Hot Shot thread - A Jimmy Carter Appreciation thread

[mdmc]

(I recently started reading "A Hornets Nest" - I've read a lot of Jimmy Carter's books and think the world of this man).

Please check in if you are a fan of Jimmy Carter

[BunkerHill24]

1. I'm a Big Fan, of course.

K&R

[Cetacea]

2. Fan. Imagine if he'd been reelected.

And the deciding factor in his defeat was the hostages, later released as Reagan was being sworn in...........

[mdmc]

3. I have some pics of the hostages returning from Iran

they flew into Stewart Airport and drove by bus to West Point, NY. I remember that well and started hating Raygun at about that time..

[madokie]

8. I remember that too

but I already disliked st ronnie the lackey by then as I seen through him back in his governor days.

One of the first things he did was give amnesty to the brave who couldn't go or wouldn't go back to Vietnam and be a part of the killing and destroying. Thats when he got my full attention and I've loved him since

[Echo In Light]

10. October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan

"Did William Casey, without the knowledge of the U.S. government, travel to Paris during the period of October 15-20, 1980, and there meet with Iranian and Israeli representatives to arrange the release of the U.S. hostages to the Reagan-Bush forces in return for promises of military equipment?" Sick answers in the affirmative, and draws ominous conclusions about what he calls a "covert political coup" challenging the legitimacy of the whole political order in the United States."

http://www.danielpipes.org/545/october-surprise-americas-hostages-in-iran-and-the-election

Watch this doc film from 1989, narrated by the late actress, Elizabeth Montgomery:

Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair is the third feature-length documentary produced by the Empowerment Project.

The shadow government of assassins, arms dealers, drug smugglers, former CIA operatives and top US military personnel who were running foreign policy unaccountable to the public, revealing the Reagan/Bush administration's plan to use FEMA to institute martial law and ultimately suspend the Constitution. Strikingly relevant to current events.

"Strikingly relevant to current events"

http://www.empowermentproject.org/pages/coverup.html

Full length video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8476042566108039966

[malaise]

4. Big fan

Go Jimmy!!

[LoveMyCali]

5. My very first vote

went to Jimmy Carter. I'm a huge fan.

If people had just paid attention and turned down their thermostats and put on a sweater 30 years ago instead of mocking Jimmy's cardigans things would be a lot better now.

[DearAbby]

6. He was my first vote when I came of age

four years later, I voted for him again. A Good man, walks the talk :patriot:

[madokie]

7. I loved him as a President

and love him as an ex President. the man is a genius and has a heart that would make that big smile of his look small.

Rec

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. The cabal of then powerful Democrats hated him.

How dare an outsider win? They responded with absolutely no support. They leaked falsehoods repeatedly, to cut him off at the balls. Of course, the GOP was even worse.

Luckily for Obama, today's democrats are so spineless, that they ca't even get it up when they try to fuck over Obama. Actually, most of them want him to succeed, quite a difference from Carter's tenure.

[L0oniX]

11. A fan ...K & R

[Kceres]

12. My first presidential vote! Yes, I am a fan.

Being from the South, I remember thinking, "Finally, a president with no accent." HA. I was young. Anyway, he was/is a gentleman and a gentle man.

[kjackson227]

13. He works HARD for Habitat for Humanity even at his age...

a great American :)

[opihimoimoi]

14. One of the very BEST in recent years.....His credentials and patriotism are well percieved by many

[mdmc]

15. All my friends

warm my heart

[Kitty Herder]

16. I'm a fan.

:hi:

[harlinchi3]

17. I 'm a Jimmy Carter supporter!

He was the first president for whom I voted, he had solar panels on the White House in the 1970's, he advised turning down the thermostat and wearing sweaters and he had effective mileage improvements scheduled for the US auto industry.

Reagan called it malaise. Reagan said it was time for 'Morning in America'. Reagan (or his minions) said there actually was something called 'supply side economics' from which the benefits would trickle down onto the bulk of the American people. He didn't say the trickle would be body temperature and yellow!

Morning in America! More like Mourning in America.

[RubyDuby in GA]

18. Present and accounted for.

:)

[4_TN_TITANS]

19. Even my 14 year old daughter is a fan.

She did a report on him for school and found out what an incredible pre-presidential man he was, environmentalist decades ahead of his time, and legendary ex-president with all of his humanitarian efforts.

For anyone who does their homework, this man is a true icon of Democratic principles.

[live love laugh]

20. More than anything, he is just a Good Man. I cried when he left office.

I remember his last day in office in 1980 so clearly. I was never very political and I didn't understand why Carter was ousted or not voted back. But I know that what I saw--the stark contrast between Carter and Roslyn leaving the Whitehouse to the socialite/showbiz/designer-clad Rayguns--did not bode well for the country. I was intuitively right.

We lost a lot when Jimmy Carter left the Whitehouse.

[mdmc]

21. thanks for the reply

I felt that same exact way..

[GentryDixon]

22. What other former President has served humanity like he has?

The answer in none in my lifetime. He was and has been given a bad rap all around, in my estimation.

Good gracious I hate the media and I hate nasty repubs.

[pundaint]

23. Why can't the Democratic Party find some folks like him? Oh, that's right principles ain't cool.