text: Carter was feckless. His embargo of Iranian oil in response to the kidnapping and imprisonment of the entire US Iranian diplomatic corps resulted in hording, which drove up gas prices and caused shortages. His rescue by helicopter of the embassy staff ran into a sandstorm, grounding the helicopters. The stagflation, a structural problem, was solved by Fed chairman Paul Volcker, but didn't kick in until Reagan took office, after Reagan had promised to sell Ayatollah Komeini banned missiles, the profit from which went to the Nicaraguan Contras from Ollie North's office in the White House basement. Remember that?
  
  Carter was the most decent man in the White House in the last 100 years. As The Donald would say, Nice people are losers. I guess that's the way you feel, Motley, when you're not thinking about how common criminals are losers. So, who's NOT a loser?