Jimmy Carter is who we needed in 1976 after the Nixon (GOP) debacle. Jimmy Carter was not who we needed by 1979. I liked him a lot, but by the end he lost his ability to lead. Inflation, interest rates and an Iranian revolution overwhelmed his simple feel good messages for America.

As for Roslynn, I always felt a little sorry for her. A quiet rural girl from Plains Georgia thrust in the brightest of spotlights. She acquitted herself well. But she never seemed to fully define her role. She certainly was never comfortable being limited to purely ceremonial roles. And Americans were never comfortable with the notion of a First Lady actively helping to form policy.

RIP

Wow? Good wow or bad wow? Or maybe bow wow?

LM: I liked Jimmy Carter, and I remember his presidency clearly. By the end of his time as President, there was a real pessimism throughout America, and a perception (rightly or wrongly) that Carter was not up to the job. He himself while president described the nation as being in a "malaise". Personally, I think Carter's greatest lapse was in losing the confidence of the American people. You may agree or disagree whether he deserved to lose that support, but there is no question but that he did. By the end he was not leading. He wasn't, - regardless of how much you and I may have liked him as a human being.

And Ronald Reagan had the panels taken down, acting as if solar energy was all just a pathetic liberal joke in the first place. Reagan was ---- in so many ways.