Remember how the repukes used to call Jimmy Carter a hick?

[proud2BlibKansan]

While Carter was president, they didn't let up for a second. They repukes called him a dumb peanut farmer and a southern hick. They criticized his family ad nauseum. His brother Billy was a bit odd but even so, he didn't deserve the crap the right threw at him for 4 solid years.

I was thinking about all of this today after I heard about dubya talking "shit" with his mouth full at the G8 meeting. so el pretzeldente shows the whole world his rude table manners and potty mouth, while doing absolutely nothing to help bring peace to the middle east (quite the opposite in fact).

Now who remembers what Carter (that dumb peanut farmer) did for the middle east?

One of his most notable accomplishments was his position as mediator during the Camp David Accords of 1978. Hoping to mitigate and ultimately put an end to the volatile Arab/Israeli conflict in the Middle East, Carter instigated a set of peace talks, the Camp David Accords, between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Both leaders were invited to Camp David, the exclusive presidential retreat with the goal of opening lines of communication between the two extremely hostile countries.

The peace talks spanned 13 long days, much longer than initially anticipated. At times, animosities became so unbearable that Begin and Sadat refused to meet face to face. Carter used his influence as President and his mediating capabilities to reestablish communication between the two. Ultimately, the Camp David Accords of 1978 created a landmark framework for peace in the Arab/Israeli conflict which resulted in a formal treaty signed by Egypt and Israel in 1979. What is so remarkable about the Camp David Accords is how Carter recognized the pain and suffering occurring within the Middle East and used his powerful position to influence the future. Even in the Middle East, a region so divided in ideologies, religions, and history, Carter proved that intervention and peaceful negotiation are the most logical and effective means of resolving hostilities.

http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/programs/youth-outreach/peace-heroes/carter-jimmy.htm

Now go ask every republican bush defender you know this question:

Just who is the dumbshit president here?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. That "hick" also had a real education. In nuclear physics, no less.

"He received a B.S. degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a submariner, serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and rising to the rank of lieutenant. Chosen by Admiral Hyman Rickover for the nuclear submarine program, he was assigned to Schenectady, N.Y., where he took graduate work at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics, and served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf, the second nuclear submarine." http://nobelprize.virtual.museum/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2002/carter-bio.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. It just pained me to hear them call him a dumb hick

And now, it is so obvious that the idiot they voted for is far more of a dumb hick than Carter.

[bperci108]

16. And if you know anything about Adm. Rickover's nuc Navy...

...you would know that only the very best of the very best got to Pres. Carter's level.

I didn't always agree with him, but he was one of the most honorable men to ever hold the Presidency.

Oh, but to have another like him now...

[Lisa]

20. Carter wrote about the time he went for a job interview with Rickover

The Admiral was a formidable person, and highly intelligent -- he shredded Carter and just left him sitting there, kind of numb. But he did hire him, after all. The fact that Carter would tell this story, without a shred of resentment or self-righteousness, shows what a decent, humble, and honest man he was (and remains). If Bush told that same tale (if he felt like revealing anything that made him look less than heroic, that is) -- my guess is that he would not be able to resist spinning it so that he somehow got the last word in, or disrespected the other person in some way.

[HawkerHurricane]

18. My favorite President Carter story...

involves 3 mile island.

Visiting the facility after the disaster, Pres. Carter asked the tech 'on watch' when the disaster occured what he did when things started going wrong.
The tech started to give him a song and dance routine. Pres. Carter told him what he should have done... and when the tech asked "How do you know?", the Pres. had them pull out thier manual of emergency proceedures, and showed him where the list of authors were...
"Lt. James E. Carter" was #2 on the list.

[Lisa]

21. cool!

I hadn't heard that one before -- I love it! By the way, it reminds me a bit of a Saturday Night Live sketch which was broadcast shortly after Carter became President -- where he displays an uncanny ability to solve all kinds of obscure technical problems.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76ocarter.phtml


"Walter Cronkite: Mrs. Horbath, do you have a question for the President?

Mrs. Edward Horbath (on phone): Yes, sir. I'm an employee of the U.S. Postal Service in Kansas. Last year they installed an automated letter sorting system called the Marvex-3000, here in our branch..

President Jimmy Carter: Yes.

Mrs. Edward Horbath (on phone): ..but the system doesn't work too good. Letters keep getting clogged in the first-level sorting grid. Is there anything that can be done about this?

President Jimmy Carter: Well, Mrs. Horbath, Vice-President Mondale and I were just talking about the Morvex-3000 this morning.. uh.. I do have a suggestion - you know the caliber poised on the first grid sliding armiture?

Mrs. Edward Horbath (on phone): Yes.

President Jimmy Carter: Okay, there's a three-digit setting there, where the post and the armiture meet. Now, when the system was installed, the angle of cross-slide was put at a maximum setting of 1.. if you reset it at the three-mark like it says in the assembly instructions, I think it will solve any clogging problems in the machine.

Mrs. Edward Horbath (on phone): Oh, thanks, Mr. President! Oh, by the way, I think you're doing a great job!"

[renate]

2. I'm so glad Carter's respected now

What a good man. He was treated so badly for telling the people the truth instead of what they wanted to hear, but he was too decent a person to lie to us.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. He actually brought peace to the middle east

while el pretzeldente has created terrorists.

[fordnut]

5. Proud hick here

I`d rather be a hick than a neo-con.I always liked Jimmy Carter,he was a good president that never got a chance.

[saltpoint]

6. "That Jimmy Carter is a smart man, you believe it."

One of my bosses told me that prior to the 1976 presidential election. He considered hiimself a Hugh Carey Democrat, a Bella Abzug Democrat, and definitely an Any Kennedy You Name Democrat.

But he demanded that the rest of us pay attention to, and honor the smart of, the then-Governor of Georgia who was a few weeks from the White House at the time.

I've always felt that Carter was super smart. Clear-headed and warm-hearted, too.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. He certainly accomplished more in 4 years

than the current dipshit has done in 6.

[saltpoint]

9. Yes. And we could sure use his cool brow on the scene right about

now, too.

He would be a man other world leaders would look forward to seeing and talking to, and I would feel much better about being an American tonight if Jimmy Carter could be representing us at the G8 instead of You-know-who.

[rusty_parts2001]

19. You must be from NY!

Who else would remember Hugh Carey? BTW, I went to school with one of his sons.

[saltpoint]

22. Hi there, rusty_parts2001. Yes -- I lived in NYC when Hugh Carey

was governor. Had the privilege of voting for him. Volunteered a little later for Mario Cuomo and before that, Bella Abzug.

I slip back into the City whenever I can -- David Letterman's introduction ("...the greatest city in the world!") isn't far off. I still miss it horribly, especially on summer nights.

Every now and then on DU you'll see me raving and slobbering for a slice of Ray's pizza.

You went to school with one of Carey's sons?! Not bad at all. And this fall, it looks like New York is going to begin a big blue wave with Spitzer and Clinton leading the state ticket. It's looking like a big Democratic November in the Empire State.

[xmas74]

8. Carter always did deserve more credit than he ever received.

He was very intelligent, well-educated and told the public the truth.

He was too far ahead of his times. I would hope that, if we had someone like him as president today, he would be revered far and wide.

[blues90]

10. I remember it well and it pissed me off

Carter was one of the best presidents we have had since Kennedy . He was well versed and very intelligent . But people who are so stupid could not get past the childhood years and joined in the effort many people seem to do and this is to join in on the joke .

He is a great man , a real humanitarian . The what did we get , reagan because of a setup to convince the people carter could not free the hostages . Sure it happened during reagans start but what a setup this was . If not for reagan we would not be in the sorry mess we are now .

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Those hostages were freed within hours

of raygun's inauguration. :grr:

[Ringo84]

11. Shameful

Carter was and is a good man - smart, Christian, warm-hearted. And he's got nothing but contempt and campaigns to try him as a traitor from RWers. They're shameful. As much as conservatives like Reagan and most liberals don't, I don't think Reagan's ever received that kind of treatment.

So what is it about Carter that RWers don't like? The fact that Carter could probably smoke them in debates both political and theological. He's twice the Christian of any of those self-professed "Christian" RWers and twice the American also. And it drives them crazy.
Ringo

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. At the time, I figured they were still mad about Nixon

and Watergate. Mickey Mouse could have ran as a Dem in 76 and won. And the repukes knew that. So I don't hink they were really mad at Carter as much as pissed about Watergate.

[brook]

14. I remember

Ben Bradlee's former mistress who'd become his trophy wife, Sally, crucifying the Carters as rubes and bewailing the lack of 'sophistication' in Washington due to the hicks in the White House. It infuriated me at the time and I have since enjoyed watching Sally's 'status' steadily evaporate while seeing both Carters finally acknowledged as good, intelligent and caring people.

[DemoTex]

15. He's my man .. Jimmy Carter.

Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter strapping into a Georgia Air National Guard Grumman OV-1 Mohawk at Dobbins, AFB (ca. 1971).

[grannylib]

17. W is an inbred little asshat. I think its mother was a jackal. It would

explain his lack of table manners.