James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served from 1977 to 1981 as the 39th president of the United States.
A member of the Democratic Party, he served from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate and from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia.
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We lost a great man, a man who for years strove to live like Jesus. Humble, he would tell you he's not been perfect, personally or in the White House, but he always strove to do good, as he felt led by his God.
His legacy will live on, as it should. He's been the best ex president we've ever had.
I'm glad he passed while Biden is president. Because I trust Biden to do the right thing, honor the office and the man.
RIP President Carter.
As a president, very almost average.
As a human being and humanitarian he was a towering figure of deceny, integrity, good will, and compassion. A diamond example of a truly honorable man.
We likely will not see such a fine honorable person in American politics again in a very long while.
Les... we may not see a post presidency like Carter's ever again. I dare say if people lived their Christian faith as he did for the last 44 years, our country and indeed the world would be a way better place.
Sadly the news of his death on the social media platforms has provoked the more conservative ppl to remind the world not only of his "failed presidency", but also take the chance to malign his faith, call him un Christian and assign him to eternal hell for his beliefs.
He got dealt some bad hands when he was in office. Wage and price controls from the former Admin, the hostage crisis, the Opec Oil Embargo and an army winding down from Vietnam that botched the hostage rescue.
But that all comes with the job. Maybe if he had had a few allies in the DNC he would have fared better, but as an outsider who pissed off the southern Blue Dogs, it was not to be.
He wasn't Andrew Jackson or Herbert Hoover bad. But he wasn't Reaganesque or FDR either. A mostly average president, but the best we'll ever see in the post presidency.
“People will be celebrating Jimmy Carter for hundreds of years. His reputation is only going to grow,” Rice University history professor Douglas Brinkley wrote in his book “The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.”
How low we as a nation have fallen when we had a man like President Carter in the presidency and soon we will have a convicted felon and sexual assaulter as POTUS!
What the hell happened to America?
The way the "Chriatian" conservative movement has embraced the convicted felon, sexual assaulter, pathological liar, and failed human being is largely what happened to America. Conservative MAGA "Christianity" is enamored by a man who very closely represents The Anti-Christ.
Shaw... how low we have fallen. In 1976 the US elected a Southern Baptist as president of the US. A moral man, the exact type of guy the SBC had said we needed as president. A "born again Christian".
Did they stand with him in 1980, against the twice married, Hollywood, a religious Reagan?
Not at all.
We now know one of the main reasons was because the Carter Admin took away the 501(c)3 tax exempt status of Bob Jones university because the university practiced racism in their admissions, school policies and more.
Reagan of course defended those racist policies and saw no reason to deny tax exempt status to an admitted racist university.
The rest, as they say, is history as the SBC, born out of desire in the 1879's to continue slavery, rejected Carter, one of their own to stand with a racist supporting Reagan.
President Carter spoke the truth: "The alleviation of women's abuse "is made less likely by the mandated subservience of women by Christian fundamentalists. What is especially disappointing...is the docile acceptance by so many strong Christian women of their subjugation & restricted role." - Jimmy Carter
IMO, Jimmy Carter was the true embodiment of a Statesman.
By contrast, Ronald Reagan was a fake statesman -- a self-serving politician.
The United States would likely be far better off today had President Carter been re-elected in 1980 for a second term.
Rest in Peace, President Carter. And many thanks for your service to the nation, and humanity, in its many, many forms.
Yes Rest in Peace Jimmy
But as for Ronald Reagan he was Truly the Best of them All.
Anonymous, Reagan may be the "...Best of them All" in your opinion, but his administration will be remembered as on of the most corrupt post-WWII. Most Reagan admirers conveniently forget this fact:
"The presidency of Ronald Reagan was marked by numerous scandals, resulting in the investigation, indictment or conviction of over 138 administration officials, the largest number for any president of the United States."
"The Best of Them All" type presidencies normally aren't the most corrupt.
Why do you think presidents who ordered the deaths of American soldiers the best. Both carter and biden sent soldiers to their deaths due to their incompetence and you hail them as being great.
It's difficult to believe you'd write something as naive and mean-spirited as that. And yet, because of your hatred of any Democrat, you continue to reveal yourself.
A president who taught Sunday School for 80 years and one who sold
cheap Chinese printed Bibles for profit. Does history have a sense of humor?
BTW, that new Trump cologne smells like a Steve Bannon fart.
Skud was was probably in pre-school when Reagan lost 241 Marines in a bombing in Lebanon. Of course in his favor, St. Ronald wasn't at fault.
THEY never are. Wanna bet Skud hates FDR and probably Thomas Jefferson?
Human character has it's enemies.
I was having a glass of Presecco as I read your comment, and sprayed laughing it all over my iPad!!!
Prosecco! Not Presecco!
Regan did not order those soldiers to their deaths. A president in office should be restricted from selling anything and to sell bibles, cologne, watches and anything else is just plain stupid. Of course so is a book on how great a man trump is to kids falls into the stupid category and should chang huckabee to huckster.
Reagan WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR DEATHS! IF IT HAD BEEN A DEMOCRAT IN OFFICE, YOU WOULD HAVE BLAMED THE DEM. POTUS, just like the Republicans hammered Hillary for BENGHAZI!!
"In September 1984, just weeks before a presidential election, 24 people were killed in a car bomb attack targeting the new U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. It was the latest in a string of devastating security breaches: In April 1983, when the old U.S. Embassy was still located in West Beirut, a suicide truck bombing brought down the building, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans; six months later, the Marine barracks was bombed, resulting in the deaths of 241 American servicemen. Following the 1984 embassy attack, then-President Ronald Reagan was asked why the newly mandated security precautions had not been in place yet.
”Anyone that’s ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would,” the president told reporters.
A Senate Foreign Relations Committee report placed blame for the bombing on a “tragically simple mistake” — a contractor that had lagged behind installing a steel gate because he was busy with other work.
Can you imagine anyone, Republican or Democrat, giving a similar answer today as Reagan gave then to explain an attack that had targeted a U.S. diplomatic mission and resulted in the deaths of so many American lives? Can anyone imagine Congress simply laying blame on a contractor’s mistake and moving on?" --Foreign Policy
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