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As His 100th Birthday Approaches, Concert Honors Jimmy Carter’s ‘Singular Achievements.’ Like What?
PJ Media ^ | 21 Sep 2024 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 09/22/2024 7:06:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Jimmy Carter will be 100 years old on Oct. 1. That in itself might have been enough to stage a concert in his honor. After, no other president has hit the century mark, and so why not? Yet when the roster of D-listers, has-beens and never-weres took the stage to honor Jimmuh last Tuesday, they weren’t content with praising his unprecedented longevity. Instead, they spent a great deal of time hailing “the singularity of his achievements” and praising the ways in which he supposedly made the country better. That’s right: once again leftists exchanged fantasy for reality.

The New York Times reported Friday that a stellar lineup including the B-52’s, BeBe Winans, Angélique Kidjo, Chuck Leavell “and many others,” some of whom you may even have heard of, took the stage at Atlanta’s venerable Fox Theatre to honor the failed president.

The air was thick with undeserved praise. “You can see he had a relationship to music — look at how we gathered here together tonight. He used it as a powerful tool to bring people together.” Carter brought people together? Then why is the country so divided today? I know, I know: The Gipper and the Bad Orange Man....

The Times was less confused about the concert for Carter. “In many ways,” the Paper of Record pontificated, the concert “mirrored the scope and ambitions of the man it was celebrating: Global and idealistic in its reach, but firmly planted in Georgia, molded by religious and cultural traditions as well as the rich but complicated history of the rural South.” Uh huh. Global and idealistic and the worst president of the latter half of the twentieth century.

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To: Diversity Is Our Weakness
No.

No.

No.

No.

And no.

61 posted on 09/22/2024 9:51:07 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Rummyfan

Staying alive in hospice care.


62 posted on 09/22/2024 9:56:58 AM PDT by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: Rummyfan

Giving jihadis their own country.


63 posted on 09/22/2024 10:03:50 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: rktman

444 days of utter humiliation before the entire world.
Shit on the Shah and elevated a terrorist into power in Iran.
Home buyers Pay 10 points to reduce a mortgage to 14%.
Lines to buy gas and locking gas caps.


64 posted on 09/22/2024 10:10:29 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: ridesthemiles

Carter also: 1) claimed to be so in for civil rights yet fought against school integration in Plains; 2) made a big deal of carrying his own bag as President which the “press” ate up like lapdogs and then shoved it on to the SS when out of camera range; 3) stopped serving alcohol at WH parties then would imbibe in the Oval Office (both 2 and 3 are according to his SS guard who wrote a book about how phony he was).


65 posted on 09/22/2024 10:47:08 AM PDT by laconic ( )
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To: Rummyfan
Carter’s ‘Singular Achievements.’ Like What?

Unlike Johnny Depp, he appears to still have most of his original, shovel-shaped teeth... He must be mostly English:


66 posted on 09/22/2024 10:54:16 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Propaganda keeps only governments in business, not corporations. —John Nolte)
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To: Rummyfan
He got Ronald Reagan elected. Without his catastrophic four years in office that may have never happened.

And that's the only thing which could be called an "accomplishment".

67 posted on 09/22/2024 11:09:27 AM PDT by katana
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To: Diversity Is Our Weakness

Sorry, what? “Smartest”? Granted we’ve had (have now) some genuine morons. But top of a list that includes Jefferson, Lincoln, and T. Roosevelt?


68 posted on 09/22/2024 11:14:55 AM PDT by katana
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To: Orosius

I recall another, he authorized the STEALTH program. And could not tell anyone about that t.


69 posted on 09/22/2024 11:29:52 AM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer and CSP who also taught)
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To: KC_for_Freedom

Carter brought in Dr. Harold Browne from Cal Tech to run the Defense Department. Browne had this idea, which he called “smart weaponry,” that he thought would change the face of warfare. He got us in on the ground floor decades ahead of Russia and China.


70 posted on 09/22/2024 11:32:58 AM PDT by Publius
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To: Rummyfan

His biggest achievement was delivering Iran to rabid islamists. Well done Jimmy. You will not be missed.


71 posted on 09/22/2024 11:33:55 AM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: Rummyfan

Ahh ... Jimmy Carter:

Protector of the Panama Canal
Hero of Operation Eagle Claw
Destroyer of Killer Rabbits
Mastermind of the best American economy of the XX Century

...


72 posted on 09/22/2024 11:35:21 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: katana

Sorry, what? “Smartest”? Granted we’ve had (have now) some genuine morons. But top of a list that includes Jefferson, Lincoln, and T. Roosevelt?

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Carter liked to call himself a nuclear physicist which was an exaggeration but i think it’s fair to call him a nuclear engineer. He was certainly very smart as was nixon. I agree jeffy was smart too. Lincoln and TR not so much.


73 posted on 09/22/2024 11:52:38 AM PDT by Diversity Is Our Weakness
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To: Rummyfan

The best thing to come from the Carter years was Billy Beer, and it was swill.


74 posted on 09/22/2024 12:55:36 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: katana
Grant. You read "The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant", all 31 book and it becomes apparent that the man was very smart.

Nixon was super smart as well.

75 posted on 09/22/2024 2:09:25 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: KC_for_Freedom
As I recall he shut down Verona. Because we just could not expose our good friends the commies in government.

Also crippled our intelligence gathering in other ways by insisting that we could only use A1 informants because the rest were just too unclean for the Grinning Monster.

And of course gave us the most devastating thing the Department of Communist Education which is responsible for a good 50% of the problems we have currently.

76 posted on 09/22/2024 2:14:20 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Diversity Is Our Weakness
I would encourage you to read any biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Photographic memory, at age 24 the author of a landmark work of History (The Naval War of 1812), a political career in New York fighting Tammany Hall, and an immensely successful presidency. Creating the first national park, conceiving and beginning construction of the Panama Canal, and organizing and leading a volunteer cavalry in Cuba during the Spanish American War were all sidelights. Utterly brilliant man.
77 posted on 09/22/2024 2:56:05 PM PDT by katana
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To: Rummyfan

There’s still eight chances for him to not make it to 100.
I wonder if their are any Betting pools on whether him or Biden will go first ?


78 posted on 09/22/2024 3:56:17 PM PDT by cquiggy (Ck)
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To: Rummyfan

He lived long enough to no longer be the worst President in American history. That is saying something! I, for one, never thought that record could be broken.


79 posted on 09/22/2024 5:12:54 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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