A Jimmy Carter speech to give us perspective

Most of us today think of Jimmy Carter as some kind old man who works with Habitat for Humanity. While his work with such charities as an ex-President are admirable, President Jimmy Carter was inept at the helm of America in crisis. The media will lead you to believe that the times we now live in are the worst ever, and that our leaders have never been more inept. That is not true. Just watch this clip of then President Jimmy Carter and you get an idea of how bad things were about 30 years ago. Carter was soon soundly defeated at the polls in favor of Ronald Reagan, who led an American revival. However, in those days of the late 70s, America was in woe and its leaders more inept than now. Watch the video and think how the media of today would pounce on President Bush if he delivered such remarks. For that matter, the media would probably pounce on President-elect Obama. Americans, especially those who seem to shape public opinion, have a profound ignorance of history. We are in bad times, but no hardly the worst of times.