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27. Kicking for this post, too.

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Sun Apr 22, 2018, 04:42 PM

Apr 2018

Wonderful details to learn, Journeyman. Thanks for posting it!

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This great president has never been recognized at its fair value [View all] syringis Apr 2018 OP

He also gave up his career as engineer on a nuclear submarine to run that peanut farm csziggy Apr 2018 #1

Awesome post. Thanks. nt Blue_true Apr 2018 #7

Agree - great post about a great president. The lesser people try to besmirch anyone erronis Apr 2018 #17

+1 GeorgeGist Apr 2018 #14

K&R Auggie Apr 2018 #2

Terrible president. Mr.Bill Apr 2018 #3

Even the estimable BHO is in JEC's shadow, as a human being. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2018 #4

President Obama will have very large post-presidency shoes to fill. Blue_true Apr 2018 #8

This sounds like a "horse race" for goodness. The repuglicans are working on the other end. nt erronis Apr 2018 #18

You clearly missed the point. Blue_true Apr 2018 #22

John Quincy Adams . . . Journeyman Apr 2018 #23

Kicking for this post, too. calimary Apr 2018 #27

Wow. nt. Blue_true Apr 2018 #30

He was a terrible President, based on the records of the day FakeNoose Apr 2018 #39

Totally agree gopiscrap Apr 2018 #5

Very likely the most undervalued President in history. Blue_true Apr 2018 #6

He had great policies, didn't he? Unfortunately he suffered from what I call PatrickforO Apr 2018 #11

True courage and conviction is hard to recognize. Blue_true Apr 2018 #12

Yeah. Never tell the people the actual truth with facts. erronis Apr 2018 #19

Ain't that the truth? Dave Starsky Apr 2018 #43

Jimmy Carter made the same mistake Clinton and Obama made. Boomerproud Apr 2018 #28

I agree with PatrickforO's comment but... Timer Apr 2018 #36

There is no doubt about it; Jimmy Carter is a great man. PatrickforO Apr 2018 #9

Jimmy Carter had, and still has Scarsdale Apr 2018 #42

This is a case of a man being ahead of his time. The country was not willing to make sacrifices. dameatball Apr 2018 #10

Some of us were. llmart Apr 2018 #21

You are correct. I meant the % of the country who went via Reagan and bought the lies. dameatball Apr 2018 #25

A very large percentage, too... llmart Apr 2018 #34

All Reagan had to do was tell the privileged how great they were and their lives could be perfect Boomerproud Apr 2018 #29

This country had a choice with Carter lunatica Apr 2018 #33

KICK Angry Dragon Apr 2018 #13

He is the best of us pecosbob Apr 2018 #15

You and me both ailsagirl Apr 2018 #16

He was and is a great man...but he was not a great President. First Speaker Apr 2018 #20

In an alternate universe, he might have been an incredible SecState Algernon Moncrieff Apr 2018 #31

I think we place too many credits and expectations on all the US presidents nolabels Apr 2018 #41

Peace between Israel and Egypt is HUGE. Ellen Forradalom Apr 2018 #48

I tend to think of a bit from the movie Fortinbras Armstrong Apr 2018 #44

Total opposite of trump JI7 Apr 2018 #24

I hope someday that colorado_ufo Apr 2018 #26

One of America's finest persons, period. nt oasis Apr 2018 #32

I love and greatly admire President Jimmy Carter. lark Apr 2018 #35

A good decent man ... under rated President Raine Apr 2018 #37

Actually, he's 93 and a true force of nature jg10003 Apr 2018 #38

And he almost lost that farm after his four years as president Rhiannon12866 Apr 2018 #40

How unlike the kleptocrat-in-chief n/t Fortinbras Armstrong Apr 2018 #45

K&R.. disillusioned73 Apr 2018 #46

History is going to be much kinder to Carter than his contemporaries. Ellen Forradalom Apr 2018 #47

I was very politically active in the late 1970s and early 1980s... LisaM Apr 2018 #49

A truly great and wonderful person. lucca18 Apr 2018 #50

Not such a great president, but one of the very best of all human beings! democratisphere Apr 2018 #51