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Happy 96th Birthday Jimmy Carter. (Original Post) Boomerproud Oct 2020 OP
I turned 18 in 1980...I voted for Jimmy 4 months later. BigmanPigman Oct 2020 #1
True Character Roy Rolling Oct 2020 #2
Happy Birthday Jimmy Carter malaise Oct 2020 #3
True American Badass backroadblast Oct 2020 #4
Happy Birthday President Carter!! KT2000 Oct 2020 #5
Happy Birthday, Mr. President!! polmaven Oct 2020 #6
Happy Birthday, President Carter! gademocrat7 Oct 2020 #7
have a happy dude.! Maxheader Oct 2020 #8
Happy Birthday, President Carter. brer cat Oct 2020 #9
Happy Birthday, Mister President!!! Rhiannon12866 Oct 2020 #10
He could still run rings around this mess we're stuck with. lpbk2713 Oct 2020 #11
Happy 96th Birthday Jimmy Carter. onecent Oct 2020 #12
He's a Libra! Wawannabe Oct 2020 #13
Happy Birthday, Mr. President! Aristus Oct 2020 #14
Happy Birthday! world wide wally Oct 2020 #15
Happy Birthday! Tanuki Oct 2020 #16
Happy Birthday, Jimmy! marble falls Oct 2020 #17
Was just a bit too young to vote for him VWolf Oct 2020 #18
Happy Birthday, Jimmy! crickets Oct 2020 #19
Shine a light Mendocino Oct 2020 #20
Best wishes to the former POTUS and hero. Nt BootinUp Oct 2020 #21
Hope we have him for many more years, especially since he seems in good shape JI7 Oct 2020 #22
Happy Birthday, Mr. President shanti Oct 2020 #23
Indeed! Love that guy. Maru Kitteh Oct 2020 #24

BigmanPigman

(51,626 posts)
1. I turned 18 in 1980...I voted for Jimmy 4 months later.
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 05:01 AM
Oct 2020

I have voted in every election (federal and local) since, and every time I voted it was straight Dem down ballot.

Happy Birthday, Jimmy!

Roy Rolling

(6,932 posts)
2. True Character
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 05:23 AM
Oct 2020

Spotless in character like Obama, folksy like Reagan, smart like Clinton, Jimmy Carter was the perfect antidote for 1976. After the 1972 McGovern loss, Carter gave Democrats And the world hope again.

That was his specialty—he was a bigger thinker than all of them, as evidenced by him installing solar panels on the White House in the 1970s.

He was playing chess while they were playing checkers. When oil cartels withheld oil as a weapon, Carter simply responded with U.S. tax credits for insulation and solar panels. Americans used less energy.

A few years later oil demand had been crippled and oil cartels were finished forever.

malaise

(269,157 posts)
3. Happy Birthday Jimmy Carter
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 05:35 AM
Oct 2020

I was watching the fires in California and thinking that if its former governor (that jackass Reagan) had continued with the push for solar energy led by Carter, California might not be suffering like this. Instead Reagan tore down the solar panels from the WH.

Meanwhile Carter's solar infrastructure covers half of his town.
Jimmy Carter is one of the most decent persons on the planet.

Tanuki

(14,920 posts)
16. Happy Birthday!
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 09:59 AM
Oct 2020

This photo is from 2010, greeting Nelson Mandela in commemoration of The Elders, a group founded by Mandela which included Carter, Desmond Tutu, and others.

VWolf

(3,944 posts)
18. Was just a bit too young to vote for him
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 10:20 AM
Oct 2020

But everything he has done since his presidency has been exemplary. He represents all that is good in America.

crickets

(25,982 posts)
19. Happy Birthday, Jimmy!
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 10:54 AM
Oct 2020

I was so proud of my first election vote for Jimmy. He's wonderful and I am so glad we still have him with us!

JI7

(89,262 posts)
22. Hope we have him for many more years, especially since he seems in good shape
Fri Oct 2, 2020, 02:08 AM
Oct 2020

for his age and everything he has been through .

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