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Jimmy Carter, trounced in 1980, gets fresh look from history
AP ^ | 08/19/2021 | Bill Barrow

Posted on 08/25/2021 10:27:48 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter is sometimes called a better former president than he was president.

Nodding to Carter’s decades of work as a globe-trotting humanitarian but with a glaring reminder of his landslide defeat in 1980, the backhanded compliment rankles Carter allies and, they say, the former president himself.

Yet now, 40 years removed from the White House, the most famous resident of Plains, Georgia, is riding a new wave of attention as biographers, filmmakers, climate activists and Carter’s fellow Democrats push to recast his presidential legacy, even as Republicans sometimes try to remind voters of the volatile economy and international affairs that doomed Carter to one term.

The renewed spotlight is especially significant for the broad swath of Americans too young to remember a presidency that spanned from 1977 to 1981. Sandwiched between the Watergate era of Richard Nixon and two terms of Ronald Reagan, Carter’s tenure came before Millennials or Generation Z voters were born and earlier than most of Generation X reached political awareness.

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I would take Carter over diaper head right now.
1 posted on 08/25/2021 10:27:48 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Would take Reagan over them all.

Except Trump of course.

2 posted on 08/25/2021 10:30:12 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s just because Sleepy Joe is making him look good by comparison.


3 posted on 08/25/2021 10:30:14 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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Jimmy Carter is sometimes called a better former president than he was president. …
Not by me. Certainly not since Peace Not Apartheid.
4 posted on 08/25/2021 10:31:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

At least in Carter’s time the USSR was invading Afghanistan, and taking their lumps, not us, but that was not Carter’s doing.


5 posted on 08/25/2021 10:31:53 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Marxists rewrite history during their takeovers.


6 posted on 08/25/2021 10:32:24 AM PDT by pfflier
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Just because Biden is even worse, doesn’t make Jimmy good.

But history is written by the winners: Biden is in the White House — so Jimmy Carter must be totally awesome!!!!


7 posted on 08/25/2021 10:32:58 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population is taxed w/o representation.)
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Yes America has fallen so far that the Carter era is looking like the good ole days.


8 posted on 08/25/2021 10:33:06 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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Peanut head gave us 40 years of Iranian terror. The Shah was one of the US’s staunchest allies.


9 posted on 08/25/2021 10:33:35 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Somone needs to post a pic of WInston Smith (played by John Hurt) at his desk doing historical revisioning.


10 posted on 08/25/2021 10:34:00 AM PDT by Reily
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Comparatively speaking, Carter did not abuse the office to enrich himself. Carter was not determined to fundamentally change and destroy America like all his Democrat and Bushie successors.

11 posted on 08/25/2021 10:35:39 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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>>I would take Carter over diaper head right now.<<

That is like saying you want the best yodeler in Harlem.


12 posted on 08/25/2021 10:37:09 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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The Biden presidency is Jimmy Carter’s second term ...


13 posted on 08/25/2021 10:37:22 AM PDT by x
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They may try and change his image but for those of us who had to live under his “leadership” it won’t matter.

He sucked big time from his failure to get back our people held hostage in Iran for over a year (Reagan had them back within days of his inauguration), to his spineless handling of the Arab oil embargo (his advice was to put on an extra sweater and turn down thermostat to 60 degrees) he was the weakest leader we ever had until we had the bad fortune to see Obama elected and now Biteme.

It is these last two which will, if anything will, make Carter be seen in a more favorable light.


14 posted on 08/25/2021 10:37:27 AM PDT by billyboy15
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Similiar. He had Billy, Biden has Hunter. He had the Iran hostages and Biden will have his in Afghanistan, Add high fuel prices, inflation, and malaise. Will interest rates follow? Also importantly we had Reagan and now we’ve got Trump.


15 posted on 08/25/2021 10:38:13 AM PDT by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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Thanks to the illegal alien from Kenya and Joe Dementia Carter is now only the third worse president of the USA.

If anymore democrats are able to steal the presidency Carter has a good chance of moving up even further from the bottom.


16 posted on 08/25/2021 10:38:22 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Some things are so stupid and idiotic only a liberal could believe them.)
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17 posted on 08/25/2021 10:39:54 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In some ways I think Carter gets a bad rap. I’ve long said that the economic malaise of the mid to late 1970s was the inevitable result of the fiscal irresponsibility of the Johnson and Nixon administrations.


18 posted on 08/25/2021 10:40:36 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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He was better than china joe. Or the kameltoe ho. Or the nazi next in line after the ho.


19 posted on 08/25/2021 10:41:36 AM PDT by sitetest (Professional patient. No longer mostly dead. Again. It's getting to be a habit.)
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984


20 posted on 08/25/2021 10:42:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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