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Posted on 05/13/2012 12:15:44 PM PDT by SmithL
I was avoiding writing this morning, and instead of cleaning my desk or sharpening pencils, I did a little calculating and figured out that on September 6th or so of this year (give or take a day or two, because of the various leap years) Jimmy Carter will have lived longer since LEAVING office than any other president in history.
Right now, Herbert Hoover holds the record at 31 years, 7 months and 16 days.
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So it’s a great thing that he has had this opportunity, this gift of longevity, and that he has used it so well.
It’s a unique legacy that he will leave. It would take a strenuous revisionist to argue that he was a successful president. A disaster might be too strong a word for his time in office, but the historical argument will be made within those margins. But in retrospect it may have been worth those four years just to get Carter into his true calling, as a former president,
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.sfgate.com ...
After not voting for Carter as my first presidential vote, it was very easy for me not to vote for "Jimmuh" on steroids: Barack Hussein Obama.
Carter nearly destroyed this country, the Messiah might finish the job.
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Like the mess in Iran. Rhodesia. Venezuela"s crooked elections and Chavez. The department of education.
I can't wait until this no good POS assumes room temperature.
“If I had a son, he would look like Barry.” — Mr. Peanut
LOL, yeah.
Lets not forget this either:
The Earned Income Tax Credit (E.I.T.C.) first proposed by Nixon, signed into law by Gerald Ford and increased under every administration since, without exception.
Carter on the verge of passing Hoover’s record of continuing to live after leaving office.
Thank God he was only there for 1 term.
“Thank God he was only there for 1 term.”
Indeed. I hope that next year we say the same about Obama.
The Nixon pardon hurt Ford and made the 1974 elections worse.
Honestly I can’t believe he did that 2 months before the election.
Ford probably pulls it out if he didn’t say that stupid remark that the Soviet Union didn’t dominate Poland.
Thank you, Race.
Reference bump to copy later.
Lest you forget, Mr. “Rudolph” Ford said that his greatest achievement was “finding” John Paul Stevens!
Everyone tends to forget Jimmy's tenure as Governor of Georgia, where he was completely the creature of a corrupt machine that was well up to Clinton's standards in Arkansas.
Jimmy's "Highway Department" was a model of slick graft, in which St. Jimmy (and the Carters) participated to the max. Yes, Race, St. Jimmy of Habitat was ... well ... a crook!
Read that over again. The Hyde Amendment was attached to the Democrats' Labor-HEW appropriations bill. Here's what Ford said when he vetoed that bill:
“I agree with the restriction on the use of Federal funds for abortion. My objection to this legislation is based purely and simply on fiscal integrity.”
Pretty straightforward. Ford may have been wrong or had the wrong priorities. He may have been lying or playing politics. But do him the decency of quoting his actual words and presenting the position he claimed to represent.
Reagan promoted a Federal ban on abortion, Ford came out for abortion.
About Reagan: sure, knowing that that would never happen in his lifetime. About Ford: maybe, after he left office. That wasn't his position when he was president.
There were certainly differences in the two men and their positions on abortion. I think Reagan was the better president and better on abortion. But the two men weren't polar opposites in everything or in their thinking on abortion. Ford's view was more complicated than you have said.
LOL, you are always arguing from the left.
You wave off Reagan’s famous and all-important pro-life position as meaningless, and want to defend the pro-abortion Ford who became a public advocate for abortion, who even while campaigning and trying to soft pedal his beliefs, allowed his wife to make it clear that she was pro-abortion, giving a wink, wink to his temporary abortion positions.
September 5, 1974: Republican President Gerald Ford says in TV news conference that the federal Congress should not be involved in abortion legislation.
eptember 17, 1976: The U.S Congress approves the Hyde Amendment, barring the use of federal Medicaid funds to pay for abortions except in cases where the mother’s life is at risk. The Amendment is attached as a rider to the Health & Welfare appropriations bill, subsequently vetoed by President Gerald Ford.
September 30, 1976: Congress overrides the Ford Veto of the funding bill for Health & Welfare. The Hyde Amendment becomes federal law.
September 21, 1980: Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and independent candidate John Anderson sharply disagree on the abortion issue during a televised debate. Reagan supports a constitutional ban on abortion.
Silly me. I forgot you’re a robot who just spits out what’s programmed in.
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