Wow! 100 years old! That might be his best accomplishment!
As is often the case when a president or long serving politician passes, praise is heaped upon them as if there was nothing significant to criticize. Case in point, Dan Trabue's elementary school worship of the guy (http://throughthesewoods.blogspot.com/2024/12/jimmy-carter-best-man-to-ever-be.html). It's really sickening. But then, Dan's a moron and not honorable enough to give an objective analysis and assessment of the guy. "Best man to ever be president"? Hardly. Part of being the "best" is being effective and doing more good than ill. That's wasn't Jimma.
I offer two essays which present facts overlooked by the left especially, and even by some on the right who look to the Camp David Accords as a great accomplishment. To some degree is ain't bad, but it ain't perfect either.
The first is from Peter Barry Chowka, who had many up close encounters with the guy:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/jimmy_carter_his_image_vs_the_reality_i_experienced_covering_his_1976_campaign.html
The second is from the great Andrea Widburg, who claims Carter as the first dude for whom she voted for president in her life, and is happy it didn't help him win
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/former_president_jimmy_carter_dead_at_100.html
To put it in basic terms, Carter was a clusterf**k. He did far more harm than good, and our current troubles with islamic extremists has his peanut fingers all over it. As to those Camp David Accords, he had little to do with a process that was already in progress. The two parties, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, invited him to oversee the negotiations, and Carter tried to force Israeli concessions because he was an anti-Semite. And in the end, what happened? Well, no more wars between Egypt and Israel, but the Egyptian people still hated Israel and anyone who gave them aid. Sadat was murdered for his troubles.
So, as idiots pretend Carter was something special, let's look at Dan's Carter quotations in order:
1. I don't necessarily disagree with this, but Dan does. I once submitted that a good man is a dangerous man, and Carter seems to echo that reality in this quote. But he himself wasn't a strong man and our nation was not regarded as strong during his presidency anymore than it has been during Biden's...another clusterf**k Dan praises as a "good and decent" man. Trump, for example, is accused of bluster, but he whacked a couple of truly evil dudes and our foreign adversaries are cowed by his winning the election. "Bluster" alone is worthless if not backed up by serious action. Nothing about Carter, Biden or even Obama was serious.
2. This one Dan could have said and thus it's really stupid. War is not "evil". Assholes starting a war to exert dominance is. Fighting wars against those assholes is not. Civilians die and get hurt in wars and unfortunately, except for Carter's and Dan's pals...the so-called "palestinians"...most nations don't target children.
3. The problem with this quote is the failure to acknowledge those who founded the nation by respecting human rights, particularly those in the Bill of Rights. Like all moronic lefties, Carter perverted that notion, as we saw by his dedication to islamic thugs.
4. This is a problem, because we're supposed to be that melting pot we seemingly no longer are. The concept recognizes the assimilation by people from anywhere to the American experiment and its principles. What Carter is saying subordinates that to "diversity", which has no tangible benefits to our nation, unless it's diversity of thoughts and ideas, which can be discussed, debated and, if necessary, rejected as the crap they may be.
5. Failure is just failure if it doesn't lead to improvement and efficiency. I really don't know what he's trying to say here. It's not "better" to fail while striving for anything if the result is simply more failure because nothing is learned by the failures.
6. This is typical lefty marxism, wherein the onus for people to acquire decent housing is on others, not those seeking to acquire it. But I do encourage governments to stop over taxing and over regulating and over spending which results in a crappy economy wherein fewer have the capability to afford decent housing. And of course, keep in mind that home-ownership isn't for everybody.
I get leftist praise for Carter. But there is little which is truly praiseworthy on a world-wide or national scale. The guy was a dipshit who did a few good things (Habitat for Humanity, for example), but overall was a clusterf**k.
