Posted on 10/07/2019 1:12:41 AM PDT by Enlightened1
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter had a black eye and 14 stitches after falling Sunday at his Georgia home, but made it to an evening concert in Tennessee to rally volunteers ahead of his 36th home building project for Habitat for Humanity.
The 39th president fell earlier in the day at his home in Plains, Georgia, and required the stitches above his brow. By Sunday evening, Carter was on stage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville with his wife Rosalynn, 92, to talk to volunteers and supporters of the building project that runs through Friday.
Carter turned 95 last Tuesday, becoming the first U.S. president to reach that milestone.
He told the crowd Sunday evening that he had to go to the hospital and get 14 stitches, “but I had a No. 1 priority and that was to come to Nashville and build houses.”
Carter wore an Atlanta Braves baseball cap, but his left eye was swollen and bruised and he had a white bandage above his eye. The Carters were introduced by country stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, who called the Carters the hardest working volunteers, and sang some duets during the concert and ceremony.
Rosalynn Carter praised the country music couple for volunteering at previous Habitat for Humanity building projects, saying she once saw Yearwood way up in the rafters of a home working hard during construction.
Former President Carter then joked, “While Garth just watched her,” drawing laughs from the crowd and from Yearwood. Carter seemed to be in good spirits and came out a short time later on stage to point to his baseball cap and mention that the Braves beat the St. Louis Cardinals that day as well.
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Jimmy Carter has a black eye and 14 stitches
How is Michael Dukakis doing these days? I care more about him than the terrorist-loving Jimmy Carter.
Black eyes seem to be a Democrat trait in particular.
Anyone know where Trump was /s
“GERALD FORD” syndrome?
How acute. Black eyes seem to run rampant
in d’rat party.
Hmmm. I believe Trump should be impeached because of that. It’s obviously his fault. /S
92. The time of life, when being shorter is better.
Every drop of American citizen’s blood spilled in the me is on carter. Decades and decades of lives and taxpayer dollars.
“Sen. Reid, please pick up the white courtesy phone, Senator Harry Reid, please pick up the white courtesy phone...”
He should be sent to either Iran, Cuba, or Venezuela for treatment. Let that old commie get a taste of what he wills on others.
When you're 95 years old losing your balance and falling is not that uncommon.
As someone who served under that clown, I agree completely.
A friend of my wife’s mom fell and got the bad black eyes.
Meanwhile, my wife’s mother, who is about 90 and getting around pretty good as long as she used her walker, decided not to use it about four weeks ago. She fell. Afterward, she was having occasional seizures, blacking out for 15 minutes or so with no memory of it. They had to keep her in the hospital and classified her as DNR (do not rececitate).
She died two weeks ago.
I get the feeling we’re gonna see the end of Pres Carter before the end if Trump’s first term. Hopefully RGB too.
Maybe that little attack bunny rabbit finally got him.
To be fair..sometimes weird stuff happens.
Last night in the middle of the night I woke up to use the bathroom. Stumbled...and fell into a door knob. I laughed because if it had hit my eye instead of my forehead and left a black eye no one would believe what just happened.
Is he still alive or can’t you tell.
How black would the eye be with a review of Habitat housing 5 or 10 years after it was constructed and turned over to its new owner? How many of these houses have been paid for? In what condition are they? Have they become crack houses? An inquiring mind would like to know but does not have the computer foo to dig up the information.
Google has him dying in 2006.
He’d rather fight than switch.
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