Go back to that time when Jimmy Carter wasn't decent with his adversaries...

[MrScorpio]

Or just wasn't decent period.

Remember what he said about them then?

I'll wait right here for your answer.

[ornotna]

1. I remember when that didnt happen

[rzemanfl]

2. I remember when that didn't happen too and my apostrophe works. n/t

[ornotna]

5. Ha

It was there when I wrote the post.

[IronLionZion]

15. Punctuation disappears in posting some times, it's a glitch in the system

it's happened to me lots of times.

[rzemanfl]

16. Apparently only in the subject line and only for some users.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029718474

[ornotna]

18. Thanks, I've

found the fix in there.

[rzemanfl]

19. So I see.

[onecaliberal]

3. So much that

[NCjack]

4. I remember him taking a Xtian beating from the Repugs. He never punched back, and

that contributed to his loss for a second term. If he does help Trump, he can expect to be their scapegoat.

[Glorfindel]

6. When he was Governor of Georgia, the joke was

"Why isn't Jimmy Carter fit to be Governor of Georgia?"

Answer: "Because he's a Christian gentleman."

It was true then. It is true now.

[snowybirdie]

7. The hit piece

by Ms. Dowd was actually a way for her to, once again, blast Obama. Obviously, she picked and choose interview comments to make Pres Carter look like he disliked him too. She used him

[Hortensis]

8. No, but I remember his claim that he didn't take donor money

because Bernie Sanders reminded me of him. In both cases, it was sort of mostly true but also a major whopper. Something I really didn't like because I strongly object to candidates trying to work me for a fool, but I did vote for him.

I also remember that, not as much as Sanders but almost, his colleagues wouldn't support him. He simply wasn't seen as party leadership material, much less good candidate and presidential, but he very competently, and surprisingly, pursued a strategy that bypassed need for their support.

This sounds as if I am not a Carter admirer, and yet I am, with limits. I admire him greatly for some admirable facets and wince over less-than-admirable others.

The second half is looking forward to some examples for the OP, btw, because I haven't and will never forgive him for badmouthing Hillary in 2016. He also owns Trump's election.

[frazzled]

9. I only remember

the criticism about his membership in a Baptist Church that at the time prohibited African Americans from worshipping there. Although he claims to have opposed the discriminatory policy, he didn't resign from the church (until many years later), so it was a fairly reasonable criticism at the time. He could've done more on that front.

[UTUSN]

10. Rec Big #5 & k is my answer!1

[Irish_Dem]

11. Name the time his adversaries sold America out to the Russians.

[Downtown Hound]

12. And maybe that's why he lost

to the underhanded, anti-American, fascist tactics of what at the time was the Reagan campaign, soon to be the Reagan administration, thanks in no small part to him choosing to be "decent."

Maybe if he had actually called them out more on the deal they made with Iran to prevent American hostages from being released to hurt Carter, we wouldn't be in this situation today. In fact, maybe staying silent on the issue isn't really the decent thing to do at all.

[lastlib]

14. (Well, he did say he'd whip Ted Kennedy's ass....)

when Kennedy announced he was challenging for the nomination.

[SunSeeker]

17. In this case, he is making a grave mistake.

Trump is not going to make him his NK negotiator. Carter is just going to lose credibility.

Being "decent" to your adversaries does not require bending the facts for them. He did not have to say what he said. I am very disappointed in him.

[LanternWaste]

21. Only with the individuals who hold literalism as the only valid method of inferring meaning.

"Carter is just going to lose credibility..."

Only with the individuals who hold literalism as the only valid method of inferring meaning. Fundies, I s'pose, is the trendy pejorative for them these days.

[rsdsharp]

20. well he did go after that rabbit

with a boat paddle!