Jimmy Carter is the freakin MAN!

His interview on PBS was amazing.

He talked about how his entire family (save one member) were Obama supporters from the beginning.

He talked about how he wept during Obama's race speech.

He talked about how the election of Obama will be the beginning of the end of racism in this country.


What an incredible man.

PBS is where it's at, I swear.

I kinda regretted not having cable for the convention, but goddamn, I don't think any cable channel could do as good of a job as PBS is doing now.

That was really an interesting comment.

And I mean that wholeheartedly.

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God bless him. It sucks a certain "segment" apparently required him to be excluded from speaking tonight. Again, why are we beholden to them? :shrug:

I love seeing him, hearing him. My respect and admiration for him knows no bounds.

and those who are suffering all over the world.

It still pisses me off how Carter was treated from '76 well into the 1980's. He didn't deserve what the republicans and their friends in the MSM did to him.

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across the stage after the video was over. That was dumb. Real dumb.

There are only two Democrats who can testify that Obama is ready to be President: Carter & Clinton and Carter is the one who can most convincingly deliver that message.

He should've been given the time to do so on stage at the DNC. Instead, all we get is Maya and Jesse III and lots of delegates bobbing up and down to canned music.

Dumb. Real dumb.

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and thank god for PBS... what a dose of TV Alka Seltzer after too much cablesnooze.

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I was just like WOW. He and his wife looked so good tonight that I had to check wiki to make sure he wasn't a lot younger than I had thought.

I hope that we have lots more of Jimmy Carter to come!

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One of our most respected Pres. ever!

soundly repudiated by the party.

He has been all but erased from the party history and is lucky to have had a well censored three minute film.

No opportunity should be given him to spout his leftist humanitarian filth. A well censored film has prevented him from attacking the removal of the so called inalienable rights of man as an obstacle to torture. :sarcasm:

edited to make evident my intent to be sarcastic.

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I sure as hell hope you did.

you need to edit your post to reflect you are only mimicking the pathetic freepers. I will watch with interest as to which. Am about to order pizza for lunch while I wait, just in case.

It's just getting so hard to be satirical when so many hold the satire as a sacred truth.

I hold as true the part about the party marginalizing the man for things for which he should be held up as a model. NO Democrats criticized the Bush excesses the way he did after his Nobel prize win.

No Democrat had the guts to even censure Bush along with Feingold.

The cowards of the party cast Carter to the side as they parade with pride where they should hang their heads in shame.

I loved that video and when the Carters walked out on stage after it(Big Surprise!) :patriot: :patriot: :bounce: :party: :kick:

unlike Zell, Carter has class. If given a chance, I think Carter could have made an inspirational speech on the energy issue last night. But it's great that Carter came to the convention and supports Obama.

both Obama and Clinton have so much to learn from this guy! :yourock:

I noticed one line where he specifically said that Obama is a Christian. I wonder if he put that in there to counter the idiotic "Obama is a Muslim" meme. There is no one on this earth that would dare question President Carter's deep and abiding faith and to have him make the subtle overture might have helped sooth some people. Ya never know.

I personally would walk through fire for the man and I named my one and only son Carter in his honor.

Planning a convention isn't easy, but every speaker has something unique and interesting to bring voters into the Democratic Party. Controversy might not please everyone but a meal without flavor brings nobody to the table.

I hope Democratic speakers are given more freedom and flexibility during the rest of our Convention, otherwise it will seem no different than next week's convention. I also love it when Carter talks about religion and the prince of peace. :thumbsup:

I voted for him in my 3rd grade class' mock election.

People laugh and make fun of his sweaters.
I just point to the accomplishments and his CLASS ACT and say, "Amen."

Carter says that Obama will be a major world leader and help restore damage from the last 8 years.

It's hard to clean out mold. If you don't keep treating it, it always comes back.

I love that man.One of the few politicians that I respect.

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All because he is RIGHT on the Israel/Palestine issue. What a lousy thing to do to one of only two Democratic Presidents in the last 40 years.

COMPARE CARTER TO REAGAN

(4 yrs to 8 yrs. So, use Average per year on some and Monthly average also.)

ONE SIMPLE QUESTION.
HOW COULD THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP ALLOW THE TRASHING OF CARTER AS A FAILED PRESIDENT??? DISGUSTING.



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Real Increase—Carter-13.0% in 4 years—Reagan-17.5% in 8 yrs

Carter 10,488,000 in 4—Reagan 15,935,000 in 8.

Per month Carter averaged far more than Reagan
218,000 to 175,000.


Care to compare number of homes built per year. Don’t. Reagan killed S & L’s.
Care to compare GDP growth without massive spending (borrow) programs.
Carter-3.4%--Reagan 3.4% even with major spending
Care to compare Increase in National Income and GDP to Debt Growth
Care to compare percent increase in Federal Revenues
Care to compare GDP Growth in “Real” dollars per year

Care to compare First THREE Years---
First figure is carter

Real GDP—+3.2%-- +1.3%= -59% less for RR
Industrial Production--+3.0%--+.01%= -97% less for RR
Rate Capacity Utilization 83.4% --75.9% = -9% less for Reagan
Plant-Equip. Expend. +14.6%--.8%= -95% less for Reagan
Housing Starts—1.76 Million—1.28 million = -27% less for Reagan
Domestic auto sales—8.48 million—6.25 million= -26% less for Reagan
Business Failures—8461—24,291= +189% more for Reagan
Civilian Unemployment—6.5%--9.0%= +38% more for Reagan
Number Unemployed—6.74 million—9.89 million=+47% more for Reagan
Real Disposable Income Growth--+1/9%--+1/3%= - 32% less for Reagan
Prime Rate—10.96%--14.94%= +35% more for Reagan
Federal Budget Deficit—48.5 Billion—153.billion= +215% more for Reagan
Farm Income--+1.75%---5.7%= -326% less for Reagan

Comparison Above of 13 items from CBO Record 3-26-84

Care to compare number killed overseas
Care to compare percent Increase in Defense Spending
Care to compare number of LIES told
Care to compare numbers of departments with SCANDALS
Care to compare numbers of administration members who were investigated, went to prison, convicted or charged.
Care to compare respect by foreign nations
Care to check 1947 National Security Act that was instrumental in checking the expansion of communism.
Care to compare number of times president went to church.
Care to compare how historians rank them without $$ spent by conservative think tanks
(In 1994 Reagan was ranked tenth from bottom-- Conservatives have spent millions
re-inventing his average record).
Care to compare as DEREGULATOR? Airlines-Financial Institutions-Transportation
Care to compare with which created FEMA
Care to check who was President when FISA was passed into law?
Care to check who started Centcom—As-RDJTF-Rapid Deployment Task Force-
(Reagan changed name to Centcom) -U.S forces designated for possible employment to Middle East.
Carter produced the First Arab-Israeli Peace Treaty
Carter normalized trade with China
Carter led the Senate to obey our treaty and yield control of Panama Canal.
Carter killed the neutron bomb
Carter won Nato agreement to match Soviet missiles in Europe
Carter limited strategic nuclear arms with Salt II Treaty.
Carter paid UN dues in full, on time and without conditions.
Carter got third world majorities against Vietnam’s intervention on Cambodia.
Carter placed embargoes on Soviets for invasion of Afghanistan
The great anti-communist Reagan lifted them while Soviets were still in Afghanistan
Carter efforts were significant on—Human Rights impartiality, nuclear build down, energy sustainability, Middle East peace, non-interventionism .
Same President who said this—“The oil flow from the Persian Gulf is a vital interest to the United States and this country will employ any means necessary including military force to overcome an attempt by a hostile power to block that flow.”

Imagine the praise had Reagan made that statement.

Carter increased CAFE standards—Reagan cancelled them. Loved oil people. Backers in California. Henry Salvatori. Pals first America second.

When Carter left office it took 3.6 years of average income to purchase an average priced new home. After Reagan’s years it took 4.2 Years and now under Bush II 5.4 years.

When Conservatives hit on Carter as a “do nothing” administration they best not check the FACTS.

Inflation was Carter’s big handicap. Remember Oil Prices? Food prices?
Inflation had nothing to do with his Fiscal policies

Reagan took credit for whipping inflation. Blarney Baloney.
It was Carter’s hire Paul Volcker. Who whipped inflation (at cost of 5 million jobs)
Reagan had inflationary fiscal policies. Carter did not.

Evangelicals want a true, devout, Christian? They better look to a genuine one. Carter.

Conservatives re-invent and trash other presidents in an effort to promote Reagan.
Reagan was not by any means an above average President.
Blarney Baloney Deluxe. An actor acting in a role as President.
He was graded as a C president.
Historians use numbers not emotions.
500 in 1994 rated him tenth from bottom
in 1994 one of top two historical societies polled members and rated him 21% above average 79% below average.

Reagan honored Nazi SS Troops. Carter Fought.

NO NUMBERS REVEAL AN ABOVE AVERAGE RECORD

If anyone has some present them I will use them

Carter's Energy principles/plans- 1977

The first principle is that we can have an effective and comprehensive energy policy only if the government takes responsibility for it and if the people understand the seriousness of the challenge and are willing to make sacrifices.

The second principle is that healthy economic growth must continue. Only by saving energy can we maintain our standard of living and keep our people at work. An effective conservation program will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs.

The third principle is that we must protect the environment. Our energy problems have the same cause as our environmental problems -- wasteful use of resources. Conservation helps us solve both at once.

The fourth principle is that we must reduce our vulnerability to potentially devastating embargoes. We can protect ourselves from uncertain supplies by reducing our demand for oil, making the most of our abundant resources such as coal, and developing a strategic petroleum reserve.

The fifth principle is that we must be fair. Our solutions must ask equal sacrifices from every region, every class of people, every interest group. Industry will have to do its part to conserve, just as the consumers will. The energy producers deserve fair treatment, but we will not let the oil companies profiteer.

The sixth principle, and the cornerstone of our policy, is to reduce the demand through conservation. Our emphasis on conservation is a clear difference between this plan and others which merely encouraged crash production efforts. Conservation is the quickest, cheapest, most practical source of energy. Conservation is the only way we can buy a barrel of oil for a few dollars. It costs about $13 to waste it.

The seventh principle is that prices should generally reflect the true replacement costs of energy. We are only cheating ourselves if we make energy artificially cheap and use more than we can really afford.

The eighth principle is that government policies must be predictable and certain. Both consumers and producers need policies they can count on so they can plan ahead. This is one reason I am working with the Congress to create a new Department of Energy, to replace more than 50 different agencies that now have some control over energy.

The ninth principle is that we must conserve the fuels that are scarcest and make the most of those that are more plentiful. We can't continue to use oil and gas for 75 percent of our consumption when they make up seven percent of our domestic reserves. We need to shift to plentiful coal while taking care to protect the environment, and to apply stricter safety standards to nuclear energy.

The tenth principle is that we must start now to develop the new, unconventional sources of energy we will rely on in the next century.

These ten principles have guided the development of the policy I would describe to you and the Congress on Wednesday.

Our energy plan will also include a number of specific goals, to measure our progress toward a stable energy system.

These are the goals we set for 1985:

--Reduce the annual growth rate in our energy demand to less than two percent.

--Reduce gasoline consumption by ten percent below its current level.

--Cut in half the portion of United States oil which is imported, from a potential level of 16 million barrels to six million barrels a day.

--Establish a strategic petroleum reserve of one billion barrels, more than six months' supply.

--Increase our coal production by about two thirds to more than 1 billion tons a year.

--Insulate 90 percent of American homes and all new buildings.

--Use solar energy in more than two and one-half million houses.

We will monitor our progress toward these goals year by year. Our plan will call for stricter conservation measures if we fall behind.

I cant tell you that these measures will be easy, nor will they be popular. But I think most of you realize that a policy which does not ask for changes or sacrifices would not be an effective policy.

This plan is essential to protect our jobs, our environment, our standard of living, and our future.

Whether this plan truly makes a difference will be decided not here in Washington, but in every town and every factory, in every home an don every highway and every farm.

I believe this can be a positive challenge. There is something especially American in the kinds of changes we have to make. We have been proud, through our history of being efficient people.

Want to read two great prophetic speeches Carter Malaise and 1981 SOU

Highly informative and briliance revealed

He was my first vote and I knew that he was my candidate as soon as he appeared on the scene. My brother (who's a FIXED News devotee, these days... x() took to referring to him as "Rhiannon's man," LOL. He was also my avatar since we had avatars on DU, except for the current campaign season when I switched temporarily to my first choice candidate, Dennis. :-)

He's an amazing and accomplished scholar and historian, but the quality that's always impressed me about him is his unwavering humanity. He supported civil rights long before it became an actual "cause," because black kids were his friends and playmates. It never dawned on him that there should be any "difference" between people.:shrug:

And did you see and hear his speech at Coretta Scott King's funeral?! It brought the house down! He really took off on the horrific treatment that the King family suffered, because of his courageous work, at the hands of our own government, were wiretapped, even had their house bombed!:scared:

Of course, Bush* had a front-row seat, and must have known that many of Carter's references were directed at his administration, which is treating its current citizens in an equally craven and despicable way, and I kept watching him sinking lower and lower in his seat, as Carter continued to speak.:applause:

This man has courage and stands up for what he believes in, worked tirelessly to achieve peace in the Middle East, managed to bring Begin and Sadat together, an historic occasion, and finally received the Nobel Peace Prize many years too late.:patriot:

And it sends me over the edge when Reagan is given credit for bringing down the USSR. It was Carter's grain embargo that broke the back of that government, and he's beloved by the Russian people. I know that because I've been there. They have no love for Reagan because his refusal to compromise on any level totally thwarted Gorbachev's attempts at reforms. Reagan's uncompromising stance brought out the Russian hard-liners who insisted on matching Reagan on toughness, and it was the Russian people who suffered.;(

And can anyone forget the "October Surprise?" Reagan stole that election just as Bush* has stolen the last two...:grr:

Despite his age, President Carter and the Carter Center continue to do good in the world, ensuring fair elections, making life better for thousands of people. And he's still very much involved in Habitat for Humanity, here at home. O8)

I am angered when I hear Carter referred to as one of this country's best ex-presidents. How soon people forget.x(

We could sure use his help, this time around, in furthering the Middle East peace process, both between Israel and the Palestinians, because he's fair and both sides respect him, not to mention the mess that Bush* has created in Iraq, which seems to have no solution and no end. But Bush* is too partisan to ever call on him, or President Clinton, for that matter, who also did wonderful work there, and I have long believed, to quote Princess Leia, that they're "our only hope." *sigh*

Carter's "the man," alright, and I am honored to call him "my president." :patriot: