Posted on 05/16/2024 10:53:36 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Former President Jimmy Carter hasn’t seen any “significant change” in his health, despite his grandson warning again this week that the 99-year-old’s life was “coming to the end,” according to the director of the former commander in chief’s namesake nonprofit organization.
Carter remains “at home, enjoying peanut butter ice cream and getting the food he wants any time he wants it,” Carter Center CEO Paige Alexander told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Politically Georgia podcast Wednesday.
“It’s 15 months of hospice at this point, and he is fully retired,” Alexander explained. “There really hasn’t been a significant change. I mean, he will always be one bad cold away from the end.
“He is in hospice care, and there are palliative measures if he’s in pain, but nothing else.”
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when Reagan won he found warehouses filled with govt peanut butter. He gave it all away.
Not me. It’s my turn to treat him as he treated me.
This after Richard Nixon said that China needed to brought into the community of nations in the 1960’s.
It was for economic reasons Nixon said “We can’t run the world without China”
Now China has gotten too big for its britches has to be the bad guy again.
I can see that.
Beautifully stated.
He deserves better than having Brandon around!
Agree; I thought and still think that he was a sanctimonious liar, a total incompetent and while he is somewhat of an improvement over Biden, that is like saying that fast food is better than no food. One of his Secret service guards wrote a book in the 1980s about what a public/private phony he was - banning liquor at the White House then toking up on it behind closed doors, carrying his own luggage while he was seen by the cameras in public then dumping it on his guards when they walked into private spaces. In 2016 he said that Trump was not duly elected as President so he’s been a loyal soldier of Hillary Clinton and her attempt to ruin the Trump presidency through a pack of lies. I remember this goof for long gas lines, remarkably high inflation and interest rates, the abandonment of Iran, the Department of Education, amnesty for draft dodgers (his first official act), high unemployment. And he has been in hospice for longer than anyone I can remember - he gets press attention this way and it resurrects the “but he was a good man” mantra that so many want to propagate.
It happened because the powers that be wanted it for $$$$.
But now times have changed.
The politicians just instruments of the forces that really run the show.
I remember years ago being told he was allergic to peanuts.
Very well said. You brought up a slew of things that many people have forgotten, but should never forget about Jimmy Carter. The media protected him like they’ve protected every RAT President for decades.
Keeping him on ice until they need an “event”….
Maybe the debate will call for a distraction.
That must have been a joke. Carter’s been around peanuts his whole life.
For sure. I met and spoke briefly to Craig Barrett of Intel when he spoke in Chengdu in 1998. That's all it was about. Didn't care about the toxic culture and murderous politics.
Carter was known for his modesty. He asked to be called "Jimmy" instead of James, and he was famous for his causal cardigan sweaters.
And sold out Iran to the mullahs. That alone negates all the feel-good photo-ops he did with a carpenters' hammer in his hand.
The man is dying—as we all will in the end. He was our president for better or worse. Yes, I voted for him in 1976—because I was young—in college and a democrat by family.
He was not a particularly good president as far as presidents go, and his presidential failures are a long list—
But it was his after-life as president for which he is fondly remembered. His work with his association with habitat for humanity for example.
Yes, we can point to his human faults, but don’t many of us have some sort of fault?
Let our President die in peace and without pain. Let him be embraced by our Lord, for whatever his faults, mistakes and successes, he was at one time, our President, and the last democrat president that loved our country.
Hail To The Chief
That’s true. Maybe he has already let them know he wants a simple funeral.
My father just died in hospice care (in Dec) and his last month of life all he ate was Ensure and then later on just a spoonful or two of ice cream a day.
It’s all he wanted to eat, and barely that. He got thin. I learned that we don’t die because we don’t eat; we don’t eat because we are dying. The body doesn’t need or want that energy anymore. I learned a LOT from the hospice people.
Ice cream. That will probably be my final month of food too. We come in the world with sweet dairy (breastmilk is very sweet and tastes like melted ice cream—I’ve tasted my own out of curiosity); we go out of the world with sweet dairy. And sometimes in diapers too.
May your Dad RIP
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