Just a thought on Jimmy Carter and things

[Botany]

Carter put up the 1st generation of solar panels on the White House (water heaters) and said this is the future but Reagan, the Republicans, and the fossil fuel industry took 'em down and told everybody that "this hippy fad" will not be needed. Where would the world and America be now if we had stuck with green energy? How many millions of tons of carbon not been sent up into the atmosphere?

Jimmy & Rosalyn Carter were a gift to us all.

We all need to keep up the fight for them.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. There's Jimmy (great)...and there's Donny (vomit inducing)..

Check the link I just posted to a recent NYT article on the newest example of disregard for science....

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/climate/epa-science-trump.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

[walkingman]

2. Absolutely - A truly honorable man in every way.

[DUgosh]

3. First time I ever voted was for him

[mopinko]

4. you will never talk me out of thinking he was an early victim of the slime campaigns

that have become the norm.
the saudis hated him.

[doc03]

5. Just received a bulletin from Smart News

President Carter will have brain surgery in the morning.

[dalton99a]

6. From the Norwegian Nobel Institute

https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/Prize-winners/Prizewinner-documentation/Jimmy-Carter

Jimmy Carter
Nobel Peace Prize 2002

While the President of the United States, George W. Bush, was planning war on Iraq in the autumn of 2002, former President Jimmy Carter was awarded the Peace Prize for undertaking peace negotiations, campaigning for human rights, and working for social welfare. According to the Chairman of the Nobel Committee, Carter ought to have been awarded the Prize as early as in 1978, when he successfully mediated a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel.Jimmy Carter was born in Georgia. In 1953, after a military career, he took over his parents' farm near the town of Plains. He went into politics as a Democrat, and was elected Governor of Georgia. In 1976 Carter won the presidential election, partly thanks to his reputation as an honest born-again Christian.The high-point of his presidential term was the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. Thereafter, he experienced several setbacks in his foreign policy, such as the conflict with Iran after the fall of the Shah and a new cold war with the Soviet Union after that country's invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979. In the following year Carter lost the presidential election to Ronald Reagan. As ex-President, Carter conducted an active peace and mediation campaign which sometimes seemed to run counter to official US policy. ...

[spanone]

7. K&R...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[mountain grammy]

8. Yes, a gift to us all

Yes we need to keep up the fight for them.

Great post.

[yaesu]

9. I've seen anti green energy ads by state repuks that are so misleading, claiming us Dems

want to make eating meat illegal, just a bunch of lies and the networks let these pacs run them, disgusting.

[NCLefty]

10. Republicans put styrofoam back in the Congressional cafeteria after Pelosi had phased it out too.

Regressives till the end.

[George II]

11. Carter established the underground oil reserves, and was ridiculed relentlessly for it....

...as a stupid idea. Reagan used it as one of his campaign issues.

Yet, every time a Democratic President wanted to used the reserves to control gas prices, republicans whined that "they're strategic, they should only be used in an emergency"! But when a republican wanted to use them for whatever reason, "it's a great idea!"

[SeattleVet]

12. I served in the Air Force under 4 different Presidents...

from 1972 to 1984 - Nixon, Ford, Carter, and that rotten S.O.B. Reagan (I somehow can never bring myself to say his name without using that honorific.)

Nixon was - well, Nixon. As crooked as the day is long, until he was forced to resign in disgrace from the office.

Ford was pretty much a nothingburger. Any respect I may have had was solely to the office, and not to the person, especially after he issued the pre-emptive pardon to Tricky Dick.

I would have gladly served under Carter for a second term, but he got royally screwed over with the Iran hostage crisis and the deals made on behalf of his opponent in the election. I had nothing but the highest respect for the man while he held the office. His integrity followed him through his life after the presidency, and he continued to contribute massively to his community and this nation long after he was screwed out of a 2nd term.

I left the Air Force after 12 years of service rather than facing the possibility of having to serve under a 2nd term of that B-movie actor with rapidly progressing dementia.

Hang in there, President Carter! I dread the thought of the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue trying to deliver a eulogy to you.