Former US President Jimmy Carter Turns 100 71
Jimmy Carter reached his 100th birthday Tuesday, the first time an American president has lived a full century and the latest milestone in a life that took the son of a Depression-era farmer to the White House and across the world as a Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian and advocate for democracy. Associated Press: Living the last 19 months in home hospice care in Plains, the Georgia Democrat and 39th president has continued to defy expectations, just as he did through a remarkable rise from his family peanut farming and warehouse business to the world stage. He served one presidential term from 1977 to 1981 and then worked more than four decades leading The Carter Center, which he and his wife Rosalynn co-founded in 1982 to "wage peace, fight disease, and build hope."
"Not everybody gets 100 years on this earth, and when somebody does, and when they use that time to do so much good for so many people, it's worth celebrating," Jason Carter, the former president's grandson and chair of The Carter Center governing board, said in an interview. "These last few months, 19 months, now that he's been in hospice, it's been a chance for our family to reflect," he continued, "and then for the rest of the country and the world to really reflect on him. That's been a really gratifying time."
James Earl Carter Jr. was born Oct. 1, 1924 in Plains, where he has lived more than 80 of his 100 years. He is expected to mark his birthday in the same one-story home he and Rosalynn built in the early 1960s -- before his first election to the Georgia state Senate. The former first lady, who was also born in Plains, died last November at 96. President Joe Biden, who was the first sitting senator to endorse Carter's 1976 campaign, praised his longtime friend for an "unwavering belief in the power of human goodness." "You've always been a moral force for our nation and the world (and) a beloved friend to Jill and me and our family," the 81-year-old president tells Carter in a tribute video filmed in front of Carter's presidential portrait at the White House.
"Not everybody gets 100 years on this earth, and when somebody does, and when they use that time to do so much good for so many people, it's worth celebrating," Jason Carter, the former president's grandson and chair of The Carter Center governing board, said in an interview. "These last few months, 19 months, now that he's been in hospice, it's been a chance for our family to reflect," he continued, "and then for the rest of the country and the world to really reflect on him. That's been a really gratifying time."
James Earl Carter Jr. was born Oct. 1, 1924 in Plains, where he has lived more than 80 of his 100 years. He is expected to mark his birthday in the same one-story home he and Rosalynn built in the early 1960s -- before his first election to the Georgia state Senate. The former first lady, who was also born in Plains, died last November at 96. President Joe Biden, who was the first sitting senator to endorse Carter's 1976 campaign, praised his longtime friend for an "unwavering belief in the power of human goodness." "You've always been a moral force for our nation and the world (and) a beloved friend to Jill and me and our family," the 81-year-old president tells Carter in a tribute video filmed in front of Carter's presidential portrait at the White House.
Re:You are pro-Genocide (Score:4, Interesting)
In the form of a joke:
Q: When is assassinating the head of state not a provocation intended to trigger a war?
A: When it's a failed state.
Like Lebanon. Am I ROFLMAO yet? Especially considering that Israel probably deserves most of the credit for creating modern Lebanon. Shall we next consider Gaza and the West Bank? Now the messes in Syria and Iraq are different. I think responsibility for those messes are divided among a bunch of players, but we still get to abhor Russia and Iran for abhorring vacuums! (Abhorrent vacuums?)
Me? I think it doesn't much matter who is chanting "From the river to the sea". It's a bad song. And no, I don't want to buy that beachfront condominium.
Back on the actual story and the joke I was actually looking for: Carter's real problem was persistent truth telling in an age of increasing delusion. Then again, most people have always believed whatever they want to believe.
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Hezbollah isn't a state.
It isnt. Meanwhile in other news Israel is currently invading (or at least engaging in a major military operation against) the nation state of Lebanon.
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If Lebanon had asked them for help in dealing with Hezbollah you'd have a point. As it is, all you're doing is peddling a fantasy if you're trying to characterize this as anything good for the people of Lebanon. There's already a million displaced people https://news.un.org/en/story/2... [un.org] in that poor and small country of around 5 million people and things are only going to get worse.
Carter Center monitored Lebanon? (Score:2)
It's called divide and conquer. First time I heard about it was in relation to Caesar's campaign against the future French, though the strategy is much older than that.
You have to feel sorry for the people of Lebanon. Even if they are descendants of those nasty Phoenicians or Canaanites or whatever. But a lot of people hold it against Jimmy Carter that he was so sincere about feeling sorry for suffering people.
Sadly, I think the main lesson of Jimmy Carter's life seems to be that the American presidency is
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Lebanon apparently can't control its territory well enough to prevent segments of its population from committing acts of war against Israel.
You shoot rockets at an armed state, you should expect a military response.
Unfortunately, there is no better way to handle it.
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I dont disagree in the context of immediate events. In the broad context of history though, Israel is responsible for a lot of the modern ill-will the people of the region hold towards them. I mean, the whole thing with establishing the country there to begin with was just pure colonization, according to British census there were only around 10,000 jews living in that region before Britain started the Jewish colonial movement as a way to provide a "homeland" for European Jews. Turns out the locals didn't li
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Whoops, Jewish population in the region in1918 was 56,000, not 10,000 https://www.un.org/unispal/doc... [un.org] . Still though, there was just a town's worth of Jews living there prior to British efforts.
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You shoot rockets at an armed state, you should expect a military response.
What a great argument for Iran invading and blowing up Israel. "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knew exactly what he was doing when he ordered the attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus two weeks ago, killing Iran’s top soldier Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, among other IRGC commanders.
This attack went well beyond the existing tactics of limiting the arms flow to Hezbollah, the Lebanese movement, or pushing back Iranian-backed groups from its northern border.
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I think responsibility for those messes are divided among a bunch of players
Yes. We know exactly who they are. Israel was founded by the US through the UN in the British partition of Palestine, after the UK backed away from the plan thanks to lobbying efforts by T.E. Lawrence and others. Records were kept, and are readily available. Their PM is an American citizen, and the funding for maintaining it and its apartheid and colonialism has consistently come from US.
WE are responsible. WE THE PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES who are paying for genocide. This was clearly what was intended, a
Re: You are pro-Genocide (Score:2)
Israel attacked an Iranian consulate recently, which is Iranian soil, so Israel is the aggressor and Iran is defending itself by your own logic.
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Because anyone who criticizes Israel in any capacity is an anti-semite.
Well guess what. Fuck off. Criticism of genocidal policies is not anti-semitic. Considering Israel is using the Nazi playbook, criticisim is wholly justified.
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Because anyone who criticizes Israel in any capacity is an anti-semite.
Kind of like anyone who criticizes your pet war in Ukraine is a Russian Agent?
Well guess what. Fuck off.
There's the Smooth Wombat we know. No need for logic when ad hominem will do.
Criticism of genocidal policies is not anti-semitic.
That depends. If you're out chanting "From the river to the sea" and suggesting Israel's enemies should be allowed to fire rockets, kidnap women and children, or wipe them off the map (as they claim to want to do) then that sounds pretty anti-jewish to me. You can hand wave that you hate the country, not their religion, but what difference does it make wh
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If a person were to say israel could have done more throughout their history with the international community to stabilize their situation..... would that make them an antisemite...? Asking for a friend.
Antisemite, how? (Score:4, Interesting)
Being against the negative actions Israel has made towards the Palestinians over the years is not antisemitism any more than being against Russian action in Ukraine makes one a russophobe. Even if you disagree with his assessments the nation state of Israel is not above critique just because of the ethnicity of the bulk of its population.
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Re:Antisemite, how? (Score:5, Insightful)
I hate it and denounce the actions as the terror attacks they are.
Now how do you react when Israeli settlers violently attack Palestinians in unprovoked attacks and the Israeli government annexes land Palestinians are living on or dependent on for their income to build homes for their own citizens (which is called colonization)? Or, how do you react to a government keeping a people whose land they chose to occupy in thrall with no real say in how they are governed for well over half a century without even providing for a pathway towards independence or representation?
Where would we be? (Score:1)
Where would we be if he won a second term?
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Is, not was.
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Speaking Russian. It took a Carter to get a Reagan.
Going from a peanut farmer to an actor, isn’t exactly a brag. Thanks to Reaganomics, another moron came along and tried to re-define economics, failing even worse with Bidenomics. Only reason we’re not shit-piling more on Ronnie’s brain farts is because we managed to elect worse since then that managed to overshadow those fuck-ups. Again, not a brag.
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Re: Where would we be? (Score:4, Insightful)
Trump had a massive and persistent effect through his judiciary appointments, including those defrauding supremes.
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I've not seen any fraud or defrauding....BUT, I am happy to see that the SCOTUS is much more of a strict constitutionalist body now...as it should be.
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I've not seen any fraud or defrauding....BUT, I am happy to see that the SCOTUS is much more of a strict constitutionalist body now...as it should be.
They were frauding right on the national mall last week, I heard it from my friend's neighbor's niece. The biggest most violent fraud you've ever seen. If I have to make things up to bring your attention to the massive fraud that's happening I will because the media doesn't want you to know about it.
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I've not seen any fraud or defrauding [in the judiciary]
Then I have to wonder where you are learning about current events.
Here, let me help. [politico.com]
Oh, that's not enough? Here you go. [forbes.com]
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It was a combination of good strategy and good luck and it's absolutely great that we have them now in the system forever, because those judges are a lot more likely to make freedom-adjacent and liberty-minded decisions than far left progressives
Well, those were certainly all words, but they were almost all bullshit.
It was good strategy, in that it was successful. But those judges have already been trampling freedom with every possible decision, so your entire premise is broken. And there are no far left progressives among the Democrats, as none of them are trying to break the hold of fascism. They all work for corporations.
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I still want to know what is wrong with this solution approach:
"A nonpartisan Justice may compel up to two junior partisan Justices to recuse themselves."
When Carter was in the White House, every Justice had been confirmed by a majority of the Senators from BOTH parties. Now exactly NONE of the sitting Justices satisfy that simple criterion for "nonpartisan".
Yeah, I know there have always been politics, even involving SCOTUS nominations. Remember what Ike said about his mistakes? (And his motivation for the
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I still want to know what is wrong with this solution approach:
"A nonpartisan Justice may compel up to two junior partisan Justices to recuse themselves."
As I told you last time, there are NO nonpartisan Justices.
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I hope with Biden's proposals we may see the concept of term limits for Supreme Court Justice's stick around and pick up some more support.
It's one of those ideas I have just not heard a compelling argument against.
- The presumably long (18 years is what's usually proposed) single term limit still maintains a non-political leaning.
- Justices are free to go back or work in Circuit or Federal Appeals courts after their term (or rightly retire)
- Eliminate the tiresome and ultimately damaging political game tha
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Yes, Trump is a spectacular dumbshit like Reagan, the candidate to which he is most aptly compared — remember how that presidency fucked us. Neither of them knew shit about how to run a country. The difference was that even when suffering from Alzheimer's, Reagan was still capable of a small amount of shame. And I quote: "Oh, dear."
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Reagan was a fairly radical departure from Carter's policies.
While there is a lot of overlap and yes, Congress makes policy and president enforces policy, how that's done does make a difference. Would the Cold War have ended if Reagan wasn't president? Would unions have fallen under their own weight if Carter was in charge?
I used to have the same attitude you demonstrate, but looking back on various presidential approaches and the outcomes, I don't hold your same views any longer. Presidents do make a dif
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The popularity of Reagan enabled a pretty drastic shift to the political right for the US. Sure, some degree of this was likely inevitable given the wax and wane of political movements but it likely wouldnt have been so significant without such a massively popular president like Reagan.
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Re: Where would we be? (Score:2)
More Billy Beer?
Happy Birthday (Score:4, Insightful)
I actually had a brush with fame...meeting him and Rosalyn on Bourbon Street in New Orleans...I guess some time maybe around 1986 or so?
I was walking down the street, it was slightly crowded on a weeknight...I saw these guys coming towards me with the shades and earphones...and then I saw Jimmy and his wife...I reached forward to shake his hand and he smiled and shook it...said a few words and they were off again....
Happy Birthday Jimmy.
It's not easy to make it a 100yrs...congrats on a life well spent so far....
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towards socialism and economic destruction
ahh, tacit admission that conservatives have been plugging this stupid line for almost 50 fucking years and it hasn't happened. Didn't happen under Carter nor Clinton nor Obama nor Biden and I will bet $10k that Harris doesn not implement "socialism" in the US either.
no more coddling conservative bullshit unless that eat some fat fucking humble pie about every lie they've been selling since reagan (where are the mass vaccination deaths and nationwide mandated you lying fucking liars)
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I hope she doesn't get the chance to do so either....
Re:Legacy of weakness (Score:5, Insightful)
The term "socialism" as used by the American right is not what anybody else in the world thinks of as "socialism" - it came from Reconstruction era (and later Civil Rights era) requirements for public education to include the freed slaves and their children. Since doing ANYTHING for the public good was going to include the Blacks, the racist right (Democrats originally, shifted to Republicans later) immediately labels any such act as "socialism" and demonizes it.
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The term "socialism" as used by the American right is not what anybody else in the world thinks of as "socialism" - it came from Reconstruction era (and later Civil Rights era) requirements for public education to include the freed slaves and their children. Since doing ANYTHING for the public good was going to include the Blacks, the racist right (Democrats originally, shifted to Republicans later) immediately labels any such act as "socialism" and demonizes it.
The “racist” right? Please. Drop the partisan bullshit already. If Republicans were THAT fucking bent over socialism, none of them would dare even take a taxpayer-funded salary. They do. Every one of them. They don’t just tolerate Social Security. They contribute to it, and take those checks when qualified.
Now, if you want to address the REAL problem with American “socialism”, let’s talk about how much that border wall is gonna cost both Democrat and Republican taxp
A great human being but a poor President.... (Score:5, Insightful)
I have lots of respect for Carter as a humanitarian.... but lately, I've read a lot of revisionist history about his presidency on Reddit and other sites.
Inflation was TERRIBLE during his term of office, for starters. He's responsible for giving away the Panama Canal, as well as totally fumbling the Iranian hostage crisis (fixed by Ronald Reagan shortly after he took office).
It's borderline insane people are making claims, now, that he was responsible for giving America a "strong economy" and other nonsense....
Reagan Fixed the Hostage Crisis? (Score:2)
It's a well established historic fact that Ronald Reagan arranged for the hostages to be held until after the election so he could win.
The fact that didn't end the Republican party for the next 50 years is one of my Country's greatest failures. It's why we're on the brink of a dictator ship.
As for Carter's inflation response, yeah, he fucked up. It was caused by OPEC (our entire economy was built on cheap gas). He should'
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I have lots of respect for Carter as a humanitarian.... but lately, I've read a lot of revisionist history about his presidency on Reddit and other sites.
Inflation was TERRIBLE during his term of office, for starters. He's responsible for giving away the Panama Canal, as well as totally fumbling the Iranian hostage crisis (fixed by Ronald Reagan shortly after he took office).
It's borderline insane people are making claims, now, that he was responsible for giving America a "strong economy" and other nonsense....
I'm old enough to say I was there at the time, and pretty much disagree with you. Maybe I agree on the Panama canal, but that's kind of a minor item.
With respect to inflation, and the economy, these things operate on a lag to presidential (and congressional) terms. Carter appointed Volcker, and Reagan enjoyed the credit for the corresponding drop in inflation (Reagan extended the tradition of good heads of the Fed with the Greenspan appointment, and I think they've pretty much all been good since Volcker)
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Too many people give credit to the president who was in office when things are either bad or good. The 1970s were a generally terrible time, you had the mess at the end of Vietnam, high inflation, and that caused a lot of misery. The Fed raised interest rates through the roof, effectively killing the economy to "fight inflation", and it didn't really work. So, Carter being president back then...all the people remember the misery, and that Carter was president. On the flip side, the 1990s, we had the
A great human being but a decent President.... (Score:2)
I have lots of respect for Carter as a humanitarian.... but lately, I've read a lot of revisionist history about his presidency on Reddit and other sites.Inflation was TERRIBLE during his term of office, for starters.
Not really sure you can blame Carter here. Inflation was terrible before he took office, too. Nobody remembers Gerald Ford's solution to inflation? Giving out pins that said "W.I.N." (for "Whip Inflation Now"). The consensus among economists is that it was Paul Volcker's actions with the Fed in 1979 that finally tamed inflation, and he was appointed by Carter.
He's responsible for giving away the Panama Canal,
as well as totally fumbling the Iranian hostage crisis (fixed by Ronald Reagan shortly after he took office).
Given that the hostages were released b
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I don't know if it's true or not, but what I heard at the time is that Reagan had made it clear that if the hostages weren't released before he took office he wouldn't honor any of the agreements with Iran and negotiations would have to start over. That's why the hostages were released when they were because they didn't want t
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There weren't any agreements with Iran for Reagan to not honor.
Would make sense that the Iranians wouldn't want to negotiate with Reagan, but the Iranians were in fact the main reason Reagan became president in the first place. And, for that matter, they showed no signs of sense, then or since.
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Carter's best work was after his presidency, such as Habitat for Humanity.
As a President which I saw first hand he:
- created an economy later called Stagflation which strangled the US economy
- that led to a cycle of staggering inflation and high interest rates
- was defeatist in the competition with the USSR
- generally appeased opponents of any flavor: USSR, OPEC, Panama, communist funded European nuclear freeze groups to mention a few
- his weakness as a leader led to the Iran hostage crisis: they were confi
Son of a Depression era farmer? (Score:2)
But he was born before the Great Depression started...
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I mean... he remained his father's son during any Depression era farming. Parents do have a habit of doing things after one is born but still a child :)
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Wait, you mean time kept moving forward after Carter was born!?
Wrong headline (Score:2)
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He said he’s staying alive long enough to vote against Trump.
Happy Birthday, Mr. President. (Score:4, Insightful)
He may not have been a good President but at least he was honest.
In my opinion, Jimmy Carter was the last honest and ethical person to hold the office of President of the United States.
It's been a parade of lying amoral corporate whores ever since, with a demented con man who wants to return to office thrown in the mix.
This is what happens after decades of having to choose between the lesser of two evils, I guess. Whatever happens next is yet to be seen but I'm pretty sure we're close to the end of the United States, although I welcome any evidence to the contrary.
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He's still President Carter (Score:2)