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How Jimmy Carter became a post-White House progressive hero
The hill ^ | 02/26/2023 | HANNA TRUDO

Posted on 02/26/2023 10:25:13 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sucking up to Arafat, and any commie running for office, anywhere in the world? Please....


41 posted on 02/26/2023 12:41:40 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

One word. Malaise.


42 posted on 02/26/2023 12:44:17 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: econjack
Kill da wabbit!
43 posted on 02/26/2023 12:45:02 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Reno89519

IIRC, Carter’s service was office patrol in the navy. Not exactly what i think of as being a veteran.


44 posted on 02/26/2023 12:46:04 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: doorgunner69

He was a nuclear reactor officer, maybe ended in an office, but either way that’s 100% more than most of today’s and recent politicians.


45 posted on 02/26/2023 12:50:01 PM PST by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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To: Jaust22

An hemorrhoidal assh*le, at that.


46 posted on 02/26/2023 12:53:47 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: doorgunner69
Here is a bit more, AND NONE OF THIS WAS "OFFICE PATROL". He didn't abandon his work like the Village Idiot from Texas. Didn't avoid the draft like Clinton, or whatever the others have done or not done. As a president, Carter may come up short, fine, but as a Naval veteran, no way:

"President James Earl "Jimmy" Carter graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946 with distinction, after which he was assigned to USS Wyoming (E-AG 17) as an ensign. After completing two years of surface ship duty, Carter applied for submarine duty. He served as executive officer, engineering officer, and electronics repair officer on the submarine SSK-1. When Admiral Hyman G. Rickover (then a captain) started his program to create nuclear-powered submarines, Carter wanted to join the program and was interviewed and selected by Rickover. Carter was promoted to lieutenant and from 3 November 1952 to 1 March 1953, he served on temporary duty with the Naval Reactors Branch, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C., to assist "in the design and development of nuclear propulsion plants for naval vessels."

From 1 March to 8 October 1953, Carter was preparing to become the engineering officer for USS Seawolf (SSN-575), one of the first submarines to operate on atomic power. However, when his father died in July 1953, Carter resigned from the Navy and returned to Georgia to manage his family interests. Carter was honorably discharged on 9 October 1953 and transferred to the retired reserve at his request with the rank of lieutenant. The Seawolf-class submarine Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) is named for the 39th president.

Source: https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/people/presidents/carter.html#:~:text=President%20James%20Earl%20%22Jimmy%22%20Carter,Carter%20applied%20for%20submarine%20duty.

47 posted on 02/26/2023 12:56:04 PM PST by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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To: doorgunner69

https://news.yahoo.com/profile-courage-jimmy-carter-saved-163157083.html


48 posted on 02/26/2023 12:58:29 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: All

Remember when he built the soviets a great truck factory.
Trucks so good the soviets used them to invade Afghanistan


49 posted on 02/26/2023 1:06:37 PM PST by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: x

Nice try...


50 posted on 02/26/2023 1:10:13 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: Reno89519

“two years of surface ship duty”
BFD, hope he did not stub his toe.

All office after that. No one said he was not smart.


51 posted on 02/26/2023 1:13:01 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: CitizenUSA

He also supported the virtual destruction of both our intelligence community and 80% of the basic scientific research in this country...

Neither of which has ever recovered...


52 posted on 02/26/2023 1:14:42 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: SuperLuminal

Carter destroyed “80% of basic research”?

Can you tell me in what way?


53 posted on 02/26/2023 1:22:16 PM PST by Reily
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Great guy, lousy president.


54 posted on 02/26/2023 1:30:02 PM PST by SkyDancer (Hold on tight to your dream)
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To: Reily

During the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s, fundamental research in the U.S. was funded primarily by the Defense department...

As I experienced, firsthand, this was fully terminated by a Carter-signed law...

One of the results of this action has been its contribution to the well-known 60-year drought in new fundamental physics...


55 posted on 02/26/2023 1:40:38 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: SuperLuminal

Is this the ending of the DOD sponsorship\subsidy of the corporate “IR&D program”?

I have a vague recollection of that.


56 posted on 02/26/2023 1:46:45 PM PST by Reily
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To: doorgunner69

And you excuse for Bush Junior?


57 posted on 02/26/2023 2:11:48 PM PST by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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To: doorgunner69

He introduced mr khomeini to the world and the world is a worse, much worse place for it.


58 posted on 02/26/2023 2:29:43 PM PST by Nashcash
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To: Reily

It affected government labs, industries, and universities...

It was, sort of, the equivalent of Biden canceling the Constitution and opening the Nation’s borders to everyone...

Although, instead of a fundamental science drought, Biden has enabled an economic, cultural, morality, and law & order drought that will last, in a similar vein, for the next 60-to-100 years...


59 posted on 02/26/2023 4:07:07 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: SuperLuminal

So it’s different then the question I asked?


60 posted on 02/26/2023 4:23:36 PM PST by Reily
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