Jimmah!

[onehandle]

I met President Jimmy Carter a couple of years ago and told him he was my first vote, and I'd vote for him again.

[NCTraveler]

1. Met he and his wife about two years age.

Great experience.

[sufrommich]

2. He was my first vote too,and my second vote. nt

[xxqqqzme]

3. My 1st & 2nd as well.

[cordelia]

23. Same here. n/t

[Honest_Abe]

25. Me, too.

[hlthe2b]

4. Jimmy was great--he had me in righteous tears!

to you, Jimmy.

[malaise]

5. A great man

Love him

[laundry_queen]

6. Loved his speech.

he speaks the truth.

[mcar]

7. 91 years old!

He looks and sounds great.

My first vote for president!

[malaise]

19. Not true - he'll be 89 on October 1 n/t

[Larkspur]

8. Carter was my first President I voted for and I too would vote for him again

My mom told me that Reagan was a B-rated actor and a B-rated President. Unfortunately, there were too many Archie Bunker types who fell for Reagan's lies.

[woo me with science]

9. Jimmy Carter speaks the truth.

"America no longer has a functioning democracy."

He is a man of real integrity, and we are lucky to have him still.

[BlueNAlabama]

10. A Truly Honorable Man

The last to sit in the White House.

[tblue37]

11. One of my heroes! nt

[Zen Democrat]

12. Jimmy was my second and third vote. First was George McGovern.

[LWolf]

37. 3 great votes. nt

[maddiemom]

46. Same here. A year prior to Carter's nomination, I had never really heard of him until

socializing with some business associates from Georgia. They brought him up as a pretty sure presidential candidate and a good man (even though they were business people. They also named some of the people he'd have in his administration, and were right on the nose. President Carter is a truly great man, and sadly far too decent for politics in the last half century.

[maddiemom]

47. In addition, a REAL Christian. As far as possible in values from the alleged "Christians" who

constantly bombard us with their bigoted and phony "values."

[ananda]

13. I voted for Carter both times too...

... but my first presidential election vote went for George McGovern.

My first ever vote went for Barbara Jordan.

[Lochloosa]

14. I met him at a book signing. Love those twinkling blue eyes.

I told him my Step-Mother said he was the last truly Christian President. I got that famous smile for that one.

[Boomerproud]

34. He walks the walk.

So few do.

[Enthusiast]

15. Great president and great man.

Unlike those that participated in Iran-Contra.

[polichick]

16. He was my first vote too - and my first political campaign...

I'd vote for him again too. He didn't run as a liberal but sure looks liberal now - especially when it comes to climate change.

[frylock]

17. our greatest living president

[UTUSN]

18. R#48 & K for, history is rolling to vindicate the PRINCIPLED President CARTER

kpete thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023541943

CIA Hand in an American “Coup”?
by Robert Parry | August 27, 2013 - 6:31am



................

The apparent 1980 plot to undermine Carter by sabotaging his negotiations with Iran over the fate of 52 American hostages would have been pulled off by rogue CIA officers collaborating with the Republican presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan (and his running mate George H.W. Bush), without the knowledge of Carter and CIA Director Stansfield Turner.

It would have been the work of what legendary CIA officer Miles Copeland described to me as “the CIA within the CIA,” the inner-most circle of powerful intelligence figures who felt they understood the strategic needs of the United States better than its elected leaders. These national security insiders believed Carter’s starry-eyed faith in American democratic ideals represented a grave threat to the nation.

“Carter really believed in all the principles that we talk about in the West,” Copeland told me in an interview in 1990, several months before his death. “As smart as Carter is, he did believe in Mom, apple pie and the corner drug store. And those things that are good in America are good everywhere else. …

“Carter, I say, was not a stupid man.” But in Copeland’s view, Carter had an even worse flaw: “He was a principled man.”

Copeland was one of the CIA officers who participated in the 1953 coup against Mossadegh, but he said he and other old CIA Iran hands were mostly on the outside looking in when Carter was targeted in 1980.

.........

(This is ONE AMAZING Eye Opener-long, so I think you need to read the whole thing, for a better understanding of the CIA)
http://www.smirkingchimp

[DissidentVoice]

21. TOO principled, I'm afraid

Too principled...too honourable...too decent for Washington.

[DissidentVoice]

20. THE elder statesman

I was too young to vote for James Earl Carter, Jr. - 10 years old in 1976, 14 years old in 1980. But I liked him and supported him as much as a 14-year-old could when he was catching all sorts of hell from the Reagan campaign for being "ineffectual" and all the other bullshit.

He caught it for the Iran hostage crisis - what would Reagan have done? Invaded Iran and got those hostages killed?

History has been a lot kinder to Jimmy as an elder statesman than people expected in 1981.

He would have made a hell of a Secretary Of State or U.N. Ambassador.

[locks]

22. A very good day

I came in in time to hear part of Clinton's speech but was so disappointed to miss Jimmy Carter's. Couldn't find it online but I'm sure cspan will put it online again. How lucky we are that he is able to be at the 50th anniversary and is still fighting the good fight. Few have done as much as Carter to fulfill King's speech for our children at home and around the world.

[Jackpine Radical]

24. Jimmy Carter was the last President

to PLEASANTLY surprise me by his overall conduct in office. And, yeah, there were a few things I didn't like about his policies. But not enough to override my sense of the essential decency of the man. I think he was done in by 3 things: OPEC-driven oil price gouging (and the resulting hyprinflation), the October Surprise, and the hostage crisis. I think the OPEC price gouging was a set-up by Henry Kissinger; the latter 2 points are actually different facets of the same story.

Unlike many, I saw his "malaise" speech as a courageous attempt to give Americans the truth.

And, oh, yeah, the "killer rabbit"--the 1979 version of the Dean Scream.

[lillypaddle]

26. No doubt as to the content of his character

Love him.

[jberryhill]

27. The president who established the FISA court

Incidentally, the law which established the FISA court was introduced by Ted Kennedy and signed by Jimmy Carter.

[hunter]

28. It is still beyond my comprehension that people voted for Reagan.

I could never look at Reagan and not see an incurious venal puppet of a man. George W. Bush was the same. I expect my Presidents to be intelligent, and to be motivated by some ethical standard.

Carter was the first president I voted for.

[RiffRandell]

33. That's what parents always said.

I was 10 when Reagan was elected and really started paying attention.

My Mom would yell at the tv about how he was such an idiot.

[maddiemom]

48. Sabotage and treason by Republicans during the hostage negotitions. Same thing earlier

during the Viet Nam peace talks. Anything to win. In the last few presidential elections they've become bold and blatant. Find reasons to IMPEACH if they
can't win honestly. It's become so obvious the Repugs are either going to have to start serving the 99%, become openly militant to the point of actual warfare, or just take steps to begin going with the times.

[No Vested Interest]

29. Hubby and I attended one of Jimmy Carter's Sunday School Classes in Plains, GA

Neither of us are Baptists, but we wanted to hear him speak.
It was in the late 90's; we came early to the area, in advance of an Elderhostel week.
We were told to be there early, as the church fills up.
We were seated in ca the second row, as he explained the New Testament Bible verses of the day, and
related it to contemporary situations.

After the service, he and Rosalyn graciously posed for photos on the church lawn, for all who wished. Those photos are favorites of mine.

And, yes, I voted for him both times, and would like to see a man of his caliber in the presidency again.

[denverbill]

30. I'm embarassed to say Ford was my first vote.

But my last vote for a Republican for President. I voted for Carter over Reagan, and that wasn't even close in my mind.

[navarth]

31. McGovern was my first, Jimmy my second. nt

[RiffRandell]

32. So proud of my parents for voting for him twice.

They love him...as do I.

[pacalo]

35. I met my husband-to-be during Jimmy's presidency.

The Iranian hostage crisis was going on & the 1980 election was two months away. On our first phone call, we were both watching "Nightline" which opened up the conversation about who we were politically. We both loved Jimmy Carter & we couldn't stand the old B-movie actor who would go on to act as a puppet for the corporate world. In light of the current deep division of political allegiances, I look back at that phone conversation as being serendipitous: If he had not been a Democrat, I would have lost interest in him from that point on.

And, btw, down South where we make our living in the oil & gas industries & where people vote to protect those interests, being a Democrat means that all principles, ethics, & social justice take a decidedly much higher importance than making more money than one can spend. That's why that phone call turned out to be so important to me.

Jimmy Carter is the most ultimate Democrat of our times. He makes me proud to be a Democrat.

[progressoid]

36. My first vote as well.

[Rhiannon12866]

38. K&R for President Carter!

Same for me on both counts! You were so lucky to meet him!

[blkmusclmachine]

39. Meh.

[Lugnut]

40. I voted for him twice.

I'd vote for him again tomorrow.

[raouldukelives]

41. Kick! nt

[DebJ]

42. Integrity.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

43. Still, a most decent man

who has done so much concrete good. He's never stopped extending a hand of friendship and assistance where help is needed. Exemplary.

[frog64]

44. '76

I'd vote for Carter again the second time, but not the first. Sorry, but beating Ford set up the Reagan disaster. Neither the party nor the country has overcome the Reagan legacy.

[classof56]

45. My right-wing fundamentalist Christian cousins insist Jimmy ruined the country.

Never really understood that one, but really didn't care what they say. I thought he was great, cried when he lost to Reagan, and continue to believe he was one of the finest men we've been blessed to have in the White House.

[Borchkins]

49. I named my baby after him.

My Carter is now 9 and I want him to be able to see and understand the great man who inspired his name.

B

[Snake Plissken]

50. Jimmy Carter was too fiscally conservative and too Christian

for Republicans that's why they hate him with a passion, they prefer a Hollywood actor in the White House who gives away money to billionaires for their grandchildren to pay off

[yurbud]

52. the wealthy don't want principles of any kind. They want socialism for them

and social darwinism for the rest of us.

Theoretically, even a principled conservative would not do a lot of what they want, but those seem to be fewer and farther between than principled Democratic politicians (who are scarce enough in their own right).

[Snake Plissken]

53. They want to socialize all of their risks, debts, and liabilities

and privatize all of the wealth they accumulated off the backs of working class tax payers.

[Dreamer Tatum]

51. The one Southerner DUers approve of. nt

[washnwmn]

54. An honest man

When we think we want an honest man in the Whitehouse, remember we had one, in Jimmy Carter.
Remember the media and the DC insiders wanted him to play their games, but he wanted to do an honest job as president.
Remember the GOP machine, to keep Carter from a 2nd term, bribed Iran to hold the hostages until after the election and Reagon had won.
Remember he worked for peace, not big business, or the military-industrial lobbyists.
Remember the honest man in the Whitehouse.

[Laelth]

55. k&r for James Earl Carter, Jr. n/t

-Laelth

[Uncle Joe]

56. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, onehandle.

[Scurrilous]

57. K & R