By Grand Rapids Anonymous
sunday, december 29, 2024 at 8:18:00 p.m. est
Is dead Jimmy Carter iconic? No
GRA: James Earl Carter lasted ‘til 100 years old. For decades, he was thought of as one of our worst presidents (until “dubya” and brandon showed up, to take the title away).
He had a nitwit brother.
Those were the good qualities about him I could come up with.
State funeral to follow.
--GRA
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The heavens speak forcefully in the Age of Jacquarious: Jimmah's passing brings with it a Black Moon tonight, December 30.
I saw him when he was in his early 90s at a public appearance and he really was doing well. Then came the 2021 photo where he and Rosalyn looked like tiny dolls next to hulking Joe and Jill Biden. (Inside Edition). And the recent pictures, ewwwwww. 100 is the new 140.
I have to add this funny story. Rush Limbaugh, 1988, referred to Amy Carter, "the most unattractive presidential daughter in the history of the country".
First paragraph is from a leftie attack sewer that I'll leave uncited, the rest half from Rush's transcripts.
Rush Limbaugh: <<Amy Carter was protesting everything American while at Brown University. And I didn't, of course, like that. I didn't like her protesting everything American, and I made a remark on my show that I've now since apologized for and I've taken it back; I didn't mean it. I said, "You know, she may be the most unattractive presidential daughter in the history of the country."
And when [the] program was over, my mother called me. ... And she just gave me hell. She said, “I don’t care if you thought you were being nice to a caller, you can’t talk about people that way. You just can’t. They have no control over it. It’s not anything to do with them. You’re gonna have real trouble, Son, if you’re gonna ...[make remarks] about what you think of the way people look.”
And then there was a pause, ’cause I’m feeling really chagrined. She said, “Besides, you forgot Margaret Truman.”
Carter was a disaster for America--and Rhodesia. He was a leftist who, instead of trying to make things better, told us to lower our expectations. It is hypocritical to praise him just because he is dead. Our country and the world would have been better off if he never existed.
Interesting take that Bill O'Reilly had on Jimmy Carter.
"He was the only president who didn't parlay his time as potus into multimillions of dollars afterwards. He went back to Plains. Ford,lived in Grand Rapids before becoming president,but post-presidency,he lived in a mansion in Palm Springs,California. And they've all done it. Not Carter. But he was a lousy president,mostly because the swamp did not like him and wanted him out of there."
I never thought of a "swamp" back in those days--either with Carter--or JFK. Maybe his ineffectiveness wasn't entirely his fault,because as O'Reilly put it,"he didn't have enough experience(like Trump didn't-- 2016)to overcome the swamp."
--GRA
Or maybe...in Trump's case--with a couple warnings in Pennsylvania and Florida--afterwards,you learn to "play along" with the swamp.
--GRA
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