Blackwell - "Back to the Seventies"

Ken Blackwell

Fritz Mondale has weighed in. Jimmy Carter’s Vice President has surely not helped President Obama. He just gave an interview to the fashionably liberal New Yorker Magazine. That famously with-it publication titled its Mondale piece: “Back to the Seventies.” Oh my. If there’s one comparison that President Obama hopes voters won’t make, it’s likening him to President Carter. Mondale, like Yogi Berra, says it’s like déjà vu all over again. When the public sours on you, Fritz said, “it’s like a unique four-year marriage contract, in which divorce is not an option.” Mondale offered a reprise of his stormy tenure as vice president during Jimmy Carter’s unhappy single term. “People think the president is the only one who can fix their problems. And, if he doesn’t produce solutions, I’m telling you—when a person loses a job, or can’t feed his family, or can’t keep his house, he is not longer rational. They become angry, they strike out—and that’s what you have now. If you’re President, they say, ‘Do something!’” Read more here:

Blackwell - "Back to the Seventies"