Our beloved Jimmy Carter will be 89 on Tuesday October 1st

[malaise]

the same day Obamacare really takes off.
How many DUers know that the last President who spoke with an Iranian leader before Obama did so last Friday was Jimmy Carter in 1979 - he spoke with the Shah just before his departure.


Jimmy Carter is still involved in the struggle for peace across our globe.
He just returned from Myanmar.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/26/jimmy-carter-joins-elders-in-calling-for-end-to-sectarian-violence-in-myanmar/
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and two other former world leaders who are part of a group known as "The Elders" have wrapped up a visit to Myanmar with calls to address spiraling Buddhist-led violence against minority Muslims.

They said in a press release that "these senseless, destructive, repeated acts of brutality" could not be ignored.

Carter, president from 1977-81, was joined on the trip by Martti Ahtisaari, former president of Finland, and Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of Norway.
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Love you Jimmy Carter

[morningglory]

1. Long may he live. Love him. nt

[etherealtruth]

2. Jimmy Carter

[malaise]

3. +1,000

Too honest for this generation. A fearless man who speaks the truth regardless of the hatred from the RWs who sabotaged his government.

[treestar]

4. The good clearly do not always die young!

What a good long life he has had and will continue to have!

[malaise]

5. Yes he has had a great life

I imagine he ate a lot of peanuts

[tblue]

6. Sincere and decent and honest

He's truly a mensch. And he lost his job to.......AAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!

[brer cat]

7. Just think of how much progress we could have made on environmental issues

if he had served another term.

I love the man too, malaise.

[MoonRiver]

8. He's a great man and former President!

[malaise]

9. Do you know that he has never collected money for speeches

He served, went home and found a new way to serve. He never cashed in on his Presidency - that makes him really different.

[MoonRiver]

10. I did not know that, but I'm not surprised.

Carter is one of the few great patriots in our nation's history.

[malaise]

13. One of the greatest moments of the 2012 Presidential campaign

was when his grandson exposed Rmoney's 47% tape. It was particularly sweet because they were attempting to compare Obama with Carter over their fake scandal Benghazi.
I laughed until tears flowed when I discovered that it was Carter's grandson who blew the lid of that one.

[MoonRiver]

18. Yes, that was awesome!

[jwirr]

11. Wow I did not know he and I had the same birthday. He is a bit older and definitely greater.

[malaise]

12. My brother as well and like you he's way younger than Pres Carter

Happy Birthday in advance

[jwirr]

17. Thank you

[malaise]

30. Happy Birthday jwirr

[jwirr]

32. I am happy to announce that I do not feel older!

[malaise]

34. Ha

I hope Jimmy Carter feels the same

[jwirr]

35. Jimmy has a way of ignoring age. He is a real role model.

[Jefferson23]

14. My best wishes for you Jimmy Carter...don't leave us.

We need your voice now, more than ever. He lives a life that is free of all the trappings
that spell hypocrisy.

K&R

[Calculator Alligator]

15. Great American

Great negotiator. Congratulations!

[malaise]

16. Welcome to DU

[4_TN_TITANS]

19. I don't think there has ever been a greater

Ex-POTUS. What an amazing guy!

[Sissyk]

20. Happy Early Birrthday to Jimmah!

I have always been quit fond of him. Hope he has many more.

[JI7]

21. i love that he is in great shape and is still out there

doing things and talking about issues.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. Happy Birthday Jimmy. Inspiration to us all

[malaise]

25. Happy Birthday indeed

ReTHUGs shut down the Government and Obamacare lives.

[alp227]

23. better link than Fox Non-News

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/elders-urge-myanmar-address-religious-strife

[malaise]

24. Thanks for that

I was looking for another link

[Art_from_Ark]

26. Happy Birthday, President Carter!

[Phentex]

27. He is an incredible person...

Wish there were more like him.

Happy Birthday, Jimmy Carter!

[Laelth]

28. k&r for James Earl Carter, Jr. n/t

-Laelth

[G_j]

29. Happy Birthday !!!

[B Calm]

31. From one Navy vet to another, Happy Birthday President Carter!

[ananda]

33. Happy Birthday, President Carter!

And many more!

[malaise]

36. I have not heard one media person mention President Carter's birthday

today. I hate the corporate media

[Octafish]

37. Happy Birthday, President Carter!

You, Sir, make me proud to be a member of the Democratic Party.

[malaise]

39. M$Greedia were all over the place with GHW Bush's socks

on his birthday, but not a word for Jimmy Carter. Show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are - well done MSGreedia.
Carter was too decent for those scumbags.

[City Lights]

38. Happy Birthday, President Carter!

[kentuck]

40. My favorite politician...

I lived in Atlanta when Jimmy decided to run for President. I told my brother that he would be the next President of the United States. "You gotta be kidding", he said.

But I just had a hunch that the American people were basically good and honest people and that, after Watergate, they would be looking for a good and honest man. Jimmy Carter was that.



On edit: Happy Birthday Jimmy!!!

[joeybee12]

41. Happy, Happy Birthday Jimmy!