The Race From Race

Jimmy Carter is 84 years old and three decades removed from the White House, but he still has the power to make Democrats run

Certainly the worst President in my lifetime. I cast my first vote for Gerald Ford (sigh). I have step children who were born immediately before his Presidency and during his term. I can only imagine their impression of him. Their earliest memories of references to him would have been hearing their parents discuss the economy in 1980-81-82. I suspect there was some profanity in their references.

But think of someone under the age of 35 today - almost everything they know of Carter was after his disastrous single term ended. This shizzle he is up to now (or in the past several years) is not exactly what you call reputation rehabilitation. It’s more like pouring several feet of cement (with extra re-bar) over his miserable reputation.

I lived in Georgia for just over a decade, and breezed through Plains once (what a dump.) Because of his work on Habitat For Humanity, I always though that Carter deserved special dispensation. But even that concession does not stand up to the nonsense he has been up to since 2000. He is an embarrassment and a joke, and if there is “calling out” to be done, he seems worthy.

The Democrats always boast of their concern for the common man (or the pc common person). I can clearly remember just how bad things were for the average blue collar slob under Jimmy because I was one.

The annual raise you got was meaningless because inflation had your earnings nosediving in real value.

The interest rates were 18% or higher so forget buying a home but your landlord was raising the rent every month or two.

If you were lucky enough to not get laid off, you had to wait in line for hours every week to get gasoline for the wife and carpool.

Yeah Jimmy, those were the good old days.

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