Obama = Carter? What a novel idea!

Noel Sheppard, at NewsBusters, notes an interesting comment from Chris Matthews:

In the Carter presidency, the optics were not exactly robust, and Ronald Reagan rode that to a big victory in 1980. Is the Obama White House sending some Carteresque signals these days?

Yeah, some of us have noticed that

It's really been an amazing nine months. We've got the Carter administration re-run ("second verse, same as the first - a little bit louder and a little bit worse") and condensed into about 1/5 the time...

As someone said when he was elected:

there are two kinds of people in this country - those who remember the Carter years, and those who are about to learn.