The low point of Jimmy Carter’s awful presidency-Byron York

I should have waited until the Eulogies are finished, but wanted to post this for those who were not around at the time, or have forgotten.
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THE LOW POINT OF JIMMY CARTER’S AWFUL PRESIDENCY. Forty-five years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter gave what came to be known as his “malaise” speech. More than halfway through his term as president, things were going terribly. Inflation was already high, 6.3%, when Carter took office. By the time of the malaise speech, it had risen to 9.6%. A year later, in June 1980, it hit 13.6%. As National Review’s Philip Klein pointed out, “To maintain the buying power that $100 had on the month Carter was sworn into office, you’d need $150 by the time he left the White House just four years later.” Gas prices skyrocketed amid shortages and long lines. “Gas stations flew a stoplight-themed array of flags to alert drivers about their fuel supplies,” the Washington Post noted. “Red meant they were all out, yellow meant running low, and green signaled they were stocked.”

The standard of living headed steadily downward. And that is not to mention the disastrous international consequences of Carter’s presidency — the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the humiliating Iranian hostage ordeal, and the even more humiliating failed American hostage rescue attempt. Through it all, Carter projected the image, and the reality, of a man who was simply not up to the job.
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Carter won the election in 1976 because of the peculiar circumstances of the post-Watergate moment. After Richard Nixon’s resignation, the Republican Party was in the dumps — a top GOP politico once told me the party actually considered changing its name, its image was so bad — and Carter appealed to voters with a promise that he would never lie to the public. But Americans quickly soured on the new president when it became clear he would make bad times even worse.

Carter, who recently died at age 100 and whose funeral will be held Thursday at the National Cathedral in Washington, went on to build a reputation as a great ex-president. That is debatable, but the fact is so many people speak highly of Carter’s post-presidential years because they know he was a failure as president. And the “malaise” speech was perhaps the lowest moment of those terrible four years.

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However, it's hard to deny he had God in his heart.