Aug 12, 2015 8:49 PM GMT
heard a few minutes ago
MarvinMartian saidBack in the UK, we think Carter was actually a very good President. Of course, we don't think much of your Reagan, so take that however you like.
Physiqueflex saidSad to hear. It will be hard to recover for a man his age, and it will be a sad day when he passes. He is a good man if not a good president.
DOMINUS saidI wish him the very best. He's a good person.
MarvinMartian saidBack in the UK, we think Carter was actually a very good President. Of course, we don't think much of your Reagan, so take that however you like.
Art_Deco saidDOMINUS saidI wish him the very best. He's a good person.
I agree. More a technocrat who lacked the executive skill set a US President requires, which was his downfall.
But a good person, without question. A Nobel Peace Prize winner for his wonderful work around the world. Nothing his Reagan successor could claim, nor either of the Bush Presidents, all of whom brought us costly conflicts and ruiness wars.
freedomisntfree saidArt_Deco saidDOMINUS saidI wish him the very best. He's a good person.
I agree. More a technocrat who lacked the executive skill set a US President requires, which was his downfall.
But a good person, without question. A Nobel Peace Prize winner for his wonderful work around the world. Nothing his Reagan successor could claim, nor either of the Bush Presidents, all of whom brought us costly conflicts and ruiness wars.
Irrelevant.
You know, there's this poster who complains vociferously, almost daily, about someone named southbeach queering up his threads? That poster wouldn't happened to be you, would it?
Shame on me for thinking I started this thread for the purpose of wishing President James Earl Carter well.
Art_Deco saidfreedomisntfree saidArt_Deco saidDOMINUS saidI wish him the very best. He's a good person.
I agree. More a technocrat who lacked the executive skill set a US President requires, which was his downfall.
But a good person, without question. A Nobel Peace Prize winner for his wonderful work around the world. Nothing his Reagan successor could claim, nor either of the Bush Presidents, all of whom brought us costly conflicts and ruiness wars.
Irrelevant.
You know, there's this poster who complains vociferously, almost daily, about someone named southbeach queering up his threads? That poster wouldn't happened to be you, would it?
Shame on me for thinking I started this thread for the purpose of wishing President James Earl Carter well.
Then you should have come down on the member who wrote this, before I did, and "introduced" the politics:
"As President, he was somewhat indecisive and a disappointment for many Americans."
I did wish Carter well, calling him a "good person, without question." And I mentioned his Nobel Peace Prize, which no one else did at that point.
Nevertheless, a frank evaluation of his Presidency is not irrelevant, nor is it "queering up" this thread. I'll give you an equally frank evaluation of Democratic Presidents Truman & Johnson. And no doubt you wouldn't wanna hear what I'd say about the Republican Presidents since Teddy Roosevelt.
Republicans have not been shy in tarring Carter. I think you'd have better targets with them. But I don't wanna start a fight. I told you I thought Carter was a good man. Doing many wonderful things for others, a world figure & example, earning a Nobel Prize. He will be missed when that happens.
But also a less than stellar President. Historians agree with that view. That's what Ronald Reagan campaigned & won on, if you have any regard for Reagan. A famous man's testimonial includes the good with the not-so-good. Unless he's a nobody and his family gets to edit it. I'm sorry if I introduced a negative perspective into this Carter narrative and upset you. I wasn't the only one.
freedomisntfree said
We've heard loud and queer how much you hate, loath, despise republicans in at least 30,000 of your posts.
Art_Deco saidfreedomisntfree said
We've heard loud and queer how much you hate, loath, despise republicans in at least 30,000 of your posts.
Well I'm glad you're keeping track.
I'm a bit puzzled by this new hostility with me. Have you been turned towards SB's "Dark Side"?
I say again, Jimmy Carter is a good person. When he passes he will be missed & mourned, by me & others. But him being a US President, and myself a US citizen, I am entitled to review his career.
I only wish you held the Republicans who vehemently hate Carter, and some of the other RJ members here, to the same rigid standard regarding the ex-President to which you are subjecting me.
And BTW, I sent an email to President Carter, through his library. Wishing him the best. I wonder how many other members here have done that?
metta8 said"Carter, asked if there were anything during his life he wished he had done differently, he quipped he wished he had sent "one more helicopter to get the hostages" from Iran, he quipped. "We would have rescued them and I would have been re-elected," he added, smiling. Reporters laughed."
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/former_president_jimmy_carter_says_cancer_has_spread_to_his_brain
freedomisntfree saidArt_Deco saidDOMINUS saidI wish him the very best. He's a good person.
I agree. More a technocrat who lacked the executive skill set a US President requires, which was his downfall.
But a good person, without question. A Nobel Peace Prize winner for his wonderful work around the world. Nothing his Reagan successor could claim, nor either of the Bush Presidents, all of whom brought us costly conflicts and ruiness wars.
Irrelevant.