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Let me make this pellucidly clear re Jimmy Carter (Original Post) malaise May 2024 OP
Couldn't agree with you more, my dear malaise! CaliforniaPeggy May 2024 #1
Indeed my dear CaliforniaPeggy malaise May 2024 #2
I got to see him in Fort Worth on his down home tour during his campaign. flying_wahini May 2024 #3
He gave to this world far, far more than he took from it. sarge43 May 2024 #4
So true malaise May 2024 #35
Hear Hear! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E May 2024 #5
LMFTFY Oopsie Daisy May 2024 #6
It's not your post n/t malaise May 2024 #18
Yes, I know. But my version is better. Oopsie Daisy May 2024 #22
Trumpsky using him as a punchline at his fascist ego-rallies Harker May 2024 #7
I thought Тяцмp has been talking about ... Whiskeytide May 2024 #30
Oh... that's very different. Harker May 2024 #34
Sm,elvis the SF didn't know who the eff he was talking about malaise May 2024 #36
Eff Slobby malaise May 2024 #31
He taught those of all faiths.."We are all ONE" State the Obvious May 2024 #8
As a 28 year old Lieutenant Jimmy Carter repaired a leaking reactor in Canada. gordianot May 2024 #9
Jimmy Carter is a national treasure! Trump is a national security risk! Initech May 2024 #10
Nailed it malaise May 2024 #19
Imagine the world if we had shifted gears on our climate policy as he had suggested. mjvpi May 2024 #11
THIS malaise May 2024 #20
It's fun searching DU for the phrase "Let me make this pellucidly clear" IronLionZion May 2024 #12
LOL malaise May 2024 #32
K&R spanone May 2024 #13
K N R Faux pas May 2024 #14
Carter is a criminally underrated President Ellen Forradalom May 2024 #15
What a wonderful man orangecrush May 2024 #16
His passing will minimize this world a little bit. Torchlight May 2024 #17
Lovely post malaise May 2024 #33
I am so grateful to have been able to vote for him. TNNurse May 2024 #21
I had forgotten he won the Nobel peace prize in '02 DoBW May 2024 #23
He has lived an amazing life malaise May 2024 #26
totally .. DoBW May 2024 #29
June 1989, he was in Milwaukee building Habitat for Humanity homes. I will never forget Ziggysmom May 2024 #24
Must have been quite a moment😀 malaise May 2024 #28
One word DECENT Emile May 2024 #25
THIS malaise May 2024 #27
Please consider joining the Jimmy Carter Appreciation Society on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/16374217069 mdmc Jun 12 #37

flying_wahini

(7,630 posts)
3. I got to see him in Fort Worth on his down home tour during his campaign.
Wed May 15, 2024, 11:25 AM
May 2024

He is such a genuine and kind person. A wonderful president.
Too bad Reagan won, our world would be so different if he had.

Oopsie Daisy

(3,897 posts)
6. LMFTFY
Wed May 15, 2024, 11:42 AM
May 2024
Jimmy Carter ... you are loved and respected ... history will be kind to you.


There! That's better! I really see no reason to mention Trump in an effort to praise Carter by comparison. And there's no reason to mention Carter in an effort to ridicule Trump. I think it detracts from the message.

Oopsie Daisy

(3,897 posts)
22. Yes, I know. But my version is better.
Wed May 15, 2024, 06:39 PM
May 2024

I think it's offensive to praise Jimmy Carter by comparing him to Trump, and vice-versa. The two names should never be in the same post, much less the same paragraph or sentence. Jimmy Carter deserves better than that. --- He deserves praise for who he IS and what he's ACCOMPLISHED (not for who he "isn't" and for what he "hasn't done".)

Harker

(14,582 posts)
7. Trumpsky using him as a punchline at his fascist ego-rallies
Wed May 15, 2024, 11:43 AM
May 2024

Really ticks me off.

He has no cause to even mention his name.

Whiskeytide

(4,483 posts)
30. I thought Тяцмp has been talking about ...
Thu May 16, 2024, 03:57 PM
May 2024

… the tennis player Jimmy Connors. At least that’s what my friend Emily Litella said.




State the Obvious

(844 posts)
8. He taught those of all faiths.."We are all ONE"
Wed May 15, 2024, 11:49 AM
May 2024
We learned (through his example) about decency, honesty, compassion and integrity.

"If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values. because you don't". Jimmy Carter

gordianot

(15,404 posts)
9. As a 28 year old Lieutenant Jimmy Carter repaired a leaking reactor in Canada.
Wed May 15, 2024, 11:49 AM
May 2024

Even if he would not become Governor, President, and a renowned humanitarian he should be remembered for this act of courage. Carter absorbed 1000x times the radiation allowed today. A true American hero.

mjvpi

(1,517 posts)
11. Imagine the world if we had shifted gears on our climate policy as he had suggested.
Wed May 15, 2024, 12:07 PM
May 2024

Shining city on the hill climate policy. He had some brilliant advisers, like Amory Lovins .

IronLionZion

(46,572 posts)
12. It's fun searching DU for the phrase "Let me make this pellucidly clear"
Wed May 15, 2024, 01:47 PM
May 2024

to see a long list of your pellucidly clear OPs

Ellen Forradalom

(16,175 posts)
15. Carter is a criminally underrated President
Wed May 15, 2024, 02:55 PM
May 2024

Who got outmaneuvered by some evil effers. A genuinely good person and far, far ahead of his time on renewable energy.

Torchlight

(4,056 posts)
17. His passing will minimize this world a little bit.
Wed May 15, 2024, 03:29 PM
May 2024

I was in 4th grade when he was elected, at that age when concepts like a President were beginning to dawn on me. So of course, given that and his life's achievements, he's become an inherent, fundamental standard of who I think has earned the office, and the direction their ethical compasses should point towards.

I'll never have reason to place Pres. Carter and that other guy in the same thought, let alone in a sentence, unless to draw what I think is the most greatest contrast between two modern presidents: a man of noble thought and deed, and a degenerate, willfully-flawed piece of filth.

TNNurse

(7,035 posts)
21. I am so grateful to have been able to vote for him.
Wed May 15, 2024, 05:04 PM
May 2024

I hope he has been aware enough to see all the good work Joe and Kamala are doing. I think he would be proud and also comforted.

DoBW

(1,524 posts)
23. I had forgotten he won the Nobel peace prize in '02
Thu May 16, 2024, 07:12 AM
May 2024

very interesting story. For ex. ... how many people know he was a submariner assigned to Schenectady, N.Y., where he took graduate work at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics, and served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf, the second nuclear submarine. ? Fascinating, the trajectories of lives

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2002/carter/biographical/




malaise

(274,655 posts)
26. He has lived an amazing life
Thu May 16, 2024, 09:08 AM
May 2024

Do you remember this? .😂😂

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/09/politics/trump-nobel-prize/index.html

President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday that while “everyone thinks” he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his involvement in the warming of relations with North Korea, the only prize he wants is a victory for the world.

Of course he never got one





Ziggysmom

(3,498 posts)
24. June 1989, he was in Milwaukee building Habitat for Humanity homes. I will never forget
Thu May 16, 2024, 09:02 AM
May 2024

meeting him. His grace and kindness made him shine like a star. Rosalynn, too.

mdmc

(29,161 posts)
37. Please consider joining the Jimmy Carter Appreciation Society on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/16374217069
Wed Jun 12, 2024, 08:04 PM
Jun 12

Please consider joining the Jimmy Carter Appreciation Society on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/163742170693378

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