Jimmy Carter’s Last Hurrah: Reflections on our 39th president and his legacy

Frontpage Mag ^ | 02/23/2023 | Bruce Bawer

[mep3]

I think fending off the ‘killer rabbit attack’ was Jimmy’s greatest achievement in terms of culture.

[fretzer]

You’ve got your list of graves to piss on, I have my own. I suspect they are very similar but with minor differences.

[Robert DeLong]

I didn’t trust the son of a bitch as far as I could throw him.

Have to admit, I didn't see that coming, but I concur with his sentiment. 🤣

[fieldmarshaldj]

No, because as a Christian, even I’m commanded to pray for Carter to repent his evil.

[fretzer]

Ok, I’m good with that. We are all sinners.

[AnAmericanMother]

Wrong. I knew him since he was governor.

He is a meddling, deceitful, pro-fascist, Jew-hating Southern Democrat.

[AnAmericanMother]

You didn't read carefully enough.

"Yes, he picked up hammers and nails and built houses for poor people. . . . For decades, as the disaster of his presidency faded into history and a compliant worldwide media helped burnish his image as a good and simple carpenter – like Jesus! . . . . "

[AnAmericanMother]

Sure, I'll pray for him and for the repose of his soul, and that he repents of his wickedness at the eleventh hour.

But I'm not going to praise him.

[RebelTXRose]

the mortgage rate on my first house was 11.5% - 1980. SO GLAD Reagan won in 1980. Waited HOURS to vote!!

[euram]

This is one of several hate-filled diatribes aimed at Carter. Carter did what he thought was in the interest of the US, he failed to realize that doing what Israel wants comes before what is in the interest of the US.

Any president or even private individual who doesn’t kowtow and kiss Israel’s a$$ always gets comes under fire.

[Retain Mike]

Here is the letter I send annually in March about Carter. looks like I may send it out earlier this year as a timely irritant.

Egypt and Israel Peace Treaty

We will recognize March 26 as the anniversary of peace between Egypt and Israel for which Anwar el-Sadat and Menachem Begin won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978. Concurrently we will applaud Jimmy Carter's 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts.

Nevertheless, we should remember the truly worthy recipient of the three was Anwar Sadat. Through three wars Arab leaders had used Egyptian blood and treasure for vicarious satisfaction of Israeli Jew hatred which had invigorated their despotic regimes. By conclusion of the 1973 war, Sadat was certain Egypt's price for Arab victory would not only include countless military deaths, but also destruction of the Aswan Dam leading to 100,000's of Egyptian flood victims and catastrophic infrastructure damage.

Sadat brought an end to this waring cycle and looming national catastrophe with his historic trip to Jerusalem on November 7, 1977, and thereby began a process he formalized by signing the Camp David Accords the following September, and the peace treaty of 1979. For his extraordinary statesmanship, the Arab League suspended Egyptian membership. Two years later Sadat was assassinated by an amalgam of Islamic radicals including Ayman al-Zawahiri who came from the Muslim Brotherhood and became a leader of al-Qaeda.

In comparison, Begin risked nothing politically, and Carter just served milk and cookies.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1978 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1978/press.html

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2002

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2002/press.html

Ayman al-Zawahiri

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayman_al-Zawahiri

Anwar Sadat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Sadat

[Joshua]

His heart is not as good as you think, he is a rabid anti-Semite.
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Exactly. How can you claim to be “Born Again” and be an anti-Semite?

[x]

Carter was an awful president. Some of Bawer’s criticisms are questionable, though. Every president has had to work with dictators and disreputable foreign regimes. Carter’s not unique in that respect. But Carter did mishandle the economy and the international situation. He took us to a very low point in our history.

On top of that, Carter was always pretending to be so moral and upright. Two men got elected president by talking about their honesty and decency and they both have been incompetent disasters. One of them is also a crook and is still in the White House.

[Honorary Serb]

......How can you claim to be “Born Again” and be an anti-Semite?.......

Unfortunately, many do!!

But, especially with Lent coming on, we Orthodox Christians need to look at our own failings in this regard!

[Honorary Serb]

I don’t know if biden ever claimed to be “moral and upright”. If he did, it would be a pathetic joke of a lie!!!!

[Honorary Serb]

As a postscript on the Carter era—the Miracle on Ice, 1980!!

https://www.monomakhos.com/this-moment-is-yours/

[x]

You didn’t see the signs and banners about how Biden was going to bring honesty and integrity back into government?

Lucky you.

[Honorary Serb]

If those banners existed, they were an obvious Soviet-like LIE!!!!

biden’s record for lying and dishonesty goes WAY, WAY back!!!!

[OldMissileer]

I voted for him and will have to pay for that for the rest of my life.

I had just turned 18 and registered to vote and my first election was Ford/Carter. I was raised by Democrat Parents yet I voted for Ford. Spending my first four years Active Duty with Carter as President I have never voted for a Democrat.

[dirtymac]

Tough lesson but you learn well, and it carries you through.