President Jimmy Carters Legacy

             For a long while, I was involved as a volunteer in the democrat party. That is until I saw the injustice done to Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Cater took over the presidency after Nixon and Ford almost ruined this country, at the height of an energy crises.
         It disgust me when I read where people call him inept or a bad president. I'm here to say that he will go down in history as one of our best presidents. He told people the truth and people don't want to hear the truth. They don''t want to hear that they should wear sweaters inside when its 20 degrees outside. No! They would rather here how to "lift there selves up by their boot straps" go out and get in debt for the rest of your lives so you can afford that "American Dream", go into debt to be prosperous!!!!
       I'm here to tell you and I don't think there is any body that can tell me any different. If we had continued with Carters energy policy we wouldn't be in the shape we are right now. We probably wouldn't be in Iraq or Afghanistan. Carter brought peace to the Middle East, look at it now! Carter had started the decriminalization of marijuana. Reagans war on drugs saw the rise of cocaine and the rise of drug cartels and the Mexican Mafia while people's lives were ruined and went to jail because of mandatory sentencing laws. Today the legalization and the ending of pot prohibition is sweeping the country. Just think of the money that could have been made in taxes the last 30 years, the jobs created, the money saved on enforcement and incarceration. The Iranian crises he couldn't help and he couldn't help the inept military rescue effort. In the end it was all politically engineered to make him look bad. But I'm telling you he will go down as one of the most visionary presidents in the 20th century, everything we are doing today from alternative energy sources to legalization of marijuana he started 30 years ago and then the nay sayers, main stream democrats and republicans with all their corporate sponsors took over and you see where that got us.