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Jimmy Carter is the only former president who has confirmed he'll attend Trump's inauguration
IBT ^ | December 23, 2016 | Pavitra Dwibhashyam

Posted on 12/23/2016 9:01:05 AM PST by Leaning Right

Jimmy Carter is the only former president who has confirmed that he will attend the inauguration of Donald Trump on 20 January 2017. Earlier this month, Carter who had endorsed Hillary Clinton in the race to the White House, said at his Sunday school class in Georgia that he would attend the ceremony.

According to Politico, Bill Clinton and George W Bush will decide whether to attend the inauguration in the New Year. A source familiar with Bush told Politico that he is still weighing in on whether to attend the ceremony or not.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billclinton; bush41; bush43; bushfamily; carter; georgewbush; gwb; jimmycarter; presidents; trumpinaugural; trumptransition; x42
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To: ferret_airlift

I agree if 41 is that ill, I’ll give W a pass.

I’m pretty sure Clinton (him) will be there, just for the press adulation.

If Obama didn’t have to hand over the keys, I wouldn’t care if he stayed in Hawaii to golf.


101 posted on 12/23/2016 10:17:22 AM PST by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
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To: Leaning Right

Carter just improving his position over Obama who has taken Carter’s place as the worst president in modern history


102 posted on 12/23/2016 10:18:22 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: lee martell
This may account to why he and Rove never did aggressively confront these people on their crimes and on their bad manners

Bush said he respected the Office of the Presidency too much, but I say he was a pussy.

103 posted on 12/23/2016 10:19:04 AM PST by USS Alaska (Kill all muslim, terrorist savages, with extreme prejudice!!!)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

What’s even worse is that many folks here are going into “he’s dead to me” mode base on a rumor of a rumor. You would think by now that our side would know better, with all the chatter about fake news.


104 posted on 12/23/2016 10:23:44 AM PST by T. P. Pole
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To: Leaning Right

In my youth, I worked at a resort as a banquet server. (Circa 1989) I had the opportunity to serve a private breakfast meeting that Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and a former Japanese Prime Minister (I forgot his name) attended. I know FReepers don’t think much of Carter. However, he was very nice to me. Ford, not so much. I have a tendency to judge people by the way they treat service workers. Hence, whenever Carter says something stupid, I like to cut him some slack. I’m happy that he’s going to the inauguration. I think he is a lovely person. I’m also happy that that his cancer is under control.


105 posted on 12/23/2016 10:23:56 AM PST by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: SE Mom

“Carter I always found to be misguided and yet sincere in his foolishness.”

That is the best single sentence summary on Jimmy Carter that I have ever seen.


106 posted on 12/23/2016 10:23:57 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Deplorable and loving it.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

>>Now, not so much.

Yep.  It's pretty disapointing (at best) when the curtain gets pulled back and the past 55+ years comes into clearer focus.

"We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Glaspie


 

Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech

Origins and Significance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y



107 posted on 12/23/2016 10:26:31 AM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Leaning Right
According to Politico, Bill Clinton and George W Bush will decide whether to attend the inauguration in the New Year.

And yet GW Bush found time to be co-chair of Obama's 2013 Presidential Inaugural Committee.

108 posted on 12/23/2016 10:33:54 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: Cecily

“GWB can happily consort with the Clinton Crime Family, but can’t attend Trump’s inauguration?”

If there’s a chance of a repeat of the way he behaved at the memorial service for the five slain Dallas LEOs, prolly best Dubya stays home with a case of scotch.


109 posted on 12/23/2016 10:35:25 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: T. P. Pole; Presbyterian Reporter

Fake news? Maybe. But this story has been reported independently on multiple sites.


110 posted on 12/23/2016 10:50:56 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

I remember that. Great picture. I hung it up in my cube, the look he is was giving Obummer was priceless.


111 posted on 12/23/2016 11:02:54 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Leaning Right

The “W” stands for Waaaaaah. The Bushes are acting like the Clintons and show themselves to be low class, despite Barbara’s pearls. Shame on them.


112 posted on 12/23/2016 11:07:18 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: Leaning Right

I always thought W had class, but now I wonder.


113 posted on 12/23/2016 11:15:45 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Leaning Right

“Bush ... is still weighing in on whether to attend the ceremony or not.”

Someone doesn’t know their idioms. ‘Weighing in’ means giving one’s opinion.

The university trained, idiot millennial writer, likely meant to say that Bush is weighing whether to attend the inauguration.


114 posted on 12/23/2016 11:19:46 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Leaning Right

Jimmy just wants a free ride like all DemoRats......sorry SOB.


115 posted on 12/23/2016 11:29:41 AM PST by mastertex
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I think George H.W. Bush has seen declining health, which would explain his absence.

True, but it's a mere convenience. Poppy Bush could be at the peak of health and still wouldn't attend.

Trump stomped the living crap out of the country club Republican'ts and Poppy's little boy, Jeb. He then went on to demolish Poppy's adopted daughter in the general election.

Poppy's still p'd off about all that. So is his boy, Dubya.

116 posted on 12/23/2016 11:30:25 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: ferret_airlift

Didn’t you get the memo? It’s hip and all the rave to be vile and knee jerk? To hell with his fathers health there are more important matters to tend to than his own fathers health. So sayeth the upswell of populists.


117 posted on 12/23/2016 11:31:51 AM PST by Jarhead9297
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

The only class some people have is no class!
I never like President Carter but never hated him.
The man, to me, walked and talked as a Christian.
The Muslim will show to be the center of the Liberal Mecca! The Clintons will be somewhere counting their filthy lucre. The Bushs?Who G.A.S.A.B.?


118 posted on 12/23/2016 11:36:17 AM PST by GOYAKLA ( "Suck it up Buttercup"; Pick-up the pace, I'm eighty-one!)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress
I’d like Dick Cheney to be there just so he can give n0bama (assuming he shows) another evil death stare!

It's funny how different people can look at the same thing and see it in totally opposite ways.

I look at that photo of Cheney eyeing Obama at the 2008 inauguration and see someone who's been cowed and 'put in his place'. To me, his expression reveals that he's internally disturbed by Obama, but resigned to the fact that there's nothing he can do to stop him from assuming power.

119 posted on 12/23/2016 11:45:36 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I’m’ so disappointed in W, really. I really thought he was a good guy.


120 posted on 12/23/2016 11:53:38 AM PST by freepertoo
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