Jimmy Carter

[bjdeming]

Don't know if anybody has thoughts on this, but he's part of the presidents I've been aware of during my life, starting with LBJ, and I think Mr. Carter was the last relatively honest and certainly the most decent president we have had during that time.

This in addition to all his and Rosalynn's post-White House work. He really could claim being progressive and conservative at the same time, as this news bio says, and it confused the heck out of a public that wanted simple pro/con issues without those pesky gray areas that we didn't want to consider. Reagan and his handlers knew how to play to that.

Also, everyone who hasn't heard of it yet should hear about the nuclear accident!

Rest in peace, Mr. Carter, and thank you.

We sure could use another centrist.

 

[Jacob]

A good man, but a terrible president.

May he rest in peace and peace to his family/friends.

 

[Sawmaster]

When he was a Governor in Georgia he wasn't particularly well liked, and it always seemed that he wasn't very good at politics, but we've certainly had worse for Presidents. He trusted people at their word and at face value which doesn't work in politics and that bit him in his butt repeatedly but he never lost hope or faith in humanity because of that.

Where he was finest was as a person, always understanding, forgiving, caring, and giving. He was as fine a man as I've ever known of, never craving the spotlight or boasting or twisting facts to suit him or anyone else. He simply did what he felt was right and wanted the best for everybody. What you saw was what you got with him, and if he said it you could count on him doing all he could to make that happen. He was better than the world he lived in, and may he rest in peace.

 

[Geno]

Jimmy Carter was one of the weakest, most pathetic men to ever become president. His greatest sin is allowing the Iranian Revolution to happen, turning one of America's closest allies in the Middle East into a sworn enemy while simultaneously creating an oil crisis that wrecked the economy.

No former American president is more hated by Iranians than Jimmy Carter. It was he who decided at the Guadeloupe Conference in 1979 to withdraw his support from the Shah and to support Khomeini together with Helmut Schmidt, James Callaghan and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. He actively helped the mullahs to come to power making him directly responsible for the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism.

He emptied mental institutions into the streets resulting in a massive increase in violent crime and causing homelessness everywhere.

He banned nuclear fuel reprocessing and killed the breeder reactor program, crippling our nuclear energy sector for generations and leaving us with no solution to the nuclear waste problem.

He allowed tens of thousands of illegal Iranians into the US causing untold amounts of violent cultural problems.

He supported the murderous Mugabe and sold out the Rhodesians.

He gave up the Panama Canal, one of America's most important strategic assets, for $1. Thanks to him, the Chinese are now buying up Panama and threatening American national security and the economy.

He demoralized the military and actively tried to make the lives of our soldiers worse. One of the pettiest things he did was refusing to give servicemen any raises despite stagflation wrecking the cost of living. One of Reagan's first acts was giving the military a raise.

He let in the Marielitos in 1980 and caused an enormous spike in crime in Miami. Castro made it clear that he was flushing Cuba's toilets, sending criminals and lunatics, but Jimmy Carter (in his infinite wisdom) kept accepting the boats.

He directly supported militant Islam through Gaza and Hamas, which still threatens the World today. His actions in office, and for decades after, supported hundreds of thousands of deaths via Islamic terror.

He was a spineless cretin who nearly destroyed America through neglect and sabotage. He is the epitome of evil and the world is a better place without him.

 

[Mike S]