Originally published at: Jimmy Carter: An Extraordinary Life In Photos - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Former president Jimmy Carter passed away Sunday, around 3:45 p.m. ET, at home in Plains, Georgia, his son Chip told news outlets. He had turned 100 in October. One-year-old James Earl Carter(Getty Images) Jimmy Carter graduates from the US Naval Academy(Photo by Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) Jimmy Carter on his family’s peanut farm…
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Thank you TPM!!!
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A deeply underestimated and unfairly maligned President. Americans, particularly the sophisticated coastal news media, didn’t appreciate him and seemed to take every petty cheap shot they could, to tear him down.
Nonetheless, Jimmy Carter never lapsed into bitterness or withdrew from public life. He worked up until the end. Incredibly, he actually practiced Christianity. We should learn by his example.
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Not the obituary any of us wants to read, but what a life of service. Rest in peace President Carter. You were the best of us.
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True fraking dat. He was a Mensch.
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A man that was too good to be a politician! He was a good President, but not a great one. He was a kind, thoughtful, and caring man. After the White House, he retired back to Plains, GA, and the family peanut farm. He was a staunch supporter of, and volunteered for, Habitat For Humanity, building who knows how many homes for the deserving. He was a good man who loved his neighbor.
I once imagined what a conversation between him and Robert E Lee would have been like. Both good hearted Southern Gentleman.
Sadly, it would seem that there are no more Jimmy Carters on the public stage anymore.
God bless you, Jimmy. You have earned your eternal rest.
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Jimmy Carter really was one of our best presidents. Selfless, populist-in-a-good-way, businessman-farmer, liberal enough, a generally all-around good person. He had a bad run with big inflation, that cut his term short at one. But his self-less work for Habitat for Humanity and other charities thereafter further attest to his caring for others. He lived a life of service.
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I don’t think Carter’s imagined conversation with Robert E Lee would have been kumbaya. Rather, Carter might have used scripture to tell Lee he was wrong.
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Actually, I’m not sure what that scripture would have been, but, anyway, Carter was more of a man who taught by example, rather than debate. Since both men were devout Christians, I would imagine it would have been about that right prevailed.
I watched the PBS Carter retrospective earlier tonight.
They showed the Carter / Reagan debate. I had a visceral negative reaction when Reagan uttered his infamous, “There you go again . . .” bullshit.
That moment and Reagan’s election cements in my brain the downward spiral of the Republican party into the MAGAT nonsense of today.
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Wanna make America great again? Then give us more leaders with the intelligence and character of Jimmy Carter. He was everything Trump is not. RIP, Mr President.
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I honor you, President Carter
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Yea, verily.
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Jimmy Carter: A Beacon
Donald Trump: A Stain
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