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Makram Alamuddin's avatar

A man of extreme compassion who understood the realities about Israel/Palestine and had the honesty to speak the truth. He was replaced by Reagan who started the destruction of the moral fabric of this country and created the wide divide.

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Susan MacNeil, PhD's avatar

A humanitarian and kind man left as a monster remains. It’s almost as if he wanted us to see what good versus evil looks like.

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Helix LeRoy's avatar

I hope that America will one day elect another president like Jimmy Carter. Corruption is destroying this country.

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Leslie's avatar

Jimmy Carter was everything that every president before him was not. A true believer in human rights and dignity. He was a truth seeker no matter the cost. Remarkable does not capture his essence.

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Cheri Powers's avatar

Please keep mentioning how any of 49% postings are probably by aides/staff. We know he cant focus and does not care about grammar or punctuation. When we pretend he wrote them, we are sanewashing a man with dementia. Little things matter. Lets please mention dementia every time you refer to 49% and also make mention that most, if not all, social media postings now are not done by him.

And Carter was a great example of dealing with a stunning and humiliating defeat, and yet moving on from it with grace and courage, and going on to do so much more.

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Ossama Ezzeddine's avatar

My father always had high praise for president Carter. After October 7th and witnessing the horrors in Gaza I started reading everything I could about Carter and what were the alternatives to Genocide Joes policies. Carter was a humanitarian and a good man who put values and human rights above western imperialism. He didn’t always make the right calls as president but he was fearless truthful and a God fearing man. God rest his soul and forgive him for his short coming. He told the truth, upheld the laws and didn’t start any wars.

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Peggy Hockswender's avatar

I don't think Carter needs to be forgiven for anything.

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Zareen's avatar

He’s also everything that Joe Biden is not. I still can’t believe Genocide Joe will be delivering the eulogy at Jimmy Carter’s funeral. What an insult to Carter’s legacy.

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Leslie's avatar

Yes Zareen, I could not agree with you more. It is shameful Biden will be giving the eulogy. I don't think Carter could have ever believed Biden would be so inhumane. Awful!

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Memona's avatar

I didn't know much about Jimmy Carter until recent years. He seemed like a decent and God fearing man. Those two attributes alone make him a better president than most. May Allah have mercy on him

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Wizarat Rizvi's avatar

Jimmy Carter was the only President after IKE ( for younger folks, General Dwight D Eisenhower, the 34th President) who made me proud to be an American. Since President Carter, I have heard many lies from the Presidents and have not seen much courage to speak the truth to the public, be it the WOT, Iraq Invasion, Libya debacle, or the Afghan war

May he rest in peace

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M McConlogue's avatar

I was in graduate school during the Carter years. I remember well what he did to the New Deal, to unions, to the economy. I'm sure Carter was a very nice guy, but in spite of all those achievements and talents he failed us, which makes it even more unforgivable. Carter was no friend of the working family. He stiff armed all of Kennedy's attempts to protect the last remnants of the New Deal and create a government that works for its people. Progressives of that era had a deep sense of foreboding. It has all come to pass. Carter began the neoliberal policies that Reagan, Bush 1-2, Clinton and Obama continued leading us straight to where we find ourselves now. Come on Democrats. Wake The * Up.

Trump was made possible by all that came before.

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Neal H. Patel's avatar

In 1975, the United States pulled out of Southeast Asia just as Indonesia was invading East Timor, with U.S. support, on December 7, 1975. They invaded just after Kissinger left Jakarta. They killed upwards of 10% of the population, a genocide entirely financed and armed by US weapons. The CIA estimates 95% of the weapons used by Indonesia in its invasion were provided by the US.

When Carter took office in 1977, officials and journalists were already describing East Timor as the worst human rights crisis in the world at the time. What did Jimmy Carter and his top officials Sec. State Cyrus Vance and Zbigniew Brzeziński do? They reassured right-wing allies such as Indonesian dictator Suharto and Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos (also responsible for horrific human rights violations) that the US was still committed to providing military and economic assistance.

I am not sure that the dead women, children, and families of East Timor would see it the way Zeteo and the rest of you do.

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AE's avatar

Thank you for reminding us of what a dignified presidency looks like. And we all owe Jimmy Carter a debt of gratitude for using his post-presidency pulpit to speak truth to power. I do feel however that the article lacks balance and it reads like a hagiography. Any objective assessment of Jimmy Carter should unpack his support for dictatorships in Central America and for the genocide perpetuated in East Timor. Please see this piece by Jasmine Romero of Codeswitch in NPR. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/10/g-s1-41918/jimmy-carter-is-no-saint-in-my-house

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Regina Islas's avatar

And why isn’t he One of Our Greatest Presidents?!?

Unlike the other autodidact TJ-he was not an enslaver, and strange you don’t mention it John, Carter was never accused of nor found guilty of RAPE-

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Jeff Lazar's avatar

Lots of words, John, to compare a very decent human being with a SHPOS.

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Horizon's avatar

Yes, if you keep the flag lowered to half mast for the death of a former president, you can't possibly love the US, right?

Especially when it requires them to be at half mast for Trump's inauguration.

Carter probably died for spite, just to screw it up.

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Ossama Ezzeddine's avatar

He was a liberal who was also a fiscal conservative. Yes he turned down a lot of programs that Kennedy wanted but he was a ruthless pragmatist who maintained a balanced budget, saved social security, returned the Panama Canal to Panama even though it was politically damaging. It was also a time when stagflation was rampant and he was desperately trying to heal the economy.

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Elizabeth's avatar

He was mixed like the vast majority of people. In his handling of the economy he started us on a horrible path. And he was in many ways more decent than most other presidents. Two things can be true at once,

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