jimmy carter in hospice
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As fine a human as it gets
Sorry to hear about his problems but he almost 100. No, he is not the most under rated President in US.
Also your ''pubes'' schtick is tiresome and old. Maybe all Dems should be referred to as ''dicks''?
Good good man. Terrible president.
Hard for me to hear his name and not shudder from my 16% mortgage.
Jimmy Carter is truly a good man. He would make a wonderful neighbor. But his presidency shows the shortcomings of excessive empathy.
He has a highly successful post-presidency, so long as he stayed away from politics and stuck with Habitat for Humanity.
He is a 2016 election denier and that carried weight because of his work in election monitoring.
Finally, why would anyone take the Jimmy Carter Hospice announcement as an opportunity to throw shade at Reagan? On his worst day, Carter is better than that.
Good man. I voted for him in 1980 and became happy that he lost and Reagan won. I hope he’s not in pain.
I was speaking to someone who studied Carter, a faculty member. He said Carter's biggest flaw was micromanaging. If everything has to run past one man, nothing gets done even if the policies are good.
I love policy wonks, but it has to be at a larger scale.
One of our favorite drunk stories with our friends involved habitat for humanity. we have a buddy that's a great big fat jolly guy that could be in movies. a farley type but taller. he started out a D1 swimmer and his coach told him he has to pick swimming or partying and he picked partying. thereafter he just blew up in size. well we wentto new orleans to celebrate the millenium. the world was going to end and all that. well his parents went to new orleans to do volunteer work for habitat for humanity. they asked him, mike, to go and help but he said he just couldnt get away long enough for work.
so we went out and then went to the new casino and stayed out until six am. i think it was harrah's. we'd been awake nearly 24 hours. as we were walking into the hotel, a mess, we ran into his parents walking out of the hotel. "Michael! Oh my gosh you came to volunteer with us!!! then she started crying." I never laughed so hard
Yeah, you'd never take any topic and use it to throw a dig at a Democrat.
why was he terrible, he saw a problem and tried to get the public to have a vested interest in fixing it, instead we are 30 trillion in debt
He couldn’t pull it off. His national malaise speech was projecting his indecisiveness. It was not inspirational nor leadership.
what he took was what should be a conservative's approach. instead of addressing our problems we have spent trillions kicking the can the road.
Indecisive???
Carter in 1979 nominated Paul Volcker as Fed chair whose decisive policies finally broke the back of inflation.
Volcker's actions caused some temporary setbacks or "belt tightening" as Carter suggested in his malaise speech, but they set the stage for growth without inflation which lasted for decades.
He's universally considered a bottom half President by any scholar. Up until recent President's he was one of the least popular in modern times.
what does popularity matter? trump is popular amongst racist, does that mean he was a good president?He's universally considered a bottom half President by any scholar. Up until recent President's he was one of the least popular in modern times.
I think you need a few more drinks this AM to get to reality
God Bless President Carter. A model for public servant, particular post his presidency. I wish all former Presidents could follow his lead.
If we had an humanitarian approval rating for past presidents, Jimmy Carter would get my vote as number one.
His leaving office in 1980 with low approval ratings, as JDB pointed out, may actually have inspired him toward spending his remaining years helping others.
nope, don't see where popularity has anything to do with being a good president. would be willing to bet some of the best managers in the business world are unpopular.
He set an example for all presidents, senators and congresspeople after they leave office. No others have come close to President Carter after leaving office.
would you live in a home Diane Feinstein built.
Impressive when an acclaimed humanitarian is on deathbed, you choose to focus on negatives in his life.
who is focusing on the negative in his life, I was responding to someone who said carter was the most unpopular president like that meant he was a bad president I was defending carter, read the whole thread.
I was going to mention this, and add that Volcker was something huge that Carter got right, but also that Reagan got right, when he renominated him. It doesn't always have to be which one gets the credit and which one gets the blame.
There’s some truth to that, but in this case it a direct indictment of your own constituents’ opinion in your ability to do the job.
In other words, these aren’t employees but your electorate, which is why it was clear Carter was going to struggle to get re-elected
YOu are correct. I would gladly have a mean, rude, counter punching President as long as the country was being made great again.. Oh wait, hang on a minute.
How about their preferences in what to do with cigars, that was the last president to run a budget surplus. Isn't that something we all want?
