Posted on 04/17/2023 3:29:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Jimmy Carter’s Baptist faith was one of his calling cards in the 1976 presidential campaign
Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president. Then the 1976 Democratic nominee brought up sex and sin as he explained his religious faith to Playboy magazine.
Carter was not misquoted. But he was certainly misunderstood, as his thoughts in the wide-ranging interview were reduced in the popular imagination to utterances about “lust” and “adultery.”
Nearly a half-century later, as the 98-year-old Carter receives hospice care in the same south-Georgia home where he once spoke with Playboy journalists, interviewer Robert Scheer still believes Carter was treated unfairly. He recalls the former president as a “real” and “serious” figure whose intent was smothered by the intensity of a campaign's closing stretch.
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John Wayne Gacy...
How’s he doing these Days?
So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
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Was Carter a Rev. 3:16 Christian, or other?
I think "misguided" fits pretty well here...
As Carter approaches his final days, at least he will have the comfort of knowing he will no longer be known as the worst modern-day president.
Did people in the 70s really used to wear crimson suits like that?
Ha!
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Not in My neighborhood!
I seem to remember a couple of local TV news guys who had ‘flashy’ suits like this.
She looks like a flight attendant.
Close call with the present WH occupant..
Good, in fact, Schadenfreude. I'll go by what HST said about Carter, that Carter had a mean streak and was ruthless, comparing Carter to Sonny Barger. Screw that old fraud straight into the ground. *spit*
re crimson blazer yup!
the only people that wore bblack suits white shirts and thin black ties were IBM employees.
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