Let's Not Repeat the Mistake of 1976!


As I think about Obama, I am reminded of the lackluster administration of Jimmy Carter.

Carter won the election for one simple reason: People were fed up with the game playing, lying and inside the Beltway politics.

They wanted change.

And they got it in spades.

Jimmy Carter turned out to be a provincial president.

All you had to do was look at who he appointed to Cabinet positions and his inner circle.

None of them were big city boys who understood the ways of Washington.

And they were to pay the price for it.

Carter was the penultimate outsider; he couldn’t be an insider on a year of Sundays.

Carter had no experience being a congressman or a Senator or an appointee of a previous president.

He knew nothing about how Washington worked and I never think he learned.

He was a brilliant man with a great deal of smarts who figured that he could master anything.

He couldn’t.

He was a disaster as president.

Are we looking forward to the same kind of scenario.

Are we so preoccupied with change that we are willing to go forward with an untried and untested product.

Obama has very little substantive background that anyone can point to.

He’s missed a lot of votes and he’s not done much with the committees he heads.

So, how then to judge.

Do we buy into the 1976 message of Jimmy Carter that he is an agent of change.


Somebody can talk a good game but it doesn’t mean they can deliver.

Biden may be right when he says that Obama has very little to show from his freshman year in the Senate.

Right now, we are a point in history where things demand a take charge president.

I don’t believe that Obama is the man for the hour.

He has to go back and cook some more, do some things, and establish his bona fides…

For now, before we vote, we need to look at the experience factor….


Let’s not forget the mistake democrats made in 1976.


Les Aaron
The Committee for Positive Change

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