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That asshole's policies drove me, and many like me, from an active duty career. He managed to FUBAR the military in record time. Although I was out by then, his timid and inept handling of the Iran hostage crisis was the final straw. Until the Nigerian Prince he was the worst president in memory. Although it appears the mental defect in the White House now is going to beat both of their records. Thank God Reagan came along behind him and cleaned up much of his mess. CMSGT USAF (Retired) Chief of Police (Retired) | |||
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I was 4 years old when Carter was elected. As an 8 year old idiot I was still sharp enough to feel a sense of relief when Reagan won in 1980. | |||
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| Conveniently located directly above the center of the Earth  |
Wonder whether the then experimental stem cell therapy had his longevity as a side effect? I've never seen it discussed. **************~~~~~~~~~~ "I've been on this rock too long to bother with these liars any more." ~SIGforum advisor~ "When the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change, then change will come."~~sigmonkey | |||
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| Back, and to the left  |
Yes. Jimmy Carter was truly the personification of darkness before dawn. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. -Ecclesiastes 9:11 ...But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by Him shall glory, but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. - Psalm 63:11 [excerpted] | |||
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Let’s put it this way. When that idiot was president I was in elementary school and we sang the Oscar Meyer song on the playground at school with these lyrics: My baloney has a first name, it’s J I M M Y My baloney has a second name, it’s C A R T E R Oh I love to beat him every day. And if you ask me why I’ll say: ‘Cause Jimmy Carter has a way of screwing up the USA. ——————————————— The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 14:1 | |||
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I was in High School during the Carter admin, my Gov teacher in Senior year waxed poetically about how great Carter was and how Reagan was too stupid to win, each and every day from the first day of class until the day after election day, then he STFU about it and actually taught us a little bit about Gov't,,, https://chandlersfirearms.com/chesterfield-armament/ | |||
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Carter was willing to sell out the US to the Soviets to stay in power and to undermine Reagan. His 'folksy' schtick only fools those who want to be fooled. All of this came out and was confirmed in Soviet KGB files after the fall of the Soviet Union.
From article written by Michael Reagan “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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I was in Navy Nuclear Power School around 1970 when I met Chip Carter, Jimmy's son. He was a smart kid and we drank a number of beers together - and not Billie Beer. He told me his daddy was governor of Georgia and would be president soon. I said sure, and my daddy is an astronaut getting ready to go to the moon. I was lying - he was not. One day he told me he was sick of the Navy and would turn himself in for smoking dope. I never saw him again. I think they gave him a general discharge and sent him back to the farm. A year or so ago I read where Chip bragged about smoking dope on the roof of the White House with Willie Nelson. My dad never made it to the moon. I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham | |||
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I was young when Carter was elected. I lived in the Florida at the time where everyone seemed to like the guy. What a disappointment he was. I too was VERY glad when Reagan won! --Tom The right of self preservation, in turn, was understood as the right to defend oneself against attacks by lawless individuals, or, if absolutely necessary, to resist and throw off a tyrannical government. | |||
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Slow Joe doesn't count since he doesn't know whether it's June or Thursday. The Dems should be charged with elder abuse.  When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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He’s the undead You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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The brain cancer starved. ____________________________ Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick. | |||
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I had a Jimmuh caricature bottle opener NIB  and an unopened 6 pack of Billy Beer. Thought they'd be collector's items after the old boy went to his Judgment Day.Alas, they disappeared in an unauthorized spousal purge of seldom used cabinets in the house. And Jimmuh just keeps on truckin'. ____________________ | |||
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I was never at the Buckhead location, just the Underground Atlanta iteration (before UA became a collection of incense vendors, prepaid cell-phone stands, Dashiki sellers, and quick-service Chinese food... in other words, a third-world bazaar.) Like Para, it was a first/second date kind of place (if conversation got difficult, there was always the mechanics of fondue to cover the gaps. And Dante was an absolute solid guy. I was sorry to hear that they moved / closed, and sorrier to hear he passed. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
I was in my final years of USAF while Carter was President. I'd been RIFed for failure to be promoted to Major and enlisted as an E-4 COBOL programmer, but by the time Carter was elected I'd made E-5 at Scott AFB, Illinois. I finished out Carter's reign in Germany doing programming on the WWMCCS computers for USAFE and NATO--was discharged as an E-6 and retired the next day as a Captain O-3. Enlisting to qualify for a pension was one of the best decisions I ever made. (No thanks to Jimmy Carter.) flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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He never opposed Hillary! Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. “If in winning a race, you lose the respect of your fellow competitors, then you have won nothing” - Paul Elvstrom "The Great Dane" 1928 - 2016 | |||
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| No, not like Bill Clinton  |
Same except I used a different word for screwing, not in front of my folks of course | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Meaning what? What have I told you guys about this stuff? Cease- now and forever- this "The Clintons kill people" shit. Cease. | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
Carter actually owes his presidency to Richard Nixon. The years of the developing Watergate scandal and the endless hearings plus the association towards the end of the Vietnam war with Nixon created the negative feelings much of the country had towards Gerald Ford. When he correctly pardoned him as soon as taking office so the country could start to move on, he likely sealed his defeat a few years later. Carter was like a rebound relationship after a bad breakup. The country just saw him as someone, anyone else. After four years of Carter and his inept leadership, the country looked to Reagan and a more optimistic message. I bought my first home when Carter was in office and was glad to have an interest rate in the low teens. By the end of the year, rates were bumping up to around 20%. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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Para, I've been overwhelmed with all that is involved in trying to handle my son's affairs and interment. But when I get a little relief and come up for air I try to look at some of the posts here on the forum. It is a healthy diversion for all the stress. When Dante's was in the old Underground Atlanta I took dates there a good number of times. I was a young ensign at the Navy's Supply Corps School in Athens, GA in 1975. Also met some actor there but memory fails me as to his name. He was quite nice to us. I can picture him. Gruff hard tough guy were his usual roles. It was a night where we were supposed to be double dating and the other guy had to cancel at the last minute. So I had two ladies on my arms that night as a bachelor naval officer. Fun times indeed. LOL Again thanks for stirring up some warm memories during this period for me. As for Carter, I was ashamed he had been a naval officer and a nuke at that. What was Rickover thinking? LOL Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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