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Since Jimmy Carter has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, it seems that the statement of a few simple facts are in order. I am 50 years old, and Carter was the most incompetent president of my lifetime. We waited in line for an hour to buy a gallon of gas to put into the tank of an American car, which had been reduced, by government regulation, to a worthless piece of junk. The home mortgage interest rate was 19 percent, gold sold for $800 an ounce and the economy teetered on the brink of collapse.

Carter couldn’t even get a helicopter off the ground. He may have been a nice guy, but he was a weakling. The revisionist historians who mistake weakness and indecision for intelligence must not be allowed to define our values.