Rewrite history

"Nearly 30 years ago, skyrocketing energy prices and a sagging economy may have played a larger role in the defeat of President Carter than the Iranian hostage standoff, experts said." That's what the LAT wrote yesterday. But Carter was a fumbling, bumbling idiot who personally maintained the schedule for White House tennis courts. It wasn't energy prices or a sagging economy or hostages that defeated Carter. Rather it was incompetence. The people had enough of it.