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Jimmy Carter has died

• kamikazeturtles 2y ago
  Of all the presidents I've seen in my lifetime, I think President Carter might be the only one who felt genuine and didn't exhibit narcissism.
  • kelseyfrog 2y ago
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    • afavour 2y ago
      If the post “Jimmy Carter has died” belongs on HN then I see no reason why OP’s comment does not.
  • christianqchung 2y ago
    Jimmy Carter feels very likely to be the last "normal person" who will ever be elected president. That doesn't absolve his presidency of mistakes obviously, but if you run through the list of presidents since him, the vibes point to that for me.
    • JojoFatsani 2y ago
      Normal people are not as humble and generous with their time as Carter.
  • _yb2s 2y ago
    I think our culture needs some general awareness and “antibodies” against Narcissism, and emotional manipulation in general. People seem generally unaware of, and as a result easily manipulated and controlled by people with these behaviors. I only became conscious of it after reading a book about communication where I learned how emotional manipulation worked- and then realized I was in a relationship with someone doing this to me, and had been completely oblivious for years. Once I understood how it works, I can easily spot people including politicians using these quite simple manipulation techniques, and I feel quite stupid for not figuring it out on my own at a younger age.
    • pizza 2y ago
      What's the book?!
      • _yb2s 2y ago
        “When I say no I feel guilty” which is about assertive communication, which is essentially the opposite of emotionally manipulative communication. Also the blogger “The Last Psychiatrist” has good information on Narcissism.
    • newaccountman2 2y ago
      > I think our culture needs some general awareness and “antibodies” against Narcissism, and emotional manipulation in general. This would be diametrically opposed to American culture lol
  • heresie-dabord 2y ago
    You have seen many things in your lifetime, friend, from representatives of the genuine goodness of the US (Mr Carter, Mr Biden) to the corruption of the information society and the dismantlement of democratic principles.
  • LorenDB 2y ago
    I may be speaking out of turn here as somebody born in this century, but after reading the book The Man I Knew I have held a high regard for George H. W. Bush. He, like Carter, was a great human who really cared about others. Again, for all I know, he could have presented himself differently during his term in office, but after his term was up, his life seems genuine to me. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55648822-the-man-i-knew https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55648822-the-man-i-knew
    • johnnyanmac 2y ago
      in the last century, I think HW bush would get a solid top 3 placement (a bit hard to top FDR). He seemed to be one of the last conservative presidents that seemed to be trying to do the right things. And kicked out for doing so. No one likes it when "the right thing" raises their taxes.
  • sangnoir 2y ago
    > I think President Carter might be the only one who felt genuine and didn't exhibit narcissism. He was the opposite of narcissistic, he was honest to a fault, telling the truth even when it was unflattering to his public image: he freely admitted - and without direct prompting - in a Playboy interview that he had looked at a lot of women (other than his wife) with lust[1]. 1. WARNING - site is on a Playboy domain - you may not want to open this on a work computer or have any anti-NSFW mononitoring of your browser activity. https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview-jimmy-carter/ https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview-jimmy-carter/
• Slava_Propanei 2y ago
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• bdangubic 2y ago
  will go out on a limb here and say there will never be a US President like him - what a man, what a life! RIP
• tehjoker 2y ago
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  • mentalgear 2y ago
    source ?
    • mrcwinn 2y ago
      You need sources for opinions now?
      • tehjoker 2y ago
        tbh, they have a point. your opinions should be backed up. see my other comment.
      • mentalgear 2y ago
        I want a source for a statement confidently made, as you should as well.
    • tehjoker 2y ago
      "The Carter Administration: Myth and Reality" https://chomsky.info/priorities01/ https://chomsky.info/priorities01/
      • mentalgear 2y ago
        Thank you for the source. I guess his post-presidential efforts had been more significant for the world on a humanitarian basis.
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    • bigstrat2003 2y ago
      This website isn't for political invective and insults.
• csours 2y ago
  When I think about presidents in terms of what they did AFTER their presidential term, it makes me very sad that Jimmy Carter was not re-elected.
  • dkkergoog 2y ago
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• shmoe 2y ago
  The model of a post-Presidency. RIP sir, go be with your wife now.
• mentalgear 2y ago
  Rest in Peace, one of the last good presidents of the US.
  • koolba 2y ago
    He was a terrible President. Fantastic human, but terrible commander in chief.
    • bdangubic 2y ago
      of the 45 commanders we have how many were not terrible then - like 5 maybe…? he certainly was neither a terrible President nor terrible commander in chief
• th0ma5 2y ago
  Lots of propaganda aimed at this man to undermine him. Still to this day people will say he was "a nice man" as a way to diminish his accomplishments and turn the conversation away from them.
• jtwoodhouse 2y ago
  Carter proved it's never too late to add a new chapter to your story if you're still alive. He was much more influential as a diplomat after his presidency than during it. RIP.
• siltcakes 2y ago
  Carter was the most pro-Palestinian president of the 20th century. It's worth reading his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine:_Peace_Not_Apartheid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine:_Peace_Not_Apartheid
  • insane_dreamer 2y ago
    He was the first American president to broker a serious Middle East peace agreement between Israel and a Middle Eastern nation (Egypt) - the Camp David Accord.
    • yyyk 2y ago
      Ironically a result of rejecting Carter's proposal. Carter wanted a general ME conference. When Sadat heard of it, he decided it couldn't lead to peace as extremist elements would force an Arab consensus over the most radical position. So he set up the flight to Jerusalem and the rest is history. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5047042,00.html https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5047042,00.html
    • mightyham 2y ago
      What's ironic about this is that Egypt no longer poses a threat to Israel because of these peace agreements and reliance on American foreign aid. If this were not the case, Israel likely would not be a position such that they could pursue military attacks against Gaza and war in Lebanon.
      • insane_dreamer 2y ago
        Interesting viewpoint, however I don't think that would stop Israel in Lebanon (which has not been aligned with Egypt), and probably not in Gaza either. It might have made Egypt more willing to open its border with Gaza, but could it really absorb 1-2 million refugees, as Jordan once did?
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• Eumenes 2y ago
  Can someone explain whats going on in this pic of Bidens and Carters? https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-carter-government-and-politics-a180bb420687d3c5ee7568af5e890f07 https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-carter-government-and-polit...
  • Rebelgecko 2y ago
    Older people shrink and there's a bit of (unintentional?) forced perspective going on
  • mohaba 2y ago
    A very wide angle lens.
  • jwilk 2y ago
    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bidens-photo-carters/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bidens-photo-carters/
• sgammon 2y ago
  nyt now has it: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/29/us/jimmy-carter https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/29/us/jimmy-carter https://archive.is/tbb2v https://archive.is/tbb2v
  • CSMastermind 2y ago
    Wild that he outlived the people who wrote his obituaries.
• jmclnx 2y ago
  Looking back, to me he was a much better president then people believed in the 80s. I believe if he got re-elected in 1980, the US would be in a much better place. One thing, it could be argued real work on Climate Change would have begun in 1981 as opposed to where we are now, which is just watching the average probably blowing past 3C in around 70 years from now. For his loss in 1980, I still blame Kennedy. RIP, he did a lot to help regular people through his life, far more than our current crop of politicians.
  • gadders 2y ago
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    • labster 2y ago
      But the East still would have lost the Cold War.
    • acdha 2y ago
      What’s your reasoning there? The Soviet economy wasn’t especially dependent on the American presidency.
      • gadders 2y ago
        "In later years, however, former Soviet officials cited SDI as a factor in the eventual collapse of their country, for it showed that the Soviet Union was politically unprepared for and economically incapable of competing in a new arms race with the United States, especially one led by someone as unrelenting as Reagan." https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ronald-Reagan/Relations-with-the-Soviet-Union https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ronald-Reagan/Relations...
        • acdha 2y ago
          Note “a factor” - you could say the same about the peaceful space program, computer age, biotech, etc. Most of the world was advancing faster than the USSR in every way and there’s no reason to think that arc wouldn’t have continued under a second Carter administration.
• award_ 2y ago
  He sure seemed like a legitimately good man. I think one of my favorite stories about him is that he helped resolve a nuclear reactor meltdown https://www.military.com/history/how-jimmy-carter-saved-canadian-nuclear-reactor-after-meltdown.html https://www.military.com/history/how-jimmy-carter-saved-cana...
  • DonHopkins 2y ago
    SNL gave him a lot of shit, but SNL's "Ask President Carter" skit was perfect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68iTvhWNB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68iTvhWNB0 Jimmy Carter will always be my favorite Amazing Colossal President, as Rodney Dangerfield described in the SNL "The Pepsi Syndrome" sketch: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=533858710873763 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=533858710873763 https://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78ppepsi.phtml https://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78ppepsi.phtml Dr. Casey: “It means, Mrs. Carter, your husband, President Carter, has become [camera zooms in on Dr. Casey] the amazing colossal president.” Mrs. Carter: “Well, how big is he?” Dr. Casey: “Well, Mrs. Carter, it’s difficult to comprehend just how big he is but to give you some idea, we’ve asked comedian Rodney Dangerfield to come along today to help explain it to you. Rodney?” [Rodney Dangerfield enters] Rodney: “How do you do, how are you?” Denton: “Rodney, can you please tell us, how big is the president?” Rodney: “Oh, he’s a big guy, I’ll tell you that, he’s a big guy. I tell you, he’s so big, I saw him sitting in the George Washington Bridge dangling his feet in the water! He’s a big guy!” Mrs. Carter: “Oh my God! Jimmy! Oh God!” Rodney: “Oh, he’s big, I’ll tell you that, boy. He’s so big that when two girls make love to him at the same time, they never meet each other! He’s a big guy, I’ll tell you!” Mrs. Carter: “Oh no! Oh Jimmy! My Jimmy!” Rodney: “I don’t want to upset you, lady, he’s big, you know what I mean? Why, he could have an affair with the Lincoln Tunnel! I mean, he’s really high! He’s big, I’ll tell you! He’s a big guy!” Mrs. Carter: “No! No! No!” Denton: “Rodney, thank you very much. You can go.” Rodney: “It’s my pleasure. He’s way up there, lady! You know what I mean?” —Saturday Night Live, Season 4: Episode 16, “The Pepsi Syndrome” skit, Apr. 7, 1979 And poor old Billy always got the cardboard box. https://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78ncarter.phtml https://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78ncarter.phtml >SNL Transcripts: Gary Busey: 03/10/79: The Carters In Israel [...] >Lillian Carter: Jimmy.. Jimmy.. I’ve come to talk to you about your brother. >President Jimmy Carter: Oh, Mama. Let’s not talk about Billy now. >Lillian Carter: Ohhh.. Jimmy, you’ve gotta remember that it hasn’t been easy for Billy. You were the oldest and the favorite – you got the wagon, he got the cardboard box; you got the bicycle, he got the cardboard box; you got the brains, he got the cardboard box. [...]
• moomin 2y ago
  Best President US has seen in modern times, the campaign that unseated him bordered on treason.
  • gamesbrainiac 2y ago
    Is there any book or article that expounds on this further?
    • pizza 2y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_October_Surprise_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_October_Surprise_theory
    • mixmastamyk 2y ago
      Sick's book was quite good, even though it's clear we may never have all the information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Sick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Sick October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan
• lelandfe 2y ago
  RIP Jimmy Carter. A model of living meaningfully in old age. The Onion has many funny bits on the guy's age[0]. "Former President Jimmy Carter, 98, announced Tuesday that he had gotten his recent vasectomy reversed," "Jimmy Carter Makes Pact With Dianne Feinstein That If Both Single In 50 Years They’ll Marry Each Other,""Jimmy Carter Concerned Desire For Fresh Faces In Democratic Party May Hurt His Chances In 2020" I always hoped he read those and would laugh - he seemed the type of guy that would. [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftheonion.com%2F+jimmy+carter+ https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftheonio...
  • MrMcCall 2y ago
    He gave his life to compassion in service to all of humanity.
    • tgma 2y ago
      All of humanity? Propaganda much? No, thank you. At very least he destroyed Iran's government and was the American architect of the Islamic Republic in Iran[1], which has a direct causal relationship to many disasters within and outside the country and led to October 7. But sure he put solar panels on the White House. Great guy. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadeloupe_Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadeloupe_Conference
      • GuardianCaveman 2y ago
        I wrote out a snarky response based off what I understood and then I did more research and he had a big impact. This is a better article to link to in my opinion though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter%27s_engagement_with_Ruhollah_Khomeini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter%27s_engagement_wi...
        • tgma 2y ago
          Yup, none of this is particularly unknown or secretive for people who look and not interested in deliberate deception (Khomeini was delivered by Air France after all!) Yes, more specifically, Shah was an ally to Nixon and had put his eggs in that basket (to the degree that he attended Shah's funeral.) Once the tide turned and Ford lost, shit quickly hit the fan (a bit resembling how Biden treated MBS.) The other funny and ironic thing is Shah was instrumental in mediating and shaping the deal between Sadat and Israel, but somehow he got the short end of the stick and was branded an asshole authoritarian dictator by US leftist media (see Mike Wallace 60 mins from 1976[1] for example) and Carter got the Nobel Prize. P.S. for fun, compare to Wallace's attitude when he sat down with Khomeini only a few years later, with questions submitted and vetted in advance[2]! Oh well, how history is written and rewritten... [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RH2wXQtFdo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RH2wXQtFdo [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwyWI_jKQaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwyWI_jKQaw
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• onetokeoverthe 2y ago
  https://www.cfr.org/conference-calls/conversation-jimmy-carter https://www.cfr.org/conference-calls/conversation-jimmy-cart... Conversation, part of the Council on Foreign Relations' History Makers series.
  • dredmorbius 2y ago
    From May of 2012, as the dateline's somewhat obscure there.
• neom 2y ago
  If you didn't follow what Jimmy Carter did after his presidency, this short habitat for humanity vignette highlights it well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajWLdawnCPU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajWLdawnCPU (11 mins)
  • benatkin 2y ago
    Hard for me to draw inspiration from that, at least compared to Al Gore. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3p3CYauiX8oLjmwRF/purchase-fuzzies-and-utilons-separately https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3p3CYauiX8oLjmwRF/purchase-f...
    • neom 2y ago
      As the CEO of Habitat for Humanity says in the video, it was for marketing, not the houses he literally built. "I don't think anyone would have hear of Habitat for Humanity If President and Mrs. Carter hadn't gotten on that bus in 1984" - They've since gone on to build over 800,000 homes - he could have easily not gotten behind them in such an earnest way year over year.
      • benatkin 2y ago
        And the video has 16 upvotes on YouTube? Not that I wish it had more, because Habitat for Humanity might not be among the best major humanitarian charities. https://www.propublica.org/article/habitat-for-humanity-brooklyn-bedford-stuyvesant-poor-lose-homes https://www.propublica.org/article/habitat-for-humanity-broo...
        • lelandfe 2y ago
          Sadly, things in the 80's tended to get few upvotes on YouTube. But Carter really was the real deal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_%26_Rosalynn_Carter_Work_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_%26_Rosalynn_Carter_Work... > Habitat for Humanity might not be among the best major humanitarian charities Habitat-NYC is an independent affiliate, with its own CEO and everything.
• pfdietz 2y ago
  Carter was also an illustration of the advances made in cancer treatment. His aggressive melanoma responded very well to immune therapy.
• NoLinkToMe 2y ago
  An example for many, sad to hear of his passing. Really quite an inspirational man.
• robotmachine 2y ago
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• madihaa 2y ago
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  • stopping 2y ago
    This is a duplicate of the following reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1hp5r20/comment/m4ey4kz/ https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1hp5r20/comment/m...
    • aspenmayer 2y ago
      Thanks for calling this out, as it is almost certainly against HN guidelines to karma farm or post other's comments as your own. Not the first time either, as I've seen people post links that were in OP as comments as if they weren't in the OP, as well as have seen people steal comments from substack articles and post them as their own on the HN submission of the substack.
• insane_dreamer 2y ago
  Didn't do everything right as president, but a good man who mostly tried to do the right thing for Americans. Particularly exemplary since leaving the presidency. The average U.S. person would be much better off today if he had won in 1980 instead of it being the beginning of deregulation and Reaganomics.
  • zeroonetwothree 2y ago
    More deregulation passed under Carter than Reagan.
    • hylaride 2y ago
      Carter’s deregulation was more market-oriented, though. Most of it (especially trucking and airlines) are still in place. Reagan’s were more “business-friendly” and resulted in various problems, especially in banking. The savings and loan crisis happened under his watch and we’re still dealing with a lot of the imbalances of financial deregulation.
    • energy123 2y ago
      Deregulation isn't automatically bad or good. Some regulations need to be removed, and some shouldn't be removed or should be added.
      • BluSyn 2y ago
        Reasonable take not allowed. Must be for or against so I know what ideological bucket to place you in based on current tribal alliances that may or may not change.
    • johnnyanmac 2y ago
      okay. Deregulations isn't a bad word in and of itself. What did he specifically deregulate?
• hylaride 2y ago
  One could argue he set the stage for the 1980s economic boom by making short term sacrifices that cost him re-election. It was his administration that did market-oriented deregulation around airlines and trucking industries (meaning you didn't need to have a licence to ship goods across state lines and go through monopoly trucking companies to get your goods to market) as well as appointed Paul Volcker as Fed chair with the mandate to end the stagflation of the era (which meant he jacked up interest rates, causing the economy to temporarily slow down). There is a quite probably apocryphal quote that Jimmy Carter asked Volcker "can you end inflation" to which Volcker replied "Yes, but it'll probably cost you re-election" and Carter said do it. Reagan then swept in under these conditions. Most of the "market reforms" under Reagan were more pro-business than pro-market and resulted in big problems like the savings and loan crisis, among other things. Carter was also a very uninspiring person who mused too much in interviews and press conferences, which didn't look decisive to the general public, even though it showed how he was thinking. Either way, he was an underrated president that was more a victim of timing and did what was best for the country.
  • seanmcdirmid 2y ago
    I’m really worried that we just elected a president who clearly fixates on short term gains rather than long term planning. Biden did not mess that up, even if he is a one term president like Carter. It is nice to have adults in control, even if that is increasingly politically untenable.
    • xrd 2y ago
      You said it better than I would have. Biden put a lot of smart people around him, and together they made many long term investments in states that overwhelmingly voted for Trump. He will be remembered differently than he is now.
      • distortionfield 2y ago
        The CHIPS act is going to be his legacy. That and the infra bill, I think. That bill is responsible for several bridges in my area getting much needed attention from what I understand.
• FillardMillmore 2y ago
  My favorite Carter story was when he was out on a fishing boat and there was a swamp rabbit that aggressively approached his boat. Carter used his paddle to shoo it away. He told his advisers about it, but they didn't believe him. But a White House photographer was taking pictures of the trip at the time and captured the rabbit in the picture. Of course, the press blew it out of proportion and used it to mock/attack Carter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_rabbit_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_rabbit_incident For those that have seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I've always recreationally believed that the 'killer rabbit' in that movie was the same rabbit that went after Carter in his fishing boat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg Rest in Peace, Jimmy.
  • 51Cards 2y ago
    I hadn't heard about this and thought "swamp rabbit" was some catch term for alligator. Nope! It was actually a rabbit! Thanks for sharing this.
  • ajcp 2y ago
    The Onions announcement of his death: 48-Year-Old Rabbit Finally Finishes the Job[0] 0. https://theonion.com/48-year-old-rabbit-finally-finishes-the-job/ https://theonion.com/48-year-old-rabbit-finally-finishes-the...
  • Eavolution 2y ago
    Mystery Biscuits!
  • jwilk 2y ago
    https://xkcd.com/204/ https://xkcd.com/204/
  • prettyStandard 2y ago
    Not to nit pick, a better term you are looking for is "headcannon" as in "my headcannon is that the 'killer rabbit' in that movie was the same rabbit that went after Carter in his fishing boat." I think I will be telling people this about the Holy Grail from now on... RIP Jimmy
• RIPCarter 2y ago
  I was thinking about Jimmy Carter on election day. Carter told America the truth about itself and they overwhelmingly voted to get rid of him. Trump has given nothing but lies and hate and America handed him the White House on a silver platter. This country didn't deserve Carter. I hope he is with his wife now.
  • Naijoko 2y ago
    Yes told the truth about using less enegergy.... got kicked out
• tomohawk 2y ago
  As president, Carter gave the green light for Doo-hwan Chun to use force against the pro-democracy protests in Gwangju, S Korea. Later, sent to N Korea by president Clinton, he massively exceeded his authority and made a sweetheart deal that guaranteed N Korea would eventually build nukes. President Clinton found out about the deal on CNN with everyone else and never used Carter again. He also sandbagged president Reagan by taking a trip to the Soviet Union and convincing the leaders there that Reagan was not serious about reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons. This set back progress on reducing nuclear weapons for several years. In the end, Reagan was finally able to get them back to the table and eliminated a class of nukes, reducing others.
  • metabagel 2y ago
    None of that happened.
    • sivakon 2y ago
      the first one is covered here https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/11/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-legacy-2/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/11/jimmy-carters-blood-... for more details you can also look at part 1 https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/18/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-legacy/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/18/jimmy-carters-blood-...
    • scaramanga 2y ago
      Yeah the gwangju massacre definitely happened, and he definitely authorized it because the troops who did it were under the command of John Adams Wickham. The agreed framework would have prevented North Korean nukes, had the US actually honoured it. Instead bush tore it up when he came in to office, and then John Bolton fabricated the aluminium tubes hoax to justify it, which was later wheeled out to justify the Iraq war. Then they put north korea on the axis of evil so as to have a single non-muslim state there. All of that, but mostly the Iraq war is what led north korea to develop nukes. And yeah, the deal was "no nukes (they shut down their nuclear reactor for 12 years unilaterally as a show of good faith) AND no long or medium range ballistic missiles in exchange for $1Bn and fuel oil for heating." Good luck getting that deal now :)
• ggm 2y ago
  I'd love to know what people think he could have done differently about the hostages. Bear in mind that he would have been as politically ruined by a parade of dead hostage bodies so any "go harder" proposal has its own risks. If only the choppers hadn't failed? Iran knew it could wedge him and wait for the new president.
• amazingamazing 2y ago
  As a former president I wonder why he voted for Harris and went as far to tell others that he did so, but didn’t officially endorse. Seemed strange. A vote is tacit approval no? Was he against endorsements in general? He endorsed Mondale and Clinton iirc Regardless at least he wasn’t as divisive as 45. RIP.
  • justin66 2y ago
    Telling everyone you're going to vote for someone isn't an endorsement?
    • amazingamazing 2y ago
      I consider an endorsement more of the rationale for why, personally.
      • raegis 2y ago
        I think telling everyone you wish to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris is a pretty firm endorsement.
        • bdangubic 2y ago
          I also do not understand who gives a shit about endorsements?! there has never been an endorsement that swayed any election, freaking every person that has shaken a hand or been in the same room with DJT (not to mention every person that has ever worked with him including ones he handpicked for highest positions in his previous administration) endorsed Harris… the endorsement charade needs to stop in America, it is the one of the stupiest things there is
        • jraines 2y ago
          that was fake news. He did very much dislike the alternative, though.
  • someperson 2y ago
    If you read the reports, those wishes were relayed by his family. The last time he was filmed a few months ago he didn't appear conscious.
• macrocosmos 2y ago
  I wasn’t alive for Carter’s presidency, so can someone explain how his handling of the hostages in Iran was positive at all for the United States? To me as an American even this many years later and as a young person who didn’t see it, ending your presidency while another nation holds your citizens seems extremely embarrassing. And all I see is extreme praise of the man. I’d honestly like to see some discussion here.
  • hindsightbias 2y ago
    A real man would have gone to war and sacrificed the hostages. I’m sure the $200/barrel and gas shortages would have been patriotically acceped as every port and tanker in the Gulf burned.
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  • syndicatedjelly 2y ago
    Why does being alive in the 1970s qualify someone to speak intelligently on that subject?
    • macrocosmos 2y ago
      If I live in a desert and 1000 children who have never seen the ocean tell me it’s ugly, should I believe them over the one older man who has actually seen it and says it’s beautiful? First hand accounts are inherently more valuable than secondary ones. Failure to see that is frightening. Just because something gets echoed over and over doesn’t make it true. And that’s exactly what I see. I see my generation saying how great Carter was while many of those in older generations than me seem to think otherwise. I’d like to say it’s strange, but actually it’s scary.
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  • kranke155 2y ago
    It was Clinton who made the WTO, GATT and NAFTA treaties that made manufacturing be sucked out of the US. Carter was only following up on Nixon. It was Nixon-Kissinger who had the brilliant idea of splitting the communist bloc (an idea which I’d say likely helped shape the end of the Cold War - without China influencing Asia in cooperation, the Soviet threat was much reduced). Carter was only following up on a winning strategy. But it was Clinton and his team who did the most work to wipe out the American industrial sector.
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    • notthemessiah 2y ago
      Clinton kind of finished the job which killed what remained of US industry, but we cannot ignore the role that Carter played to deregulate many industries (though some of the deregulation was good), as well as Carter's appointment of Paul Volcker, whose interest rate hike shocked the US into embracing trade deficits and empowered China to take up on lost US manufacturing. Nixon's 1973 shock left Carter with the stagflation which put him in the situation to begin with, so his political wins came at a horrific economic cost, and ended up blowing back at us in the end.
      • kranke155 2y ago
        Sure. I would say, I just think there is a big difference between implementing a series of treaties (correctly denigrated at the time) like Clinton and trying to solve a catastrophic situation like Carter.
  • mitemte 2y ago
    Look at U.S. factories now vs the 1980s - way fewer workers but making more stuff. Yeah, companies moved jobs overseas, but they also went big on automation to boost efficiency. That's a huge reason factory jobs disappeared. As for COVID origins, let's not perpetuate unproven theories.
• basementcat 2y ago
  The Carter Center is on the verge of eradicating Guinea worm disease, a hideous illness that predominantly afflicts the poor. I hope other former Presidents can use their political leverage to help people in similar ways. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html
• tonymet 2y ago
  Carter deregulated the beer & airline industries
  • macinjosh 2y ago
    And now flying is the worst consumer experience of them all and Budweiser is made out of rice. Is this winning?
    • tomjakubowski 2y ago
      Budweiser has been brewed with rice from the beginning, since 1876.
    • irrelative 2y ago
      Flying is incredibly less expensive largely due to deregulation, and Budweiser has always been brewed with rice. So, yes, this is winning.
      • redwall_hp 2y ago
        The deregulation, more specifically, was repealing Prohibitionist policies that kept microbreweries from operating. Now we have microbreweries everywhere, offering superior alternatives to Budweiser, some of which have grown to be national level competitors.
    • zeroonetwothree 2y ago
      The US has the best selection of beer varieties of any country and flying is cheaper in absolute dollars than in the 70s
      • johnnyanmac 2y ago
        Part of me still wonders if those deregulations would have stopped Boeing, or if Boeing simply would have been sneakier.
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• bb88 2y ago
  His main achievement was and forever will be the Egypt/Israel peace agreement. This has lasted nearly 50 years, and the people who still have grievances will soon be dead in another few years.
  • sthuck 2y ago
    look the peace is definitely an achievement and much much better than the alternative. But it's incredibly fragile peace held only the Egyptian Army control and Sisi's dictatorship. Most of the population still despises Israel, another revolution in Egypt and its a matter of time until there is another war. Now with western equipment for both sides!
    • bb88 2y ago
      > But it's incredibly fragile peace Sure, arguably it's because the treatment of the Palestinians. Unfortunately the last Israeli leader that attempted peace with the Palestinians was assassinated by someone who wanted conflict.
      • myroon5 2y ago
        For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin
• supernova87a 2y ago
  "For Christ’s sake, you people made me get rid of my peanut farm before you let me be president." https://theonion.com/you-people-made-me-give-up-my-peanut-farm-before-i-got-1819585048/ https://theonion.com/you-people-made-me-give-up-my-peanut-fa...
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• neilv 2y ago
  Carter did many lifetimes' worth of good service to others. With his passing now, he'll just miss one of the fundamentally opposite administrations taking control.
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• watersb 2y ago
  My dad worked for then-Governor Carter's administration. The state of Georgia at that time was mostly rural. A small town that needs to expand their water supply would often lack the specialized staff required. Under Carter, the state created regional offices to assist with planning, grant writing, etc. It was DevOps for local government. Carter was quite willing to innovate.
• jseip 2y ago
  God bless a good man
• Spagbol 2y ago
  I have not done significant research, but the more I have read about Jimmy Carter the more I am convinced he is very underrated, and the more I read about Reagan the more I beleive he was a bad choice for the average U.S. citizen long-term (e.g. destroying the U.S. lead on climate tech, and creating policies that ultimately eroded the wealth of the middle class) Reagan was certainly charming, but I beleive he didn't have the integrity of Carter. While Reagan let dictators like Pinochet commit heinous human rights abuses so long as they were anti-communist, Carter put actual pressure on the regime and sought answers. I consider him a long-term thinking leader rather than your average short-term thinking politician. I think that history will end up being much kinder to Carter in hindsight.
  • metabagel 2y ago
    I hope you’re right, but there is an entire cottage industry dedicated to propping up Reagan’s legacy.
    • Spagbol 2y ago
      I was thinking longer-term history when those incentives have eroded. And of course these things are always easier to see in hindsight
  • zeroonetwothree 2y ago
    I view both of them positively (unusual I suppose). Honestly compared to the poor presidents we’ve been getting in this century, the 20th makes me very jealous in retrospect.
    • johnnyanmac 2y ago
      The best 21st century presidents can barely do much, so are basically nothing burgers. Any policies they do pass are basically negated in 4 years. And the worst ones make me yearn for Regean. At least he pretended to care about the american people. That was definitely the biggest change in 50 years. There seemed to be a lot more bipartisan support for things overall that would actually help the country. Now it's a pissing contest at the turn of the century. Good bills won't pass simply because of who's name is on the bill.
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• xyst 2y ago
  He was a good person, but unfortunately his administration set a massive precedent in deregulation of private industries, and setup the foundation for neo-liberalism and Reagan/“trickle down” economics.
• recroad 2y ago
  Only US President to tell the truth about Israel's apartheid. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y23V6PLTCMw https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y23V6PLTCMw
• jmward01 2y ago
  He was a great human being. We need more people like him, especially in government.
• dboreham 2y ago
  Met him one time. About 20 years ago, boarding a Delta RJ to SLC. I got upgraded, row 1. I'm stowing my carry on in the bin. Guy in row 2 stands up, sticks out his hand towards me and says "Pleased to meet you, my name's Jimmy Carter". I think "sure you are dude" and "if you were the former president, that lady next to you would be Ros...wait...she IS Rosalynn...". He had been on a fly fishing trip. Deplaned before everyone else into SS vehicle on the apron. Nice guy.
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  • rurban 2y ago
    Sorry, I was wrong. Indonesia.
• nla 2y ago
  My parents almost lost their house to a 19% mortgage after he was in office.
  • SoftTalker 2y ago
    This is the big reason he lost in such a landslide. The economy was awful. Good man, but a terrible president.
    • johnnyanmac 2y ago
      Even a president can't just snap their fingers and fix inflation overnight. We're going through the exact same thing right now. it was a miracle enough that they brought down the crazy inflation from COVID and stopped another recession. It's a shame that it seemed like that remission reversed right before election season, though.
      • nla 2y ago
        Carter created the inflation.
        • johnnyanmac 2y ago
          In the same way Biden created the inflation, yes. Never mind the huge event that happened 4-5 years prior. The economy doesn't turn on a dime.
  • rexpop 2y ago
    Can someone explain what this has got to do with the OP?
  • Tiktaalik 2y ago
    If you're thinking this was Carter's fault, well the same thing happened North of the border too. History seems to be repeating right now as people frustrated with severe inflation are blaming their local governments and dumping incumbents, but the problem is world wide and it's not terribly clear that there are some poor decisions by local governments that are to blame.
• animanoir 2y ago
  finally
  • BuyMyBitcoins 2y ago
    I’ll be generous and assume you meant that he is finally at peace after enduring a long hospice and bearing the burden of having to live his final years without his beloved wife Rosalynn.
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• gslin 2y ago
  https://archive.ph/677UB https://archive.ph/677UB
• georgeburdell 2y ago
  And on the seventh day, he rested.
• wistlo 2y ago
  "A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people,” Mr. Carter said. Reagan removed the panels in 1986." All you need to know about the respective legacies of Carter and Reagan.
  • TheDudeMan 2y ago
    What panels? What is this about?
    • tiernano 2y ago
      Solar pannels on the white house.
      • swiftcoder 2y ago
        solar water heaters specifically. not the electricity-generating sort of panels
        • hansthehorse 2y ago
          And they were not removed by Reagan. The roof had to be redone and they were simply not re-installed because they leaked so badly and weren't worth the time and expense.
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  • zeven7 2y ago
    “ Three of the panels are part of museum collections. One of the panels was donated by Unity College to the National Museum of American History in 2009. Another is on display at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center. A third panel has been part of the Solar Science and Technology Museum in Dezhou, China since 2013.” [1] Sounds like America chose “museum piece” from Carter’s options. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_at_the_White_House https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_at_the_White_Hou...
• 1832 2y ago
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• jmspring 2y ago
  Probably the best post-presidency legacy of any in my life time. Beyond that he was just a good human, he worked to better people's lives. After him, the only one that has done much is W and that's more in the wounded warrior arena. But that is small compared to Carter.
• FrustratedMonky 2y ago
  The last moral president. Always trying to do the right thing. The last 'left' Christian. A politician that actually followed the bible. To bad Christianity has been co-opted by gun toting crazies full of contradictions like wanting to kill mothers and save un-born babies, then after they are born, not provide health care to the babies, spout nonsense about 'the kids', but then take away school lunches. Even way back. During the Iran Hostage Crisis. The Republican's were dealing with Iran to hold the hostage's to sway the election. Carter got smeared with that for decades.
  • TomK32 2y ago
    "In the U.S., gun death rates in this age group have increased by 106 percent since 2013 and have been the leading cause of death among this group since 2020." "There were 2,526 gun deaths in 2022 among 1- to 17-year-olds, averaging to nearly 7 per day." https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-of-death-for-children-and-teens https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-...
• loloquwowndueo 2y ago
  Wow, just in time to make into this year’s https://deathlist.net https://deathlist.net count. Rest in peace, Jimmy.
  • TomK32 2y ago
    One of the best year for the defiant and the least successful list since the last days of the H.W. Bush administration.
• ChuckMcM 2y ago
  I found this opinion piece or carter (also from the post) compelling: https://wapo.st/4gwS2JW https://wapo.st/4gwS2JW From the piece: Carter helped restore trust in the presidency through ethics reforms more relevant today than ever before. He established the Senior Executive Service and insulated civil service workers against political pressure. He slowed the revolving door for departing officials and placed independent inspectors general in every department. The Office of Special Counsel originated with his legislation to investigate possible wrongdoing by high-level officials. And he extended ethical standards to the private sector through the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, barring corporations from bribing foreign officials to obtain contracts. With Walter Mondale, he created the modern vice presidency as a fully engaged partnership. That and his campaign slogan to not lie to people really highlighted his integrity.
• chiefalchemist 2y ago
  Carter, God bless him, was proof leadership is more than a title. He's proof you can have a positive impact on the world and not be a politician. Carter sussed out a blueprint for future post-office presidents, but few have heard Jimmy's trumpets. For example, Obama. Obama could be doing great things, but he's too busy riding jet skis and schmoozing celebs, etc. Carter's time in office might be questionable, but as a human he is legend; with an exceptional legacy.
• gunalx 2y ago
  Why is this generic news article on hacker news. The guidelines clearly states anything you would probably find in regular National news probably shouldn't be on hacker news. I want to get a break from the regular newscycle when going here.
  • haswell 2y ago
    I think the key word in the guidelines is “generally”. Exceptions seem to be made for the deaths of major figures, massively consequential events, etc. The “hide” button was made for this situation IMO.
  • johnnyanmac 2y ago
    >anything you would probably find in regular National news 1. I guess we can finally ban all those AI posts, then. And any lawsuit annooucement/updates. 2. you missed a caveat: >Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, *unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon*. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. I'd say an ex-president's death, one who outlived several procedding presidents , is an interesting new phenomenon. as a tangent: that makes trump not only the oldest president ever elected, but also the oldest living president. only barely edging out W. Bush and Clinton. Kind of crazy.
• croissants 2y ago
  Having not been born during his presidency, whenever I think of Jimmy Carter, I think of his appearance in Travels in Georgia [1], a John McPhee essay that's mostly about following a couple of workers for the Georgia Natural Areas council as they travel through and collect information about Natural Areas in the early 1970s. Jimmy Carter, then-governor, pops up at the end to be taken in a canoe down a river that the couple of workers want protected. Having basically nobody around to impress, Carter is nonetheless affable, open, curious, and generally good-hearted. The piece ends at the governor's mansion, like this: A ball sat on the pavement. Before going in, we shot baskets for a while. "The river is just great," the Governor said, laying one in. "And it ought to be kept the way it is. It's almost heartbreaking to feel that the river is in danger of destruction. I guess I'll write a letter to all the landowners and say, 'If you'll use some self-restraint, it'll decrease the amount of legal restraint put on you in the future.' I don't think people want to incur the permanent wrath of the governor or the legislature." "I've tried to talk to property owners," Carol said. "To get them to register their land with the Natural Areas Council. But they wouldn't even talk to me." The Governor said, "To be blunt about it, Carol, why would they?" The Governor had the ball and was dribbling in place, as if contemplating a property owner in front of him, one-on-one. He went to the basket, shot, and missed. Carol got the rebound and fed the ball to Sam. He shot. He missed, too. [1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1973/04/28/travels-in-georgia https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1973/04/28/travels-in-geo...
• johnohara 2y ago
  A couple of observations to give insight into the USA's political sentiment at the time: 1. In 1976, Ford carried California, Illinois, Virginia, and every western state except Texas. Carter carried Texas, Wisconsin, Ohio and almost all southern states including Florida. 2. When Carter won the country was still coming to terms with Vietnam, was completely dismayed by the Watergate scandal and subsequent pardon, was witnessing chaos in Iran, was living under the threat of mutually assured destruction, was experiencing rampant inflation, rising oil prices, a stagnant economy, and possessed a large group of rebellious baby-boomers kicking at the stalls but not quite ready-for-primetime. The USA needed Jimmy Carter's southern sensibilities, humility, and values in order to take a deep breath. Rest in Peace Mr. President. Well done in retrospect.
• sitkack 2y ago
  I liked Jimmy Carter in retrospect, but he was no saint. > Many in the United States were outraged by what they perceived to be an overly harsh sentence for Calley. Georgia's Governor, Jimmy Carter, future President of the United States, instituted American Fighting Man's Day, and asked Georgians to drive for a week with their lights on. William Calley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Calley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Calley My Lai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre NYT piece from 1976 with quotes from Carter https://archive.is/yx1qs https://archive.is/yx1qs
• mediumsmart 2y ago
  Good man. Last decent president they had I think.
• klik99 2y ago
  I know a few people, one a good friend, who work in the Jimmy Carter Center in Atlanta - until health stopped him (and a bit afterwards) he was in there daily putting the work in. Despite if you agree with his views or methods I hope everyone can know he worked well into his 90s to leave the world a better place. I don’t believe any other president was as selfless as him. Rest in peace, he was a great man
  • mhb 2y ago
    Jimmy Carter's pioneering support for Hamas: https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2024/12/29/jimmy-carters-pioneering-support-for-hamas/ https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2024/12/29/jimmy-carters-p...
    • karmakurtisaani 2y ago
      The link is written like a proper propaganda piece. Not like you'd expect anything else on this topic.
      • mhb 2y ago
        It's his blog and his opinion. His opinion is based on the references he cites. What else is expected?
        • karmakurtisaani 2y ago
          Perhaps more context would be appreciated. I'm sure you can take out damning sentences from opinions of anyone who has tried to have any faith in the peace process in Palestine. It's absolutely ridiculous to try to paint Carter as some proponent for Hamas' violence. Unlike, say, Netanyahu, who actively supported the radicalism of Hamas in order to preserve a valuable enemy https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q...
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• westurner 2y ago
  Jimmy Carter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter
  • westurner 2y ago
    Many analyses have since estimated the error of the projections they were conducting policy according to especially in the late 1970s. "The Limits to Growth" (1971) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth Oil price shock (1973) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis Oil crisis (1979) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_oil_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_oil_crisis "The Global 2000 Report to the President" (1980) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Global_2000_Report_to_the_President https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Global_2000_Report_to_the_... 1980-: expensive international meddling we're still paying for, increased government spending , increased taxes on the middle class, oil governor, oil dci, vp, president 1992-: significant reprieve from costly meddling, globalization, soccer, fallout from arms dropped on the eastern bloc after the end of the cold war, not much development in batteries or renewables, dot-com boom, WorldCom, GLBA deregulation, dot-com crash 2000s: humvees, hummers and ~18 MPG SUVs, debt (war expensed to national debt, tax cuts), oil commodity price volatility given an international production rate agreement, crony capitalist bailouts to top off the starve the beast scorched earth debt, almost 20 years of war with countries initially engaged in the 1980s, trillions in spending, tax cuts "The Limits to Growth" (2004) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth : > "Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update" was published in 2004. The authors observed that "It is a sad fact that humanity has largely squandered the past 30 years in futile debates and well-intentioned, but halfhearted, responses to the global ecological challenge. We do not have another 30 years to dither. Much will have to change if the ongoing overshoot is not to be followed by collapse during the twenty-first century."
• ddingus 2y ago
  Thank you Mr. Carter for a life of public service well lived.
• hnews30dec2024 2y ago
  RIP, although I’m sure his intentions were good, the majority of Iranians believe he is the catalyst that brought in the islamic regime and much of the misery in the middle east as a result. Millions displaced, millions more living under authoritarian regimes and war.
• tw1984 2y ago
  RIP. I am fully convinced that Carter is a true statesman, not because he was a great president for 4 years, but because he was great for his entire life for everything. Sadly, we stopped seeing American statesman like Carter (and Reagan, Nixon). Look at what we had in the past two decades, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden. You guys almost got Harris! The trend also seems to be systematic, look at all those morons running the shows in EU, no wonder they couldn't beat Putin on their own.
• rishabhd 2y ago
  Well RIP. I live near Gurugram, India, where a village is named after him. Old relatives used to tell stories about him, he was a simple man and a good human being. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterpuri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterpuri
• braza 2y ago
  As a Brazilian I admire how some Americans here in the thread can say great things and passages about their presidents, regardless of the mistakes made and political party. Democracies are never perfect but I strongly believe that having something to say about a president it’s a great sign of a health democracy and institution (in this case POTUS).
  • moffkalast 2y ago
    Or maybe it's less about the politics and more about plain old celebrity worship. This thread isn't really all that different from when the average well known actor or musician dies.
• FilosofumRex 2y ago
  I often use President Carter's legacy to educate young & idealistic Democrats about how to be a progressive populist, in the traditional meaning of those words. I ask them to lookup how much money Obama raised from Wall Street tycoons to be elected and how much more he has pocketed from them by giving banal speeches about "hope" & "change", vs how much Jimmy Carter did. Most young Democrats (college or 20 somethings) idolize Obama, whom bailed out banks (100% to a dollar); started (Libya, Syria, Yeman) and expanded (Afgan & Iraq) wars; Opposed single payer healthcare for uninsured and flooded the country with so many illegal & extra-legal (temp) foreigners, nobody has any incentive to wait to legally immigrate, anymore. Awarding the Noble Peace Prize to Obama was an insult to the legacy of President Carter and reminds me of what Vietnamese leader Le Doc Tho said when he refused to accept the Peace Prize with Henry Kissinger in 1973: "Unfortunately, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee put the aggressor and the victim of aggression on the same par. ... That was a blunder".
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  • stetrain 2y ago
    > Opposed single payer healthcare for uninsured Wasn't single payer healthcare for all one of his main campaign points? It didn't have the votes to pass Congress and we ended up with the ACA instead, but as I recall there was a push for it.
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• andyjohnson0 2y ago
  The historian Heather Cox Richardson has written a lengthy, generous account of his life and legacy: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-29-2024 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-29-2024 As a non-USian who was young when he was president, he has always seemed to me to be a decent person who tried to do good with what he had, and understood the limits of his own ambition. We need more like him.
• negativelambda 2y ago
  In 1980, Jimmy Carter's administration backed Chun Doo-hwan's military regime, giving tacit approval to the brutal Gwangju crackdown that resulted in the murder of thousands of civilians. https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1129127.html https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1...
• Bluestein 2y ago
  RIP, Fellow Lion Jimmy.-
• perrygeo 2y ago
  One of my strongest memories of my childhood is meeting Jimmy Carter on a commercial flight, coming back from a family trip to Disneyworld. He walked back through the coach section and greet everyone personally. I got to shake his hand. He was legitimately interested in what everyone had to say. Even as a 8yr old, I understood how unique this was. He was a man of the people and fully dedicated his life to America. Probably the last president to do so; instead we committed to the path of unencumbered greed ala Reagan.
• slowturtle 2y ago
  Carter was the only president to call Israel what it is, an apartheid state.[0] Rest in peace. [0] https://youtube.com/shorts/y23V6PLTCMw https://youtube.com/shorts/y23V6PLTCMw
• euroderf 2y ago
  When he ran for prez he had lots & lots of great ideas. But IIRC the congressional seniority system was still in place, and when Carter got in, the Democratic-controlled Congress stonewalled him on basically everything. You know. "Politics as usual." I remember a discussion in grad school in the mid-80s. Reaganite fever was the order of the day. I stated my belief that history would be kind to Jimmy Carter. Some people in the class openly laughed at this. But we know now that Carter had some bad luck and that Reagan set the country on course for its current worship of ignorance, cruelty, corrupted "Christianity", and authoritarianism. Plus plenty of people lining their pockets. Of course nowadays nobody mentions Reagan any more because the Cult of Reagan has been replaced by Führerprinzip.
• AnimalMuppet 2y ago
  I was surprised to find an article about his death as the top article on espn.com. I mean, I know the death of a president is a big deal, but ESPN? That's some serious cultural influence.
• TwistedCiviliz 2y ago
  Carter embraced Hamas. Enough said.