1. He gave away the Panama canal
2. He allowed the Iranians to hold our fellow citizens hostage for 444 days and let them take over the embassy and set into motion events that allowed 9/11 to happen
3. He was going to pull American troops out of South Korea until everyone including Gen John K Singlaub rightfully pitched a bitch about it. The Gen had to resign for standing up to the peanut farmer.
4. Double digit inflation and unemployment
5. He pardoned all draft dodging assholes that wouldn't answer the call to duty and paved the way for Clinton to get into office.
addendum to #4.....you forgot double digit interest rates...first home loan was 14%.
6. He eliminated the entire human intelligence network of the CIA in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia under his CIA Director, Stansfield Turner, in favor of satellites.
7. carter thought that Ayatollah Khomeni, a Muslim exile in Paris, would make a fairer Iranian leader than the Shah because he was a religious man. Carter withdrew U.S. support from the Shah ,and the Shah was overthrown. The Ayatollah returned and promptly proclaimed Iran an Islamic nation.
Khomeni eliminates his opposition with the help of the PLO. Khomeni also creates Hezbollah.
8. After a meeting with Soviet leader Brezhnev, in which Carter kissed Brezhnev on both cheeks, the
Russians invaded Afghanistan. Carter was shocked that "the Russians lied to me!"
9.Russian expansion in Ethiopia, South Yemen, Angola, Cambodia, Mozambique, Grenada, and Nicaragua.
10 . Reduced military capabilities, 45% reduction in fighter aircraft, 75% in ships, 83% in attack submarines, and 90% in helicopters.
11. 12% inflation, 21% interest rates and 11% unemployment.....aka as the misery index.
Yes Carter was that bad.