Marathon Pundit: Jimmy Carter calls Occupy movement "relatively successful," in reality it mirrors his presidency

Thirty years after Jimmy Carter destroyed our relationship with Iran, we are still dealing with the consequences, which may soon involve mushroom clouds in the Middle East.

Out of touch then, out of touch now. Earlier this evening "Malaise" praised the Occupy movement.

From Fox News:

Former President Jimmy Carter said on Wednesday that Occupy organizers have created a "relatively successful" movement because they focused national discussion on wealth disparity despite lacking leadership and a unifying set of goals.

The Georgia Democrat said at an event in Atlanta that Occupy organizers have succeeded in forcing the media and Congress to realize the "chasm is getting greater than leaps and bounds" between the rich and the poor.

"It's been relatively successful even acknowledging there's no leadership, there's no coherence and there's no single list of issues they want to succeed," the former president said of the movement started late last year in lower Manhattan to decry corporate influence in government and wealth inequality.

"That issue was basically ignored by the Congress and the news media a year ago," he said. "I believe they've achieved putting that back on the agenda."

Among what I call occtrocities are 11 Occupy deaths and over 6,500 arrests. But let's take a another look at Jimmah's wisdom: "It's been relatively successful even acknowledging there's no leadership, there's no coherence and there's no single list of issues they want to succeed." Take away "relatively successful " and you have an apt description of the unhappy Carter years.

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