[NYPost] At least he got to vote a couple times for Kamala
He lived long enough to die as the second-worst president in my lifetime, an improvement in rank I never expected to see. I don’t believe in his soul’s probable destination, but he assuredly did. Lots of details about his life and career can be read at the link — here is the key info:
Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut farmer who became the 39th president of the United States during a time of gas shortages, Cold War drama and the Iran hostage crisis, died Sunday.
He was 100.
Carter — the longest-living president in US history — passed away in Plains, Ga. — the town where he was born — after spending nearly two years in hospice care.
He survived Rosalynn, his wife of 77 years, by a little over a year. She died at age 96 in November 2023.
The former president leaves behind four children, Jack, Chip, Jeff and Amy, as well as 11 grandchildren and 14 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by Rosalynn as well as one grandchild.
“My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love,” said Chip Carter, the former president’s son.
“My brothers, sister, and I shared him with the rest of the world through these common beliefs. The world is our family because of the way he brought people together, and we thank you for honoring his memory by continuing to live these shared beliefs.”
Carter was sworn in on Jan. 20, 1977, after defeating Republican Gerald Ford, whose campaign was burdened by the political baggage he carried from his decision to pardon disgraced President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal.
He served only one tumultuous four-year term before being swept aside by Ronald Reagan — but in that time he racked up triumphs such as the historic Camp David peace accords, in which Israel and Egypt officially recognized each other’s governments.
“Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood,” he once said.
Public observances will be held in Atlanta and Washington, DC followed by a private interment in Plains, where Carter will be buried alongside Rosalynn on a plot visible from the front porch of their home of more than six decades.
The full details of President Carter’s state funeral — including public events and motorcade routes — are still pending and will be released by the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region.
He declares January 9 as a National Day of Mourning across the US. Carter, the longest-lived former president, died yesterday at his home in Plains, Georgia. He was 100.
Biden also orders US flags to fly at half-staff for 30 days from Sunday.
A few bits from something more contemporaneous (National Review, 2002), which nicely explains my animus:
Carterpalooza!
• For years, Carter has been a thorn in the side of presidents, acting as a kind of “anti-president,” as Lance Morrow once put it in an essay for Time. You recall how Carter irked Clinton on Haiti and North Korea. His low moment, however, came during the run-up to the Gulf War, when he wrote members of the U.N. Security Council — including Mitterrand’s France and Communist China — urging them to thwart the Bush administration’s effort. Our government found out about it when the Canadian prime minister, Brian Mulroney, called the defense secretary, Dick Cheney, and said, “What the . . .?” Some people actually allowed themselves to utter the word “treason.”
• Carter has long enjoyed a reputation as a Middle East sage, owing, of course, to his role in the original Camp David accords. That reputation, however, rests on shaky grounds. Truth is, Sadat and Begin had their deal worked out before ever approaching Washington. And the facilitators they used were far from saintly Southern Baptists: They used the dreadful King of Morocco and the even more dreadful Ceausescu of Romania! When they had their plan essentially worked out, however, they called the White House (whose occupant just happened to be J.C.) (initials not accidental, he and his most fervent admirers have seemed to think for years).
Why did they contact the White House? Prof. Bernard Lewis put it succinctly to Charlie Rose recently: “Well, obviously, they needed someone to pay the bill, and who but the United States could fulfill that function?”
Still, Carter is proud-as-all-get-out of his rendezvous with Middle East history. He trades on it incessantly.
• The ex-president has always considered himself screwed out of the Nobel prize, and he and his Carter Center have campaigned rather embarrassingly openly for it. He has won prizes, however, about which he crows: There was one named after his fellow liberal southerner, Fulbright; there was one from the U.N. (natch); and there was my favorite: the Zayed International Prize for the Environment, named for His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates!
Arabs are heavy-duty funders of the Carter Center, and they get a lot for their money.
• No one quite realizes just how passionately anti-Israel Carter is. William Safire has reported that Cyrus Vance acknowledged that, if he had had a second term, Carter would have sold Israel down the river. In the 1990s, Carter became quite close to Yasser Arafat. After the Gulf War, Saudi Arabia was mad at Arafat, because the PLO chief had sided with Saddam Hussein. So Arafat asked Carter to fly to Riyadh to smooth things over with the princes and restore Saudi funding to him — which Carter did.
• Carter’s op-ed piece for the New York Times last month — April 21 — was a nasty piece of work, an apologia for Arafat (despite a pro forma and unconvincing attempt at “balance”) and a mendacious attack on Sharon and Israel.
His hatred for Sharon is deep, obvious, and personal. At times he seems to use the man as a proxy for Israel: in other words, it’s okay openly to despise Sharon, if it’s slightly less okay openly to despise Israel. He refers to Sharon’s — Sharon’s — “invasion” of Egypt and his “invasion” of Lebanon. Of course, Meir was prime minister in the one instance, and Begin was prime minister in the other. Sharon was a general or defense minister. Carter also forgets the annoying little detail that Israel is a democracy, and that the people of that country democratically elected Sharon their prime minister. This is in sharp contrast to the Arab states, plus the P.A., that Carter admires and excuses.
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I started to think more kindly of Carter after his presidency because of charitable work with Habitats for Humanity. Then he started his long demented slide into aiding and abetting the scum of the earth in foreign affairs. Good riddance as he goes to another judgement over his life's works.
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Say what you will about Obama and Biden, Lord knows there is a lot to be said, but in my heart of hearts, Jimmy will always be Worst President Ever.
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While he did many things that were good in his lifetime, his initial push for universal health care in the 70's was the eyeopener for who he actually was.
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badanov, #2, I just ate breakfast and you show me that? Gag me with a spoon. That's just as bad as Hillary.
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Maybe some of you don't remember Lyndon Johnson. I dunno, maybe you do. But I'd rank him as the worst president in my memory; crooked, war monger, manic depressive, Great Society guns and butter asshole. He ruined the country's economy while tearing it apart with his ill-advised adventure in Vietnam. Sometimes I think we still haven't recovered from his time in office. That's when inflation really got going and it hasn't stopped since.
Biden ties for second with Baraq Obama. The only difference between those two is that Obama was awake.
Carter is a distant third.
Bill Clinton deserves an honorable mention for his discovery that illegal immigrants could be registered to vote and then persuaded to vote for Democrats. Before then, California produced politicians like Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Sam Hayakawa, George Murphy and my all-time favorite Pete Wilson. California turned blue after Clinton left the border open.
If you wanna go back before my time, Franklin Roosevelt was probably the worst ever.
Of course, that doesn't let Carter off the hook. Carter could proclaim himself to be a born again Christian all he wanted but, as far as I'm concerned, he was just another Democrat.
I can easily remember three main failures of the Carter administration: 1) It's the economy, stupid. See Malaise. 2) Panama Canal. 3) Iran.
Then there was the USSR which I contend would still be in business if Ronald Reagan hadn't defeated Carter in 1980.
Sorry. I do not mourn his demise.
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Nice reminder about LBJ Abu. Obama, Biden, Carter, Clinton, FDR, Wilson, the Evil Pantheon of Democrat Presidents...
[NYPOST] Washington DC's District Department of Transportation denounced a transit ad that was spotted near the Capitol that likened MAGA hat wearers to garbage.
''Keep DC trash free,'' reads the incendiary ad spotted by Capitol Hill Baptist Church pastor Caleb Morell.
The ad featured a red circle with a line through it over an image of a MAGA hat wearer holding a book labeled ''Project 2025.''
The bottom of the ad includes the logo for the District of Columbia Department of Public Works and the Mayor's Office of the Clean City program.
DDOT DC quickly denied any role in the creation of the politically charged ad.
''This image was not created, funded, or authorized by the DC government, and our teams are currently working to remove them,'' DDOT DC wrote on X in response to Morell's post.
''If you see additional images like this, we encourage you to report them to 311.''
When asked for comment, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's office referred The Post to DDOT DC's response.
It is unclear who was behind the advert, but it wasn't the first time a US city was plagued by dubious political ads
In the fall, for example, the artist known as @winstontseng on Instagram fessed up to being behind art falsely showing the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day He claimed that he wasn't aware how the fugazi ads depicting Harris in team attire got displayed near bus stops in the City of Brotherly Love.
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Antisemitism is going to make you unpopular and there will be blowback.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... is said to regret choosing Merrick Garland as attorney general and blames the federal judge for his election defeat.
Nearing the end of his presidency, Biden has admitted that he regrets appointing Garland because the justice department has aggressively prosecuted his son Hunter, but slowed down prosecution for President-elect Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... , sources close to the matter told The Washington Post.
In 2020, Biden also faced harsh criticism for going with Garland as two of his closest aides and friends - Former senator Ted Kaufman and Mark Gitenstein - tried to persuade the president to name former Alabama state Senator Doug Jones as attorney general instead.
The 46th president soon set his sights on Garland, who was highly recommended to him by his former chief of staff Ron Klain, but furious Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... quickly opposed his decision, saying it severely damaged his presidency.
Democrats believe that if the justice department moved faster on Trump allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election and mishandling classified documents, the incoming president might have faced trial before the recent election, ultimately damaging his political career, sources told the outlet.
Other than regretting Garland, Biden is also remorseful about stepping down to let Vice President Kamala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' former mistress run for president as he and some of his aides believe he could have won another term.
Recently, Biden and his aides - who have chosen to remain anonymous - have admitted that they believe he could have defeated Trump again, but have remained cautious about blaming Harris or her campaign for losing to Trump in November.
Some of his aides have also voiced that Biden's sudden decision to withdraw from the race and hold onto his presidency for too long was disastrous, leaving Harris with just over three months to prepare to take over, the outlet reported.
The man is senile. What he is said to believe is orthogonal to reality.
Although some believe he made a change, other Democrats have made it clear that Biden's decision to run again was a mistake.
'Biden ran on the promise that he was going to be a transitional president, and in effect, have one term before handing it off to another generation,' Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said.
'I think his running again broke that concept — the conceptual underpinning of the theory that he would end the Trump appeal, he would defeat Trumpism and enable a new era.'
Others have said that Biden has lost touch with what the country needs at this time, adding that he and his supporters 'often yearn for a world that disappeared.'
Remember waaay back in the day he was allowed to testify in private, and none of the interview was allowed to leave the room, because he was already beyond a defensible condition?
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Raskin was relected last November. It is now up to the new Congress to kick his ass out. Of course the new Congress could also impeach Biden and Harris, but that won't happen either.
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How about we disqualify Jamie Raskin instead? He's a Democrat. That should be grounds enough to kick his ass out of Congress.
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By "rampaging Trump mobs", he means the means the majority of American (49.9%) who voted for Trump. Harris got 48.4%. Seems like a pretty close game. You sure you want to burn the country down over that, Jamie?
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Raskin (who was re-elected in MD-8) is still pumping the theory that the insurrection language in section 3 of amendment 14 (which was passed to prevent Confederate Generals from serving in Congress) is relevant to the J6 riot.
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[NYPOST] Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said her party was still stuck in their ''old ways'' while reacting to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's failed bid to be the top Democrat Oversight Committee chair, and suggested they were too focused on seniority. ''Different ain't a synonym for 'better,'''
''While I think both are absolutely qualified, I do think that within the Democratic Caucus, we are really stuck in our old ways of doing things which is you get there by seniority. And so if you've been there longer, you get the post, and I don't think we fully sit there and say, 'who may be best equipped for this moment?''' Crockett said. '... and is she a loose cannon? A birdbrain? A showboat?'
If the question is competence, the answer is never AOC.
Ocasio-Cortez lost the bid to be the top Democrat on the committee to Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., who is more moderate. The 74-year-old lawmaker's win over Ocasio-Cortez was seen as a blow to progressives. ... and progressives just hate getting blown...
''I think that America is looking at us and saying, wait a minute, we lost the election, and we know that the Senate lost seats, now, the House we picked up seats, right? But I think they are saying, we are looking towards y'all to show us you're willing to shake it up if it means we can move this country forward,'' Crockett said. I'm guessing America is looking up and saying "holy spit, glad there's more of us than them!"
Crockett said the Oversight Committee would be in good hands under Connolly, but said switching up the leadership more frequently would benefit Democrats.
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[NYPOST] Washington DC's District Department of Transportation denounced a transit ad that was spotted near the Capitol that likened MAGA hat wearers to garbage.
...every time you hear the phrase 
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