Posted on 08/25/2021 10:27:48 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter is sometimes called a better former president than he was president.
Nodding to Carter’s decades of work as a globe-trotting humanitarian but with a glaring reminder of his landslide defeat in 1980, the backhanded compliment rankles Carter allies and, they say, the former president himself.
Yet now, 40 years removed from the White House, the most famous resident of Plains, Georgia, is riding a new wave of attention as biographers, filmmakers, climate activists and Carter’s fellow Democrats push to recast his presidential legacy, even as Republicans sometimes try to remind voters of the volatile economy and international affairs that doomed Carter to one term.
The renewed spotlight is especially significant for the broad swath of Americans too young to remember a presidency that spanned from 1977 to 1981. Sandwiched between the Watergate era of Richard Nixon and two terms of Ronald Reagan, Carter’s tenure came before Millennials or Generation Z voters were born and earlier than most of Generation X reached political awareness.
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You don't know Jimmuh.
Decent ? Nope. This guy was a phony from start to finish.
Compared to Clinton and Obama he was decent. I already said he was a lousy president, but at least he handled the transition to Reagan’s presidency with class, which is more than what can you say about Clinton’s transition to W and Obama’s transition to Trump. In this respect Carter acted with decency.
Ah, the harmless one.
That’s a very, very low bar. But he is not what I term decent. He has a long record of vicious and deceitful behavior. He ran a racist campaign for Governor in 1970 that the media went a long way in trying to cover up (against racial moderate ex-Gov. Carl Sanders), his hatred for Israel and Jews, his pandering and sympathy for the Satanic left (Mohammadans, et al), his bamboozling of religious Conservatives/Christians to support his candidacies, all just the tip of the iceberg. Probably one of the biggest phonies to be in politics of the last century, and that’s really saying something.
He deserves the bad rap. Yes, the prior Presidents did a lot of damage but Carter made everything worse.
Partisan Media Shill alert.
He was, is, and remains a horrible president and an overrated human being.
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