Jimmy Carter Brilliantly Explains How The Establishment Gave Us Trump
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it's amazing that Jimmy Carter is constantly ignored by the political punditry, while they hang on every fart of Chelsea Clinton.
Der Low That's because he didn't get the genius idea of buying political supporters with his charity. lol
That's on purpose to keep the facade up.
Der Low I know right? This guy since being president has nearly eradicated an entire species of a parasite whose existence was only to painfully burrow out of a human's foot. Look up the Guinea worm
It's because they're not even remotely interested in this kind of substance. All they want to hear is pundits towing the establishment line or people arguing within establishment framing. The establishment media is all just a goddamn show., it's clearly not about educating people on issues and policy.
Der Low,
And Chelsea has said, "leave me out."
Jimmy Carter was one of the most underrated and under-appreciated Presidents ever.
Kevin Thompson With good reason. Cough Iran cough.
@A Force of Freedom it turns out that during the iran hostage situation. the iran president said that Ronald had bribe their country to hold the hostages until after the election. the iran president actually ran his campaign on freeing the hostages and won the election. the people of iran wanted those hostages free. so ronald wins the election and right after they let go of the hostages. in exhange ronald goes off and sends weapons to iran
@@bullmoosevelt4495 Not his fault.
Nah not really. He was in over his head and thought he was smarter than congress which had dem. Also screwed up single payer which ted Kennedy was going to push thru but carter wanted to break it up into sep bills which would soon it.
@@williampremo3096 no ted kennedy fucked it up on purpose thats commonly known
There is not a crooked bone in President Jimmy Carter's body. He speaks nothing but the truth! Long Live President Jimmy Carter!
AMEN
Really? you know he supported the fascist* goverments of latin america right? he armed and trained them, and one of those countries were El Salvador, maybe jimmy carter can brilliantly explain how he claims the bo for human rights while arming,funding and supporting the murder, supression and opression of people?
@@Danovio the military industrial complex does what it does regardless of who's in office. You may be shocked to find not a bullet or missile was fired while Carter was in charge
@@abrahamlincoln5185 exept that he supported the far right fascist Regime of El salvador with money, Training, soldiers, weapons and latest technology. Alot of bullets were fired, alot of People killed, raped, tortured, dissapeard, rights stolen and the list goes on, he was a big help in that. But hey keep ignoreing facts so you can pretend he was a democratic Saint.
@@abrahamlincoln5185 a damn lot of People fucking died thanks to him.
Jimmy Carter personifies humanity at its best
Worst President ever! But, he does personify hunmanity
how@@andrewlayton3642
He meant well.
Didn't answer the question. You made an assertion, explain why it is you made that assertion@@andrewlayton3642
@@theblackpuma9 Really? Does hating Jews qualify you as a great human?
Fuck, he's so old. Don't wanna lose him.
Shadow didn't he have cancer a year or two ago? I want to believe you're right, but I have problems doing so.
+Rockdoo No I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Bush Sr.
Kratos101 edition.cnn.com/2016/08/25/health/jimmy-carter-cancer-anniversary-habitat-for-humanity/
Yes he had cancer, he put himself up as an experimental patient to further immunotherapy proof of concept and make it more likely to be accessible to all people in the future. Not selfless of course it saved his bloody life, but a nice extra gesture
Rockdoo, you sort of took my comment. I'm afraid Bernie's too old and won't want to run in 2020.
Jimmy was the last uncorrupted president. Can't believe he and Hillary were both nominee's for the same party.
some body agreed. And then people treated him like shit and wouldn't let him put a lot of liberal polices in.
TheIrishPinata98 Yeah it really pisses me off whenever I read right leaning publications that act like it's a given that he's the absolute worst president we've had in the last 50 years. Ask a republican who the worst president is in their lifetime and they always say Carter. Ask them why and they usually just say hostages with no real argument about what he specifically did wrong.
He didn't create them he simply gave them stinger missiles to help defeat the Russians. It was the Saudi's that sustained them long term because it exported their internal problems to other countries.
as far as I know he's the oldest living president, he was also the most christian president we had in the 20th century and likely the most honest.
Huey's Disciple Do you mean the dictator United States placed in Iran, years before that?
Jimmy carter the president that everyone hated but was actually a good guy that had a vision for America and a foreign policy that was successful
Jimmy carter doesn’t get enough credit
Carter is way better than Reagan
Lennox T. Anderson
Reagan is greatly responsible for what is wrong with America today. Fuck him.
Why did everyone hate him?
@Go fuck Yourself He promised to end wars and then he just continued ALL OF THEM. He supported mass killings in Yemen, did like a $460 BILLION weapons deal with Saudi Arabia as they lead those killings in Yemen. He increased drone strikes (Obama has increased from Bush’s levels, Trump went even higher) and decreased transparency and accountability. He ended the Iran Nuclear Deal and assassinated a major leader in Iran. Attempted a coup in Venezuela. Trump used covid as an excuse to violate international asylum law and the US’s own asylum policy, sending asylums seekers at the border back to certain death.
The main difference is Carter cares deeply about world peace and human rights, while Trump gives zero shits. Trump just follows his ego. They are nothing alike.
Trump is also not a neocon like Hillary or George Bush. But he’s not opposed to war. He doesn’t have a strong political ideology. We happened to get him at a time when popular sentiment is against war. If we suffered a 9/11 type event again, this think he’d for sure start wars. I think he’d have little concern about civilian casualties because he doesn’t give a shit about people. He wants to be popular, at least with his base. And they don’t give a shit about people dying in other countries, so neither would he.
@@seanmatthewking well said
I've always loved Jimmy Carter. Running for a 2nd term, he stated that we needed to be Conservative with our spending. But along came Reagan spewing spend, spend, spend, and the people bought into it. Trickle down economics was born.
It is Obama that nearly doubled the debt. Reagan did not hold a candle.
I served under President Carter. 1977-1981. I was on the USS. NIMITZ. Operation Gonzo Station. it was during the Hostage attempt. 1980. Everyone thinks its easy to pull off a mission in a massive Desert Hurricane winds. it wasn't meant to happen. yes we lost some men and planes but shit happens. President Carter made the right decision to back away and Waite it out. like President Carter said he could have wiped Iran off the Map. what sounds better lose a dozen men or a billion civilians on both sides. Hard working President him and the first lady.
RayGUN paid off Iran to "hold the hostages" til after the election. And he sold Iran weapons, (Iran-Contra) even though they were the ones who set up the bombing of the marine barracks in Beirut... 242 dead marines. Your name says it all... luvcheney ... ha! Yep, the dead dependents will not be ever in their families.
Jimmy Carter's vacillation and weakness helped create the Middle East we know today. Can't blame the desert winds on this loser. Not trying again (or harder) I can blame on him. I have no idea where you get billions of deaths on both sides. The only side that would have lost it all was Iran.Thanks for your service. But, I don't agree with your interpretations.
I remember reading about a soldier on the mission who said even though one of the Chinook CH-53 helicopters went down, they still had enough to bring the hostages home. If the hostages would have came home, Carter would have ridden that to a second term regardless of what people thought of him. He lost the election to Reagan because of the failed attempt.
Carter lost the election because Reagan's people tipped off the enemy. That is nothing to be proud of. And then what did we get, Reaganomics!!! "Oh just give all the money to the rich people, they will make sure they scatter it about in a trickle down matter so you will get some too." The key here is "Trickle" which means a little bit, right? And, "some", now weren't you happy you got some? They took more from us than they gave that was for sure. I can't believe people fell for the BS and voted for Reagan?!?
October suprise = Iran story. All presidents incl. JFK/Carter was put in place by the 'establishment'.
Wow... I hope I'm just as mentally sharp as Jimmy Carter at age 92
Hyena House Ent. If Jimmy was this sharp as President he might have done a good job. He Didn't
LUCID, CORRECT, DECENT, HONORABLE, PASSIONATE.
Hyena House Ent. Take your Brain Force
well. when you get there you are a puppet of the SYSTEM.
" ISLAMIC" i guess is thorn in your eye. SEEMS TO ME YOU ARE ONE LOVING CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!!!!!! of course i might be wrong.
What a fine, intelligent, well educated gentleman he is, a real statesman, with great integrity.
MrUniman69 Jimmy Carter was the worst president we've ever had. He was Jimmy Carter knows how bad he wasn't being president.
Jack Harter Trump will take his place soon
Maybe not the best POTUS of all time, but I'd trust him with my life.
And the democrats don't even allow him to speak at the convention.His little black boy comment about Obama sort of ruined his image there for awhile.
Yeah but he sucked as a President.
Carter deserves Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Habitat and in politics in general. He was our most honest president.
Anna Warner i think he already got the peace prize
He already won the Nobel Peace Prize.
if there is a booby nobel prize carter would win. i remember double digit inflation, long gas lines, carter ushering in the ayotola who paid him back wit the hostage crisis he was too much of a sissy to do anything about.
Far better than Obama that's for sure. Obama gets a Nobel prize for winning an election LMFAO. What a farce
so many countries became communist while carter was president he has,nt got a clue
What makes people think Trump is anti-establishment? He's as establishment as they come.
It was the way he talked during the campaign trail. People are always so busy, that many of them didn't have the time to do in-depth research on all the nuances of every situation involving him, so they relied on the corporate media.
And because of that, the image they got of him was a quick talking fire-brand that was calling out everyone else's bullshit which nobody else had the balls to do, and promising that _he_ would be different.
He's not Hillary Clinton, that's all that matters.
In the general election, pretty much.
Hillary's a true political leader; this orange haired jackass is clueless!
The man never had to earn a dime. He inherited his wealth. He's never had to balance a household budget. He's never needed to make choices between eating or paying the electric bill. Why do we keep electing wealthy celebrities instead of honest lawmakers that have compassion and would work for Peace in our time? We had that In Bernie Sanders but, too many people allow the propaganda machine that our media has become, to lead them by the nose. Critical thinking has been lost on Americans.
92 years old, and still at the top of his intellectual game.
yes ur right, about the same as 40 years ago, sad, some people grow wiser as they get older, not this peanut head.
I remember when i didn't know anything about Carter and just heard ppl say "oh he was a terrible president" then I actually learned who he was and wow..... the fact that they say he was awful says something about how awful we are as a country.
kingcarcas - I agree. I always admired Carter. He is a true humanitarian. He knows that real strength is not the 'John Wayne shoot-em-up' bullying of a trump, but the constant and -dare I say- Spiritual influence of right, intelligence and wisdom. The American people did not know that then and sadly, they still do not know that.
It was a bad time ..We had the gas crisis with long lines and you could only get gas on odd or even days as well as riots. There was the hostage crisis and the Corporate media had it in for him....He has done a lot of good work after leaving office.
David, Jimmy Carter not your average president, he was too honest, too humble too caring, just a peanut farmer, so they picked on him, Now they pick on Trump for different reasons but the "Corporate media is actually the Liberal Left BIASED media which HAD the monopoly on MSM until social media like twitter, CZcams, and average people could be heard. I love that these fake "news" tabloid "reporters" (CNN) no longer have the control, and that is another reason Trump WON, people are smarter, libtards got dumber, even Jimmy Carter, (the most honest democrat in politics and to this day) agrees. He didn't come out and say it but essentially Libtards and KiLIARy got Trump Elected ! (thank GOD !)
He's not the worst president in history now..
OBAMA has earned that honor....
Why don't you leave then?
I love the truthfulness and compassion of both. They are my two favorite politicians. The way Bernie Sanders dares to tell the American people the truth is so heroic! I pray that someday justice will prevail.
Berinie is a fool. Anyone who believes socialism works is a fool.
Jimmy Carter a man wwwwwaaaaaayyyyyy smarter then people give him credit for.
cumputing fornever - it is easy to say what you just said, let's see if you can explain your answer that Venezuela being similar to Norway. my bet is that you have very little clue.
Carter's got a degree in nuclear physics. Three Mile Island could have been worse, but he understood the science, which helped him make intelligent decisions in the aftermath.
So right you are: "He (JC) was educated in the public school of Plains, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and 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, New York, 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."
And Trump? Has not yet spoken a single cogent sentence. I think he may be mildly retarded, besides being a bully, lout, "pussy grabber and douchebag of great proportions. He's certainly no Jimmy Carter, nor Rhodes Scholar like Bill Clinton. Nor is he brilliant and inspiring orator like JFK was. Those were real men; Trump makes Bozo & Ronald McDonald look like bright fellas'. Ronald Reagan was clearly no brainiac, but at least he had compassion and decency in his heart. DJT as absolutely no soul, just a gaping need for attention and indulgence.
Michael Powers
Has there been any new nuclear power plants built in the US since TMI? Just asking.
I don't know JC, but I have met Trump many times in New York.
He is a nice guy, but you are spot on, he would be a deli worker if his father had not left him some cash. I fear for my country.
That feel when Jimmy Carter is so fucking old he makes Bernie look like a young whippersnapper.
This just defeats any argument about Bernie being too old to run 2020, though.
Maybe, but why are there no young progressives with integrity and charisma that can take the helm?
Ah, you mean like Tulsi Gabbard and Nina Turner?
Well, ultimately the answer is because our society has been designed to foster political apathy. Recent events have awoken many to run for office, but "young" and "helm" seldom go together. For instance: Tim Canova, Alison Hartson, Paula Swearingen are all young progressives running for office, but it will take more time for them to gain experience to 'take the helm'.
If we play our cards right, the next decade may yield dozens of progressive potential candidates for the generation to come. However the 90's and 2000s were not times of political awareness, so candidates who do have experience to take the helm are not progressive.
I nominate Kyle as a future political candidate.
Would be funny to nominate him as a justice democrat lol
Also kind of awesome
Keanu - President Carter also shows that, when life's lessons are incorporated into 'being', learned from, wisdom is the result. Carter is a statesman. trump, by contrast exemplifies what happens when wisdom is not attained. Carter is an Elder, trump is an old man.
In my 60 yrs. JC has always been my fav .Pres.. I always had the feeling he was too moral to last in politics.
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Perhaps you recall a speech to the nation, that really was a bit moralising but he was right, saying if we didn't change our use of resources, energy, etc, we'd be heading down the wrong path as a country, MSM pretty much acted like a child being scolded rather than taking to heart the facts he presented. He wasn't anything of not agreeable in his chiding saying it as suggesting of action rather than adamantly telling. The fact he's done so much as our NOT president imagine given the chance to do what he might've done.AND
If we had done as he proposed, we'd have never gone down this Neoliberal miasma taking the world with us. China and Russia are looking to squash the petro dollar, arrogance works only so long.
Well i wasnt alive back then , but i heard that he was a shitty prisedent , inflation , unemployment both in two digits
amiir miinavand94 be careful of who you are hearing that from. There was a concerted move against him from the far right. Reagan made behind the curtain deals with the Iranians on the hostage release, particularly the timing so that the perception of Carter failing to get the hostages released would basically end his political career. The timing was also orchestrated in such a way as to heighten the image of Reagan. Carter inherited a massive economic pile of dung held over from Nixon such as oil price controls and elimination of the gold standard. Volker (fed chairman) was able to deal with crazy inflation but that created a economic reaction which was portrayed as bungling or incompetence when it was more akin to the natural withdrawal of a junky getting clean. People who say Carter was a crappy president are just regurgitating "reaganomics" mythology and who have historical amnesia, if they even have any historical knowledge in the first place, which would be doubtful.
I agree Jim. He wasn't Showboat and he was a Peacemaker not a War monger. Why people like wars I will never understand ? I would rather our taxes go toward healthcare for alk that would actually help all of us taxpayers then to wars that just make things worse.
Good to see him healthy
Michael Dy too bad Carter is a socialist idiot.
Michael Dy lol
Ray, I voted for Carter when I turned 18. I had learned Democrats good/Republicans bad in high school. To be like Nixon in the seventies is the last thing any long hair wanted to be. It didn't take long for me to realize that I wasn't the radical I thought I was. I was in fact a conservative. Carters Presidency was not good. But I do not think that he was or is a Socialist. He is a thoughtful and compassionate man that I have the greatest respect for. Very different from modern Democrats. Cheers!
Mike Frank While I agree Carter is a good man his politics was his downfall. I would say the very same thing about Obama. Good intentions followed through with awful polices are a huge problem. I might agree Trump is the most stupid president ever Ryan and Mitch are real Conservatives moving the country forward. Trump reminds me of a know it all guy that cleans the bathrooms and says upper management is why he fishes turds for a living.
Ray Trump is a buffoon, as award as he is I still love the way he ridicules the media. I believe we as conservatives need some new blood in Washington. Seeing Mitch makes me cringe almost as much as Pelosi and Schumer. We must be able to do better.
Jimmy Carter is the most underrated president. He wasn't perfect but I respect a lot of what he has done in attempting to progress America before the regressive Reagan ruined it. Not to mention he gets it!!! He even voted for Bernie Sanders.
Marshal And many Americans may not realize this...but Jimmy Carter is THE FOUNDER of Habitat for Humanity.
Why did he lose so badly? I wasn't alive so I don't know lol.
More environmental legislation and environment-related executive orders were passed under Carter than any other President. For that he will always be one of my heros, not to mention his post-Presidency that has done more good than any other post-President.
And just to add a little clarification to Trianabfine's comment, for rockyea85, what happened was that representatives of Reagan's campaign met with Iranian representatives weeks before the 1980 Presidential election and negotiated a DELAYED release of the U.S. hostages in Iran until after the election for more favorable relations, if Reagan would win. President Carter already had both negotiations in progress and a rescue mission planned. The rescue mission failed, which was a disgrace for Carter's re-election campaign. (Mysteriously, the sand traps (special air filters) were removed from the helicopters, which caused mechanical failures during the rescue attempt.) Many attribute Reagan's rise in the polls just before the election being due to Carter's failure to secure the release of the hostages (which Reagan's back-door negotiations illegally sabotaged).
Marshal Jimmy Carter destroyed the economy back in the 70's but Uber you weren't alive to know that? Interest rates were at 18-25% everyone was in debt & couldn't afford to buy coffee! Why do you think Reagan won ! Reagan cut back government spending & got us out of debt in less than 4 years, the last 4 years of Reagan we're awesome! The country runs better under a republican system because that's how it was created! Putting socialist & liberals in office is like trying to watch an HD TV on an old RCA picture tube! It doesn't work! Go visit a socialist country & decide if you really like living under totalitarian before you write off President Trump
ForGods Kingdom Wow, you really have no idea what you're talking about. Then again, your name suggests you're a religious freak which means you have no problem brainwashing yourself into believing anything you're told. You are an obedient mindless drone and your Plutocrat owners would be proud.
The very best ex-President the USA ever had.
chrisbacos nah FDR was better
I said ex-President. Pay attention. FDR died in office.
Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt were better I think. And Abe Lincoln was also great.
chrisbacos settle down chris
George Washington was also a very good president and Thomas Jefferson was that bad either
A great man. A real Liberal. I say this as a Conservative. I remember when he got the hostages released from Iran on his last day in office. The next day Ronnie Reagan was in office and for political reasons, Iran waited until then to give him the credit. He was the only man ever to get Egypt and Issrael to shake hands (Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin). I was young and naive way back then for a few days later Sadat was assassinated in Egypt.
Amazing to me that this country has moved so far to the right since the 1980s that we can look back on Jimmy Carter, a fundamentalist born-again Christian, and call him a liberal.
Nate Berry What happen to America?
Nate Berry...Apparently, there are parts of the Bible in which Jimmy Carter doesn't agree with. For starters, abortions increased under his watch.
Neither the bible nor the Constitution specifically mention abortion.
Nothing like a liberal. He started all the deregulation (Trucking, Civil Aeronautics Board) which led to the wealth inequality he's decrying here, he refused to back the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment legislation, he ran on cutting the bloated Viet Nam-era defense budget then turned around and *increased* military spending every year he was in office (and bragged about it at the 1980 convention!) and he politicized the Iran crisis to fight off Ted Kennedy's challenge. Yes, Reagan committed treason by negotiating with the Iranians behind Carter's back (like Nixon with North Viet Nam), but I have trouble having much sympathy for Jimbo; it was karma coming home to roost.
A decent human being, which is more than you can say about any of the psychopaths (of either party) who have followed him in the job. But a liberal? Not on your life.
It's genuinely rare to find any person with such a high profile history who has no scandal attached......not even fabricated by his own constituents. Consider the number of times he's had an undeniably positive impact in negotiations on an international level. This is an indicator, if none other can be drawn, that his integrity is recognized and appreciated through the eyes of so many of the world's most powerful leaders, many of whom have rather hardcore disdain and mistrust for the nation he represented. What he IS had evidently transcended all that.
I think one word that could encapsulate his principles, ethics, intentions, and generally innate character is "serenity". Another would be "statesman", and yet another observation reveals this is a man whose spirituality transcends any religion......."authentic".
I found this quote on the Google page with links to his biography:
"We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children"
and one more remarkably insightful quote devoid of prejudice and supremacist attitude:
"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."
good video, first visit to your channel.
Jimmy Carter a honest President
if you like comsimps!
yes sir
the last honest president
If you believe licking the boots of terrorists and mass murderers constitutes honesty.
If you're talking about the Iranian hostage situation, what few people realize that it that Jimmy is the one Carter who actually did all the ground work for the hostage release. Regan and his administration did nothing, and didn't need to do anything because it was already done. The Iranian's hated Jimmy Carter because Carter froze their assets and did a bunch of other stuff that they had no control over. The Iranians were left with no choice but to release the hostages by the time Carter got done with them. The kicker is that they waited until Regan got sworn to office (within minutes) just to piss off Carter and his Administration. It was a childish political move by the Iranian's and the only way they had of getting back at Carter.
Jimmy Carter handled all the legal work and the negotiations for the release. Regan did some great things for the country but he didn't get the hostages released. He only got to take the credit for a years worth of work by the Carter Administration because the Iranian''s, who were infuriated with Carter after Carter spanked them, knew that Regan would get the credit and they had no other way to screw Carter.
Jimmy Carter is the best. He'd have my vote!
You'd vote for a 92 year old? If he wins the next election, he would be 96 years old. Presidents shouldn't be at the age where they would die in office.
I'd take him and a good VP over trump anyday
Yeah, but wouldn't you rather have someone younger?
kiz epic journey I'm not sure whether you don't remember that he can't run for president since he was the president at one point or if you're just asking if someone would vote for a 90 year old.
Luxus Carnage He can run for president again. He had one term and the max amount of terms presidents can have is 2.
Man of incorruptible integrity. TRUISM INTERNATIONAL
the weird thing to me is that there are people who thinks all Carter said is wrong... I don't mean rich people who benefits by tax breaks and such kind of laws, but poor people who would benefit by policies to benefit them...
wow this carter guy nailed it, why doesnt he run for president?
Fake because he was the president
thatsthejoke
Fake nice Little Fighter 2 profile picture. Davis was the shit.
Fake LOL
I have always thought that the economic failing of the middle class has to do with the disappearance of well-paid jobs over the last fifty years. We no longer have people manning assembly lines, and in America we no longer have a lot of assembly lines, _period_, The guy who used to work in the Motorola plant at five times minimum wage, is now the guy trimming hedges for 1/3 of the pay at the Motorola plant. Trump can't solve that problem, and neither can Bernie.
That's kind of it but I don't think you paint the whole picture. Fifteen or twenty years ago the proclamation was that the good, middle class jobs were going to be in the area of computers, software, etc. That may have been true but those jobs require a decent level of intellect. The ordinary, lunch pail-carrying joe can tighten bolts on an assembly line, but he can't do something like computer graphics. Obama could see the problem and he could not figure out an answer, let alone implement an answer. Neither Trump, nor Bernie, has the solution.
Obama did a town meeting near the end of his presidency where he stated that no politician should promise that they would bring manufacturing jobs back to America. Reason #1, many of those jobs cease to exist not just in America, but anywhere. #2, the commodity of labor, just like every other commodity, is subject to global economics and global economics.
So how come these ideas work in countries like Norway - over one trillion dollar surplus which is held in national wealth fund owned by all citizens (the USA is slowly pushing 20 trillion in debt, even higher in per capita terms).
Norway has free and great health care, free universities. Much higher incomes than in US (and much higher GDP per capita than the US), it is one of the most equal societies, frequently called society where "everyone" is middle class (and most people have higher education). I've been to most of the "socialist" democracies (with true free market for privately held companies and true democracy, not pseudo fake capitalism like in the US and even more fake corporocracy). Want to see countries with politics like Bernie's, look to Switzerland, Norway other Nordic countries etc.
And isn't the US now the biggest oil producer? The US spend hundreds of billions of dollars on military (per year!), despite no country would dare attack a nuclear state. Why? Because it's good business, imagine the US spent the money like Norway
+John S I think you would have to look at a "wealth per citizen" index. I think you would find that there is simply more dollars, or Euros, per person in Norway than there is in the United States. Also, there is a philosophy in America that persons should be able to succeed magnificently, or fail miserably. This goes for everything from economic success, to playground sporting events.
The U.S. probably spends too much of the military however it is pure folly to believe that no one would attack a government with nuclear weapons. For 70 years there has been this justified belief that the use of nuclear weapons is all but unheard of.
The Trickle Down theory is pretty silly. It actually works in some ways but there is really no good reason why the middle man (or more accurately, the wealthy man) should not be eliminated and tax credits go to the middle class and poor. As for the 25 million, I'm not sure where the rest of the millions would go. And many people would be many millions beyond the 25 million. It would seemingly solve a lot of economic woes but the government has a habit of spending more than they take in.
He saw all this coming while he was still in office. He gave a great speech on it towards the end of his presidency. Everything he did was not perfect but he is a genuine human who tried to do best for average Americans. Since he left and Reagan took over America has went down hill since
Something is very out of whack even though there is probably 7 times more people in the USA today than 40 years ago. The thoughts of Mr Carter shows he cares about something when others seem not to.
That would put the U.S. population in the billions lol.
Remember when Christians were like Jimmy Carter?
William Faulkner no
I love Carter so much. He just seems like a great guy. A kindly old man I want to hug and just talk about shit with.
Kass Davis I always remember my mum saying he was the only president she ever liked or could believe,and she was born in 1940,and not even American!
+Ian Leishman
Your mum has good sense. That is borne out by the facts.
Carter is living proof that the south isn't a complete dingy backwards religious theocracy in the making. He was proof that even a man or woman of faith could govern for everyone across the land and do what was right. This is a reason I don't like generalizing all southerners, amongst the crazy trailer park, Bible Belt theocrats and Honey Boo Boos there is potential in finding people that actually care for the well being of all citizens. My dad himself an avowed atheist hated every president in the U.S besides Jimmy.
+Kass Davis From my observations, I think this is a more accurate description of Carter (to paraphrase Sting):
he can be kind,
he can be cruel,
he's got me guessing like a game show fool
:)
But he supports/advocates for terrorists like Hamas, so he either has been bought or has some other ethics issues. Admittedly, he, like anyone could, makes a good point about income disparity, esp with globalization.
citizens united is really one of the worst things ever passed.
Jimmy Carter for president! That young Sanders fellow could be his running mate.
Sanders will probably be dead by the next election cycle. He is a dinosaur.
Seriously? How old do you think Jimmy Carter is?
Carter is 92 and had several cancer treatments. Thankfully he is fine. Carter is a great man but Sanders is a bum who never worked a day in his life.
aeroAdvocate well if he were dead he would still do a better job than Trump.
He was President. He told the truth, and we disliked the truth so much, we did not re-elect him.
We did however re-elect another Democrat that commited adultery right IN the Oval Office.
Jimmy Carter is the best ex-POTUS in history.
The most human, compassionate and selfless of all of them.
Thunder029 ...A very kind words from a kind Man !!
Thunder029 Jimmy was a poor indecisive man as President, and is principally responsible for the message in the middle East toda
He, like President Obama was one of the best.
Free Speech both men we're Historically bad presidents
Jimmy gave us the Iranian hostages.
Citizen United ruling is just awful. The incarceration rate (privatized prison system) is just awful.
The privatized military means perpetual war that never ends.
Privatized military? What a moron. I can understand why you like carter.
The profits have been privatized, and the permawars have become a matter of profit. And no, it's unlikely you would understand why anyone would respect a man of integrity like Carter.
Bill Clinton didn't veto and Hillary stumped for the 1994 Crime Bill that gave rise to that 6 in 1000 rise in the incarcerated...
Electoral finance is ruining democracy. Many countries are addressing the problem. In Canada unions and corporations have been banned from making contributions. Individuals have a $1550 limit.
Spot on Carter! sick of all the corruption!!!
Linda Schumacher him and his party are the problem
Linda Schumacher 6
hillary for prison
I'm no socialist or millennial crybaby, but Jimmy Carter is a great human being.
Millennial cry baby? I say we younger folks are taking it like a bunch of idiot apathetic morons quietly playing our idiot video games and touring and too busy working until the entire thing comes crashing down as it will. And in our life times... next crash 2019-20. Maybe the ultimate one.
Who says you have to be any of those to like Jimmy Carter? And since when are millennials anything of those stereotypes? I'm not even a millenial and I don't believe that.
Jo Penny...Jimmy Carter seems like a likable fellow all right. But all I'm saying to you is check out USA history during that time. Jimmy Carter never met an enemy of the US that he didn't like. There was a misery index used to describe the state of economic affairs under his watch. Communism was spreading. Iran held our citizens for 444 days. The unemployment rate was horrific. We were laughingstocks around the world. No one took the weak President Carter seriously.
right i mister president wake up we could loss everything with this uneducated parrot that's in the Whitehouse now,we are tearing democracy up with Putin and his oligarchs running our country and we are so divided now that we risk a civil war which is precisely what they want while the man who should be protected our rights just wants more cash , the meeting in Helsinki was so weak that you could see. the greet in Putin's eyes.----Pearce.....😷
For a guy that's 92 years old, Carter is in great shape and still sharp.
bullshit he's mush
And for surviving a lethal brain cancer due to new immunotherapy on Keytruda.
abcnews.go.com/Health/remarkable-cancer-treatment-helped-jimmy-carter-combat-brain/story?id=37467459
The man was NEVER sharp. He lived in his own dream world that was an insult to his country and his office. He never met a third-world dictator he didn't like. He was a vacillating, unsure man even when young. He has the nerve to judge Trump (anyone else for that matter) when his presidency was very possibly the worst of all time.
How? Where? When?
Booragg, Carter was genuine and honest. He had a positive agenda for America. He was the first to see how bad our dependence on oil was hurting us and saw a future without fossil fuels. He saw that education is paramount and instituted the Dept. of Education. An office the Republicans have tried to destroy since it's inception. His "love of dictators" was actually one of the only real attempts for peace in the middle east, naive as it was. I think most people that think Carter was boring or a "do nothing President" is because, just like Obama, he never had a single scandal.
Power need to be taken away from billionaires class which control the three branches of government and give it back to the people.
really? and a poor will be able to lead ? A poor will have the only purpose to get reach when he/she reaches the pinnacles of power. You are just a dupe
Vote Democrat, particular for a Progressive Democrat such as Bernie Sanders if you want to take power away from the billionaires and give it back to the majority --- the average folks.
true he didn't get much money but i can tell you in good conscience it wasn't for lack of trying just lack of competence
ahahhaha You're delusional if you think by expanding the government, They are going to give money back to people lol
Grand Wonder #Walkaway
I love President Carter. One of the best men to ever live in the White House.
If more Christians were like Jimmy Carter more people would want to be a Christian. God bless Jimmy Carter.
jimmy carter dropping truth bombs
More like Jimmy Carter Droppings.
Jimmy Carter stood his ground and refused to negotiate with terrorists,it tore him up the failed rescue attempt of Americans in Iran the pain is still apparent in his eyes,Mr President,it was a lose/lose situation and as a patriotic American you went to bring them home you honor us as a nation
I fell asleep in his museum when I was in middle school, and he was in the back (the entire class did though, they had been running us around DC for a week, then put us in a dark room with a documentary that talked a lot about peanuts....)
Jimmy Carter is an amazing man and the most underrated president in history.
I like the part where Carter confirmed that there are 7 more people in jail per 1000 people than when he left office. This statistic is very important because a lot of Americans try to say that the USA is better because crime statistics have gone down. Although this is almost certainly true, this "increased safety" is actually artificial because you have 7 times more people per capita in prison. And the crime statistics haven't gone down 7 times. So the potential for crime has actually greatly increased.
In short, we don't really live in a safe society if so many people are in prison. It's simply putting the problem under the rug.
chamboyette853, I think when people talk about crime going down they're comparing it today to the 90s
Your calculations are wrong. 7 more people in jail per 1000 does not mean 7 times as many people in jail. How could you commit such a fundamental error? For example, if it used to be that 21 people per 1000 were in jail, and now it is 28, the increase would be 33%, not 700%.
Not only that, but your conclusions are bizarre. The increased safety isn't "artificial" at all. Criminals BELONG IN PRISON. IN PRISON, they CAN'T ROB PEOPLE.
This is not "putting the problem under the rug." It is PUTTING THE CROOKS WHERE THEY BELONG.
+JimInNashville if you listen closely at 2:25 you will hear Mr Carter clearly state "for example, when I left the White house, 1 in 1000 were in prison, now it's 7 in 1000"
I don't know where you learned your arithmetic, but an increase from 1 in 1000 to 7 in 1000 IS actually a 700% increase!
+Gert Brink Nielsen. Gert, thanks for pointing out that Carter said that. Now, let me give you a lesson in arithmetic.
First of all, if Carter was giving the correct numbers, you are wrong. An increase from 1 in 1000 to 7 in 1000 is a 600% increase, not 700%. (Think about it. A change from 1 to 2 would be a 100% increase. The increase would be 1, which is 100% of the original amount.)
Moreover, as usual, Carter seems to have his facts wrong in his typical self-aggrandizement. The total incarceration rate including jail and prison is currently almost exactly 7 in 1000, but in 1980 it was not 1 in 1000, it was about 2.2. So the increase has been 4.8, which is a 218% increase. (The change of 4.8 is 2.18 times the original value of 2.2).
Regardless of what you thought of his presidency Jimmy Carter is a very smart man.
He was just an idiot who financed and armed religious zealots in Afghanistan from 1979 onwards-Operation Cyclone. This led to 9-11 and the terrorism of today.
Carter was sure as hell a lot smarter than RR. Carter graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis with distinction. Anyone who says that Carter's not smart is only revealing their own ineptitude.
Iran Contra was a RR/North production. I guess some people have selective memories.
As you demonstrate.
A misstatement...you fool., you should be so lucky at his age to be as on the ball as he is. Don't worry, in your lifetime when Trump and his cohorts in congress get done with their "tax reform" you'll be even poorer and dumber.
greatest president of my lifetime, and i was born in 1962. I've been fortunate enough to have met and shaken his hand 3 times. you may not like him, based solely on a belief of obfuscation and deception, but that i lay on you. you still have a choice, even if its only for another decade or so.....
May you live on great man
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Well said Jimmy!
Ever heard of the misery index, a phrase coined in Carter's term, double digit inflation, interest rates and unemployment.
Misery Index is a dope band, sad concept tho :-[
Can we elect him for a second term? This is a man with integrity here.
maybe his grand son
we could if we can get the Electoral College abolished, and if the elections weren't fixed
Well, we could, but he'd try to work for the common person, so just about all the regular politicians will knife him in the back, just like they did at the end of the '70's.
Electoral college, plus, in nearly every other nation in the planet, voting day is Sunday, not a freaking Tuesday. Hillary Clinton had it right there.
HRC didn't come up with the idea of Sunday elections or elections as a holiday or rank choice voting.
Please stop giving credit to politicians when they piss on an idea and call it theirs... like the solar paneled border wall.
I saw FB memes on that in June 2016
Carter was a good president, he was honest and trustworthy and there were a lot of people that didn't like him, but that was their problem, everyone makes mistakes, and there's no one that is right about everything. Carter at his age still has a brilliant man, even after his bout with brain cancer. He still works to help people in need. He is a great man and an even better human being. The world needs more people like Jimmy Carter.
jimmy carter's legacy will be his humanity. he didn't just talk the talk. this man has walked the walk. the work he's done for and with working-class poor people all over the world speaks for itself. i'm quite proud he was once our president.
The most under-rated president. BTW, he looks and sounds great for 92.
Yes, if you enjoy 18% interest rates and the Iranians holding 40+ Americans hostage for over a year. Carter was a moron as POTUS.
why not he came from rich parents
also a veteran.
Amd one of the worst Presidents ever!
he was a nice guy but not very effective at leading
Sad the media is not covering what Jimmy Carter is saying
Go to McDowell county, one of the poorest in the nation, and you'll find hundreds of impoverished and/or unemployed people supporting Trump because they feel the establishment ignored them.
What possessed those poor people feeling cheated to vote for Trump? Now they are even more cheated.
I think everyone can agree that Carter is the MAN.
did u just assume his gender, bigot?
Only 2 Genders Evidence for only two genders. Not counter culture pseudoscience.
He was the man, but now he's just a man.
Nevertheless. less, a good man.
He was a terrible president
How old is Jimmy Carter? Still sharp as a tack. Peanuts must be brain food. He and Bernie should run. I don't care about age. These guys are patriotic, honest and thoughtful. I'd say "How in the world did we get here from there?" but Jimmy Carter just explained it succinctly.
Bernie honeymooned in the USSR, and, mentally, never came back. If you want a good idea where Bernie's politics would leave us, check out VENEZUELA.
eedleate He's 92.
Bernie's ideas are more like Norway - over one trillion dollar surplus which is held in national wealth fund owned by all citizens (the USA is slowly pushing 20 trillion in debt, even higher in per capita terms).
Norway has free and great health care, free universities. Much higher incomes than in US (and much higher GDP per capita than the US), it is one of the most equal societies, frequently called society where "everyone" is middle class (and most people have higher education). I've been to most of the "socialist" democracies (with true free market for privately held companies and true democracy, not pseudo fake capitalism like in the US and even more fake corporocracy). Want to see countries with politics like Bernie's, look to Switzerland, Norway other Nordic countries etc.
Yes John S, when America wages WAR every other year costing us Trillions of Dollars, what do the citizens of America think is the problem?
he is so smart and loving
Ashley Matthews he lusted in his peanut sized heart lol
Say what you will about Carter's years in the White House, he became more than a president in life.
With all that he has done for all of humanity, he's one of the few remaining American elder statesmen or stateswomen honored by most of the world.
Not bad for the state of America these days and what the others are thinking of us.
Jimmy Carter is my favorite president. True good natured President, decent man, true Christian all American. He wasn't always right, but his heart was ALWAYS in the right place.
George Washington, John Adams. Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were my favorite founders.
Carter is the most honorable president of my lifetime, with the possible exception of Truman. Reagan, Dubya and the orange menace to humanity join Harding, Coolidge and Nixon as the worst in the past 100 years.
Carter is right on the money! The burning question is why do folks elect people to office who have agendas that are not in their own best interest? It certainly is not that they are stupid, but many have not had the educational opportunity that other rich folk have. (You bet, it's EVERYTHING about income inequality!) I'll bet dollars to donuts that anyone with a poverty stricken background is equally as smart as those others who can afford a university education, in fact I KNOW that coming from a poverty stricken background myself.
Without education people are immediately disadvantaged. They haven't gained the necessary critical thinking skills to question things, additionally to demand proof of dubious claims made by many politicians. Question everything! And do not depend on others to do that work for you. Because if you do you, will never be able to trust your own instincts/decisions because you will be relying on others telling you what you should think, NOT what you have discovered for yourself!
People are being taught stupidity by television and commentators. It's not just uneducated people who are victims. There are plenty of educated, used-to-be intelligent people who are believing TV nonsense and talking crazy.
agree on education, however I believe to add to your comment about people who are not critical thinkers: we have an entire generation who does not ask questions for themselves but go along with the next guy, to be politically correct, without any critical thinking at all~
Ole Nielson Kinda like the NFL players, who are so poorly educated that they believe the mainstream media news channels? The Orwellian groupthink of Americans who buy into the lies of the Demoncrat party owned msm?
Ace criminals Hillary and Debbie did it for me.
Almost everyone in the USA are poorly educated and believe TV news stories. Probably China's General Electric and the other giant corporations dictate what is on TV. The Republican and Democrats are pretty much both on the same side and are for the same things, they just tell different lies.
Americans to Jimmy Carter after he leaves office:
*Perhaps I treated you too harshly*
I keep hearing that the American democracy is dying, look around you're at the funeral, Trump is giving the eulogy.
Carter = best post-presidency
Bad POTUS, but he handled his time after being president very well. Sometimes good people make horrible presidents.
Global Warming Skeptic no thats not true. he was on social issues and foreign policy one of the best presidents.
jimmy carter had solar panels put on the roof of the white house,evil,,,,reagon took them down,,
Global Warming Skeptic
last President who did not get us into Bullshit foriegn war.
Maybe, but he was a tool of the Trilateral Commission during his presidency.
you had me at "jimmy carter did an event with bernie Sanders." 😍😍
Eddie Woestman Hillary Clinton is a smart experienced politician. She is anything but a "robot." And Trump is anything but "for ordinary people." How sad he fooled so many. I think the only one who isn't like all the others is Bernie. I can see people voting for him over Hillary. But fucking A. Voting for a confessed child ogler and con artist just to keep Hillary out? I learned from this--Christians are not more moral than everyone else. They are less moral. Trump could rape a girl on live TV and they would just call it "god's will."
how true... the world is siCk
Idk I'm Christian and I'd like to think I have morals. When I looked at Hillary and her past I couldn't vote for her.
Mark Stinson If you voted for Trump you are everything but a Christian.
But you could vote for Trump? I'm sorry, but when I see Hillary I see a career politician, who tells the normal amount of lies every politician tells. The rest of the bullshit made up about her is bullshit, and it's easy to learn this simply by researching. Trump is disgusting. He is a career criminal who bragged about using and hurting people. Now in his old age he's not only a sociopath and narcisist, he's got some form of dementia too. So I guess I can thank people like you for the fact my country and human rights and our protections for older people and poor people and our environment are crumbling before my eyes. I can thank you for the fact we have a traitor in the WH who sees no problem spilling classified news to our enemies and insulting the leaders of other countries. Great. By the way, I'm an atheist and I like to think I have morals, too. What does being a Christian have to do with anything? Most serial kiillers have been Christian. The monsters destroying my country right now profess to be Christians while they look for ways to take money from the poor and give to the rich and lie through their teeth. In my view saying "I am Christian" but despite this I have morals" would be a more accurate sentence.
Jimmy Carter in his nineties: delivers well-thought and articulate answers in interviews
George H W Bush in his nineties:
Amen Brother
You are a blessing to the world and our country and what a great example of a man and one who believes that God is real
Thank you Mr. President
Jimmy Carter, one of a few actual decent human beings to assume the Oval Office
Jimmy Carter is as decent a man as Trump is as crooked!
A "decent human being" who backs Hamas, is a rampant anti-Semite, and who
got us 18 PERCENT MORTGAGE RATES.
got us MASSIVE INFLATION.
SOLD OUT SMALL FARMERS.
LET THE AYATOLLAHS ATTACK THE AMERICAN EMBASSY.
You are completely delusional Carter was was/is second only to Obama in being the WORST President in History! Lying Scum bag Called himself a Nuke Sub Captain, He left as a LT and Never Qualified for the Nuke program!
Yes he is an anti-Semite all he does promotes it! Always has Since before he was President!
Only him negotiating with Hamas and the Palestinian authority, without consent of the US or of Israel! Condemning Israel every chance he gets and supporting anti-semetic organizations!
always loved carter,being from Georgia I am proud to say he was a President with a REAL CONSCIOUS
He was ahead of his time, if only he was young enough to be President now, we could really do with him in the U.S & U.K.
Wow, Jimmy Carter is the ex-pres of the US that I know of. What a gentleman and very insightful. You can tell he understands and is in touch with the reality of families and the people.
An incredibly cognizant man who puts so many of his peers to shame.
Completely fake human being! Claimed during his election to be a Nuke sub Captain, He left the Navy as an Lt and never made it into the Nuke program! etc...............
Carter was so Horrible I just can not believe any clear thinking American would not know that.
That's entirely incorrect. Fake news.
Based on what, exactly?
Irrespective of what you think of the man or his past history, it does not invalidate his observations.
Damn, watching Jimmy Carter makes me sad sometimes. He is and was so brilliant, and could have been seen as one of the great Presidents, if given the chance. Hopefully we can learn something from him.
he was cursed to be President during a very trying time.
Sorry, but the philosophy of "wear another sweater,", and drive 55 on the Interstate, didn't exactly endear him to most Americans. A sourpuss, moralizing loser.
He is a fine man. I feel sorry for you, Erik K, that you would call him a "loser" only because you disagree with him politically. There are plenty of politicians who I disagree with but still respect.
Our current president is not one of them.
You're a classic example of why people can't find common ground anymore.
+randman21
Former Presidents, unconstrained by the office, are able to do more good out of office than in; and Carter has, over his entire lifetime, been the only chief executive to actually demonstrate this. Nixon hid with his head up his ass for 30+ years, Reagan got even more feeble-minded, Bush paints bad pictures, and Clinton does, well, whatever it is he does. Time will tell how Obama uses his time. We know what _The Donald_ will do.
Yeah, how to cause 15% interest rates and the worst economy (aside from Bush/Obama) in my 70 year lifetime. BTW, Carter is a serious racist and anti Semite.
I've thought the same for awhile. Obama ran on the same idea, change. Change in Washington, change in anything. People were/are frustrated with the obvious nonsense and corruption. I can almost guarantee that in 2020 the candidate who wins it all will be the one with the strongest message of change or someone akin to change.
You're comparing Nuclear Engineer, Business Owner, Naval Officer Jimmy Carter to....career politician, never done anything but talk Bernie Sanders? Seriously?
Jimmy Carter is an amazing man. His insight is right on the money, literally!
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His insight balanced the budget, that Reagan took credit for. Carter told us the cold hard truth on how to become strong and independant through saving and taxes, which we disliked so much, we did not re-elect him. We haven't balanced the budget since...
This man who used to be President has been so maligned by the Republican/Conservative movement that it is down right disgusting! He speaks with integrity and thoughtfulness unlike what we have in office today.
Michael DiSalvio
Where was your love for Carter when he needed it, in 1980? Ted Kennedy had to be talked out of challenging him at the convention just to win the Dems nomination that year. Kennedy tried to flip the switch to "off" because he saw Carter being belt fed into the Reagan buzzsaw that year.
Roky Erickson rocksWell being 6 at the time I was probably playing Combat or Asteroids on the Atari 2600.
Michael DiSalvio
So you had a six year old's understanding of Carters presidency and yet heap scorn on the GOP for their negative assessment of Carter. Here's a better idea : research it on your own. Stop using biased sources, they'll teach you nothing.
Huh? What the hell are you talking about? You asked me where I was at when Cater needed "love" in 1980. Well, I answered you dummy...I was fuckin six! I am not six at the present time so I believe I fully understand how Carter's presidency has been maligned by the right as a complete failure and my point was that it is not fully justified. Carter is a man of intelligence and heart who I believe truly cares for this country and it's people. What's laughable is that you are offering advice when you obviously have a logic issue bumbling around in that mushy skull of yours.
To be fair, I remember as kid (when I lived in the states briefly in the early 90s) people on all sides, left and right, would commonly refer to Carter as a loser.
He smiles when ever he says something dire. Very speculative
A completely underrated and berated president. He didn't bomb a single country during his presidency, tried to implement green technology, expressed concern for our planet, and wanted the metric system. A genuinely kind-hearted person with a high intellect. Had we listened to him instead of warmongers, world would be better off.
Bernie was the most anti establishment candidate but the dnc kept him down and rolled out the red carpet for trump.
I am astonished at how incredibly sharp President Carter's mind is at 92 years old. He is as capable of being President today as he was in 1977.
I can honestly say that Jimmy Carter is a hero. I have appreciated his commitment to the dignity of people, alleviating suffering and his clear vision as to what is needed to better the world. He was also tough as nails, even though many dispelled them as a wimp because he let right triumph over might. He didn’t do the political thing of running huge deficits or throwing the flag at everything to make his administration appear greater than it was, unlike Reagan did. Carter will likely be much better appreciated by History than many of his contemporaries. God bless this man.
Sharp as a razor. Great statesman.
sharp as a butter knife
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Jimmy Carter is a true patriot.....
oh.... no question about that... but he also said the issue involved inequality between countries as well.... at the beginning... and he has been seen in places such as northern Thailand.... building houses... as well as many other overseas places... ut that doesn't mean he ain't a patriot.. does it? but some folks would look at that way, I guess. it seems.
means he wrote it off on his profits he made on peanuts and got free travel , his parent multi millionaires
THAT was Carter's problem. He was an American President whose main focus was his country's guilt, and any way he could make that right. He was too damn busy worrying about third-world dictators, to actually serve the interests of his own country. He was a con man from the beginning- a solid Left-Wing nut case posing as a moderate. You take care of Thailand AFTER you are out of office. Your own country comes first.
"Jimmy Carter is a true patriot...."
Boy, he sure nailed that "this energy crisis is real!!" thing.
You represent everything about the Neo-right that makes me want to puke.
This brilliant man lost to Ronald Reagan. It's unbelievable! That was the beginning of all the mediocre presidents who followed.
I didn't feel Jimmy Carter was not a good president. But He is a very good person.He has done so much for the poor and I think He is the most moral president in my 65 years.
Jimmy Carter is a Real-Life Hero.
(Janelle)
If we want to oppose wealth inequality then citizen's need to massively buy small shares of various corps and never sign away the voting proxies. Use the votes to change the companies. It was share holders that forced Uber's CEO out with their voting ability.
I have absolutely no problem with ' wealth inequality ' because it means that there is economic opportunity for new ideas, bright entrepreneurs, and for those who want to pursue opportunity. The very worst situation, imo, is equality of misery.
The congress should be blamed for not allowing him do his job during the presidency. God bless this amazing man who is a blessing to humanity
In terms of the character themselves, out of all presidents Jimmy Carter is the best by a mile and a half. What I would kill for a carter today.
Jimmy Carter...great president, great man. The world is a better place with him in it. Will be sad when he passes on
I saw Carter on TV in a hardhat (if memory serves) when he was running. I'm usually not into that kind of political visual (glad handing, kissing babies), but my immediate impression of him, was, here's a decent man and decided right then and there I would vote for him. Hadn't even heard him speak. My gut has never, ever failed me, ever. I was right. He was and is a decent man.
I have been a lifelong Dem, and I am old enough to have voted for this gentleman, twice.
I now live in a red state, and I know many Trump voters. Most of them are skilled laborers, like electricians. They are not formally educated, but for the most part they are far from stupid. In fact I have found it much easier to have a cogent conversation with an intelligent workman than with most of my intellectual friends, for two reasons. First, working people live in reality, and second, they don't feel that they already know everything.
Not one Trump voter of my acquaintance has ever expressed any of the sentiments put forth in this speech. People voted for Trump because of concern over immigration, jobs, creeping PC, identity politics, and a few other core issues. I have never heard a single Trump voter (and I hesitate to call them "Trump supporters" because most of them consider him a jackass and an embarrassment) express any interest in income inequality.
In fact it would be very strange if they did so. Reducing income inequality is a Democratic staple. Voting Trump in the hope of leveling incomes would be a little like voting Trump because you are concerned about global warming.
So here we have another Democrat who doesn't have enough concern or curiosity to go down to the diner and talk to a few Trumpers and ask what they actually think.
The Democrats ceased to be the party the poor and the working class a long time ago, and everyone knows it but them.
And that is one reason why I, lifelong Democrat, held my nose and voted for Donald Trump.
He is describing the crumbling of the Empire since he left the Presidency. Many Americans didn't understand President Carter when he was in office. That was because he was more intelligent than they were. He cared about the American people and people in general.