I know the cons are patting themselves on the back when they hear that Sen. McCain is trying to say Sen. Obama is like Jimmy Carter, but what they 
don’t understand is that it just feeds more into the image of McCain as fuddy duddy. Obama compares him to the current, sitting president, and says that in order to move forward we must abandon the failure of conservatism. McCain says, remember that president from the 1970s you learned about in history class? Barack Obama is like him.
In other words, its more modern than the William Jennings Bryan comparison, but Jimmy Carter hasn’t been president for 28 years. Sen. McCain, that’s way before you could do “a Google”.
McCain went from a 19th century comparison to a 20th century comparison. At some point in his campaign I suppose he might join Sen. Obama and the rest of us in the 21st century.
JOHN SIDNEY MCCAIN FACTOID: Senator McCain was 40 when Jimmy Carter was first elected president. Senator Obama was 15. I was -12 months.
This a weak criticism, Oliver.
Just because Obama is conveniently rehashing all of Carter’s ideas (because Clinton was smart enough not to embrace them), your criticism is that it is an old reference?
Come on, we have to reach back 30 years to find a Democratic president so incompetent and embracing so many failed ideas.
Respectfully,
The Squid
How far back do we have to reach to find a Republican?
Fun pic, OW.
“How far back do we have to reach to find a Republican?”
Nixon
Nixon? Nixon had areas of competence. To find an incompetent Republican president who embraces so many failed ideas we have to reach all the way back to… damn. It’s gotta be one that McCain embraces . It’ll come to me in a few minutes… damn. I’m sure we can find one. C’mon someone help me.
Funny thing is, bashing Carter sounds fun and hip, but when I pay $4.00 per gallon at the pump, I just can’t laugh at Carter. Then I curse Reagan.
“Funny thing is, bashing Carter sounds fun and hip, but when I pay $4.00 per gallon at the pump, I just can’t laugh at Carter. Then I curse Reagan.”
Oh so now our failure to utilize our own natural resources is Reagans fault?
Respectfully
The Squid
Squid, of course it is. They blame Reagan for the housing bubble as well.
I would imagine the congress only has something to do with it after 1994 as well, correct? And they become once again absolved after 2006.
Respectfully,
The Squid
Dick Nixon was a paragon of competence compared to George W. Bush.
“Dick Nixon was a paragon of competence compared to George W. Bush.”
Perhaps and Obama is a well-spoken, less folksy, less compitent version of Jimmy Carter.
Respectfully,
The Squid
Perhaps he’s just his own man. This constant pigeonholing – as if Americans are incapapble of getting a person or an idea on its own merit, says a lot about us.
Change just is. We don’t have to continually repackage it into something familar.
I think comparing Obama to Carter is apt.
After enduring a corrupt, vicious, vindictive Republican administration, the country is fed up and turning to someone who will come in and clean house.
And John McCain is just a more crotchety, more values for sale version of Bush.
Latest Gallup Poll a little less embarrassing than the one the MSM repeated last week: Obama 48%, McCain 42%. Still makes the electorate look like morons but at least the trend is in the right direction.
Is this anything like when the Democrats put out ads saying a Bush 2nd term would repeat the Herbert Hoover economy?
In fact, Oliver also compared Bush to Hoover several times during the 2004 election cycle. You’re a forgetful idiot, Oliver.
Oh so now our failure to utilize our own natural resources is Reagan’s fault?
What is it with you guys? Are you all reading from the same script today or what?
Is this anything like when the Democrats put out ads saying a Bush 2nd term would repeat the Herbert Hoover economy?
You mean it’s not?
“Is this anything like when the Democrats put out ads saying a Bush 2nd term would repeat the Herbert Hoover economy?
You mean it’s not?”
I think that the point is that Oliver has no business criticising McCain for such a “dated” reference.
Quaker,
Someone on the News Hour made an apt comparison to the the 1980 Jimmy Carter. Heading into the campaing, the country was largely disenchanted with Carter and wanted change but still had reservations about Reagan. As the campaign progressed, and especially after the debates, that reluctance disolved, and Reagan won in a landslide. It may be that McCain will be Carter, and Obama, Reagan.
Oliver also recently had a post/picture of Linda Carter referring to her as “Wonder Woman.” When was Wonder Woman on TV with Linda Carter? You guessed it — during the Carter administration. Cutting edge Oliver Willis!
“What is it with you guys? Are you all reading from the same script today or what?”
I know. This people must be getting their marching orders from the same source; there’s no way they can all be acting like the idiotic in the same way by coincidence.
“When was Wonder Woman on TV with Linda Carter? You guessed it — during the Carter administration. Cutting edge Oliver Willis!”
And have you HEARD how much tea costs in China these days?
Sort of tangential, but I’m disappointed to see that think progress spends their money on putting up clips of john mccain describing “a google”. This isn’t like the series of tubes, or Bush’s “using the google”.
There’s nothing wrong with the usage “to give something a google” – I, hip 20-barely-something I am, have used it before. If I can google something, then I can do a google for something, at which point I have given something a google.