[NYPOST] Former President Jimmy Malaise Carter
...peanut farming former nuclear sub officer, who succeeded Gerald Ford as president. Carter perfected the approach later used by Joe Biden to get elected, presenting himself as a moderate whose Zero-based Budgeting was going to so away with the federal deficif. Once in the hands George McGovern's rejects, who were ever so much more virtuous than the rest of us, the nation immediately spun into a Malaise®. By the time Jimmeh, as he was contemptuously referred to, was running against Ronald Reagan, the liberal columnists were pronouncing the nation's problems as too severe to be solved by anyone; they were simply unsolvable, or maybe insoluble. That was why Reagan was such a flop. After Obama, Jimmeh's's only the second worst president ever, and by the time Biden's done maybe the third. Depending on how many Dems we elect in coming years, he may even end up looking competent...
has decided to receive hospice care "instead of additional medical intervention" at his home in Plains, Georgia, the Carter Center announced Saturday.
The 98-year-old made the decision after a "series of short hospital stays," the center said. "He has the full support of his family and his medical team."
Grandson Jason Carter said the family patriarch and Rosalynn, his wife of 76 years, are "at peace."
"I saw both of my grandparents yesterday," Jason Carter tweeted. "They are at peace and — as always —their home is full of love."
The former president, whose tumultuous single term ended in 1981, has faced serious health problems in recent years.
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