is an appropriate word. Facts have a tendency to resurface time and again such as the oft forgotten little episode in a place called "Desert One." Poorly led and woefully equipped, I wonder if our former President remembers the chared remains of those perished being prodded by the very leaders in Iran who for some seven months had mocked the indecisiveness and resolve of a superpower.

The American people were tying yellow ribbons around "old oak trees" but it took the threat of a Republican President to achieve the freedom of these 52 souls.

Leadership, not politics were required then and history has proven that in 1979-1980 very little was present at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

I can not let this go without a couple of comments.

The very day that Reagan was sworn in the prisoners were let go. A "threat" of a new President could be looked at as the reason, but I tend to think that it was due to the failure of the military to perform the assigned operation! No "well done" was offered here! I don't want to hear the excuses! Same for the six year war currently!
Once that happened the enemy decided that maybe they hadn't better wait for us to try and do better. They don't understand that an "actor" could blow them up, but a Submarine Naval Officer may not!

There is a fundamental evil that is also in some of mankind and Carter can look at it straight in the eye and completely miss it again and again. His next step is to blame someone else or an entire country for the fact that some piece of scum is the way he/she is. Even hardcore lefty Obama thinks Carter's approach is the wrong way. Maybe that's because despite his inexperience and relative youth, Obama is not a completely naive dreamer detached from reality. I'd vote for Obama 10 times over Jimmy Carter. Shrillary too. Just about any present Dem for that matter.

or maybe Jimmy Carter just wasn' a good president.

Don't get me wrong, you can either be a great man or a great president. Jimmy Carter is a great man!! He has integrity and is honest. Of the 2 choices, chosing to be a great man is awesome and rare.

The offer was probably release them before I take office or we'll blow you further back into the Stone Age. Iran managed to release them right on the day Reagan was sworn in, which is good for Iran's sake but the alternative might have been better long-term.

was to side with Saddam.

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I do think the other side works overtime on trying to make people look like jerks.

The lesson in life, is to look, look at the good, look at the bad, and then decide what you want to be.

Many wonderful people in this world, had no example, but they looked at what was around them, and the way they were treated, and decided, " I DON'T WANT TO BE LIKE THAT ! what ever I am, I will be kinder and better than that". They found their way through their conscience.

Sometimes, when there is nothing else to follow, look at what you don't want to be, and then, your heart and your spirit will take over, and you will be exceptional!

Carter has nothing to do with being exceptional, nothing to do with being kinder and better, nothing to do with being wonderful, for God 's sake!! He is way too comfortable with the worst leaders of this world and thinks way too much of himself. He is the ultimate elitist!

Jimmy Carter has more caring for humanity in his little finger than all of the neocons and their hanger-ons put together. Politics and all other issues aside, his work to eradicate the Guinea Worm is compassion at its finest, and clearly shows his admirable character.

"Whatever you practice is what you will be good at".

After I pulled up the website, I clicked on the video to the right - absolutely grotesque! (never knew about guinea worm)

Thank you Mr. Carter. You are indeed, a great man.

Maybe a President of the USA has to also be mean sometimes, doesn't he?
Like bombing people in Iraq?
He may not "want to be" like that, however!

A lot of Republicans who cannot refute his statements would like to resort to muzzling him. It's easier than arguing facts with him isn't it? All that freedom of speech stuff really doesn't mean anything if the ideas aren't what you hear in the echo chamber? How typical.

A nursing home? Watch this to see how sharp and incisive he is in case you missed it:

Jimmy Carter on an Obama Presidency

I just did refute his statement. Jimmy Carter unfairly criticized John McCains military experience. Jimmy Carter is nothing but a bumbling idiot, one of the worst leaders the free world has witnessed, and is an embarassment to our fine country.

But if the democrat party wants to continue parading him around to the detriment of their party, so be it. He embodies the failure of the democrat party.

If there is anything most people know it is that John McCain, among many others was a POW and was tortured.

I intend to vote for him but not due to that, due to his non-partisan attitude at least occasionally, and due to his opposition being inexperienced.

John does need to quit using that POW thing g over and over to the choir! We don't owe him a payback just for that!

a partisan who's party is hoping for the hurricane to hit New Orleans so that it will give their sitting President an excuse to not appear at their national convention.

"Hey, brother, can you spare a dime?"

"Your, yore, you're all idiots." (T.Floyd)

I think he sounded more clueless and out of touch with political reality than ever, which is saying something coming from him.

First, the racial stuff coming from him is disturbing since his campaign to unseat the very good Governor Carl Sanders didn't hesitate to use race and pictures of Sanders with blacks to try and get some of the hick voters, and it worked. Maybe he meant that McCain would be wise to use the same strategy.

Next, McCain mentioning POW experience is no different than Obama's "yes we can" or "change" message he keeps driving home. Note to Jimmy: these are called campaign themes and candidates drill their "key" message into people's heads. They don't usually scold the American public for having a "crisis of confidence" either, at least not since you did.

I still haven't heard as much about McCain being in the Hanoi Hilton as I have Max Cleland being in a wheelchair for life. I've heard that seemingly forever and the story keeps getting more and more fantasy than reality. Cleland is NOT some war hero injured in combat. He picked up a live grenade that was lying around on the ground of the base and it exploded. That's a far cry from how the story gets told when Dems whine about Chambliss questioning Cleland's patriotism.

I think Jimmy Carter is a good human being who is very misguided in the political realm and was also a terrible president. That doesn't take away from what he tries to do with his various groups like Habitat and verifying election integrity in not-so-safe places around the globe, but he was in over his head as Governor and then WAY overwhelmed with being president. Not his calling and I don't see too many people placing any value on his political take. Even the total disgrace Nixon was still well-respected on foreign policy matters after leaving office in complete shame. Carter's expertise lies elsewhere.

story of Max Cleland. I don't know anything about grenades either, was he supposed to have picked it up because he was trying to save someone else from being hurt, or cause he was a doofuss?

A soldier loses both legs and one arm in a war zone by being too close to a loose grenade, and the "loyal" opposition says he shouldn't be honored for that!

It doesn't matter that an enemy didn't throw the grenade!
No more than it matters when a soldier is killed riding in a truck wreck doing his assigned duty!

The man was no doofuss, he was an Officer.
Unfortunately he happens to be a democrat in Georgia, Also.

Your Dad does not need to be given that same treatment. I have met him several times and he is a good person and I admire him for what he does now.

He was not a good President and he should not have a place on the national stage now since his judgement about what to say is obviously lacking. Nevertheless, he is a good man and I wish him well.

All that is a nicely-worded Southern diss which is usually started -as Rhonda Rich would say - "God bless him ..."

What a bunch of stuff you commented!

If you were asked the same question today about what kind of President would Governor Sarah of Alaska will make, I'm sure you would find paragraphs of praise for her--she is a neocon!

McCain screwed up on this pick and although I still plan to vote for him, I will be wishing even stronger that he lives at least four years!

The most powerful woman in the world, she would be! Who might she have to listen too in so many emergencies? WOW!