I remember how dejected I felt back in 1980 when Jimmy Carter lost the election to Ronald Reagan. I felt he deserved another term. Reagan brought in an era of unfettered capitalism and anti-environmentalism, which is the root cause of many of the problems the US is facing today.
Reagan also tripled the national debt. It was under control when he took office, but we have never been able to get it back under control since the Reagan-Bush years.
Reagan was the first president to spend more money than all other presidents combined. (Until 'W' came along) Reagan made us a debtor nation of which we've never recovered. Also the RNC commited treason with Iran in '79-'80 in order to get Bonzo Brains Raygun in office. Carter told us what was coming, he was a member of the CFR and ratted out far right oil with their plans with Israel. Carter made Israel do nice-nice with Egypt which lesser presidents would be killed for. I'd fought WWIII for Jimmy Carter being on the USS Nimitz knowing he's the only president that could utilize an E-4 Looking Glass aircraft.
@@martinnolan4800 Gag me. He was the lesser of two evils. That is, evil. Some people have the wit to see him as he was and is: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
16 years ago, I flew to Florida with my husband and 1 year old son. We were in our seats on the plane when President Carter walked around to say hello, and said some nice things about my son as he affectionately touched the back of his head. When we arrived and walked off the plane, he and Rosalyn were standing there at the off ramp smiling at people. They flew economy class and were mild mannered but friendly. It was a treat to meet them.
Thank you for the irrelevant public relations anecdote. It's a damned shame Hubert Humphrey didn't become President; America would have been spared both Nixon and Carter. Humphrey was diametrically opposed to the worst character traits of both. An actual public servant. Rational. Informed. With integrity and respect for bedrock American values.
Well said! That’s the very definition of character. It’s a blessing that Jimmy Carter was once the President. With the end of this latest madness, there’s an urgent need for a re-evaluation of Carter’s work and intelligence.
Of Christianity Light, based on his love of oil money from Arab Muslims and religious bigotry toward Israel, which produced his religion's founder. Greatest measure of hypocrisy, maybe.
The U.S. President is not just the head of government, but also the head of state. Unlike Parliamentary Democracies where the roles are split between two people we combine them here in the U.S. People have expectations that there will be special acknowledgement of their head of state. In other words, they want to see the symbols.
@@martinriggs4960 🤡 you’d rather have a short term gain, long term loser that sucks over a short term loser, long term winner that actually gets things done.
@@martinriggs4960wages increased under Carter and he increased pay for the military and the inflation that occurred at the tail end of his term dissipated because of his policies, yet Rambling Reagan took credit for it. Reagan was a complete joke and a disgrace to the office of the Presidency
“The evil men do lives after them. The good is often interred with their bones.” People have seriously underestimated Carter for too many years. It takes a strong person to be more interested in saving lives than looking “big”. I’m very impressed with this analysis of Jimmy Carter’s career. Ironically, if I were “in a foxhole” I’d choose Carter ahead of Reagan. (All day, everyday!)
@@MLevin-kx5dg you really are trolling this thread. That opinion piece by Rabbi Boteach is pure drivel underpinned by his obvious rightwing pro zionist agenda - not worth the paper it was written on!
@@uwanttono4012 Now everyone knows you're an anti-Israel anti-Semite who's a supporter of global Islamofascist terrorism. Thanks for your Neo-Stalinist, genocidal confirmation.
@@uwanttono4012 I do my best to communicate with low-information, low IQ jerks, hoping to help them learn some useful information so they can stop being jerks. You're welcome
@@martinriggs4960 Flabby response. Reagan's Iran treason, bungled Beirut adventure, and disastrous domestic economic policies cause middle class (what's left of it) suffering to this day. You seem to need intellectual Viagra.
You probably missed JFK by a few years, then? Clinton wasn't perfect, by a long shot but he tried to get Bin Laden and left the nation with a budget surplus. I suppose most Americans suffer from leadership amnesia. Along with delusions that Republicans are "conservative."
@@MLevin-kx5dg No amnesia here. Kennedy may have been symbolic of good things but after all he fucked around on his wife in public display and absolutely humiliating to Jackie.
@@martinriggs4960 You must be a wealthy plutocrat like Twit Robbedme or the Koch brothers. Or, you might be one of the Republiconartists' chumbalones who thinks that trickle-down economics (a/k/a Reaganomics, a/k/a the Laffer Curve, a/k/a Grover Norquist's wet dream) really trickles wealth down from plutocrats who benefit from billions in corporate welfare when it in fact, sucks it up to the plutocrats. Look at the statistics on the wealth stolen from the U.S. middle class just since the Republiconartists' engineered the 99% Depression of 2008. The Wall Street Banksters, Big Oil Oligarchs, Big Pharma Oligarchs, Big Insurance Oligarchs, and Giant Insurance Oligarchs have INCREASED their wealth while the lower 99% have suffered economic loss, right? The NYSE and the 1%ers are doing just wonderfully.
Jimmy Carter is the best example of what an American President could be, and really should be in our world today. He was submarined by lessor honorable men, and marginalised for fear of people supporting his plans, which would have prevented many wrongful deaths and a better world situation, and living history!
Has done even more AFTER his presidency than he had time for during his 4 yrs by mediating conflicts all over the globe. Am proud to have been in his profession of conflict mediation, & in having had part of my training & experience in a center his administration funded & established. Thank you Pres. Carter, a true gentleman & honorable leader.
More honest than "Honest Abe?" How about George Washington? How about JFK (excepting his fondness for women, a personal, not political or leadership failure)?
@@MLevin-kx5dg They each lived in different times. Carter’s great achievements will be understood and respected in time. I suspect that he’s more about doing his best than polishing his reputation.
@@martinnolan4800 Great achievements, right. Why not examine some facts discussed in 2016: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/ before you blather about your suspicions? He would have been a great Christian--during the Spanish Inquisition--maybe even in Isabella and Ferdinand's Royal Court? In the words of that Great American legislator, Ilhan Omar*: "It's about the Benjamins." *and World Class anti-Semite
@@MegaJustGeorge If you're referring to Jimmah, your vantage point is head down in sand. observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/ *** You think he's humble because he's the opposite of the present narcissistic Grifter-In-Chief.
@@MLevin-kx5dg Well, buddy, at least his followers never abolished the Fairness Doctrine - as Ronald Reagan's followers did on August 1, 1987. Furthermore, I don't have my head in the sand.
I graduated from college in 1976. There were no jobs, but Carter pushed for jobs for folks who were suffering from no employment. The CETA program allowed me to get a job and I’ll never be able to thank him enough for his actions. Regardless of his mistakes, he helped me when I was a very young person.
Jimmy Carter-my favorite president. Many hostages were killed during those times. Those guys got home alive. And it would have been earlier if Reagan had not made a back room deal.
It’s notable just how manic his “base” are behaving in Georgia, (ironically). The screaming of “Fight for Trump” at the two GOP candidates is new. This is already a sinister warning for the future. Trump will do harm.
I would almost completely agree with that. He was one of the best. If he was able to work with congress better than he did, he would have been even better. I still can't believe that one of the first things President Reagan did taking over from President Carter was to remove the solar panels that President Carter had put on the White House roof as an example to help the earth. My goodness, they were not hurting anyone. Shame on you President Reagan. Thank God for you President Jimmy Carter.
@@Jeff-wb3hh Ronald Reagan was a B movie star who read his lines for 16 years. The first eight in Sacramento and the last eight in Washington DC. BTW I'm from California and he was not that good of a governor.
@@Jeff-wb3hh I from Boston and watched Reagan's speech in Government Center when he was campaigning against Walter Mondale. Reagan said that all Mondale did was nock him when he had the courage to deregulate gasoline, and it worked. Well it was Carter that deregulated gasoline and all Reagan did was nock Carter. First time I heard an out right lie by a President about his opponent. Most credit given to Reagan was based on what he said he did and not what he actually did. I was only born in 53 and I can say the Carter was the best President in my life time so far. Integrity and courage to do the right thing.
@@anl1456 President Carter was excellent. I voted for Mondale in 1984. Too bad the one with all show and no substance won again in 1984. Mondale would have been a good president.
A great person but maybe not a great president but I admired his humility and down to earth qualities. You could count on what he said and did. A stark contrast to today's leader in the white house. I'm 65 and voted for him both times (even though I was republican) and have always been confused by the Carter-hate over the years so I'm curious about the book and learning more.
I was in the US army when Jimmy Carter was president and I'm glad; the US was NOT at war with anyone. Why anyone would think that an old Commie chaser would make a better president is a mystery; the US, under Reagan, lost the lives of hundreds of US marines in Lebanon, and all the US troops that "Liberated" Granada, a hotbed of Communist activities, no doubt. See the Clint Eastwood movie "Heartbreak Ridge," about the adventures of Gunny Highway and his Marine Recon platoon in the fight for Granada. Reagan was the one who traded arms to Iran to finance rebellion in Nicaragua; his minions did the heavy lifting and dirty work. One of those minions was Vice-president Bush, who pardoned ALL of the crooked bastards in the last days of his presidency. 10 years later, They took a picture of all of the living presidents in the Oval Office, and Jimmy Carter didn't stand close to the other presidents. Clinton admired the new rug Bush 43 had put in the Oval Office, though.
In Carter’s first year American wages increased by 11% and 10% the following year to his record high in 1980, and he did this all without lowering taxes during a time when top tier income earners were taxed at 70% and corporations were taxed at 46%. After the Reagan tax cuts between 1981-1985, American wages had decreased 13%. By the time Bush left office in 1993 wages were 20% lower then when Carter left office, and the minimum wage was worth 35% less.
Wonderful to learn about Jimmy Carter's Presidency and a lot of us know about his work after President. I got a book of his signed in Berkeley California and saw that blue eyed look... as he sat at a table and signed books. Jonathan Alter nice coverage of Carter and Rosalind. thanks for the interview. I'm going to listen to it again and get the book.
Except for all his leadership failings and serious questions about his religious/moral character, he's wonderful. And Gen. Custer no doubt thought of himself a wonderful patriot and Christian. observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
@Rita Cummings Levin has a bee in his bonnett over Carter!! Like the bride at every wedding or the corpse at every wake he wants to be the center of attention by constantly pushing his pro-zionist pro-Israel facist diatribe. Just look at how , like weeds growing in the wild, he has peppered this thread with his nonsense. He is an insidious troll.
@@martinriggs4960Spoken like a Rambling Reagan supporter. You clowns preaching about ‘strength’ wouldn’t know a single thing about it. Reagan committed treason with the Iran Contra, negotiating with terrorists to hold American citizens hostage, ballooned our national debt, unleashed homeless and mentally insane people on the streets, started fun control and granted amnesty to illegals. Such a ‘strong’ leader 😂
Jimmy Carter was the greatest president America ever had and probably ever will have. As a human being he epitomizes the the true values that very few have: Honesty, Integrity, Decency and Generosity. In this day and age these are the rarest qualities one can find.
There is not a better human being in terms of intellect and compassion. I know, because I have gotten to know him personally in the past 15 years. He was the best President since Franklin Roosevelt.
@@lloydbaroody There is no truth in your libel (or Carter's) of the only multi-cultural democracy in the middle east. If you're not willfully ignorant read this chronicle of fact: https: //www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-refugees-from-arab-countries If you enjoy your ignorance, open the Old Testament Book of Genisis story of Onan and read it alternately with the Soviet blood libel "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and enjoy yourself.
@@MLevin-kx5dg Israel is a racist country. Everybody knows it. So don’t put you head in the sand because as a Jew, you felt it necessary to drink Israel’s Koolaide.
@@ingemeinzer1047 Levin has a bee in his bonnett over Carter!! Like the bride at every wedding or the corpse at every wake he wants to be the center of attention by constantly pushing his pro-zionist pro-Israel facist diatribe. Just look at how , like weeds growing in the wild, he has peppered this thread with his nonsense. He is an insidious troll.
Jimmy Carter is the president I most respect of the last several decades...I agree, he has been grossly overlooked and under valued. He and Rosalynn have been the most productive in his post presidential years. I do hope this book brings more attention and respect to him.
Thank you for this. If you want to mightily add to this appreciation, go back and read President Carter's 2005 book Our Endangered Values. His incredible vision will make you weep. His integrity, decency, intelligence, and humility contrast powerfully with what is present in the office and politics today. Some of us knew it then. But he was ahead of his time. The day will come when he will be appreciated as a beacon of much-needed light.
JM - the north GA mountains. The elevation makes it the only place that is not too hot in GA. 😊 But there are many wonderful places to see all over GA.
@@gamtngirl3655 Thanks! My ancestors came to GA from Ireland so I imagine it being much warmer overall than Ireland and Scotland. I am pretty adaptive but I like greenery and the ocean and don't mind some cold.
I don't agree about anything that suggests Carter being "overrated" for his post-presidency: He has demonstrated very powerfully (Trump would say "strongly", ugh) that human character and trying to stay on the moral path may be far more important to the population and civilization than many political policies, many of which are more "sound bite" than great visionary, long term thinking.
Jimma couln't hold a candle to JFK, who began the push for civil rights legislation and literally for America to reach for the stars. And as a Catholic, never once invoked his religious bias, if any, to pursue an effort to persecute any of America's democratic allies.
Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter are two of the best people that the United States has ever produced. I've been a huge fan since I first voted for him. What they have done since his term ended is in my opinion almost saintly. He continues to try to improve himself daily. Their accomplishments in improving the world are seismic. The American people judged him as weak because he is a good man. That is the same way corporate America treats and destroys employees. Employees that don't lie and cheat for the company are called weak.
Jimmy was and is a wonderful man, even if not known for the great president..Man Trump is opposite- horrible man and still horrid president. I admire JImmy for all he does and his good marriage...and compassion.
Levin has a bee in his bonnett over Carter!! Like the bride at every wedding or the corpse at every wake he wants to be the center of attention by constantly pushing his pro-zionist pro-Israel facist diatribe. Carter called Israel an apartheid state and it was the only country that supported Sth Africa's Bantustan policy in the 70s. Now, like weeds growing in the wild, M Levin has peppered this thread with his nonsense. He is an insidious troll.
@@greghelton4668 I'm not impressed by his attempted atonement activities, since his un-Christian behavior and bigotry continues unabated into his retirement. Hitler loved his mother, I hear and treated dogs and (some) children affectionately. I'll bet Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain and the French Vichy government did also. If Carter was really a true Christian and repentent for his constant libels of the only Jewish nation on Earth (a tolerant, multicultural democracy) and the only democracy in the middle east, he would've stopped taking cash from Islamic tyrannies that are members OPEC long ago. You can buy that fake humility if you choose.
President Carter - thank you for your service. You are a gift 💝 to United States. Thank you 🙏 for being peace maker, thank you for your goodness & kindness. Thank you for diplomacy.
@@janjust4205 observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/ You think this is diplomacy? This religious bigot's money-making lies about the only multi-cultural democracy in the middle east?
Jimmy Carter... an amazing, inspirational man... the American model of the highest character possible... love this man, this leader, this father, this son, this husband, this humble servant to all Americans everywhere. We are all so lucky this fine man was born here. There is no living president that could hold a candle to this man... and when he gets to Heaven... he'll be there convincing God to forgive everyone who comes after him... just because... Jimmy believes in second chances... to the end. It is never too late for a wretch to humble himself and become a better person. Never too late....
If he stood on Mount Rushmore, his character still comes up unquestionably short: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/ *** Since Billy has passed on are you some other relative?
Probably paying $5.00 per gallon for gasoline, with interest rates for residential housing near double digits and the People of Jimmah's Old Testament Jewish Savior probably dead in a Second Holocaust? observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
@@MLevin-kx5dg Yeah...that would have been terrible...especially for Raygun's neonutter base, the Zionists in Israel and the MIC. So we got AIDS, CoV2, endless wars in the Mideast, and an ineffective and corrupt government run by the greedy rich and 'religious' crazies.
@@martinriggs4960 Yeah...it's so good now that the neonutters would rather die of COVID than get vaccinated with a drug that their 'dear leader' worked so hard to develop for them. Where's the trust?? 🤣🤣
For those who believe Reagan delivered what Carter couldn't here's something to think about. If we look to see what Net GDP growth was (GDP minus deficit spending) for each we would see that Carter had a net growth of 72 Billion dollars a year. While many believed the 80's boomed because of Reagan facts show that the same equation for Reagan's 8 years was a net of 73 Billion dollars a year. Deficits spending whether Reagan or FDR is deficit spending. The difference is FDR deficit spent building things for future generation while Reagan was robbing future generations wealth. Cater was also a victim of 2 other things that his Republican predecessors thrusted on him. Early in the 70's Nixon took America off the gold standard, and later Gerald Ford would allow Gold to be once again owned privately which gave the rich a way to bet again the American economy.
Jimmy Carter was my beacon of hope in the 70s. I thought he was a GREAT man - his heart was in the right place for the little man despite events of the day getting the better of him. He showed humility, love and compassion towards his fellow man and what more can you ask of anyone? Truly a great man and history will in time - if it is not doing so already - redeem his presidency and he will be regarded as one of our better presidents especially when compared to those who followed him and to our current bozo.
This is true; the best way to learn about anyone important is to check out an interview with the author of a good book about that person. This is a shame; the writers of best-selling books about famous personalities pull together enormous amounts of data and THEN make that person interesting. And often, they will shed light on the time and events, and the cast of characters surrounding the person who's written about. I'm waiting for this book now(reserved at the Library).
@@DavidSmith-ss1cg M Levin is like the bride at every wedding or the corpse at every wake; he wants to be the center of attention by constantly pushing his pro-zionist pro-Israel facist diatribe. Just look at how , like weeds growing in the wild, he has peppered this thread with his nonsense. He is an insidious troll.
Levin has a bee in his bonnett over Carter!! Like the bride at every wedding or the corpse at every wake he wants to be the center of attention by constantly pushing his pro-zionist pro-Israel facist diatribe. Carter called Israel an apartheid state and it was the only country that supported Sth Africa's Bantustan policy in the 70s. Now, like weeds growing in the wild, M Levin has peppered this thread with his nonsense. He is an insidious troll.
@@martinriggs4960eagan did NOTHING as President but take the credit for other peoples work. Explain how he was weak when he helped develop the B2 bomber which is far better than Raygun’s ‘Star Wars’
President Carter was my favorite president. Especially after seeing how low Trump has gone in his lies and bullying and harsh, unreasonable retributions or madness.
Looks like Americans and their historians value most charisma and bravado in their presidents, Jimmy Carter may have lacked but obviously was the humblest and most decent one in recent history.
Great interview. I look forward to reading, owning this book. My big take away: Any politician who seeks PEACE and advocates PEACE is labeled as WEAK. No wonder this country is so broken! Jimmy Carter is America's Great Humanitarian.
"Mr. Smith" wasn't a post-Civil War religious hypocrite who didn't apply the teachings of Jesus, the Jewish kid from Nazareth and the regions of Judea and Samaria (ancient Israel of the Old Testament), or American global democracy-spreading interests. Like his predecessors, he also abandoned the Christian Armenians who were butchered by the Turks (including Kemal Ataturk) a century ago. No comparison, ethically.
@@karmashim3971 By all means, elaborate upon your perception of my manifesto. In the meantime try reading: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/ The fictional Mr. Smith stood for democracy and intelligent political leadership with a tolerant social conscience based upon fairness.
@@MLevin-kx5dg Maifesto - a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer. - Merriam Webster My statement about relating Mr. Carter to Mr. Smith is just my general observation, but while you obviously don't see it ( which is perfectly fine), instead you go into specifics and this long statement which sounds like something from a manifesto. There, I elaborated and gave you my perception. Glad to oblige. Oh, and Happy Holidays to you!
@@karmashim3971 Seems to my perception that your "relating" the moral and ethical fictional Mr. Smith in a way that implies that the religious bigot and historically, factually unsupportable posturing Carter can be favorably compared. Facts say he cannot be.
Jimmy Carter (and George HW Bush) certainly didn't like losing his bid for a second term. But, like the elder Bush, he was gracious about it. What's more, when Carter returned to Plains in 1981, he found the peanut warehouse had been badly mismanaged; as if his loss in 1980 wasn't enough. Still, he managed to shape a great post-presidential life, with The Carter Center, Habitat for Humanity, and many other efforts. George HW Bush also led an active post-presidency. Both men handled bitter losses with real class.
Pres. Carter had some bad luck in the '70s, as did this country... part of it was his feuding with a democratic congress... and then in came Reagan, which led to a 40 year blue collar union slide. Maybe it was inevitable; we'd had our 7 fat years, so to speak (because right after WWll, we were the only nation that still had an intact industrial plant) , and by the the '70s the rest of the world started to kick our collective butts, started to make up for lost time... and while it's no doubt true what Alter said about a 14-fold increase in petroleum prices, what he left out is what level it started from; I think it was around $2 a barrel; so oil companies had been paying $2 for 42 gallons of oil... so at long last it was time to pay the pipers... and of course the Arabs. Funny; while unions were weakening in the US (Reagan, a former union president, destroyed the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization- PATCO as a specific signal for the beginning of reactionary change), cartels like OPEC were flying high and ruling the roost.
Levin has a bee in his bonnett over Carter!! Like the bride at every wedding or the corpse at every wake he wants to be the center of attention by constantly pushing his pro-zionist pro-Israel facist diatribe. Carter called Israel an apartheid state and it was the only country that supported Sth Africa's Bantustan policy in the 70s. Now, like weeds growing in the wild, M Levin has peppered this thread with his nonsense. He is an insidious troll.
Jimmy Carter was an excellent President, but a lousy politician. As much as the presidency is about moral leadership and inspiring democracy, Carter passed with flying colors! As much as the presidency is about political gamesmanship and brazen partisanship, Carter failed with dying colors! Perhaps he has learned the lesson of Jesus who, if had remained a carpenter's son, would have lived a longer life-span. Perhaps that is why this noble, humble, highly intelligent man who should be President is still alive and doing the mighty work of Jesus upon this earth! Regrettably, when Carter goes, so goes America!
I've always believed Carter's been under-rated. Reagan was just lucky - he had name recognition from movies and tv and the public eats that stuff up. Like trump, Reagan tried to do some of the same bad policy things, but fortunately there wasn't social media then, so he couldn't get away with trashing the environment and handing the keys of our national lands to the wealthy corporate raiders. And, somewhat to his credit, he at least had some notions about national security.
In my lifetime, Jimmy carter was the best president. The republicans and a few Dems made him look week. He had the best character, as he does today..,his honesty is why he had problems in his presidency.
I will never forget walking home during that horrid recession in Carters tenure and my father was cursing and pitching an absolute fit. It was rare for my father get extremely angry. It’s interesting, Reagan (or reagonomics) was trickle down economics where money always flowed down to the poor “as necessary”. He was the worst President for the middle class. Carter was actually a very smart and good man, yet had a horrible reputation as President. He was the most hated President of many. Carter was very religious and said to be a condescending peanut farmer. Reagan did the bidding of the wealthy and was totally self absorbed, yet he was acclaimed historically to be such a good President and kind man. (He was shot in an assassination attempt). FDR was very misunderstood historically, but beloved by the people and re-elected 4 terms to die during his 4th. Eleanor was said to be a witch. She did great things and most of what is considered a 1st lady’s responsibility is from Eleanor Roosevelts time as First Lady.
@ WOW! STRANGE! I had fantasies about "Jaws" with the fisherman being eaten and bloody water, and then I clicked "Show Answers" and you had the same ideas!!! Fascinating.
Carter was a wonderful President who inherited an impossible situation which he is famous for instead of all great things he did and continued to do after his presidency. He was the only president to make a peace agreement in the Middle East that still holds today with the Camp David Peace Accord. He isn’t the greatest president we ever had but better than most an in comparison to Trump it makes you yearn for a Jimmy Carter again.
Historians evaluate presidents every few years. Carter is one of those who is rising in stature. Others, such as Jackson and Wilson, have declined in recent years.
also because he told them....they better not touch one hair on their head....and did the footwork to get them brought back home....and idiots gave raygun lyer(actor) the credit
@@benharriston2532 Actually, Bonzo's Supporting Actor and his merry men committed treason by negotiating with Ayatollah Khomeni's terrorist regime before The Great Prevaricator was sworn in after the November election. Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen was caught on tape discussing this decades ago.
I didn’t like his disposing of the Presidential yacht. It was actually quite modest, not at all what you think of when you hear the term “yacht” today. It is near me in Oakland, but it really belongs in Chesapeake Bay.
As usual, I do not agree with most. JIMMY CARTER is a Good Man and a Good President. He was the only true Christian in recent presideny. When the Pope died, they were all there at the funeral. but not the Carters. I found that so odd. Jimmy is not a racist, he was raised with few whites. He is one of my favorites. He was probally one of our most intelligent. Politics is such a dirty business, the opposite side will always try to destroy.
I wrote articles decades ago explaining how Carters position on the military was misrepresented by Reagans campaign people. Carter was portrayed as abondoning the military but Carters role in pushing the sealth bomber program that gave us an undisputed edge over any adversary. Democrats have always pushed for advancements in high teck weaponry, republicans have always pushed quantity of what we have like more aircraft carrier groups.
I remember how dejected I felt back in 1980 when Jimmy Carter lost the election to Ronald Reagan. I felt he deserved another term. Reagan brought in an era of unfettered capitalism and anti-environmentalism, which is the root cause of many of the problems the US is facing today.
Reagan also tripled the national debt. It was under control when he took office, but we have never been able to get it back under control since the Reagan-Bush years.
Reagan was the first president to spend more money than all other presidents combined. (Until 'W' came along) Reagan made us a debtor nation of which we've never recovered. Also the RNC commited treason with Iran in '79-'80 in order to get Bonzo Brains Raygun in office. Carter told us what was coming, he was a member of the CFR and ratted out far right oil with their plans with Israel. Carter made Israel do nice-nice with Egypt which lesser presidents would be killed for. I'd fought WWIII for Jimmy Carter being on the USS Nimitz knowing he's the only president that could utilize an E-4 Looking Glass aircraft.
@@robertrichard6107 It’s sad that people didn’t see Carter for the great President he was.
This very fair and insightful analysis is long overdue.
@@martinnolan4800 Gag me. He was the lesser of two evils. That is, evil. Some people have the wit to see him as he was and is: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
@@MLevin-kx5dg In all fairness, he was not president of Israel.
16 years ago, I flew to Florida with my husband and 1 year old son. We were in our seats on the plane when President Carter walked around to say hello, and said some nice things about my son as he affectionately touched the back of his head. When we arrived and walked off the plane, he and Rosalyn were standing there at the off ramp smiling at people. They flew economy class and were mild mannered but friendly. It was a treat to meet them.
Thank you for the irrelevant public relations anecdote. It's a damned shame Hubert Humphrey didn't become President; America would have been spared both Nixon and Carter. Humphrey was diametrically opposed to the worst character traits of both. An actual public servant. Rational. Informed. With integrity and respect for bedrock American values.
A beautiful story of a caring, if complicated, President who also happens to be an excellent human being. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. 🙏✨
He is humble and the power never went to his head. He is one of my heros.
Well said! That’s the very definition of character. It’s a blessing that Jimmy Carter was once the President.
With the end of this latest madness, there’s an urgent need for a re-evaluation of Carter’s work and intelligence.
To paraphrase Golda Meir, "he has a lot to be humble about."
@@martinnolan4800 What utter nonsense. I voted for him--twice--only because the alternative was worse.
@@martinnolan4800 I absolutely agree with you. Carter should be seen as one of our very finest Presidents!
@@MLevin-kx5dg Your comment is utter nonsense, but you certainly have a right to your opinion!
Much respect and love to Pres and Mrs Carter. They are humans of the greatest measure.
Of Christianity Light, based on his love of oil money from Arab Muslims and religious bigotry toward Israel, which produced his religion's founder. Greatest measure of hypocrisy, maybe.
observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
It hurt his presidency to get rid of status symbols?. Says more about the pretensions of politics than the failings of the man.
The U.S. President is not just the head of government, but also the head of state. Unlike Parliamentary Democracies where the roles are split between two people we combine them here in the U.S. People have expectations that there will be special acknowledgement of their head of state. In other words, they want to see the symbols.
@@lenblack1462 Still a bit weird.
it hurt his presidency to be a weak, ineffective technocrat
@@martinriggs4960 🤡 you’d rather have a short term gain, long term loser that sucks over a short term loser, long term winner that actually gets things done.
@@martinriggs4960wages increased under Carter and he increased pay for the military and the inflation that occurred at the tail end of his term dissipated because of his policies, yet Rambling Reagan took credit for it. Reagan was a complete joke and a disgrace to the office of the Presidency
“The evil men do lives after them. The good is often interred with their bones.” People have seriously underestimated Carter for too many years.
It takes a strong person to be more interested in saving lives than looking “big”. I’m very impressed with this analysis of Jimmy Carter’s career.
Ironically, if I were “in a foxhole” I’d choose Carter ahead of Reagan. (All day, everyday!)
@@MLevin-kx5dg you really are trolling this thread. That opinion piece by Rabbi Boteach is pure drivel underpinned by his obvious rightwing pro zionist agenda - not worth the paper it was written on!
@@uwanttono4012 Now everyone knows you're an anti-Israel anti-Semite who's a supporter of global Islamofascist terrorism. Thanks for your Neo-Stalinist, genocidal confirmation.
@@MLevin-kx5dg You are very good at writing drivel!! It takes a peculiar talent to excel in such stupidity! Keep it up!!
@@uwanttono4012 I do my best to communicate with low-information, low IQ jerks, hoping to help them learn some useful information so they can stop being jerks. You're welcome
Cater server while Reagan acted.
President Carter? Too good for this country
Absolutely right.
Maybe a better fit for Argentina? How 'bout, um, Cuba?
@@MLevin-kx5dg wow......
to weak to lead. technocrat. HIGHLY ineffective. too good? gfy
@@martinriggs4960 Flabby response. Reagan's Iran treason, bungled Beirut adventure, and disastrous domestic economic policies cause middle class (what's left of it) suffering to this day. You seem to need intellectual Viagra.
Carter is my favorite president in my lifetime.
You probably missed JFK by a few years, then? Clinton wasn't perfect, by a long shot but he tried to get Bin Laden and left the nation with a budget surplus. I suppose most Americans suffer from leadership amnesia. Along with delusions that Republicans are "conservative."
@@MLevin-kx5dg No amnesia here.
Kennedy may have been symbolic of good things but after all he fucked around on his wife in public display and absolutely humiliating to Jackie.
@@MLevin-kx5dg Ditto about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky
@@lauriesell7934 Ditto Shirley McClain's cogent observation.
@@MLevin-kx5dg Also JFK almost pushed the red button during the October Crisis '62. Things would have looked very differently had he done that.
I was very young, but I remember liking Carter, even though there was a terrible recession, and really disliking Regan.
You are excused, up 'til now; now there are facts an adult can consider: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
@@MLevin-kx5dg, nothing like bias, huh?
@@pamelaporter1739 You're right, Alter is an apple-polishing putz/
and the US remembers hating the time during the Carter presidency and being happier and healthier during the Reagan Administration.
@@martinriggs4960 You must be a wealthy plutocrat like Twit Robbedme or the Koch brothers. Or, you might be one of the Republiconartists' chumbalones who thinks that trickle-down economics (a/k/a Reaganomics, a/k/a the Laffer Curve, a/k/a Grover Norquist's wet dream) really trickles wealth down from plutocrats who benefit from billions in corporate welfare when it in fact, sucks it up to the plutocrats. Look at the statistics on the wealth stolen from the U.S. middle class just since the Republiconartists' engineered the 99% Depression of 2008. The Wall Street Banksters, Big Oil Oligarchs, Big Pharma Oligarchs, Big Insurance Oligarchs, and Giant Insurance Oligarchs have INCREASED their wealth while the lower 99% have suffered economic loss, right? The NYSE and the 1%ers are doing just wonderfully.
Jimmy Carter is the best example of what an American President could be, and really should be in our world today. He was submarined by lessor honorable men, and marginalised for fear of people supporting his plans, which would have prevented many wrongful deaths and a better world situation, and living history!
Far from "best" and just not the worst.
Has done even more AFTER his presidency than he had time for during his 4 yrs by mediating conflicts all over the globe. Am proud to have been in his profession of conflict mediation, & in having had part of my training & experience in a center his administration funded & established. Thank you Pres. Carter, a true gentleman & honorable leader.
Jimmy Carter was truly a Godly man. He was a humble man
God fearing
Truly, Jimmy Carter was - and still is - a humble and gentle man.
Just the kind of person many Americans can’t relate to. He wasn’t “marketed” well like many politicians today.
Certainly our most honest president
More honest than "Honest Abe?" How about George Washington? How about JFK (excepting his fondness for women, a personal, not political or leadership failure)?
absolutely
@@MLevin-kx5dg They each lived in different times. Carter’s great achievements will be understood and respected in time.
I suspect that he’s more about doing his best than polishing his reputation.
@@martinnolan4800 Great achievements, right. Why not examine some facts discussed in 2016: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/ before you blather about your suspicions? He would have been a great Christian--during the Spanish Inquisition--maybe even in Isabella and Ferdinand's Royal Court?
In the words of that Great American legislator, Ilhan Omar*: "It's about the Benjamins."
*and World Class anti-Semite
@@MLevin-kx5dg, 🙄
I liked Jimmy Carter.
He wasn't the worst President in history, or the most bigoted, true.
What country are you writing from?
Yah, he was no Millard Filmore.
@Celena Newell Are you in the UAE or Saudi Arabia?
never lost respect for this man,good to see him get some attention...
You're in the minority.
You obviously haven't been paying attention.
James Earl Carter, Jr., is, from my vantage point, a decent and humble man - we need more people such as him in this day and age.
@@MegaJustGeorge If you're referring to Jimmah, your vantage point is head down in sand.
observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/ *** You think he's humble because he's the opposite of the present narcissistic Grifter-In-Chief.
@@MLevin-kx5dg Well, buddy, at least his followers never abolished the Fairness Doctrine - as Ronald Reagan's followers did on August 1, 1987.
Furthermore, I don't have my head in the sand.
I graduated from college in 1976. There were no jobs, but Carter pushed for jobs for folks who were suffering from no employment. The CETA program allowed me to get a job and I’ll never be able to thank him enough for his actions. Regardless of his mistakes, he helped me when I was a very young person.
Jimmy Carter-my favorite president. Many hostages were killed during those times. Those guys got home alive. And it would have been earlier if Reagan had not made a back room deal.
Reagan's treason does not excuse your incompetent, hypocritical favorite President.
@@MLevin-kx5dg kma gnatwit.
Carter was the most decent and honest president we had in my voting history. He continues to be a very decent human being.
@Greg Helton Hear hear!!
What nonsense: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
@@uwanttono4012 Weird, Weird! observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
@@MLevin-kx5dg I've alreay printed this article and used it for toilet paper!!
@@uwanttono4012 I'm glad you've learned to stop bare-handing it. Too bad you can't add to your knowledge by rubbing knowledge on your body.
Don’t underestimate the damage Trump will do post Presidency.
He will for Biden be a pain in the ass for years to come.
It’s notable just how manic his “base” are behaving in Georgia, (ironically). The screaming of “Fight for Trump” at the two GOP candidates is new.
This is already a sinister warning for the future. Trump will do harm.
Don't forget there are lots of crazies out there. He (Trump) had better not ever let his guard down.
Donald Trump will dominate Republican Party after January 20th and INTIMIDATE everyone in it for the next 4 years.
@@michaelwolfe7105 So, no change in his behavior then? ... It’s also very unlikely that the Republicans will grow a spine.
President Carter was the first president I identified with when I matured enough to know what it meant. Loved him and still do. A great human being.
Why not check some facts before cannonizing Saint Jimmah: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
Jimmy Carter is the best ex-President America ever had. He is also a shining example of a Christian.
I would almost completely agree with that. He was one of the best. If he was able to work with congress better than he did, he would have been even better. I still can't believe that one of the first things President Reagan did taking over from President Carter was to remove the solar panels that President Carter had put on the White House roof as an example to help the earth. My goodness, they were not hurting anyone. Shame on you President Reagan. Thank God for you President Jimmy Carter.
@@Jeff-wb3hh Ronald Reagan was a B movie star who read his lines for 16 years. The first eight in Sacramento and the last eight in Washington DC. BTW I'm from California and he was not that good of a governor.
@@Jeff-wb3hh I from Boston and watched Reagan's speech in Government Center when he was campaigning against Walter Mondale. Reagan said that all Mondale did was nock him when he had the courage to deregulate gasoline, and it worked. Well it was Carter that deregulated gasoline and all Reagan did was nock Carter. First time I heard an out right lie by a President about his opponent. Most credit given to Reagan was based on what he said he did and not what he actually did.
I was only born in 53 and I can say the Carter was the best President in my life time so far. Integrity and courage to do the right thing.
Sigh. How many political/historical naifs does it take to activate a light bulb?
@@anl1456 President Carter was excellent. I voted for Mondale in 1984. Too bad the one with all show and no substance won again in 1984. Mondale would have been a good president.
An impressive interview about a very good president and a unique human being. Congrats Mr. Alter!
A great person but maybe not a great president but I admired his humility and down to earth qualities. You could count on what he said and did. A stark contrast to today's leader in the white house. I'm 65 and voted for him both times (even though I was republican) and have always been confused by the Carter-hate over the years so I'm curious about the book and learning more.
I cried when he lost I was young 28 he was so kind.
I was in the US army when Jimmy Carter was president and I'm glad; the US was NOT at war with anyone. Why anyone would think that an old Commie chaser would make a better president is a mystery; the US, under Reagan, lost the lives of hundreds of US marines in Lebanon, and all the US troops that "Liberated" Granada, a hotbed of Communist activities, no doubt. See the Clint Eastwood movie "Heartbreak Ridge," about the adventures of Gunny Highway and his Marine Recon platoon in the fight for Granada. Reagan was the one who traded arms to Iran to finance rebellion in Nicaragua; his minions did the heavy lifting and dirty work. One of those minions was Vice-president Bush, who pardoned ALL of the crooked bastards in the last days of his presidency. 10 years later, They took a picture of all of the living presidents in the Oval Office, and Jimmy Carter didn't stand close to the other presidents. Clinton admired the new rug Bush 43 had put in the Oval Office, though.
@@louisedory7725 America had reason to cry but, not too much.
The media turned on him because of their corporate interests. they were beholding to those he opposed. Reagan was the lapdog they required.
@@patriciaalley1562 100% correct.
In Carter’s first year American wages increased by 11% and 10% the following year to his record high in 1980, and he did this all without lowering taxes during a time when top tier income earners were taxed at 70% and corporations were taxed at 46%. After the Reagan tax cuts between 1981-1985, American wages had decreased 13%. By the time Bush left office in 1993 wages were 20% lower then when Carter left office, and the minimum wage was worth 35% less.
Wonderful to learn about Jimmy Carter's Presidency and a lot of us know about his work after President. I got a book of his signed in Berkeley California and saw that blue eyed look... as he sat at a table and signed books. Jonathan Alter nice coverage of Carter and Rosalind. thanks for the interview. I'm going to listen to it again and get the book.
Thanks, Rosalind. Any other revisionist history?
Except for all his leadership failings and serious questions about his religious/moral character, he's wonderful. And Gen. Custer no doubt thought of himself a wonderful patriot and Christian. observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
@Rita Cummings Levin has a bee in his bonnett over Carter!! Like the bride at every wedding or the corpse at every wake he wants to be the center of attention by constantly pushing his pro-zionist pro-Israel facist diatribe. Just look at how , like weeds growing in the wild, he has peppered this thread with his nonsense. He is an insidious troll.
It would have been nice to see Jimmy Carter get a second term. I would have liked to have seen what he could have done.
...and, we might have been spared the Reagan policy changes...
Only by comparison to the alternative.
he would have done nothing. he was a weak president and a weak leader and he had absolutely zero vision for how to fix the economy at the time.
@@martinriggs4960Spoken like a Rambling Reagan supporter. You clowns preaching about ‘strength’ wouldn’t know a single thing about it. Reagan committed treason with the Iran Contra, negotiating with terrorists to hold American citizens hostage, ballooned our national debt, unleashed homeless and mentally insane people on the streets, started fun control and granted amnesty to illegals. Such a ‘strong’ leader 😂
Jimmy Carter was the greatest president America ever had and probably ever will have. As a human being he epitomizes the the true values that very few have: Honesty, Integrity, Decency and Generosity. In this day and age these are the rarest qualities one can find.
There is not a better human being in terms of intellect and compassion. I know, because I have gotten to know him personally in the past 15 years. He was the best President since Franklin Roosevelt.
I agree
What utter nonsense, not to mention historical revisionism based on personal anecdote.
@@MLevin-kx5dg You're just sore because Carter said that Israel is an apartheid state, which it is. Get over it.
@@lloydbaroody There is no truth in your libel (or Carter's) of the only multi-cultural democracy in the middle east. If you're not willfully ignorant read this chronicle of fact: https: //www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-refugees-from-arab-countries If you enjoy your ignorance, open the Old Testament Book of Genisis story of Onan and read it alternately with the Soviet blood libel "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and enjoy yourself.
@@MLevin-kx5dg Israel is a racist country. Everybody knows it. So don’t put you head in the sand because as a Jew, you felt it necessary to drink Israel’s Koolaide.
When I was in the military . President Carter gave a badly needed pay raise of 11.7%. A great humanitarian around the globe.
I love Jimmy Carter he is such a humble human being
God-bless him he's too good for America
I love Jimmy Carter, he is a true American and a Christian in both words and actions. God Bless Jimmy!
I cried when Carter lost reelection. Too bad that he was so misunderstood.
You're batting a thousand; wrong twice: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
@@ingemeinzer1047 Levin has a bee in his bonnett over Carter!! Like the bride at every wedding or the corpse at every wake he wants to be the center of attention by constantly pushing his pro-zionist pro-Israel facist diatribe. Just look at how , like weeds growing in the wild, he has peppered this thread with his nonsense. He is an insidious troll.
Good to see President Carter getting the recognition and praise he truly deserves while he's still alive.
Integrity and decency . something rather rare, specially in politics. I have grate respect for Jimmy Carter.
He has always been my favorite president. A truly good man.♥️
Truly, you need to learn more: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
The Carter years were the only four straight years in my life that we didn't have a war. Thank you for that President Carter.
Jimmy Carter is the president I most respect of the last several decades...I agree, he has been grossly overlooked and under valued. He and Rosalynn have been the most productive in his post presidential years. I do hope this book brings more attention and respect to him.
I agree he was a gross bungler as a leader and an anti-semite. In notable character traits, it's hard to under value him.
Thank you for this. If you want to mightily add to this appreciation, go back and read President Carter's 2005 book Our Endangered Values. His incredible vision will make you weep. His integrity, decency, intelligence, and humility contrast powerfully with what is present in the office and politics today. Some of us knew it then. But he was ahead of his time. The day will come when he will be appreciated as a beacon of much-needed light.
what part of Georgia are from? I want to see Georgia one day. What do you recommend seeing?
His incredible hypocrisy and ineptitude made me weep--and I voted for him.
JM - the north GA mountains. The elevation makes it the only place that is not too hot in GA. 😊 But there are many wonderful places to see all over GA.
@@gamtngirl3655 Thanks! My ancestors came to GA from Ireland so I imagine it being much warmer overall than Ireland and Scotland. I am pretty adaptive but I like greenery and the ocean and don't mind some cold.
His so-called morality is not what it seems to be when scrutinized.
I don't agree about anything that suggests Carter being "overrated" for his post-presidency: He has demonstrated very powerfully (Trump would say "strongly", ugh) that human character and trying to stay on the moral path may be far more important to the population and civilization than many political policies, many of which are more "sound bite" than great visionary, long term thinking.
Jimma couln't hold a candle to JFK, who began the push for civil rights legislation and literally for America to reach for the stars. And as a Catholic, never once invoked his religious bias, if any, to pursue an effort to persecute any of America's democratic allies.
Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter are two of the best people that the United States has ever produced. I've been a huge fan since I first voted for him. What they have done since his term ended is in my opinion almost saintly. He continues to try to improve himself daily. Their accomplishments in improving the world are seismic. The American people judged him as weak because he is a good man. That is the same way corporate America treats and destroys employees. Employees that don't lie and cheat for the company are called weak.
Jimmy was and is a wonderful man, even if not known for the great president..Man Trump is opposite- horrible man and still horrid president. I admire JImmy for all he does and his good marriage...and compassion.
This nonsense makes me throw up a little in my mouth. observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
Levin has a bee in his bonnett over Carter!! Like the bride at every wedding or the corpse at every wake he wants to be the center of attention by constantly pushing his pro-zionist pro-Israel facist diatribe. Carter called Israel an apartheid state and it was the only country that supported Sth Africa's Bantustan policy in the 70s. Now, like weeds growing in the wild, M Levin has peppered this thread with his nonsense. He is an insidious troll.
President Carter has been one of the greatest human beings since he left office.
You really need to ask your physician to adjust your prescription: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
and an anti-semite
I loved Jimmy Carter.
In the biblical sense or was your sin only in your mind?
Kathryn Tate he’s still alive and continues to do good.
@@greghelton4668 GREAT!! Thanks for enlightening me.
Kathryn Tate his lovely wife is still alive. Both are in their 90s.
@@greghelton4668 I'm not impressed by his attempted atonement activities, since his un-Christian behavior and bigotry continues unabated into his retirement. Hitler loved his mother, I hear and treated dogs and (some) children affectionately. I'll bet Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain and the French Vichy government did also. If Carter was really a true Christian and repentent for his constant libels of the only Jewish nation on Earth (a tolerant, multicultural democracy) and the only democracy in the middle east, he would've stopped taking cash from Islamic tyrannies that are members OPEC long ago. You can buy that fake humility if you choose.
Can we finally get solar and other renewable energy given the priority it has deserved since 1976. USA, world leaders now!!!!
President Carter - thank you for your service. You are a gift 💝 to
President Carter - thank you for your service. You are a gift 💝 to United States. Thank you 🙏 for being peace maker, thank you for your goodness & kindness. Thank you for diplomacy.
@@janjust4205 observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/ You think this is diplomacy? This religious bigot's money-making lies about the only multi-cultural democracy in the middle east?
Jimmy Carter... an amazing, inspirational man... the American model of the highest character possible... love this man, this leader, this father, this son, this husband, this humble servant to all Americans everywhere. We are all so lucky this fine man was born here. There is no living president that could hold a candle to this man... and when he gets to Heaven... he'll be there convincing God to forgive everyone who comes after him... just because... Jimmy believes in second chances... to the end. It is never too late for a wretch to humble himself and become a better person. Never too late....
Billy, did you get sober for 10 minutes to write this about your brother?
If he stood on Mount Rushmore, his character still comes up unquestionably short: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/ *** Since Billy has passed on are you some other relative?
@@MLevin-kx5dg You are a pos for attacking the dead!! Still using your hands I suppose!!
I voted for Carter in 1976 and again in 1980...and always wondered where this country would have been today if he was reelected.
Probably paying $5.00 per gallon for gasoline, with interest rates for residential housing near double digits and the People of Jimmah's Old Testament Jewish Savior probably dead in a Second Holocaust? observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
worse
@@MLevin-kx5dg Yeah...that would have been terrible...especially for Raygun's neonutter base, the Zionists in Israel and the MIC.
So we got AIDS, CoV2, endless wars in the Mideast, and an ineffective and corrupt government run by the greedy rich and 'religious' crazies.
@@martinriggs4960 Yeah...it's so good now that the neonutters would rather die of COVID than get vaccinated with a drug that their 'dear leader' worked so hard to develop for them. Where's the trust?? 🤣🤣
America held hostage again. This time from inside
The main "failure" of Jimmy Carter is he wasn't corrupt enough.
You probably underrate his corruption: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
For those who believe Reagan delivered what Carter couldn't here's something to think about. If we look to see what Net GDP growth was (GDP minus deficit spending) for each we would see that Carter had a net growth of 72 Billion dollars a year. While many believed the 80's boomed because of Reagan facts show that the same equation for Reagan's 8 years was a net of 73 Billion dollars a year. Deficits spending whether Reagan or FDR is deficit spending. The difference is FDR deficit spent building things for future generation while Reagan was robbing future generations wealth. Cater was also a victim of 2 other things that his Republican predecessors thrusted on him. Early in the 70's Nixon took America off the gold standard, and later Gerald Ford would allow Gold to be once again owned privately which gave the rich a way to bet again the American economy.
Jimmy Carter was my beacon of hope in the 70s. I thought he was a GREAT man - his heart was in the right place for the little man despite events of the day getting the better of him. He showed humility, love and compassion towards his fellow man and what more can you ask of anyone? Truly a great man and history will in time - if it is not doing so already - redeem his presidency and he will be regarded as one of our better presidents especially when compared to those who followed him and to our current bozo.
The big difference between Carter and Trump: Carter was sane.
This is an excellent video about Jimmy Carter.
This is true; the best way to learn about anyone important is to check out an interview with the author of a good book about that person. This is a shame; the writers of best-selling books about famous personalities pull together enormous amounts of data and THEN make that person interesting. And often, they will shed light on the time and events, and the cast of characters surrounding the person who's written about. I'm waiting for this book now(reserved at the Library).
The mythology of JC.
@@DavidSmith-ss1cg Too bad it's demonstrably not a "good book." It's apple polishing.
@@DavidSmith-ss1cg M Levin is like the bride at every wedding or the corpse at every wake; he wants to be the center of attention by constantly pushing his pro-zionist pro-Israel facist diatribe. Just look at how , like weeds growing in the wild, he has peppered this thread with his nonsense. He is an insidious troll.
Jimmy carter is awesome and gives us a tiny bit of hope that decent people may prevail.
Super good conversation. Thank you.
Thanks for watching.
Missing critical super important facts. Thanks for the harmful propaganda.
He's a complete gentleman, a man of great character.
Which character most of all, Moe, Larry, Curly or, Shemp? He's a complete hypocrit.
Levin has a bee in his bonnett over Carter!! Like the bride at every wedding or the corpse at every wake he wants to be the center of attention by constantly pushing his pro-zionist pro-Israel facist diatribe. Carter called Israel an apartheid state and it was the only country that supported Sth Africa's Bantustan policy in the 70s. Now, like weeds growing in the wild, M Levin has peppered this thread with his nonsense. He is an insidious troll.
He may not have been a very effective president but I have a tremendous respect for him as a human being.
Carter tried to tell us the truth. Reagan told was what we wanted to hear, to our detriment.
Reagan was an entertainer.
Reagan loved the United States and destroyed the Soviet Union and the Eastern block. the man was an absolute beast.
Well said! The only true seduction for mankind is it's subliminal wish to listen to go for they want to hear and scold truth that hurts.
I always thought that Pres. Reagan believed that if he told us the same thing enough times it would come true.
@@martinriggs4960eagan did NOTHING as President but take the credit for other peoples work. Explain how he was weak when he helped develop the B2 bomber which is far better than Raygun’s ‘Star Wars’
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Carter. I love him. We need more people like him in our government.
President Carter was my favorite president. Especially after seeing how low Trump has gone in his lies and bullying and harsh, unreasonable retributions or madness.
Nothing like the horrific, autocratic, anti-science Herr Drumpf low bar of leadership to provide Carter a few millimeters' clearance over it.
The only thing you can think about Pres Carter is ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
A smart and descent man. One of our better Leaders. Trump doesn't come close.
Looks like Americans and their historians value most charisma and bravado in their presidents, Jimmy Carter may have lacked but obviously was the humblest and most decent one in recent history.
Great interview. I look forward to reading, owning this book. My big take away: Any politician who seeks PEACE and advocates PEACE is labeled as WEAK. No wonder this country is so broken!
Jimmy Carter is America's Great Humanitarian.
The Magic 8 Ball says: False. Try reality. JFK did more for peace than Jimmah.
I always related Mr. Carter with "Mr. Smith goes to Washington" starring Jimmy Stewart.
"Mr. Smith" wasn't a post-Civil War religious hypocrite who didn't apply the teachings of Jesus, the Jewish kid from Nazareth and the regions of Judea and Samaria (ancient Israel of the Old Testament), or American global democracy-spreading interests. Like his predecessors, he also abandoned the Christian Armenians who were butchered by the Turks (including Kemal Ataturk) a century ago. No comparison, ethically.
@@MLevin-kx5dg Don't let me take you away from writing your manifesto.
@@karmashim3971 By all means, elaborate upon your perception of my manifesto. In the meantime try reading: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/ The fictional Mr. Smith stood for democracy and intelligent political leadership with a tolerant social conscience based upon fairness.
@@MLevin-kx5dg Maifesto - a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer. - Merriam Webster
My statement about relating Mr. Carter to Mr. Smith is just my general observation, but while you obviously don't see it ( which is perfectly fine), instead you go into specifics and this long statement which sounds like something from a manifesto.
There, I elaborated and gave you my perception.
Glad to oblige. Oh, and Happy Holidays to you!
@@karmashim3971 Seems to my perception that your "relating" the moral and ethical fictional Mr. Smith in a way that implies that the religious bigot and historically, factually unsupportable posturing Carter can be favorably compared. Facts say he cannot be.
The Shah was Carter's Trojan horse. Glad for a retelling of his tenure as president.
God bless president Carter! 🇺🇸
Doesn't seem likely, based upon his lack of character, even taking into account his good deeds after leaving office.
Jimmy was a man who followed the rule of law.
Sometimes all of Americans need to breath..Jimmy Carter was a true Christian. He never let his religion affect his policies.
Weak ? He is the epitome of a former president. He sold his business. Tell me how much property he gave up to be a president.
Tell me how this former president Is considered weak..Carter has always followed the rule of law. How many of his choices went to jail?
@@eleanormedina6703 I am sure you're confusing a "true Christian" with a "typical" one.
@@eleanormedina6703 Don't be so naive: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
I loved Jimmy Carter he is still a great man. I can’t wait to read the book
Why not do some original research on your own? Propaganda and reputation repair isn't truth.
Save time, read some facts before you get too misty-eyed: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
Excellent
Jimmy Carter (and George HW Bush) certainly didn't like losing his bid for a second term. But, like the elder Bush, he was gracious about it. What's more, when Carter returned to Plains in 1981, he found the peanut warehouse had been badly mismanaged; as if his loss in 1980 wasn't enough. Still, he managed to shape a great post-presidential life, with The Carter Center, Habitat for Humanity, and many other efforts. George HW Bush also led an active post-presidency. Both men handled bitter losses with real class.
Pres. Carter had some bad luck in the '70s, as did this country... part of it was his feuding with a democratic congress... and then in came Reagan, which led to a 40 year blue collar union slide.
Maybe it was inevitable; we'd had our 7 fat years, so to speak (because right after WWll, we were the only nation that still had an intact industrial plant) , and by the the '70s the rest of the world started to kick our collective butts, started to make up for lost time... and while it's no doubt true what Alter said about a 14-fold increase in petroleum prices, what he left out is what level it started from; I think it was around $2 a barrel; so oil companies had been paying $2 for 42 gallons of oil... so at long last it was time to pay the pipers... and of course the Arabs.
Funny; while unions were weakening in the US (Reagan, a former union president, destroyed the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization- PATCO as a specific signal for the beginning of reactionary change), cartels like OPEC were flying high and ruling the roost.
Your right I remember those years well
Carter is a good guy I think is much better And decent than most presidents.
Just don't call him a good follower of the Jewish kid from Nazareth.
Wow! Now I have to read this book...
Better to read this: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
Levin has a bee in his bonnett over Carter!! Like the bride at every wedding or the corpse at every wake he wants to be the center of attention by constantly pushing his pro-zionist pro-Israel facist diatribe. Carter called Israel an apartheid state and it was the only country that supported Sth Africa's Bantustan policy in the 70s. Now, like weeds growing in the wild, M Levin has peppered this thread with his nonsense. He is an insidious troll.
♥️him
Many people are, and love, anti-Semites and think of themselves as good Christians. Like in the 1930s there were "good Germans" in Germany.
Jimmy Carter was an excellent President, but a lousy politician. As much as the presidency is about moral leadership and inspiring democracy, Carter passed with flying colors! As much as the presidency is about political gamesmanship and brazen partisanship, Carter failed with dying colors! Perhaps he has learned the lesson of Jesus who, if had remained a carpenter's son, would have lived a longer life-span. Perhaps that is why this noble, humble, highly intelligent man who should be President is still alive and doing the mighty work of Jesus upon this earth! Regrettably, when Carter goes, so goes America!
I voted for him.he had decency then and now.
I've always believed Carter's been under-rated. Reagan was just lucky - he had name recognition from movies and tv and the public eats that stuff up. Like trump, Reagan tried to do some of the same bad policy things, but fortunately there wasn't social media then, so he couldn't get away with trashing the environment and handing the keys of our national lands to the wealthy corporate raiders. And, somewhat to his credit, he at least had some notions about national security.
Bonzo wouldn't have been much worth than either.
You take Congressmen out on a yacht to make them walk the plank:) I liked Carter & supported his efforts to improve the environment.
Thank u! I think Carter was the best president of my lifetime. And Reagan the absolute worst.
Zero for two. Try doing some fact-checking and historical research.
Carter was a decent man.
Only compared to Nixon, Dumbya, or Herr Drumpf.
I’ve enjoyed Mr. Alter’s writing for many years.😷😊
Did I miss his 20 minutes live at The Comedy Store?
Carter vs Trump: Heavenly vs hellish. Period.
Ridiculous. Period. observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/ *** Christian pew-renter/inept steward of democracy vs hellish, maybe.
In my lifetime, Jimmy carter was the best president. The republicans and a few Dems made him look week. He had the best character, as he does today..,his honesty is why he had problems in his presidency.
Of what? observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
Long thought Jimmy Carter underrated
As a religiously bigoted hypocritwe certainly.
I will never forget walking home during that horrid recession in Carters tenure and my father was cursing and pitching an absolute fit. It was rare for my father get extremely angry. It’s interesting, Reagan (or reagonomics) was trickle down economics where money always flowed down to the poor “as necessary”. He was the worst President for the middle class. Carter was actually a very smart and good man, yet had a horrible reputation as President. He was the most hated President of many. Carter was very religious and said to be a condescending peanut farmer. Reagan did the bidding of the wealthy and was totally self absorbed, yet he was acclaimed historically to be such a good President and kind man. (He was shot in an assassination attempt). FDR was very misunderstood historically, but beloved by the people and re-elected 4 terms to die during his 4th. Eleanor was said to be a witch. She did great things and most of what is considered a 1st lady’s responsibility is from Eleanor Roosevelts time as First Lady.
Too bad the yacht isn’t around anymore. It’s be fun to take Moscow Mitch,
?Lindsey?, Gym Jordan and a few others out. Way out.
shark bait.
@ WOW! STRANGE! I had fantasies about "Jaws" with the fisherman being eaten and bloody water, and then I clicked "Show Answers" and you had the same ideas!!! Fascinating.
@ Yes. It's a shame not everyone can have such great minds. Sometimes tiring being so very great, and all the rest so very less so.
@@elvenkind6072 the burdens of the gifted. i strained my shoulder patting myself on the back, yesterday.
You left out the most important part: the chains and cement blocks tied to their feet. Great idea, anyway . . . !
And my first vote. Sure do miss him
... thax for this clip, allways liked and watched JC, yet, after that segment my attitude has been strenthened ...
Try this reality check, based on facts: observer.com/2016/11/jimmy-carters-animus-for-israel/
Carter was a wonderful President who inherited an impossible situation which he is famous for instead of all great things he did and continued to do after his presidency. He was the only president to make a peace agreement in the Middle East that still holds today with the Camp David Peace Accord. He isn’t the greatest president we ever had but better than most an in comparison to Trump it makes you yearn for a Jimmy Carter again.
Historians evaluate presidents every few years. Carter is one of those who is rising in stature. Others, such as Jackson and Wilson, have declined in recent years.
... JC like Brandt in Germany was, in part at least played by the Services ...
I always said, Jimmy Carter isn't/wasn't devious enough to be president of the United Snakes of America.
That's what I said, too.
Love Jimmy Carter, he tried to do the best! But it’s hard to do in politics.
There is little evidence to suggest this.
History possibly repeating itself.
i like jimmy carter
Why?
@@MLevin-kx5dg because he is honest ......unlike we have now with all the chumps
also because he told them....they better not touch one hair on their head....and did the footwork to get them brought back home....and idiots gave raygun lyer(actor) the credit
thats why
@@benharriston2532 Actually, Bonzo's Supporting Actor and his merry men committed treason by negotiating with Ayatollah Khomeni's terrorist regime before The Great Prevaricator was sworn in after the November election. Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen was caught on tape discussing this decades ago.
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I didn’t like his disposing of the Presidential yacht. It was actually quite modest, not at all what you think of when you hear the term “yacht” today. It is near me in Oakland, but it really belongs in Chesapeake Bay.
As usual, I do not agree with most. JIMMY CARTER is a Good Man and a Good President. He was the only true Christian in recent presideny. When the Pope died, they were all there at the funeral. but not the Carters. I found that so odd. Jimmy is not a racist, he was raised with few whites. He is one of my favorites. He was probally one of our most intelligent. Politics is such a dirty business, the opposite side will always try to destroy.
I wrote articles decades ago explaining how Carters position on the military was misrepresented by Reagans campaign people. Carter was portrayed as abondoning the military but Carters role in pushing the sealth bomber program that gave us an undisputed edge over any adversary. Democrats have always pushed for advancements in high teck weaponry, republicans have always pushed quantity of what we have like more aircraft carrier groups.
At 78, I consider him to be the best president in my lifetime.
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