Posted on 03/13/2019 3:02:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The post-presidential rehabilitation of Jimmy Carter’s image is reaching a new peak.
After a decades-long climb from the gutter of public opinion, the truth-telling one-term ex-president is suddenly a sought-after commodity in the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign — a symbol candidates can wrap themselves around as everything Donald Trump is not.
Since January, at least two Democratic presidential contenders have reached out to him, Sens. Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar, who met with him separately in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.
For Democrats who once shunned Carter, his reputation’s revival is not only the product of time and his own substantial post-presidential work. It's also a function of Trump — a study in contrast to the earnest peanut farmer from Georgia — and a field full of Democrats yearning to replicate his come-from-nowhere victory in the presidential election in 1976.
In January, after Booker and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) met with Carter in Georgia, Booker posted a video on Instagram of Carter telling him, “I hope you run for president,” to which Booker responded, “You encouraging me means more to me than you could imagine.”. . .
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If only to be like a 94 year old with brain damage...
Yes, as odd as that is to consider.
But Carter was the President who violated the rule that no President will comment and second guess a President currently holding office. He was the first in my lifetime to do it.
It was a good unwritten rule, out of consideration for the difficult task of being President, of that burden they have to carry, that they bit their tongue so as not to make the already difficult job of a sitting President more difficult.
The scumbag Carter broke that rule, and they all do it now.
Who is kidding who here? Even Jimmah’s mother knew what he and his brother Billy were. She is recorded to have said: “Sometimes when I look at my children, I say to myself, ‘Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.’” Lillian Carter
I had to check if this was from Babylon Bee.
Jimmy Crater was the 2nd worst president in my lifetime.
I never thought there would or could be anybody worse. Then 2008 happened....
If Carter is the antidote, I’ll stick with the disease.
Not a nice guy. Hates the voters to this day for not reelecting him in 1980.
Thorn in the side of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, friend of Pallie terrorists for almost four decades.
Smallest ex-president ever. Still glaring daggers at hecklers.
Yea, Carter as the voice of “reason” signing off on the “election” of Venezuela’s dictator, Chavez, with Chavez’ hand picked successor now turning Venezuela into a destroyed and dysfunctional state, certainly - I agree - it makes Carter the perfect example for today’s Dims.
“the truth-telling one-term ex-president“
Snort.....
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