Carter was blamed for paying off the cost of Vietnam. He got stuck with not just that massive war debt and the economic clusterf*ck left over from Nixon & Ford... That and he was a weenie that gave away The Panama Canal.
It always sucks being the guy that has to clean up the morning after.

He was much less to blame as Bush I was to blame for that schitheap he inherited from Reagan, since Bush I was in on the whole thing from the word go.

In hindsight, I'd take 1000 Carters over a single term of Dubya.

My old man had a small independent business and Reagan's economic policies almost put us on the street. That was when my mom had to find a job and me and my brothers became latchkey kids.