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TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts) Thu Aug 20, 2015, 10:45 PM Aug 2015

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An NPR piece on Jimmy Carter closed with... [View all]

"He's planning his next adventure." Throughout the interview, Carter was lucid, calm, and entirely aware that this was natural end of a 90 year life well lived.

He may not have been our greatest President, but he may have been the greatest man to have been President.

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An NPR piece on Jimmy Carter closed with... [View all] TreasonousBastard Aug 2015 OP

Amen!!! oldandhappy Aug 2015 #1

KnR. Well said. nt tblue37 Aug 2015 #2

K&R. JDPriestly Aug 2015 #3

Very true. brer cat Aug 2015 #4

"...he may have been the greatest man MissDeeds Aug 2015 #5

Well put. hedgehog Aug 2015 #8

Well said. K&R. Carter is a truly great man. PatrickforO Aug 2015 #6

A class act all the way. Who has walked the walk. LuckyLib Aug 2015 #7

The man isn't dead yet. Fearless Aug 2015 #9

Thank you ashling Aug 2015 #10

Not dead yet. He feels happy! He feels fine! Lucky Luciano Aug 2015 #34

True, I wish him the best! DawgHouse Aug 2015 #45

Thank you. cwydro Aug 2015 #66

Right! What a life! And he's still living it. n/t SusanaMontana41 Aug 2015 #70

I very much agree. Ed Suspicious Aug 2015 #11

I was a Kennedy '80 Democrat and... MarianJack Aug 2015 #12

I'm not giving up on Jimmy Carter.. mountain grammy Aug 2015 #13

kick glinda Aug 2015 #14

He may not have been our greatest President, but he may have been the greatest man to have been Pres raindaddy Aug 2015 #15

A great president KT2000 Aug 2015 #16

Agree with you. Worried senior Aug 2015 #46

Death is in all of our futures loyalsister Aug 2015 #17

The ultimate philosophical truth is that everything that lives malaise Aug 2015 #23

he will do so much more in the time he has left than many people would do in their life time JI7 Aug 2015 #18

+1 merrily Aug 2015 #38

This Tommymac Aug 2015 #19

I'm going to cry like a baby when that man is gone. sufrommich Aug 2015 #20

I'm with you on this -- all the way AikidoSoul Aug 2015 #63

Certainly he is the most decent man to have been president. sarge43 Aug 2015 #21

He is an honorable man etherealtruth Aug 2015 #22

To quote Friedrich Nietzsche - TBF Aug 2015 #24

Aaaayyhhh. You're making my eyes water. mmonk Aug 2015 #25

Contrary to popular righty belief, he was a pretty damn good President. Sure beats Reagan. IHateTheGOP Aug 2015 #26

Like others posting here, I say with pride that my first and second time to vote Grammy23 Aug 2015 #27

My first vote at age 18 IDemo Aug 2015 #28

my first vote also nt steve2470 Aug 2015 #30

+100%! Enthusiast Aug 2015 #31

Yes. LWolf Aug 2015 #36

Mine too. redwitch Aug 2015 #75

Same for me. hifiguy Aug 2015 #55

mine too, i pulled the lever for him when I was 18 etherealtruth Aug 2015 #57

"He may not have been our greatest President....." merrily Aug 2015 #29

NPR. Enthusiast Aug 2015 #32

No one ever credits him for not going to war over the hostages, despite goading from many quarters. merrily Aug 2015 #33

Not to mention that he probably would have got the hostages released if he hadn't been A Simple Game Aug 2015 #39

Yep. Release occurred very shortly after the inauguration of St. Ronnie. merrily Aug 2015 #40

And not surprisingly there was a Bush "allegedly" in the background or in this case Paris. n/t A Simple Game Aug 2015 #42

I did not know that. merrily Aug 2015 #44

I would bet that it didn't surprise you. Yet another period in time that the A Simple Game Aug 2015 #65

Nazi filth.... Enthusiast Aug 2015 #48

GHW Bush and William Casey were the ones who cut the deal hifiguy Aug 2015 #56

that very evening, if I recall correctly. niyad Aug 2015 #73

I am so with you on that. Enthusiast Aug 2015 #47

That wasn't NPR, that was me. Get it straight. TreasonousBastard Aug 2015 #51

Carter gets a bum rap from many folks markpkessinger Aug 2015 #68

I don't see the Democratic Party as many do. merrily Aug 2015 #76

Yes. LWolf Aug 2015 #35

He talked as straight as Bernie. merrily Aug 2015 #41

This is making me awfully sad. nt Stellar Aug 2015 #37

90 years old, brilliant, kind, and brave. DirkGently Aug 2015 #43

What a beautiful sentiment. aquamarina Aug 2015 #49

True enough. Xyzse Aug 2015 #50

President Carter is truly a great man Gothmog Aug 2015 #52

agreed, 100%. magical thyme Aug 2015 #53

His calm, composed demeanor hifiguy Aug 2015 #54

May his cancer be healed Liberal_in_LA Aug 2015 #58

And it's not even close. lark Aug 2015 #59

We shall see... he might make it out yet... JCMach1 Aug 2015 #60

You said it very well AikidoSoul Aug 2015 #61

"a 90 year life well lived" -- beautifully said, beautifully. aikoaiko Aug 2015 #62

He is still my favorite president of my lifetime. blackspade Aug 2015 #64

By no means did he acknowledge this as the "natural end of a life well lived" . . . markpkessinger Aug 2015 #67

he will be alright.. he knows where he is going...n/t secondwind Aug 2015 #69

I say he was a great president The Jungle 1 Aug 2015 #71

In my lifetime, there have been three great presidents and one good president. Unknown Beatle Aug 2015 #72

i concur. hifiguy Aug 2015 #74