but lets look at carter.....
Gave away the Panama canal to a drug lord dictatorship.....
The Iranian hostage crisis was seen by critics as a devastating blow to national prestige; Carter struggled for 444 days to release the hostages.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan marked the end of détente,
was unable to reduce soaring interest rates and inflation rates,,The economy suffered double-digit inflation, coupled with very high interest rates, oil shortages, high unemployment, and slow economic growth. Nothing Carter did seemed to help,
or to lower unemployment
The inflation caused interest rates to rise to unprecedented levels (above 12% per year).
The prime rate hit 21.5 in December 1980, highest in history
the gas crises.....
Carter asked for the resignations of all of his Cabinet officers,...
The rapid change in rates led to disintermediation of bank deposits, which began the Savings and Loan crisis.
Carter signed legislation increasin the Social Security costs through a staggered increase in the payroll tax
He also prohibited Americans from participating in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow,
reinstated registration for the draft for young male.
Carter started a $40 billion covert program of training Islamic fundamentalists in Pakistan and Afghanistan.which led to the rise of Islamic theocracy in the region, and also created much of the current problems with Islamic fundamentalism...
On August 5, 1980, the Saudi rulers welcomed Saddam Hussein to Riyadh for his first state visit to Saudi Arabia, the first for any Iraqi president. Saudi Prince Fahd claimed that President Carter, apparently hoping to strengthen the U.S. hand in the Middle East and desperate to pressure Iran over the stalled hostage talks, gave clearance to Saddam's invasion of Iran. On September 22, 1980, Saddam Hussein invaded Iran and began a bloody trench war that lasted almost a decade and killed one million people.
n 1994, Carter went to North Korea at the behest of President Clinton.
and gace them "two light water reactors" ,..it soon became apparent that despite their promises to Carter, North Korea had no intention of stopping its nuclear weapons program. In 2005, North Korea announced that it had nuclear weapons.
but who could forget his further distruction on the home front.....
Carter terminated the Russian Wheat Deal, embargo marked the beginning of hardship for American farmers
Created the ""Misery Index"" and most of the Major problem issues of today....
so who cleaned up his mess?