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[I B Squidly]

What possible constituency is the Navy trying to satisfy with this. Rykover is more deserving and it's a name not yet used. I mean, what did Jimmy ever do for the Navy? Salt and Peppers? Poverty wages?

http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=17111

[GenrXr]

Arrgghh...
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[Tom Poole]

[Rdtf]

[blue9t3]

Giiiivvvvvvee me a break! Why dont they name a shot down crop duster after him? or some sort of peanut barge? Maybe a peanut barge full of 16D nails and 2x4's so he can build habitats for ennemies?
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[gmez2001]

[Snipe]

Why don't they just name a gate in the Panama Canal after him.
When he's dead of course.
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[GM Strong]

I am as conflicted as well, but you can't take away the fact he was a Naval Academy grad and was part of the Nuclear Submarine Navy. That is the thread. He at least reflected credit on the Navy unlike a certain candidate that spent 4 mo in a combat zone. I would blow my cork if a ship were to be christened the USS Slick Willy (probably a floating you know what). I think here we just have to grin and bear it and shake our heads.
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[coldwarvet]

Carter was a disaster he gave away the Panama Canal and welcomed home the dodgers while ignoring those who served in Vietnam. In 1976 with my p38 (can opener) I opened a can stamped 1970 to a nice serving of cold ham & eggs. And then for good measure the Carter administration froze our pay and then my leave time. Moral had reached a new low under his command.

CWV
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[GM Strong]

[1991932]

I B Squidly posed the question "...Jimmy Carter...WHY?", so here's my take:

The fact that civilians control the military in America has always bothered veterans. Remember Robert McNamara's micro-management of the war in Viet Nam? We couldn't attack many targets in the north without his explicit approval. That was efficient. NOT!

So we have a system where nitwits make life-or-death decisions as well as choose unpopular names for our warships. I'll take that over a society that is controlled by the military.

This business of departing from Naval tradition in naming ships first troubled me when JFK was assassinated and we got an aircraft carrier named after him. Much of the country detested the man, but we probably all accept the decision now that three decades have passed.

But then I turned around in the 1980's and discovered that we have an aircraft carrier named after a living congressman {USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)}, and still ten years later, another one named after a living senator {USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)}. Neither man, no matter how deserving of the honor, never spent a day in the military. At least Jimmy Carter was a veteran and Commander in Chief.

Take solace in the fact that we'll never have a USS John F. Kerry, although it's rumored that the French are considering such a move. And the US Navy is still pondering what ship would be worthy of the moniker USS Wiliiam J. Clinton. But that's another topic.

As Walter Cronkite used to inform us: "That's the way it is."

Is this a great country, or what?
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[GM Strong]

[GM Strong]

Hey, Just reminiscing. Remember when Jimmuh fought off the attack of the Killer Rabbit at the old fishing hole??? It was touch and go for awhile as I recall.
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[Rdtf]

Speaking of reminiscing, did any of you have a can or two of Billy Beer around? I kept them for a while and eventually threw them out. Bet some looney lefty would pay a lot for them on Ebay these days

[GM Strong]