R.I.P. Jimmy Carter

[River Dog]

I never voted for the man, voting for Ford in 1976 and Reagan in 1980, and he was IMO a very ineffective POTUS, way too much of a micromanager with the Iran Hostage Crisis consuming his presidency. But I have a huge amount of respect for him as a person.

It wasn't his presidency that defined him as much as it was his activities afterwards. He was active in peace negotiations, established Habitat for Humanity, stayed out of the political fray. My opinion of him was that he was a helluva nice guy who got in over his head as President.

100 years old. Quite a life. Rest in peace, Jimmy Carter.

[Aseahawkfan]

R.I.P. Jimmy Carter. I mainly remember him being a peanut farmer as I was a little child when he was president and that was the only thing I found interesting as a child about a president.

[c_hawkbob]

I too voted against him as president both times and while he was never my favorite President he was absolutely my favorite ex-president. RIP Sir.

[River Dog]

I too voted against him as president both times and while he was never my favorite President he was absolutely my favorite ex-president. RIP Sir.

Me, too. I'm not sure if any person could have managed the times Carter was thrust into, with the post-Vietnam, post-Space Race economic downturn from all that government spending of the 60's and early 70's. His problem was that he was too much of a nice guy, admitted the Shah of Iran to try to save another human being's life, got so involved in the hostages that he sacrificed his presidency for them. I've heard people compare his post presidency times with that of Herbert Hoover's.

It's one topic that all of us are in complete agreement on. Jimmy Carter was a Saint. If there is a heaven, Jimmy Carter has a lifetime pass.

[River Dog]

R.I.P. Jimmy Carter. I mainly remember him being a peanut farmer as I was a little child when he was president and that was the only thing I found interesting as a child about a president.

One of the things I remember most about Jimmy Carter while he was POTUS was the comedy associated with him. Carter sold himself as this church going, Holier than thou type of guy, but his brother Billy was the polar opposite and was a huge embarrassment for Jimmy, so much so that he once had to define his relationship with him in a nationally televised address. Billy even patented his own beer, Billy Beer. Back in the days when we had just 3 TV channels, there was a prime-time sitcom, Carter Country, that poked fun at the southern small-town life that Carter came from. Then there was the killer rabbit that Carter fended off while he was fishing from a boat. Jimmy Carter was taylor made for Johnny Carson's monologues.

[curmudgeon]

The “real” Mount Rushmore:
1. FDR
2. Obama
3. Biden
4. Carter
…….