the analogy alludes to the weakness of Carter in the way that he was judged over the 444 Iran hostages. Some folk feel Obama is wishy washy on foreign policy, not a traditional US good friend of Israel and not prepared to deal with the Iran potential nuclear bomb in the making. If Iran does make a nuclear bomb, it could easily be said that Obama's presidency has been very much tainted. If Israel attacks Iran to destroy the nuclear facility against US wishes it will be a major rift that will certainly set the US political scene on fire. Remember, Israel attacked Iraq for the exact same reason. Ironic in that Israel has nuclear bombs including the very threatening neutron bomb.