Hot on the heels of this German editorial roundup headlined Will Obama Be 21st Century Jimmy Carter?, comes this article from France’s Le Figaro.
It’s a narrative picking up steam both here and abroad. As French columnist Pierre Rousselin points out, comparing President Obama to Jimmy Carter isn’t just for U.S. neoconservatives anymore.
For Le Figaro, Rousselin writes in part:
Comparisons between Obama and Carter, with his much maligned legacy, were until recently the preserve of the neoconservatives, who competed in bad faith to attack a president whose ideological orientation doesn’t suit them.
But now those comparisons have taken on more substance. America’s greatest environmental catastrophe of all time is monopolizing the attention of the White House and media – as was the case during the presidency of Jimmy Carter, with the affair involving American hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
The two crises are also similar in that neither Carter nor Obama have control of the situation.
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