despite photographic evidence suggesting otherwise.
Suggesting? Suggesting?? Suggesting!?!
Dear Associated Press: the photographic evidence damned well proved that the current §Resident is delusional about the size of the crowd. Time has since shown us he is delusional about many other things, too.
Whatever one may have thought of him as an executive, Carter would have been infinitely better for the country than the man who succeeded him particularly in consideration of the path it set the country on in the decades leading to our current debacle: so much time and opportunity lost and we still aren’t done.
As some wag noted, 1980; the year America had the choice of Carter, who advised us to grow up and behave with intelligent restraint, and Reagan, who told us we were so exceptional that we could have anything we wanted and the bills would never come due.
America’s Dismal Turning Point
So 1980 was an inflection point for a lot of things in America. That can’t be an accident. …A good guess, surely, is that the whole story is connected with the rise of modern movement conservatism, which brought with it unequalizing economic policies, retreat from antitrust, financial deregulation, and more.
The most dishonest claim made by contemporary conservatives in a legion of dishonest claims was the claim they were the party of responsibility and maturity.
Falwell. Liberty. Carter. Fuck it.
Important for Carter, if the Christian Taliban gives him a platform, take it, and deliver the right message, and he did. Maybe a handful will see the light, scratch a win for the old man.
Love is the way in.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. Albert Einstein
I have to say that my initial reaction was similar to originalbob: President Carter, whom I see as a greatly underrated President that will be thought of very well by history and who has been, again in my opinion, the greatest Former President in my 60+ years, greatly tarnished his legacy by agreeing to speak at Liberty.
However, I do see your point and his speech seems to have been true to who he is and to what he believes.
What a wimp. Stand up for the powerless. Seek peace. View each other as equal creations of god. Reminds me of that creepy hippie that disgusted even the Romans.
F. Graham
President Carter, as a woman, as a once-young girl, and as someone who voted for you twice, thank you for prioritizing harm done and ongoing threats to women and girls of the world in your presentation.
I’m especially impressed that you spoke as such to a room full of evangelicals and practicing and/or potential Future Misogynists of America (yes, I’m also looking at you ladies in the audience).
What President Carter demonstrates is how much the orange’s droppings have become part of our thinking process. Talk about crowds? Quote him about Inauguration Day. Talk about immigrants? Quote his “bad hombre” remarks. Talk about veterans? Quote him about McCain. Talk about sexual predation? Quote him about grabbing p***ys. He’s sort of a reverse engineered Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.
The first and most enduring superstar.
I hadn’t lived in San Francisco very long when he became governor of CA, beginning in 1967 through 1975 when he chose not to run for a third term. Neither did I follow politics like I do now. But his policies changed my state, and not for the better, yet I hear people still talking about the Reagan Era in glowing terms. I don’t think so. When Patty Hearst was kidnapped and the kidnappers demanded a food giveaway to poor people in Oakland as part of a ransom demand, he said
“It’s just too bad we can’t have an epidemic of botulism.”
He really did speak on behalf of the worst angels of our nature.
Reagan was governor when I graduated from UC Berkeley. I assumed that meant his signature would be on the diploma which was one of two reasons I never bothered to collect it.
So, Jimmy Carter went and spoke before an American evangelical/Wahhabist madrassah. Interesting.
Carter should have stayed away from that crowd.
Needed to show them what a “Pre Reagan Evangelical” looked like. They only listen to their own, and I can think of no better spokesman. I hope he lives to become freakishly old, as a counterpoint. Stick some Old Testament shit
back in their face…Like 500+ years. Go get 'Em Jimmy!
I had the honor of living there 70-73 on the other side of The Bay. Watched the larval Republican wrecking ball hatch. When I moved back east I bore witness to what a Screaming Fraud Reagan was and what he did to California. Patronage tax cuts, and get out before the bill comes due." Fuck the consequences, Our side got Paid!" Been a GOP meme ever since…why they love the memory of his horrible, dark personage.
Carter was the kind of president people always say they want; honest, hard working, and uncompromising -and they hated him for it. When given great leadership, we complained, found fault and resisted; we failed. When given bad leadership, Regan, Bush, Trump, we seem more likely to go along.
He was governor when I moved here and I was still apolitical, but I know that part of his legacy is the homelessness we see now because during his administration he denied funding for mental health and shut down hospitals where people could find treatment. Do you still live in the Bay Area?
@prometheus_bic RR cultivated a persona of being a charmer, but he was a fraud, unctuous and mean, and Nancy was a grasping social climber who acquired more friends in high places with every office he held. But we know he was a racist SOB, probably had early onset Alzheimer’s and shouldn’t have stayed in office as long as he did. They seemed to love him in SoCal more than we in NoCal ever did.