I liked Carter anyway, Punching bag or not.
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He’s a class act and a gentleman, much like Obama in that regard. They both handled unjust criticism maturely, never giving in to “name calling” and such, they always kept their cool.
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The people to which you refer are
mindless
Mindless
MINDLESS
M I N D L E S S!!!
The Australian who made them so will see ALL the rings of hell
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change the tax code to what it was under clinton and pre-reagan and progressively tax the rich. taxes are intended to prevent kindoms and oligarchies.
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I don’t think things suddenly changed since 2010 or whenever Citizens United was handed down – money increases the power of the oligarchy, but we still have “democracy” (using that term loosely since we do have a “republic,” of course). I liked his new book btw.
President Carter is just saying what every honest American knows to be utterly and absolutely true. Then you have the Conservatives…" 'Murikan 'sceptionalism! DERP!"
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Jimmy Carter continues to be one of the most clear-headed Americans, and approaches being a singular moral voice and visionary in what ails us as a nation. His decision to leave the Conference of Southern Baptists after an entire life as a member is a testimony to his evolution as a man of reason and character. The typical smearing by know-nothing Americans is revolting and ignorant. The man is a giant on the world stage. In a way, he is like another American giant, Paul Robeson who shockingly, is barely remembered today.
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Just the way the Founding Fathers wanted it, say conservatives on the Court.
That whole liberalism thing about voting and equality…? That was only their marketing plan for selling three-cornered hats.
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It was the MSM’s refusal to take him seriously that doomed his presidency. Congressional Dems were at fault also, but the press’ denigration of Carter and later its refusal to call out Reagan on his blatant lies started a downward spiral in governance and cemented the idiotic false equivalence doctrine that has prevailed ever since in the press.
Eastern elites have done great damage to the US, by refusing to grant that a Georgia peanut farmer (who was also a naval officer with an enviable record and in-depth* experience with nuclear reactors) might have more perspicacity than the CW, or even a B-movie actor. That, as much as the runup to the Iraq war, is why I despise the NYT and WP.
.* Pun intended
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Been there, seen that.
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Carter is 100% spot on, and a severely underappreciated President. However:
Carter told Thom Hartmann on the “Thom Harmann Program”
3 words apart. The name’s repeated and misspelled in the space of 3 words, and an editor doesn’t catch that?
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I greatly appreciate President Carter’s opinion…
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“I’d buy that for a dollar!”
I can’t… this alternate-reality dystopia (where “Idiocracy” is a feature-length documentary) we find ourselves living in has drained all hope from me and left a gaping hole in my psyche… 
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I thought we were a anarcho-syndicalist commune.
A man to be admired. IMHO, he is one of the top five Presidents of the US. I am proud to say that I voted for him twice.
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John Quincy Adams was pretty good as well. Not too successfull as President, but a lion in the fight against slavery after his White House years. Also, a leader in the House - the only President with a significant political career in Congress after his presidency expired.
I’m not arguing with you. I just wanted to claim the silver medal for Adams.
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Hmm, Robeson was also an outspoken admirer and supporter of Stalin who insisted that there were no purges and no political suppression in the Soviet Union. Recipient of the Stalin Prize in 1952, he wrote a poem “To You My Beloved Comrade” after the death of Stalin, praising his wisdom and his humanity. And he never wavered in his support for the Soviet Union, not even after Stalin’s crimes were acknowledged by the communist party.
I do not think that he is in the same league as Carter is.
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LOL I heard Billy the Clinton liked to drive his fastest driving car into Jimmy’s lawn and do doughnuts on it too while talking ish about how he was able to stay in twice, even though people were specifically trying to take him down on some mostly hyped-up BS. And then his wifey has juice and experience and probably will be your next commander-in-chief. So he made sure to splash extra mud in your rose-tinted glass(es)/windows before driving away from the scene quicker than lightening.
Carter, with his negative outlook is as responsible as anyone for the rise of Ronald Reagan, and this interview shows he still has not learned why his negative view of everything ill befits a leader. People do not want Cassandras— they want hope. Those who were alive and voting when he was president remember how bleak a picture he presented of the future in every respect, and how wrong he was. In 1980, his own party would have deserted him had a viable candidate disappeared. (Teddy Kennedy could have been that candidate, but his candidacy went up in smoke in a single interview when he could not answer a question about why he wanted to be president.) He was feckless in foreign diplomacy— our allies disposed him for making them go out on limbs that he then sawed off behind the,— the Germans in particular could not stand him. Yeah, he can run a non-profit, but not the most important country and greatest military power in the world. One would expect him to not be all gloom and doom in a healthy old age, but there you go.
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