Obama: Jimmy Carter Redux? Ready for another Iranian hostage crisis?

An Obama presidency would be a rerun of the disastrous Jimmy Carter years. Doesn't that sound like fun? Even TIME Magazine notes the similarities: In Carter's Shadow.

Of the two likely nominees this year, Obama is closest to Carter in background and policy leanings. The parallels between his campaign so far and the one Carter ran in 1976 are striking. Like Carter, Obama had little national experience when he started to run. Neither was given much chance of winning the nomination. Instead of running on a detailed platform, Carter told crowds that what Washington needed was "a government as good as its people"—just as Obama promises "change we can believe in."