re: Breaking: Jimmy Carter in Hospice care

He campaigned with George Wallace to beat a good governor, Carl Sanders, for governor of Georgia. HIs strategy was to paint Sanders as what was referred to at the time a "****** lover." Sanders owned the Atlanta Hawks and Carter sent pictures of Sanders with this arms around the black players to Wallace's mailing list in Georgia.

Nobody ever talks about this.

After getting elected Carter saw the benefit of the black votes for democrats and he started courting key black leaders like Andrew Young.

I was in junior college and we went to Plains the day he was elected because Billy's daughter had gone to the same school and she called the dorm and invited us over. There was a huge crowd but we were most interested in the PBRs Billy was giving away!! I shook Jimmy's hand as he passed through the crowd but voted for Ford.

Carter was not the worst President--probably not even close compared to LBJ, Biden, FDR and Wilson. He was among the least effective Presidents but his administration had few scandals. He had thin skin and did not take well to criticism. The Northeastern left wing of the democrats hated him. Teddy ran against him in the democrat primary.

HIs record is not complete without mentioning his horrible campaign against Carl Sanders. He has always been an active Christian. He inherited the Carter Warehouse but lost it shortly after being President. He was not a particularly good businessman.

Prayers for him and his family.

I pray for the man when he faces God. Carter has been one of the most persistent world leaders over the past 50 years who have attempted to divide God's land.

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. - Zechariah 12:3



In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.- Zechariah 12:6

frick Jimmy Carter, thugPOS

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He lived long enough to see himself move up to second worst president in American history

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3rd worst behind FAKE POTUS biden and obama

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Good life, long life - sorry for his family. He was a good person.

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He was a decent man, old school liberal. Carter was my president back in my late teens when I was a liberal myself. By the time I was 30 I had become a right wing extremist by Groomer standards and Carter stayed true to his liberal beliefs and spent a great deal of his older age helping to build homes for the poor with the Habitat For Humanity organization.

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AggieHank86

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You are just a few years older than me. I was in middle school during the Presidential campaign of 1980.

It seemed to be a great time to become politically aware. It was comforting to embrace the delusion that whatever political disagreements existed between the parties, the Washington political class was ultimately a benefactor of the American people.

What a load of horse manure. I know my wistfulness for that time in my life is based on nostalgia for my youth as much as any political reality, but I admit I miss the naivety of that era.

WEBCAST | Carter vs. Reagan: The Last Semi-Intelligent Presidential Race….



Presidential campaigns in the United States tend to be discouraging affairs, even if one is not a libertarian who has zero expectations that anything good can come from American elections. The old saw that insanity consists of doing the same thing repeatedly and somehow expecting different results applies to presidential campaigns as well as to anything else.

For whatever reason, Americans (and especially the American media) seem to believe that the process by which voters select presidential candidates some day will produce a Marcus Aurelius (or some other philosopher king) as opposed to the final race we have between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, neither of whom will resurrect memories of orators like Daniel Webster or Frederick Douglass. Instead, it will be a race in which observers watch to see who commits the most malapropisms.

Recent presidential campaigns have not been assuring when it comes to actual content being discussed on the campaign trail. Part of that problem is that no matter how “intelligent” or sound a policy initiative may seem to be, in the end government agents are not caretakers of an economy or possessors of great powers; instead, they tend to be hacks, and no matter how much adoring media (on all sides of the ideological spectrum) tries to make their favored candidates out to be philosopher kings, in the end the best outcome we can hope to have is that they not do too much economic and social damage.

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The last presidential campaign in my memory that produced anything close to having substance happened four decades ago when incumbent Jimmy Carter ran against Ronald Reagan. Interestingly, the media had written off Reagan, a former governor of California known better for his B-movie acting career in Hollywood, as an intellectual lightweight, someone lacking an intellect worthy of the office.

While it is not difficult to find the telltale gaffes and wrongheaded statements in any presidential campaign, nonetheless the Carter-Reagan race stood out, because it was the last presidential campaign in which serious economic concepts were discussed.

Even though Carter had enacted a number of grievous economic policies during his time in office, he nonetheless he also had dismantled or was in the process of dismantling huge swaths of New Deal business regulation, a deregulation process that still pays huge dividends today.

Carter entered the fall race with at least some economic successes—although the dividends from deregulation would be long-term and could not be seen right away—while Reagan at least was talking a much better game of free markets than any of his predecessors had done, at least since the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt. Unfortunately for Carter and the Democrats, the president was virtually silent about what would be his most important and longest-lasting accomplishments.

Furthermore, Reagan's embrace of “supply-side” policies invoked the memory of Jean Baptiste Say and his contention that the source of demand was not government demand-side policies but rather what people produced. What is more important is that people actually were debating whether Keynesian policies were effective or harmful.

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This is not to say that the Reagan-Carter campaign resembled an old-time Oxford debate. The Carter camp tried to resurrect memories of Lyndon Johnson’s portrayal of Barry Goldwater as a bomb-throwing madman, and they floated a number of Reagan’s old quotes about Social Security and the minimum wage, as though Reagan were going to abolish both things without congressional approval (which would be politically impossible).

There also was the infamous Iranian Hostage Crisis. Carter approved an ill-fated rescue attempt the following spring which resulted in the deaths of eight US servicemen, something that made Carter look even more out of his element. Reagan was reasonably restrained in his statements, even though the issue itself really was the proverbial elephant in the living room.

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At the time of the campaign, the usual criticisms were uttered (“They aren’t talking about The Issues” or “We are tired of the mudslinging”), but the 1980 presidential campaign, in retrospect, at least had its intelligent moments. Although it is unfortunate that Carter’s own Democratic Party members did not see the value of economic deregulation, nonetheless Carter’s initiatives probably were as significant a boost to the economy as any president has accomplished since 1980.

No president is able to live up to the promises made in a campaign, but there is no doubt that at least some of the issues debated in the fall of 1980 were substantive and certainly would seem to have depth, especially when compared to the vapid and utterly shallow contest between Trump and Biden. At the time, many of us expressed our disappointment with Carter and Reagan; would it be that we had anything today close to what we had forty years ago.

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SteelerBravesDawg

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Cum guzzling piece of shite, even on the MSB

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He seems to have appointed himself the board's hall monitor. He's all over the board telling people what they can and can not post. Getting a bit big for his britches

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Claims to be a high school football ref.

You think he's bad here call out the refs for shitty calls and he circles the wagons like the cops do when they beat a dude to death.

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Carter also created the two DOEs, the Department of Energy and the Department of Education.

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yup. frick him. pos gave us 21% interest rates, 14% inflation and sky high taxes.

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Carter was a horrible President but he never started a fake foundation to get wealthy

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Or started a fake war as a benefit for his campaign cronies in the MIC.

Donald Trump Is First President Since Jimmy Carter Not to Enter U.S. Troops Into New Conflict….