President Jimmy Carter. Rip.https://Www.theguardian.com/Us-News/2024/Dec/29/Jimmy-Carter-Dead-Longest-Lived-Us-President

[sandyRoe]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/29/jimmy-carter-dead-longest-lived-us-president

 

He had a good innings, reaching 100.

[Peter Pedant]

watch out untittled the mods are on their side ( heigh ho but this IS AB)

[Peter Pedant]

The elephant in the room is how JImmy C governed for all the people ( god it is not that diffficult is it)

and Trump enriched his friends who are now in his Cabinet. If you already have lu-lu, the Don will give you more ( strings attached of course)

[theshedman]

Always liked Jimmy Carter.  Did a lot of good in his lifetime including getting homes built for people on low wages as was shown in many TV programs.  RIP Jimmy a long life lived well.  It was never about him like with many these days.  He even helped me in getting a job after his talks at camp david between Israel and Egypt as I went to work in The Sinai working with the MFO which he helped set up.  

[Untitled]

carter cared deeply about service and about doing what he thought was right for the country and the world. he continued doing that well into his 90s. he was hardworking and thoughtful and deeply empathetic toward those who were different from him. it's a great shame that he lost to reagan in my view... i think the US would be a better place if he'd had another four years. 
 

looking at an american president of that calibre... one cannot help but look at the one about to take office and feel profound despair. 

[maggiebee]

PP please give it a rest.  This thread is about the passing of a good man who was also POTUS. Comparisons not required.  You would cause a rammy in an empty hoose.

[Peter Pedant]

PP please give it a rest.  This thread is about the passing of a good man who was also POTUS. Comparisons not required.

Hi Magz - comparison are required

and look here is one on wiki - jesus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States#:~:text=Abraham%20Lincoln%20has%20taken%20the,bottom%20of%20all%20four%20surveys.

FDR and Abe are always at the top and Harding ( deleted) was in the bottom third.

[maggiebee]

My dad always said "never argue with idiots, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"

[DDIL]

Radio 2 today around 1230 was talking to Brits who talked to Mr Carter over the years - including a school girl whose friend happen to know him and was studying the Cold War at school.

The common ground was the kindness that he has shown strangers over the years.

[Lie-in King]

A good & decent man has passed away at a grand age, having served the office of President to the best of his ability & continuing after that to earn respect around the world.

RIP President Carter.

As others here have said, to those disrupting this thread, shame on you.

[Patsy33]

One of the best, I believe. A decent man at heart compared to a lot of them. RIP Jimmy.

[Pete65]

Rest easy, Jimmy.

[Peter Pedant]

As others here have said, to those disrupting this thread, shame on you! bo - recall bias

"The nadir of his  presidency came in April 1980 when he authorised a daring (/over)clandestine mission to rescue 52 diplomats after Iranian revolutionaries had seized the US Embassy in Tehran the previous November. Operation Eagle Claw went disastrously wrong. Three of the eight helicopters suffered mechanical problems before  they reached the desert staging post. Carter aborted the mission whereupon a helicopter collided with a transport plane. Both caught fire and eight servicemen died. "I am still haunted by that day" Carter wrote in his memoirs. " It was one of the worst of my life"

Oh Oh that awful trolling disruptor PP is er trolling again.

( Mods: tutti -  delete delete)

No boys and gurlz it is from the obits ( you know accounts of people who are dead. Eulogies are only mimsy stories allowed about people who are dead) - from the Times today Jesus

[Peter Pedant]

god one of my posts has lasted more than six hours !  Christmas miracle