mises.org -- Rothbard on Jimmy Carter.
Murray identified a key theme in Carter’s presidency, the stress on pain and sacrifice, and he mordantly mocked it: “Pain-our pain, of course-has been a constant theme of Jimmy Carter’s since he burst on the national scene. During the 1976 campaign Carter assured us that ‘Ah feel yo’ pain,’ and such is his enthusiasm for this empathy that he has gone out of his way to inflict pain ever since. After he went to the mountaintop last summer to receive his revelation on energy, he proceeded to remind us of his ‘pain’ motif and then to scourge us for the mortal sin of wishing to buy foreign oil.”