Interesting ... I definitely agree about Jimmy's integrity. Nearly every
other ex-president has gotten a fair amount of press coverage of the million
dollar contributions to their libraries. Jimmy has received coverage of his
involvement with Habit for Humanity. However 18% home loans, and some pretty
severe erosion of U.S. security don't earn him a very high place for results
while he was presiding. I would bet some of the government people I dealt
with back then are blaming Jimmy for 911, Osama, Afghanastan, Iraq and every
other bad foreign event that has happened since he was in office Conversely
a former president who is *infamous* for his political integrity seems to
have gotten pretty good press for his foreign policy even though he
inherited a very unpopular war.
Results with non-politician leaders have often had some pretty good points.
Yes Reagan presided over a massive deficit but the soviet government went
bankrupt first. Hopefully the need for our leaders to think they need to
send troops somewhere will also go bankrupt.
-jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Gullen" <andrew.gullen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:40 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: {OT} Retired? Keep things interesting....
> On integrity at least, Jimmy Carter. That's what we were discussing.
>
> Judgement was middling.
>
> Andrew
>
> > On 27/10/2004, at 6:47 AM, Jeff Keller wrote:
> >
> > (out of curiousity which leader in the world would you pick as an
> > example of
> > integrity and judgement?)
>
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