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‘Decades ahead of his time’: history catches up with visionary Jimmy Carter
The Guardian ^ | May 3, 2021 | Megan Mayhew Bergman

Posted on 05/04/2021 5:40:47 AM PDT by usafa92

When I reach Jimmy Carter’s grandson by Zoom, he answers wearing a Raphael Warnock campaign T-shirt. Jason Carter is a lawyer and politician himself, mid-40s, animated and well-read, with blue eyes reminiscent of his grandfather’s. He’s just got off the phone with his 93-year-old grandmother, Rosalynn. It’s a special day; Joe Biden is on his way to the Carter house in Plains, Georgia.

“My grandfather has met nearly everyone in the world he might want to,” Jason Carter says. “Right now, he’s meeting with the president of the United States. But the person he’d say he learned the most from was Rachel Clark, an illiterate sharecropper who lived on his family’s farm.

“He didn’t pity her,” Carter says. “He saw her power. My grandfather believes in the power of a single human and a small community. Protect people’s freedoms, he says, and they can do great things. It all comes back to an enormous respect for human beings.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carter
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To: Pigsley
After they get rid of Cackle-Ho, perhaps they will install Pete.

Next in the line of succession is Madman Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi...

21 posted on 05/04/2021 6:34:30 AM PDT by null and void (When you put bad people in charge expect bad things to happen, often in a spectacular and sudden way)
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To: usafa92
But the person he’d say he learned the most from...

Had to click on the post to read the rest. Thought sure it was gonna be "Yasser Arafat".

22 posted on 05/04/2021 6:34:54 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the left, truth is right-wing extremism.⭐⭐)
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To: Bon of Babble
Will they get it? The same way the American people did in 1980?

When we kicked the bum known as “Carter” out of office and elected Ronald Reagan by a massive landslide?

Oh, like it matters who We The People vote for?

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23 posted on 05/04/2021 6:36:32 AM PDT by null and void (When you put bad people in charge expect bad things to happen, often in a spectacular and sudden way)
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To: usafa92

More celebration of the man who brought us Islamic terror because the Shah wouldn’t pay him a bribe.


24 posted on 05/04/2021 6:36:48 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: oldtech

C’mon...Carter was Great...at keeping the Whitehouse tennis court schedule!


25 posted on 05/04/2021 6:36:59 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: usafa92
But the person he’d say he learned the most from was Rachel Clark, an illiterate sharecropper who lived on his family’s farm

Unfortunately, that's probably true.

26 posted on 05/04/2021 6:38:10 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: usafa92
As incompetent an Executive as he was, there was no question that Jimmy Carter loved America; not like these last two Democrat/Left presidents who hate, actually despise America and everything our Republic stands for.
27 posted on 05/04/2021 6:41:12 AM PDT by glennaro ("Until it's safe" means "never" (Dennis Prager))
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To: usafa92

Carter was the worst president ever until Obama then slow Joe came along


28 posted on 05/04/2021 6:47:53 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Molon Labe')
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To: COBOL2Java

Birds of feather.


29 posted on 05/04/2021 6:47:54 AM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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To: usafa92

“‘Decades ahead of his time’: history catches up with visionary Jimmy Carter”

Why sure. The way he handled the takeover of Iran by radicals is a class book lesson in failure of leadership.


30 posted on 05/04/2021 6:48:03 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: Bon of Babble

“Stagflation and long gas lines.”

Not to mention impotence toward Islamic terrorism. And indifference toward Castro exporting his criminal class.


31 posted on 05/04/2021 6:49:56 AM PDT by beef (The Chinese have a little secret—diversity is _not_ a strength.)
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To: usafa92

This know nothing Meghan of the Guardian is a complete fvking idiot! Unfortunately, her view, outlook and perspective is shared by way too many mentally retarded and regressed people in the USA. I was a kid in the Carter years and saw what my parents went through. When Reagan was elected, that great man shaped my American mind and made America great again. It’s quite familiar to today. Maybe it can happen again when we flush this turd Biden.


32 posted on 05/04/2021 6:57:53 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: usafa92
history catches up with visionary Jimmy Carter Chauncy Gardner
33 posted on 05/04/2021 7:06:47 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The quest of the Enlightened is Truth--Truth for its own sake--wherever it might present itself.)
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To: usafa92

Inept antisemetic weak fool. Lipstick on a pig (apologies to the pig).


34 posted on 05/04/2021 7:12:57 AM PDT by Pirate Ragnar
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To: Bon of Babble

We seem to be about the same age. I am a bit younger of course, hahaha. But seriously, I came from a big family of stupid dims. I remember back to the Nixon/Kennedy race riding in the back seat of my grandfather’s Studebaker Hawk next to a case of half pints of Walker’s Deluxe Whiskey down into an area called Mud Center handing out bottles to everyone of the poor mostly black neighborhood that my grandfather convinced to get into the car and ride over to the polls to cast a vote for Kennedy. It used to be bars and liquor stores were closed during polling hours.

That was my earliest firsthand experience with dim voter fraud. That experience along with all the stories told around the kitchen table I heard as a kid from the adults about “sticking it to the rich” and that our dim politicians must be listened to because they know best. None of what I heard them say about politics made any sense when you compared it to how each one of my family members lived their lives.

Those attitudes just didn’t seem right to me even as a young kid. So when it came time to vote as an 18 year old the only logical choice in my opinion was to vote straight Republican. And since 1972 I have yet to vote for any dim candidate EXCEPT one. I voted for a dim state treasurer each time he ran because he was an honest guy who always did the right thing except switch parties.

I did get close to voting dim twice when I supported George Bush the younger 2 times. I’m not sure why my families dim dogma escaped me, all it did was generate questions no one could or would answer to me that made any sense, even for a young kid. I left my hometown shortly after the Reagan/Carter election and I am pretty positive (haven’t been back since ‘84), that to this day I’m the only right voting member of my family.


35 posted on 05/04/2021 7:23:15 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: bigfootbob

The press turned on him. They wouldn’t do that today.


36 posted on 05/04/2021 7:29:35 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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To: usafa92

Writer is correct, JC was ahead of his times. Way back when this TWOT was in charge he was pushing the same crappola that is now so rampant. And, that is why he was for a long time considered the worst Pres of all time — until BHObama.


37 posted on 05/04/2021 7:30:17 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: usafa92

‘Decades ahead of his time’........at wrecking the HELL out of the US economy ,and sending Inflation numbers thru the roof, worse than ANY president of the 20th Century( Wilson,FDR,LBJ, Bubba ) - no small feat!!!!


38 posted on 05/04/2021 7:40:51 AM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

So true.

Like the left thinks we need “common sense gun control” I have adopted the same attitude about the 1st amendment. We need “common sense controls on the media”. If it saves one life…perhaps Seth Rich would be alive today.


39 posted on 05/04/2021 7:54:19 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: IYAS9YAS

Haha yep, they shrunk everything on Jimmuh but his feet look at those clown shoes.


40 posted on 05/04/2021 8:10:42 AM PDT by X-FID (Trump 2020)
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