RIP President Carter

[HighlandLofts]

I'm with you 1911, they immediately need to stop all the border crossings with deadly force if needed.
Then ship every illegal back to their homeland or to Martha's vineyard

 

[wired]

Why are some people in this thread celebrating his death? Some of them are self professed Christians, which seems against the spirit of faith. It's a bad look and certainly in poor taste.

Is anyone celebrating his death? I think if you lived through the 70's theres a pretty good chance you have a low opinion of the man.that years of building houses didn't erase. I dont know that anyones celebrating but its more of a meh... He stopped being relevant in 1980.

 

[Dungannon]

I didn't always agree with his politics, but he's the only president in my 73 years that I would have liked for a friend. I did vote for him the first time, because Ford pardoned Nixon.

 

[1911Fanatic]

Why are some people in this thread celebrating his death? Some of them are self professed Christians, which seems against the spirit of faith. It's a bad look and certainly in poor taste.

I am not celebrating his death, I am pleased that he made it to 100 years old. That's a good long life. Nobody could ask for more.

 

[nehalemguy]

Haters gonna hate I suppose

Jimmy Carter Was a Successful (Conservative) President

Common conceptions of Carter are all wrong because they don’t acknowledge a crucial reality: he was a conservative.

time.com

Nobody was sad to see him leave office. He may have been a great human being, but he was a horrible President. Double digit interest rates, a recession, the highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression, and the fact that Iran was holding 52 of our citizens hostage while we seemed powerless to do anything about it sealed his fate as a one-term president.

I know that in the years following his Presidency, there has been a reexamination of his four years in office with the general tone of "Hey, he wasn't really that bad", but having actually lived through the Carter Administration, forgive me if I don't share that overly rosy view.

-E-

 

[Jay Walk]

Great Guy, and he lived long enough to witness the absolute worst crook Prez the nation has ever seen.

 

[Dozer99]

Awesome Human who had the most inept, self centered advisors (Vice President Walter Mondale and Cyrus Vance) which in turn made him a not very effective leader. I believe the Walter Mondale did more to subvert the President than help and in turn the country saw the Carter administration as being in constant turmoil because of him.

Carter was a very brilliant Naval Officer as well.

 

[Quirt Evans]

IIRC, in an interview decades ago he said that he went to DC with high hopes and a list of people that he wanted to appoint to various positions.
He went on to say that when he was in office that he was given other lists to pick from that had different names on them.
In other words, pick from the people we want, or you'll get nowhere.
He realized then that what we today call the "swamp" was alive and well back then, (and long before).
Make no mistake, Jimmy was not a "dumb" man, you don't get a degree in nuclear engineering from Annapolis unless you've got some smarts.
I think that maybe he tried a little too much to find the "good side" of some "world players" that never had a good side.
I've not had hard feelings towards Carter, at the bottom line he was "too decent" to be a president.
To deal with the scumbags that run most of the world, a successful president needs to have a streak of "conniving" in them, Jimmy lacked that.

 

[jabayevx]

Biden
Obama
Carter

I would argue that Obama was the worst because we will be dealing with the damage he caused for at least 100 years.

 

[jabayevx]

I am not celebrating his death, I am pleased that he made it to 100 years old. That's a good long life. Nobody could ask for more.

There are always people who don't believe in your faith but who want to use your values against you. They're called communists.

 

[Jay Walk]

At least he got to vote one final time. Maybe not though.

He'll keep voting.

 

[monkeybutler]

Awesome Human who had the most inept, self centered advisors (Vice President Walter Mondale and Cyrus Vance) which in turn made him a not very effective leader.

that tracks with what my dad told me about him. I was alive during Carter, but not old enough to understand any nuance about his presidency.

 

[64MercurysRule]

It would have been best if Jimmy stayed out of politics .
Most American voters wanted to "throw the bums out," and Carter – a little-known Southern governor when he embarked on his campaign the same year that Nixon was ousted – took full advantage of his supposed outsider status .
In fact Carter already had covert and deep roots on the inside, in particular as a carefully chosen member groomed by the Trilateral Commission, a shadowy group of globalist elitists organized by David Rockefeller in 1973 . With their help, Carter already had a leg up with the mainstream mockingbird media . His shtick was to present himself as an aw-shucks Southern gentleman, but a man of the people, the "grinning Georgian" .
Carter's top staff who were privately referred to by reporters who covered the campaign as "the Georgia Mafia ."

There was good reason for that designation . The group of newbie down-home media manipulators and political gurus Carter had assembled resembled political operatives such as James Carville and George Stephanopoulos who steered Bubba Bill Clinton's campaign in 1992, acting like the arrogant good ol' boy bullies that they were . Still waters truly run deep . He was a useful pawn similar the the Bystander & Chief of the last 4 years .
History has a way of repeating itself .

 

[oremike]

Carter was my Commander in Chief the 4 years I was in the Navy. I wish him fair winds and following seas as he sails in to the Great Whatever is Next.

 

[Jay Walk]

Carter was my Commander in Chief the 4 years I was in the Navy. I wish him fair winds and following seas as he sails in to the Great Whatever is Next.

He went STRAIGHT UP

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

Trilateral Commission

 

[64MercurysRule]

The Trilateral Commission's agendas have anticipated those of the Group of 7 (G7) and Group of 8 (G8) summit meetings between the leaders of the world's largest economies. Members have held key positions in U.S. administrations and in the governments of other member countries. In the late 1970s, for example, many former Trilateral Commission members held senior positions in the cabinet of U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter.

 

[Cavedweller]

My first chance to vote was for him, my parents were staunch democrats and guided me to choose him. I didn't know nor care to know anything about politics at that time, I lived in Macon, was in high school,

You got to vote while in high school? What, was 10th grade the best 5 years of your life or something? (just kidding)

Carter was a very brilliant Naval Officer as well.

I'd be interested to know what criteria you used in reaching that conclusion.

Make no mistake, Jimmy was not a "dumb" man, you don't get a degree in nuclear engineering from Annapolis unless you've got some smarts.

He did not get a degree in nuclear engineering. He graduated with a degree in naval science. He was a trainee in the Navy's nuclear power program, but did not complete it. He bailed early by applying for a discharge on a humanitarian basis after the death of his father because his brother Billy was deemed too incompetent to run the family peanut farm. Although at various times he allowed himself to portrayed in the press as a nuclear engineer and the former CO of a nuclear submarine, he was neither.

 

[jabayevx]

You got to vote while in high school? What, was 10th grade the best 5 years of your life or something? (just kidding)

I'd be interested to know what criteria you used in reaching that conclusion.


He did not get a degree in nuclear engineering. He graduated with a degree in naval science. He was a trainee in the Navy's nuclear power program, but did not complete it. He bailed early by applying for a discharge on a humanitarian basis after the death of his father because his brother Billy was deemed too incompetent to run the family peanut farm. Although at various times he allowed himself to portrayed in the press as a nuclear engineer and the former CO of a nuclear submarine, he was neither.

I can't believe a politician would be dishonest

 

[64MercurysRule]

I can't believe a politician would be dishonest

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