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Originally posted by BMR:
For those of us old enough to remember the Carter years, we remember what a totally feckless president he was and what a godsend Ronald Reagan was to our nation. After his utter failure of a presidency he should have stuck to building houses and kept his mouth shut. I have nothing but contempt for him.

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Originally posted by Leemur:
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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Originally posted by r0gue:
Can't remember where I'd recently read that he was a vicious politician.

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Even more amazing: President Carter himself was also willing to jump into bed with the Soviets. In the closing days of the 1980 presidential campaign, while trailing Ronald Reagan in the polls, Jimmy Carter sent a political ally, industrialist Armand Hammer, to a secret meeting with Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin at the embassy in Washington. Hammer asked the Soviets to help Carter win votes in key states by allowing Jewish "refuseniks" to emigrate to Israel. The Soviets rejected Hammer’s request.

In January 1984, former President Carter approached Ambassador Dobrynin in person. Carter wanted to derail President Reagan’s defense buildup, and asked for help from the Evil Empire in unseating President Reagan. It’s not clear if the Soviets gave Carter what he wanted.

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Originally posted by Leemur:
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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Originally posted by msfzoe:
He has a stash of Billy Beer and consumes two daily.

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
I remember the original Dante’s in the original Underground Atlanta. Just down the street from Lester Maddox’s place with the axe handles for sale. That was in the early 70’s when it was actually safe to go there at night.
After the city ruined Underground, he moved it to Buckhead, across from Lenox.
Both were fun places during their time. Dante was usually there keeping things running smoothly and greeting the customers at some point during their visit.
Sad to see what’s happened to the city since then.

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
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.

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Originally posted by Sailor1911:
He never opposed Hillary!

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Originally posted by parabellum:
He's 96 years old and a couple of years back, I heard he has brain cancer, and that jerk is STILL alive.

He's the only POTUS I've met. Dante's Down the Hatch restaurant on Peachtree Street in Buckhead in the early 1990s (used to be an exclusive part of Atlanta, until overrun by savages and now Atlanta has a mayor who won't do anything to stop the crime and violence.) I was on a date, must have been a Friday or Saturday night. I walked up the steps to the front door of the restaurant, and there stood James Earl Carter, with a Secret Service man in a trench coat eyeballing me. They had had a birthday party for Amy (so this would have been October 19 or thereabouts). Amy and Roslyn had just left and ol' Jimmuh was waiting for the War Wagon to pull up for him. I recognized him instantly. I smiled and said "Mister President." He barely smiled. I don't recall he said much of anything at all. Perhaps he muttered 'hello'. I guess, with the incredibly inept way he ran this country when he was in office, Carter thought that about half the population wanted to give him an earful. I'm serious- he seemed really wary.