***Happy Birthday, President Carter!***

[racaulk]

Please take a momentary break from your discussions of polls, debates, and bailouts to show this superb statesman some DU love. He turned 84 today.

:party:


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[Kutjara]

1. The most underrated President of modern times.

His legacy grows in stature with every passing year. Carter's only mistake was seeing the future clearly and being too far ahead of his time.

Happy Birthday, Mr. President! May you have many more.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Yes, I agree he is under-rated, but he was a very bad leader.

People wouldn't follow him anywhere.

He told people what they needed to hear, not what they wanted to hear. He had no gift of gab or jawboning talent whatsoever.

Like Hoover, he is a good man, highly intelligent and in the wrong time at the wrong place. Perhaps we shouldn't have engineers as presidents.

[Kutjara]

6. He certainly wasn't a sound-bite politician.

Which is why St. Ronnie walked over him so easily. Carter was all substance and no style while Raygun was the polar opposite.

I've always had a warm spot for Carter, precisely because he was a straight-arrow. He told it like it was, and didn't sugar coat it for public consumption. He treated the American public like adults. Perhaps that was his real mistake.

Maybe because I work in engineering, I find it refreshing to hear someone tell the unvarnished truth, free of spin and ass-covering. Smarmy politicians instantly trigger my BS meter.

[Captain Hilts]

12. I agree. It's funny, my dad was a submarine captain and he and my mother...

voted for Ford in '76 because they didn't like the narrow-minded thinking that Adm. Rickover looked for in his nuke officers. They were not good at improvisation and did not get on well with sailors to the degree other naval officers did.

Those traits got him into trouble as president.

A good man, indeed.

[Oceansaway]

2. wishin ya many more President Carter...n/t

[SidneyCarton]

4. Cheers to President Carter!

One of the most decent men to ever hold that high office. Whatever his mistakes, when shown in the light of those who followed him he proves to be precient, wise and extremely moral.

May our next President have even half of these qualities and we will be well served.

[MsLeopard]

5. Best Wishes President Carter

He was governor of GA when I worked for the state back in the 70s. Then in 2000 I met him at a book signing and told him he once signed my paychecks when he was governor. He took the time to chat with me, asked where I worked in GA, was very pleasant. Just a wonderful human being. Happy Birthday PC!

[SidneyCarton]

10. He beat a distant relative of mine for the Democratic nomination for Governor.

How distant, I don't know, I don't even know his name. All I know is he wanted to appoint my Grandfather to head the Dept. of Corrections if Elected. Grandpa, who lived in CA was not thrilled at the prospect.

[MsLeopard]

27. I'm sure your Grandfather

was a very fine man. Carter put some extraordinary people in positions of power in the state while he was governor. The person who ran the agency I worked for was a political appointee, and was one of the finest men I knew at the time, both professionally and in character. Of course, I was very young then..... :hi:

[Starry Messenger]

7. Happy Birthday, President Carter!

84 wow. And still busy as ever it seems. I hope he has a wonderful day.

[bigscott]

8. many happy returns

to a truth-teller ahead of his time
Peace
S

[Bubbha Jo]

9. I was so proud to have him as my Commander in Chief

when I was serving! He rocks!

[4_Legs_Good]

11. HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRESIDENT CARTER!!!

My favorite living American!

:party:

You make us all proud!

David

[uppityperson]

13. Happy birthday Jimmy!

[blogslut]

14. Libras are cool

Happy Birthday, President Carter. :)

[TuxedoKat]

15. Happy Birthday President Carter!!!

Hope you have many, many more! Thank you for your service to our country and to the world.
God bless you. :)

[xxqqqzme]

16. In 1979, he said

the US could be energy independent by 2000! Think of that. EIGHT years ago - before 9/11 - before either *. Imagine what could have been accomplished, how much stronger the economy would be.

[RubyDuby in GA]

17. I am more than happy to take this moment to tell a man that I greatly admire

that I wish him a very happy birthday and offer my wishes for many more!

Honestly, I love this man - Just ask my son, Carter.

[Lugnut]

18. Happy birthday, President Carter!

:party:

[gademocrat7]

19. Many happy returns President Carter.

You are a very special person.

[madmax]

20. Happy Birthday, Mr. President!!

:applause: :party: :bounce: :woohoo: :applause:

A man ahead of his time. :hug:

[AspenRose]

21. Happy Birthday President Carter!

:party:

[demmiblue]

22. Happy Birthday to a true gentleman!

:party:

[avaistheone1]

23. Happy B- day President Carter, a great president and a great humanitarian.

Think how far ahead this country would be if we had paid attention to what Carter was saying back in the 1970s about alternative energy and energy independence.

President Carter is a man ahead of his time.

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[treestar]

24. Happy Birthday to a great man!

[racaulk]

25. kick

[KathieG]

26. Happy Birthday Mr. President!!!

:patriot::party:

[polichick]

28. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIMMY - keep fighting the good fight!

[codjh9]

29. Favorite prez of my lifetime (I'm 50).... and many more, Jimmuh!

[Cha]

30. Happy Birthday President Carter and

many more happy returns:party:

Same day as my DIL..sweet Libras:*

[noiretextatique]

31. Happy Birthday, President Carter

:hi:

[Ikonoklast]

32. Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

Jimmy, we should have listened to you.

We might not be in the mess we find ourselves in. We would be thirty years ahead with a REAL energy policy in place.

[WI_DEM]

33. Happy Birthday, Mr. President, and many more!

[XOKCowboy]

34. To one of our greatest presidents...

I don't care what anyone says. If we'd implemented his energy strategy we wouldn't be in the mess we are in right now.

[demokatgurrl]

35. The first President I ever voted for...

and one of only TWO that I voted for who actually got inaugurated(SO FAR!)

[RepublicanElephant]

36. happy birthday, mr. president!!!

:party:

[Forkboy]

37. Happy Birthday, Mr Carter!!

:party:

[renate]

38. Happy birthday to someone I admire very much!

:party:

[FrenchieCat]

39. Happy B-Day.....President Carter!

Statesman are difficult to find. You are one in a category of only a few. :patriot:

[secondwind]

40. Happy Birthday, President Carter....thank you for your humanity, for your level-headedness,

and for standing up for people who needed you, even if they were Palestinians.

My entire family admires you, and we feel blessed that you are still with us, and still speaking out for the truth, whether others like it or not.

You are a great humanist, and the world is better for it.

[Faygo Kid]

41. Shares birthday with Julie Andrews, Vladimir Horowitz, Walter Matthau, Richard Harris!

Yay! :headbang:

Also Bonnie Parker, Mark McGwire, William Rehnquist. :eyes:

Can't win 'em all, I guess.

Happy Birthday, Mr. President! Happy Birthday to you.

[mikeargo]

42. Kick...

Here's to many more years

[applegrove]

43. Congrats President Carter!!!

[senseandsensibility]

44. I loved your speech at the 2004 convention, President Carter!

You didn't follow the speak no evil of Republican line, and if others had followed your lead things might have ended differently. Happy Bithday to a great humanitarian.:yourock:

[GetTheRightVote]

45. Happy Birthday President Carter and thank you for Habitat !!!

:party:

[Sebastian Doyle]

46. Happy Birthday to the only President to ever bring any form of peace to the Middle East.

Jimmy was right about that. He was right about energy. He was right about how to be an actual Christian in office, and not just pretend to be. And more recently, he was right about the dangerous direction this country has taken in this decade.

God Bless you James Earl Carter. And many more happy B-days to you!!! :party: :toast: :bounce:

[racaulk]

47. Kick

[aaaaaa5a]

48. REC!

[David Zephyr]

49. Happy Birthday to the man who once put solar panels on the White House!

Jimmy!

[TheKentuckian]

50. Happy Birthday President Carter!

I wish the American people had listened to you. We'd be a hell of a lot better off.

[CitizenLeft]

51. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mr. President!

:loveya:

Best wishes to a great American, and a wonderful First Lady!

[njdemocrat106]

52. One of the most decent men to ever hold the Presidency

Happy birthday, sir.

[LiberadorHugo]

53. Happy Birthday Jimmy Boy...

Too bad you're not spending it in Afghanistan with the millions of women that you and Brezinski condemned to the tyranny of your anti-progressive Mujahideen buddies. Reagan may have been Rambo, but your administration, sadly, wrote the script. You did kick his ass at domestic policy though.

[racaulk]

57. Your shitting on this thread was completely unnecessary.

:thumbsdown:

[Agent William]

54. Horay ,Carter!

Happy birthday Jimmy!

[nam78_two]

55. Happy Birthday

:party:

[harris8]

56. Happy Birthday, President Carter!

We love you, and all you continue to do for the USA!!!

[waiting for hope]

58. Happy Birthday President Carter!

And wishing you many more!

You are one of the Golden Ones -

[slampoet]

59. Happy B-day to my favorite Poet/President.

[Festivito]

60. I hope the whole year is happy. /nt