23 minutes ago, Procus said:

Uh huh.  And who replaced him?  How's that going?

You have zero clue about that end of the world.

Someone able to keep power without U.S. intervention.  I think if the U.S. could pick world leaders then we would pick friends and allies.  But that’s not how the world works

1 minute ago, Dave Moss said:

Someone able to keep power without U.S. intervention.  I think if the U.S. could pick world leaders then we would pick friends and allies.  But that’s not how the world works

You really are clueless.  Yeah, that would have been great.  But it wasn't feasible and a disaster resulted because we had a feeble minded president in office.

32 minutes ago, Procus said:

we had a feeble minded president in office.

If you’re talking about Reagan then I agree

12 minutes ago, Procus said:

The Onion?

One of my lasting non-political memories of the Carter years is the 'attack of the killer rabbit' incident. It wasn't necessarily a 'big deal' but my memory of it is that it was a humorous news story at the time, and it's just stuck with me.

I was 10 at the time, so the thought of a 'bunny rabbit' 'attacking' a President was funny.

it has to say something about how disgusting of a human being you are when you're he only person that is acting disrespectful about the passing of an american president. 

rip 

 

 

RIP to a great man, soldier, humanitarian, champion of peace and human rights. He always chose to do the right thing even when it wasn't the most popular. 

Unfortunately his presidency will be remembered for stagflation, the Iran hostage crisis, and his poor relationship with Congress. Even great men are not able to ascend into great presidents.

3 hours ago, Procus said:

You really are clueless.  Yeah, that would have been great.  But it wasn't feasible and a disaster resulted because we had a feeble minded president in office.

I can't believe Jimmy Carter took all those diplomats hostage in Iran! 

Just now, toolg said:

I can't believe Jimmy Carter took all those diplomats hostage in Iran! 

Don’t forget how he forced the Soviets to invade Afghanistan!

5 hours ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

One of my lasting non-political memories of the Carter years is the 'attack of the killer rabbit' incident. It wasn't necessarily a 'big deal' but my memory of it is that it was a humorous news story at the time, and it's just stuck with me.

I was 10 at the time, so the thought of a 'bunny rabbit' 'attacking' a President was funny.

6 hours ago, toolg said:

I can't believe Jimmy Carter's gross malfeasance resulted in the taking of all those diplomats hostage in Iran! 

FYP

6 hours ago, Dave Moss said:

Don’t forget how his weak foreign policy resulted in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan!

FYP

8 hours ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

it has to say something about how disgusting of a human being I am. 

FYP

I used to think Carter was just a well meaning but bumbling incompetent.  This is what changed that opinion:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11807897/Ex-Secret-Service-agents-reveal-Jimmy-Carter-actually-rude-time.html

EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Carter's smiling, man-of-the-people image that saw him carry his own luggage was 'all show', say ex-Secret Service agents who claim ex-president was 'rude and short' and 'talked down' to soldiers

• Secret Service agents revealed Jimmy Carter, 98, who has announced he is entering hospice care at home, was nothing like his smiling, friendly image 
• Behind the scenes, the 39th president would treat his secret service detail like they 'weren't there' or 'were bothering him', and 'talked down to the military' 
• Despite his 'phony' public façade, Carter is being hailed as a humble president who championed the working man, as he lives out his final days in hospice care

By RONALD KESSLER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 15:58 EST, 2 March 202

Ronald Kessler is a former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author of books on the White House, Secret Service, FBI, and CIA

After announcing his decision to live out his final days in hospice care at home, Jimmy Carter is being hailed as America's decent, humble president who cared about the so-called little people during his time in office. 

And while his philanthropic work after leaving the White House speaks to that image, Secret Service agents who were on the 39th president's detail during his four-year term saw an entirely different man.

As revealed in my 2014 book, The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents, agents actually knew Carter as a great actor in the public eye.  

He cultivated the image of a jolly populist who grew up on a farm in Georgia, helped run his family's peanut business, and championed the working man.

The presidency 'is a place of compassion,' Carter famously said in accepting his nomination for a second term at the 1980 Democratic National Convention. 

'My own heart is burdened for the troubled Americans. The poor and the jobless and the afflicted...' he added. 

But behind the scenes, it was a different story.

Carter's staff knew him as a 'great actor,' according to Ronald Kessler's 2014 book, The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents

In fact, 'Carter was just very short and rude most of the time,' according to one Secret Service agent. 

'With agents, he'd just pretend like you were not around. You'd say hello, and he'd just look at you, like you weren't there, like you were bothering him.'

Carter actually told Secret Service agents and uniformed officers he did not want them to greet him on his way to the Oval Office. 

It was apparently too much bother for him to have to say hello back to another human being.

It's ironic that after he left the White House Carter became a true humanitarian. 

He established the Carter Center to promote human rights - even earning a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.  He was also dedicated to the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity and he and wife Rosalynn were known to strap on their own tool belts to help build affordable homes.

But in White House years Carter was known by agents as aloof and unapproachable and apparently did not have much use for the military either. 

Although he was a Naval Academy graduate himself, he 'talked down to the military, just talked like they didn't know what they were talking about,' one agent said. 

'Carter didn't want military aides to wear uniforms,' former agent Cliff Baranowski recalled.  

His icy demeanor would make him the most detested commander-in-chief by Secret Service agents of all US presidents in recent memory. 

Agent John Piasecky was on Carter's detail for three and a half years, which included seven months of driving him in the presidential limousine. 

Aside from giving directions, Carter never spoke to him, he says.

Carter tried to project an image of himself as a man of the people by carrying his own luggage when traveling. But that was another charade. 

When he was a candidate in 1976, Carter would carry his own bags when the press was around but would ask the Secret Service to carry them the rest of the time.

As president, Carter — code-named Deacon — orchestrated more ruses involving his luggage.

When he was traveling, he would get on the helicopter and fly to Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base,' says former Secret Service agent Baranowski.

'He would roll up his sleeves and carry his bag over his shoulder, but it was empty. 

'He wanted people to think he was carrying his own bag.'

'Carter made a big show about taking a hang-up carry-on out of the trunk of the limo when he'd go someplace, and there was nothing in it,' says another agent who was on his detail. 

'It was empty. It was just all show.'

Carter would regularly make a show of arriving early at the Oval Office to call attention to how hard he was working for the American people.

'He would walk into the Oval Office at 6am, do a little work for half an hour, then close the curtains and take a nap,' says Robert B. Sulliman Jr., who was on Carter's detail. 

'His staff would tell the press he was working.'

Another Secret Service agent says that at other times, he could see Carter through the Oval Office windows dozing off in his desk chair while ostensibly he was working.

'Carter was a phony, an absolute phony,' an agent says.

'When he was in a bad mood, you didn't want to bring him anything,' a former Secret Service agent says. 

'It was this hunkered-down attitude: "I'm running the show." It was as if he didn't trust anyone around him. He had that big smile, but when he was in the White House, it was a different story.'

'The only time I saw a smile on Carter's face was when the cameras were going,' says former agent George Schmalhofer, who was assigned periodically to the Carter detail.

Perhaps because of his aversion to the military, Carter refused to let the military aide with the nuclear football stay in a nearby trailer when visiting his home in Plains, Georgia.

'Carter did not want the nuclear football at Plains,' a former agent says. 

'There was no place to stay in Plains. The military wanted a trailer there. He didn't want that. So the military aide had to stay in Americus.'

The town is a 15-minute drive from Carter's home.

'Carter didn't want anyone bothering him on his property,' the former agent explains. 'He wanted his privacy.'

In the event of a nuclear attack, by the time the military aide brought the nuclear football to Carter at his home to launch a counter-strike, the country would have been wiped out by nuclear-tipped missiles.

Terrence Adamson, Carter's lawyer, denied that Carter refused to let the military aide stay near his residence. 

But Bill Gulley, who was in charge of the operation as director of the White House Military Office, confirmed it.

After he was voted out of office, Carter occasionally stayed at Blair House, the townhouse the General Services Administration maintains for former presidents across the street from the White House. 

The townhouse's walls are adorned with large photos of former presidents.

Checking the premises, GSA managers found that when Carter was visiting, he would take down the photos of Republican presidents Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon and decorate the townhouse with another half-dozen photos of himself.

After each visit, Charles B. 'Buddy' Respass, then the GSA manager in charge of the White House, became irate because GSA had to try to find the old photos and hang them again.

Through his lawyer Adamson, Carter denied this.

But Lucille Price, the GSA manager who reported to Respass, said: 'Carter changed the photos... He didn't like them [Ford and Nixon] looking down at him. We would find out he would put photos of himself up.'

RIP

 

 

@Procus and @The_Omega are desperate for attention

8 hours ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

One of my lasting non-political memories of the Carter years is the 'attack of the killer rabbit' incident. It wasn't necessarily a 'big deal' but my memory of it is that it was a humorous news story at the time, and it's just stuck with me.

I was 10 at the time, so the thought of a 'bunny rabbit' 'attacking' a President was funny.

Remember when he changed the part on his hair from left to right smack in the middle of the campaign?

3 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

@Procus and @The_Omega are throwing out truth bombs about Jimmy Carter and it's killing those who don't want their erroneous pre-conceived notions about him disturbed

FYP

8 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said:

I don't think anybody ever accused Carter of being stupid.

On 12/29/2024 at 6:37 PM, Procus said:

One of the worst presidents in the history of our country.  We're paying today for the damage that he did.

Wow you really are a complete and total POS.

On 12/29/2024 at 7:30 PM, Gannan said:

I like new Trump. RIP President Carter 

There's a 0% chance he wrote that himself.