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The problem is, you're letting fear rule your thinking. You're shouting "wake up people", but wake up to what? Vote for Hillary? McCain? Or is it just a general yell of "we're all doooooomed" which really serves no purpose other than perhaps a cathartic one for you?
It's "Wake up, people! Obama is a cynical politician like the rest of 'em, his message is a fraud that he himself most likely doesn't believe [and if he does believe it, then we REALLY don't need someone like that as president], what he promises most certainly won't come true, and he's just stroking your liberalism to get you to vote for him with sweet nothings he knows you love. He doesn't really care about the policy, and he hasn't bothered to really learn it. He would be a worse president than Clinton." That's my message.
And even if Obama falls short of what I suggested, much less what you suggested, it still doesn't equal Carter, who himself was a much better President than is generally acknowledged. It doesn't have to end the same way, 30 years separate the Carter presidency from now. We've had a long time to see just how bad Reagan and the Bushs have been.
I know that, but Carter was dumped in favor of Reagan a mere 6 years after Watergate. That is a catastrophic failure for the Democrats, that after SUCH a massive scandal, the resignation of a Republican president, they managed to lose the presidency after just one term. Bush's misdeeds are on the same level as Nixon's, for sure, but if the Carter experience teaches us anything, it's that that doesn't really matter.
