Not the Presidential death I was hoping to read about
Don't worry, JD will be President soon enough.
Hide your couches or your going to have tiny ottomans walking around
Hide your couch. Hide your chaise.
Turk is going to be really upset.
A good man. Probably too good and wholesome for politics, which is why he was eaten alive during his presidency, but he always seemed to do what he thought was correct, rather than convenient or personally advantageous.
RIP Mr. President.
He sold his Peanut farm when he became President to avoid any appearance of impropriety. It's astounding that we've gone from that to Trump in one lifetime. Trump doesn't even try to hide that he sees the presidency as one giant opportunity for grift and corruption.
Honestly it's just really sad
I don't know much about his presidency but all his work with Habitat for Humanity shows that he became a pretty good person. RIP.
I wasn't around for Carter, or Reagan. I was born just before the Lewinsky scandal happened with Clinton. My first election was in 2016.
I personally can't vouch for his policies, but anyone was better than Reagan, and the more I hear about how Carter tried to talk to America in peaceful direct messaging, and personally lived by his own requests to the public to show that the President isn't a king, the more I wish he could have came back.
My parents told me of recalling that when Carter was in the gas crisis, he asked Americans to help save on gas bills. He had the white house also do the same, and was wearing a cardigan sweater to help with the heating.
He had solar panels installed on the white house in the 1970s to help promote their use and save on the costs of the constant power draw of the most important building in America.
My dad went on record saying Carter was his favorite president and he was happy to vote for him whenever he could. My mom I think also wrote in Carter in 1984 when Mondale was running.
Jimmy Carter, like all US presidents, had blood on his hands.
But as US presidents go, he was a good man.
And if you don't think so, wait 4 more years of the unhinged angry orange utan and you'll change your mind.
Perhaps you meant as an adult? From my feeble memory, he was already a good person when elected. He divested the peanut farm when taking office (he honored the customs of office), he asked America to put on a sweater during an energy crisis and resisted religious meddling in politics. The hostages were used against him to get Reagan elected and it’s been downhill mostly since.
He was vilified for the things mentioned, the hostage debacle and probably other things that might be valid. I know he wasn’t perfect, but I admire that man for all he did in tough times. Can’t say I feel that way about any other president since. Carter was the type of man we were told to be (back then) in order to become president. How times have changed.
Just because I don't think it should be glossed over, it came out several years ago that the Regan campaign was in contact with Iran and negotiated for the hostages to remain in captivity until the election in exchange for concessions he would make as president. Carter failed to free the hostages because he was being undermined by traitors.
I mean if you ignore his support for genocide in Indonesia, his support for mass torture in Iran, Mass murder in El Salvador and Angola, I could keep going. He was a terrible person.
Ppl like to gloss over this. I challange you to find a US president who wasn't a war criminal and he was no exception.
Carter’s administration providing aid to Zairian dictator Mobutu to crush southern African liberation movements; financially supporting the Guatemalan military junta, and looking the other way as Israel gave them weapons and training; ignoring calls from human rights activists to withdraw support from the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia as they carried out genocide in East Timor; refusing to pursue sanctions against South Africa in the United Nations after the South African Defence Forces bombed a refugee camp in Angola, killing 600 refugees; financing and arming mujahideen rebels to destabilize the government of Afghanistan and draw the Soviet Union into invading the country; and providing aid to the military dictatorship in El Salvador, despite a letter from Archbishop Oscar Romero – who was assassinated by a member of a government death squad weeks later – explicitly calling for Carter not to do so.
The kind of president Americans have always needed, but not the one they deserved.
RIP Jimmy.
I fucking jinxed it, 12 hours ago I was googling him because I wondered how hes doing. I even have the tab open still. Now I’m sad.
RIP Jimmy
Bake'em away, toys
Was really hoping he'd outlive Trump. RIP. He lived a good life. He was a good man.
THE president
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Suharto and the Shah get to see their friend again after so long apart such good news.
Lucky bastard.
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