency, snorting, &#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election. And I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if fully investigated would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.&#8221; When asked if Trump was an illegitimate president, Carter answered, &#8220;Based on what I just said, which I can’t retract,&#8221; as the audience laughed.
As far as Reagan, Nordlinger noted of Carter’s meeting with arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat in 1990:
<blockquote>Carter boasted of his toughness toward Israel, assuring Arafat at one point, &#8220;. . . you should not be concerned that I am biased. I am much more harsh with the Israelis.&#8221; Arafat, for his part, railed against the Reagan administration and its alleged &#8220;betrayals.&#8221; Rosalynn Carter, taking notes for her husband, interjected, &#8220;You don’t have to convince us!&#8221; Brinkley records that this &#8220;elicited gales of laughter all round.&#8221; Carter himself, according to Brinkley, &#8220;agreed that the Reagan administration was not renowned as promise keepers&#8221; (this, to Arafat). If you are sickened by the thought of a former U.S. president and a former First Lady of the United States and the career terrorist Yasser Arafat all sitting around bashing Ronald Reagan . . . you and I think alike.</blockquote>

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