Jimmy Carter in hospice care

A good President and an even better man. He’s a shining example of what a true Christian really is by working to make people’s lives better than what they were.

 

So many could learn so much from the way he has lived his life.

 

Agree. Fascinating reading how he continued to teach Sunday school.

 

Antithesis of Trump.

 

He was a man ahead of his time.

 

98. Hasn’t been POTUS for 43 years. Still, prayers for a recovery and peace and little suffering

 

God Bless. First campaign I worked on

 

No information on what the current health crisis is, but he beat cancer back in 2015 when a course of immunotherapy put his liver cancer in remission.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/18/former-president-jimmy-carter-enters-hospice-care-charity-says.html

"And years later, upon his cancer diagnosis as a nonagenarian, he expressed satisfaction with his long life.

"'I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes,' he said in 2015. 'I’ve had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence.'”

 

Good man.

I wish him well.

 

Whether he was a good president is a complicated question. In my more conservative days I would have said he was one of the worst in recent history. In retrospect that was a simplistic assessment. He was dealt an extremely tough hand. You can argue that his handling or Iran and Russian Olympics was less than optimal. His initial handling of inflation was rather feckless with voluntary wage controls. But his Israel / Egypt peace treaty was quite an accomplishment, and at the end of the day he had the stones to appoint Volcker who squashed inflation which paved the way for nearly 4 decades of price stability and growth. The appointment arguably cost him the election.

However his post presidency I can’t think of a better model.

I’m not religious but he really seemed to live the life of what I always thought Christianity should be about.

 

It shouldn't be a question period in this type of thread.

 

It was going good until one of the libs had to bring up Trump, pretty pathetic but expected. It's a sickness

 

Why not?

 

Good Christain man, just not a good president.

 

A total badass too: How Jimmy Carter Saved a Canadian Nuclear Reactor After a Meltdown

"...when Canada's Chalk River nuclear research facility experienced a power surge that damaged its reactor, the U.S. sent Carter and his team. He was one of a few people in the world who could do it.

Fuel rods at the research reactor experienced a partial meltdown after the power surge. It ruptured the reactor and flooded the facility's basement with radioactive water, rendering the reactor core unusable. In his 2015 autobiography, "A Full Life: Reflections At Ninety," Carter described the incident and his preparations for repairing the reactor. They built an exact replica of the reactor, true to the last detail (except the actual nuclear material) on a nearby tennis court to practice and track their progress.

Carter and his 22 other team members were separated into teams of three and lowered into the reactor for 90-second intervals to clean the site. It was estimated that a minute-and-a-half was the maximum time humans could be exposed to the levels of radiation present in the area.

It was still too much, especially by today's standards. The future president had radioactive urine for months after the cleanup."

 

As many here know I am in non profit management, and have worked for Habitat for Humanity for many years.

I had the privilege of hearing him speak in person to our global conference in Atlanta about 5 years ago. He was an absolute inspiration. Many of us owe our very careers to the global impact he has had on our organization.

He is one of the few decent politicicians of my lifetime.

There isn't a single mainline contemporary political figure that could hold a candle to his class and decency.

His impact goes far beyond the White House and his decency goes far beyond what we normally see in politics.

Prayers for him and his family.

God bless you Mr President.

 

He's a great man and has had one hell of a run. I hope he goes peacefully.

 

Good of you to comment. Even if your facts are wrong.