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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJimmy Carter will be 90 on Wednesday
Here is his most famous speech for me
Jimmy Carter on GOP Elevating Ronald Reagan To Sainthood
Jimmy Carter on Conversation
Jimmy Carter - Palestinian peace not Apartheid
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Happy 90th Birthday Mr. President
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)In many ways, the best President in my lifetime.
Baitball Blogger
(46,756 posts)LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)holding my then toddler daughter. He reached up, touched her arm and said "Hello, darlin" with a big smile. It's a moment I'll never forget.
Happy 90th Birthday, Mr. President.
malaise
(269,157 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Did he at least win there? I hope your work paid off. Very few are able to have that as an achievement. Cherish it if you did.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)And Happy Birthday President Carter. I feel fortunate to be part of your constituency.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Thank you for the post. Will try to find a way to send an email for happy birthday.
NJCher
(35,713 posts)I will print it out tomorrow and mail it by hard copy.
For my money, he was the best president we have had in decades. He walked the walk--not just while he was president, but throughout his entire life. To this day he works for his causes.
Cher
malaise
(269,157 posts)He also has an amazing work ethic.
Aristus
(66,444 posts)Happy Birthday, Mr. President, from an admirer of your work, past and present. Respectful greetings to Mrs. Carter as well. God Bless you both for many more years.
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)I proudly cast my very first vote for President for the gentleman from Plains. May you live to be 100, President Carter!
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)I still think he was a better president than Reagan.
ablamj
(333 posts)My first time voting was for him!
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)I still remember the chest pains I got when Raygun won.
malaise
(269,157 posts)He was by a distance
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I voted for you twice.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Good for him!
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Peace Train song for the very good man, Jimmy Carter:
malaise
(269,157 posts)Thirteen Days in September
By 1977, though, Carter seems to have recalibrated accordingly, and in Wrights telling he was the ingredient without which the peace could never have been cooked up. The Carter of Camp David is a man of passion, anger, and pragmatism, willing to cajole, flatter, and threaten his way to a solution. On the occasions when the Egyptians and Israelis prepared to call off further discussion going so far as pack their bags and request helicopters to the airport he at times begs them to stay. His own presidency (which, of course, turned out to be doomed anyway) would certainly have been judged a catastrophe if the summit turned out to be a long and wasteful bull session. But Carter had a furious streak. A Navy man, he promised Sadat and Begin that if his ship was going to sink he would make sure the one who torpedoed it by walking out would drown with him. He swears, in effect, that he will make their departure look unconscionable and stupid, not only to their own people but to the world.
It worked, although up to the very last days the conference seemed hopeless. Begin categorically refused to countenance closing settlements in the Sinai, and Sadat refused to accept anything but total withdrawal. That they emerged from the woods with a lasting accord, given the nature of the participants, can be described only as a miracle of diplomacy, still somewhat baffling almost forty years later for having happened at all. Miracles, even of the purely secular kind, inherently resist explanation. But as explanations go, Wrights is among the best and most readable we are likely to get.
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No other president has managed a Middle East peace accord since.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)how much he is appreciated.
malaise
(269,157 posts)he'd never know how much he's appreciated, but I think he's heard good things about himself from many folks around the planet.
spanone
(135,861 posts)a President among Presidents.
malaise
(269,157 posts)He writes books. He's a thoroughly decent human being.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)"Waging Peace. Fighting Disease. Building Hope."
For those who would like to honor President Carter on his birthday, or to support his legacy foundation's work in promoting democracy, human rights, conflict resolution. disease eradication, and so much more, please check out the link above, where you can learn about the ongoing work and make a donation if you wish.
malaise
(269,157 posts)I'd also like to see Bill Moyers interview him for his 90th birthday.
CrispyQ
(36,501 posts)May you have many more!
I proudly voted for you twice.
madokie
(51,076 posts)I hope he lives a long long time yet.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)Successful in the military, in business, in politics.
It's no wonder republicans have worked so hard to destroy him.
malaise
(269,157 posts)He had an amazing work ethic - ReTHUGs would never understand that.
G_j
(40,367 posts)we sure could use him right now!
malaise
(269,157 posts)in 79/80.
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Best of my lifetime ( so far of course ) . He was an inspiration in office and after also with all his volunteering and the negotiating for peace that he has done.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)hunter
(38,325 posts)I campaigned for him, I voted for him.
Ronald Reagan would be in hell if he hadn't lost his mind first.
Elder President Bush and Dick Cheney are too afraid to die.
Younger President Bush is a venal clueless fuck, just like Reagan.
malaise
(269,157 posts)That's all we want because no one is perfect
nolabear
(41,991 posts)It was so fast I hardly had time to say "Thank you for everything." But he smiled and said "No, thank YOU." And it was over. And I still smile when I think of it. 😀😍
malaise
(269,157 posts)Lucky you
shanti
(21,675 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I, OTOH, think he's got at least fifteen MORE years of good ideas and humanity-enhancing proposals in him!
Ref: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5585759
Happy birthday, JC!
Peanuts are good for you
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)The goodness in this man,makes me weepy.
I want to hug him,a long,long hug.
I hope he knows how much he is loved,and beloved.
malaise
(269,157 posts)that he is loved and beloved by all but winders and media hacks.
I'll be watching to see how M$Greedia covers his 90th birthday.