It's Too Bad That Jimmy Carter Didn't Live Even Longer

[TBoneTX 45,783]

This column, by a great presidential historian, needs readin'.

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It's Too Bad That Jimmy Carter Didn't Live Even Longer

 

The curtain has finally come down on one of the longest acts in American history: after lingering in hospice care for nearly two years, Jimmy Carter is dead at the age of 100.  Now, as we all learned in Latin class, de mortuis nisi bonum, that is, only say good things about the dead, and by most accounts, Jimmy Carter was a decent fellow who tried to do the right thing by his lights.  There is no Latin maxim, however, about not speaking ill of a dead president's time in the Oval Office, and on that score, a great deal can and should be said about Jimmy Carter.

Although Carter was the longest-lived president of the United States ever, it is a shame that he didn't live even longer.  The second Trump administration promises to put an end to the long, slow decline of the United States and the now well-established habit of betraying our allies that Carter did so much to initiate, and it's too bad that Carter won't be around to witness America’s resurgence — if, that is, the late president's friends and ideological kin don't manage to block any such rebound.

Back in 1978, when America was in the midst of Carter's weak and sanctimonious presidency, [...]

 

https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/12/29/its-too-bad-that-jimmy-carter-didnt-live-even-longer-n4935516

Edited December 30, 2024 by TBoneTX

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Then he immediately contradicted his efforts to bring fiscal responsibility to the enormous and ever-growing federal government by creating a new Cabinet-level agency, the Department of Education

i still say they should have called it department of public education (DOPE)

[Dashinka 24,697]

So now Biden is the worst living past or current president.

 

RIP Jimmy, a horrible president, but a decent person.

Edited December 30, 2024 by Dashinka

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Just now, Dashinka said:

So now Biden is the worst living past or current president.

i think he passed jimmy after only a week in office.

[TBoneTX 45,783]

Obummer was more dangerous.  And he, his people, or both were (are) pulling Bidementia's strings.

 

Although not all of the evidence of Bidementia's damage is clear, I consider Carter to have been worse.  People during Carter's term had NO HOPE -- ZERO.  The inflation, gas shortages, kowtowing to international Muslims, et al. were nonstop and intolerable.  Reagan's potential as an agent of salvation wasn't clear until well into the campaign season, and even then there were doubts about him.  During Bidementia's term, we have always had INTENSE hope that Trump would return to save us.  For this reason alone, I continue to maintain that Carter was worse than Bidementia.

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Jimmy Carter To Skip Trump Inauguration

 

U.S. — In yet another blow to President-elect Trump, aides have announced that former President Jimmy Carter will also be skipping Trump's inauguration.

Carter joins the growing list of several prominent Democrats who will not be attending Trump's inauguration, a sign of the deep divisions still plaguing the country.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/jimmy-carter-to-skip-trump-inauguration

[TBoneTX 45,783]

This is a great companion piece to the barbecue column that opens this thread!

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Jimmy Carter Was a Terrible President — and an Even Worse Former President

 

The truth is that historians have not been harsh enough.

A popular narrative surrounding the legacy of Jimmy Carter is that as president he was a victim of unlucky timing that impeded him politically but that he excelled during his long post-presidential career.  The reality is that he was a terrible president but an even worse former president.

Carter's true legacy is one of economic misery at home and embarrassment on the world stage.  He left the country in its weakest position of the post–World War II era.  After being booted out of office in landslide fashion, the self-described "citizen of the world" spent the rest of his life meddling in U.S. foreign policy and working against the United States and its allies in a manner that could fairly be described as treasonous.  His obsessive hatred of Israel, and pompous belief that only he could forge Middle East peace, led him to befriend terrorists and lash out at American Jews who criticized him.  [...]

 

https://archive.is/0ZEt9#selection-745.0-869.347

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Carter Was to Reagan What Buchanan Was to Lincoln

 

Former President Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100. As president, Jeane Kirkpatrick brilliantly explained, he was an abysmal failure.  On his watch, the economic "misery index" skyrocketed and the geopolitical correlation of forces shifted in the Soviets' favor.  Nicaragua fell to the communist Sandinista regime.  Iran fell to radical Islamic mullahs, setting the stage for decades of turbulence in the Middle East/Persian Gulf region, which included a lengthy and humiliating hostage crisis in which U.S. diplomats and staff were seized and imprisoned for 444 days.  The Soviet Union used Cuban proxies to spread turmoil in Central America and the Caribbean Sea and Africa, invaded Afghanistan, and attained a theoretical strategic nuclear first-strike capability.  Americans registered their verdict at the polls in 1980, when Ronald Reagan won a landslide electoral college victory (489 to 49), winning 44 of the 50 states.

Carter left Reagan with a domestic economic crisis and an America that was on the geopolitical defensive, but Reagan turned things around.  [...]

 

https://spectator.org/carter-was-to-reagan-what-buchanan-was-to-lincoln/

[Dashinka 24,697]

17 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

This is a great companion piece to the barbecue column that opens this thread!

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Jimmy Carter Was a Terrible President — and an Even Worse Former President

 

The truth is that historians have not been harsh enough.

A popular narrative surrounding the legacy of Jimmy Carter is that as president he was a victim of unlucky timing that impeded him politically but that he excelled during his long post-presidential career.  The reality is that he was a terrible president but an even worse former president.

Carter's true legacy is one of economic misery at home and embarrassment on the world stage.  He left the country in its weakest position of the post–World War II era.  After being booted out of office in landslide fashion, the self-described "citizen of the world" spent the rest of his life meddling in U.S. foreign policy and working against the United States and its allies in a manner that could fairly be described as treasonous.  His obsessive hatred of Israel, and pompous belief that only he could forge Middle East peace, led him to befriend terrorists and lash out at American Jews who criticized him.  [...]

 

https://archive.is/0ZEt9#selection-745.0-869.347

I take back what I said.  Honestly, I haven’t really followed the failed Jimmy Carter other than what I saw in the media, and of course most of it was glowing toward him.  Apparently, he was quite anti-Semitic, and a bitter loser.

 

Others are say similar things.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14239207/cnn-scott-jennings-jimmy-carter-Israel-abby-phillip.html

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Yeah, Jimmy Carter's Post-Presidency Actions Were 'Borderline Treasonous'

 

As I mentioned earlier, in the wake of Jimmy Carter's passing, the left has gone to absurd and Orwellian lengths to rewrite his legacy, attempting to transform him into a mythical great president.  However, those who lived through his presidency know better.

I was born the year Ronald Reagan trounced Jimmy Carter in the presidential election, so I only remember Carter's post-presidential years, which weren't much better.  Sure, he got a lot of good press for his work with Habitat for Humanity, but that doesn't exactly absolve him of all the bad things he's done.

It really is up to us to cut through all the noise of the obligatory tributes that are pouring in to make sure that his failings aren't forgotten.  [...]

 

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/12/31/yeah-jimmy-carter-kinda-committed-treason-n4935564