{"id":4835,"date":"2012-10-01T15:18:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=4835"},"modified":"2012-10-01T15:18:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:18:27","slug":"romney-team-tries-hanging-a-jimmy-carter-label-on-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/romney-team-tries-hanging-a-jimmy-carter-label-on-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney team tries hanging a Jimmy Carter label on Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Scott Shane from The New York Times<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A president struggling simultaneously to cope with anti-American tumult in the Middle East and fix stubborn economic trouble at home: Is\u00a0President Obama\u00a0replaying the one-term presidency of\u00a0Jimmy Carter?<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama began his presidency by reaching out to Iran and gave a tempered response when the pro-democracy Green Movement protests broke out there in 2009 \u2014 a position the Romney campaign has seized on to accuse the president of \u201cprojecting weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the case for weakness runs up against Mr. Obama\u2019s record when it comes to the targeted killing of terrorism suspects, with hundreds of drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen. On Iran, administration officials point to tough sanctions and the president\u2019s vow not to permit the country to obtain a nuclear weapon.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/10\/DavidHoughton.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4843\" title=\"DavidHoughton\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/10\/DavidHoughton-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/10\/DavidHoughton-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/10\/DavidHoughton-299x393.jpg 299w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2012\/10\/DavidHoughton.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>David Patrick Houghton, a political scientist at the University of Central Florida<\/strong> and author of a book on the Iran hostage crisis, said the Carter comparisons were \u201cmostly unfair\u201d \u2014 both to Mr. Carter and Mr. Obama. He singled out as \u201cutterly false\u201d Mr. Romney\u2019s claim that Mr. Reagan\u2019s tough reputation caused Iran to release the American hostages just as he became president; in fact, the Carter administration had negotiated their release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis campaign has become a kind of opportunity to fling around bogus history,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/29\/us\/politics\/romney-compares-obama-presidency-to-carters.html?ref=scottshane&amp;_r=1&amp;&amp;pagewanted=all\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Scott Shane from The New York Times A president struggling simultaneously to cope with anti-American tumult in the Middle East and fix stubborn economic trouble at home: Is\u00a0President Obama\u00a0replaying the one-term presidency of\u00a0Jimmy Carter? Mr. Obama began his presidency by reaching out to Iran and gave a tempered response when the pro-democracy Green Movement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":4843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,16,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political-science-departments","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Romney team tries hanging a Jimmy Carter label on Obama - College of Sciences News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/romney-team-tries-hanging-a-jimmy-carter-label-on-obama\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Romney team tries hanging a Jimmy Carter label on Obama - College of Sciences News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Scott Shane from The New York Times A president struggling simultaneously to cope with anti-American tumult in the Middle East and fix stubborn economic trouble at home: Is\u00a0President Obama\u00a0replaying the one-term presidency of\u00a0Jimmy Carter? 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