Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old and had spent roughly 22 months in hospice care.
A good man. Probably too good and wholesome for politics, which is why he was eaten alive during his presidency, but he always seemed to do what he thought was correct, rather than convenient or personally advantageous.
RIP Mr. President.
He sold his Peanut farm when he became President to avoid any appearance of impropriety. It's astounding that we've gone from that to Trump in one lifetime. Trump doesn't even try to hide that he sees the presidency as one giant opportunity for grift and corruption.
Honestly it's just really sad
I don't know much about his presidency but all his work with Habitat for Humanity shows that he became a pretty good person. RIP.
I wasn't around for Carter, or Reagan. I was born just before the Lewinsky scandal happened with Clinton. My first election was in 2016.
I personally can't vouch for his policies, but anyone was better than Reagan, and the more I hear about how Carter tried to talk to America in peaceful direct messaging, and personally lived by his own requests to the public to show that the President isn't a king, the more I wish he could have came back.
My parents told me of recalling that when Carter was in the gas crisis, he asked Americans to help save on gas bills. He had the white house also do the same, and was wearing a cardigan sweater to help with the heating.
He had solar panels installed on the white house in the 1970s to help promote their use and save on the costs of the constant power draw of the most important building in America.
My dad went on record saying Carter was his favorite president and he was happy to vote for him whenever he could. My mom I think also wrote in Carter in 1984 when Mondale was running.
Jimmy Carter, like all US presidents, had blood on his hands.
But as US presidents go, he was a good man.
And if you don't think so, wait 4 more years of the unhinged angry orange utan and you'll change your mind.
Perhaps you meant as an adult? From my feeble memory, he was already a good person when elected. He divested the peanut farm when taking office (he honored the customs of office), he asked America to put on a sweater during an energy crisis and resisted religious meddling in politics. The hostages were used against him to get Reagan elected and it’s been downhill mostly since.
He was vilified for the things mentioned, the hostage debacle and probably other things that might be valid. I know he wasn’t perfect, but I admire that man for all he did in tough times. Can’t say I feel that way about any other president since. Carter was the type of man we were told to be (back then) in order to become president. How times have changed.
Just because I don't think it should be glossed over, it came out several years ago that the Regan campaign was in contact with Iran and negotiated for the hostages to remain in captivity until the election in exchange for concessions he would make as president. Carter failed to free the hostages because he was being undermined by traitors.
I don’t know much about his presidency
When you compare him to our last three Dem candidates it's easy for him to get painted as a progressive...
But the truth is he faced a fractured party because the majority felt he was too moderate. It's just the party has moved that far right
The kind of president Americans have always needed, but not the one they deserved.
RIP Jimmy.
I fucking jinxed it, 12 hours ago I was googling him because I wondered how hes doing. I even have the tab open still. Now I’m sad.
RIP Jimmy
Bake'em away, toys
Was really hoping he'd outlive Trump. RIP. He lived a good life. He was a good man.
Why would you wish him to suffer? Let him be with his wife.
I didn't get the idea they were wishing him a longer life.
THE president
F
Lucky bastard.
Suharto and the Shah get to see their friend again after so long apart such good news.
