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Democrats Rewrite History to Praise Jimmy Carter

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-01-04 07:41|| || Front Page|| [11146 views ] Top

#1 ...They also forget just how close the Lion Of The Senate, Teddy Kennedy, came to getting nominated instead in 1980. He was setting up for a floor fight at the convention - and may well have won it - had Mike Wallace not asked him during an interview about committing involuntary manslaughter.

His response made Kamala Harris sound like Cato the Elder, and that sank him then and there.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-01-04 08:59|| 2025-01-04 08:59|| Front Page Top

#2 ^^ Back when some news folks were actual journalists.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-01-04 09:33|| 2025-01-04 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Poster in AoS this morning by Cynical Publius
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I promised to myself that I would not comment further on Jimmy Carter's death, but it bothers me to see so many otherwise sensible conservatives spouting the "Bad President, good man" line that the Democrat/Media Complex has been spinning for 40+ years. Thus, I feel the need to drop some truth bombs, propriety at time of death notwithstanding.

Yes, he hammered a few nails on some houses for poor people. But that alone does not make one a "good man," when the rest of the track record is so awful.

After Carter lost in spectacular fashion in 1980, he did not do what every other President before him did and retire to a quiet, private life. He could have farmed peanuts in Plains with Rosalynn. Instead, he bitterly engaged in active and public efforts to undermine the policies of the elected Republicans who came after him. He INVENTED the jealous, manipulative ex-President model that Obama put on steroids in 2016.

Jimmy Carter flew around the world for decades, un-asked by America, on self-appointed missions of national importance, almost always involving gleefully interacting with raging antisemitic terrorist and/or Communist leaders, always working against the official policies of the ACTUALLY ELECTED Presidents. Carter's hatred of Israel bordered on pathological, and reeked of a sort of cloaked antisemitism that has become quite fashionable today. Somehow Jimmy Carter convinced himself that he was such an important and historic figure that he stood outside and above the U.S. systems of election and governance, even though no one other than the Yassar Arafats and Hugo Chavezs of the world asked him to do so.

Jimmy Carter was a bitter, angry narcissist who cloaked his lifelong, seething rage at the indignity of being body-slammed by Ronald Reagan (someone he considered lesser than himself in every regard) with that genteel "Southern gentleman" accent, vague scripture references and the occasional hammered nail. He purposely and vengefully wreaked havoc on America's official foreign policy for decades and he INVENTED the concept of a meddling ex-President poisoning American political discourse. (In that regard, Obama has been Carter v.2.0--we have Carter to thank for that.)

Literally every aspect of the man's self-serving public life was harmful to America, he knew that, and he did it all anyway because narcissists always operate like that--they cannot help it, and they can never admit fault. Carter's "good man" image was a carefully constructed and nurtured illusion, one that he gladly worked with the corrupt media to maintain.

So please consider these factors before pronouncing "Bad President, good man." Sometimes truth needs to be said even when some find that truth untimely."

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-01-04 16:33|| 2025-01-04 16:33|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Agreed, Fuck his Legacy

Posted by Frank G 2025-01-04 18:22|| 2025-01-04 18:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Absolutely agree. Thank goodness President Trump v.1 and v.2 have/will work with Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu to unravel all that Carter, Obama, and the Biden-Harris administration strove to achieve.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-04 19:03|| 2025-01-04 19:03|| Front Page Top

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