Reagan Statue
From the NYT account of its unveiling:
In front of the hot dog stand Jeff Whitaker, 40, a computer programmer from Atlanta, was a bit more ambivalent. “He was one of America’s better Presidents,” he mused, before adding that he would also like to see a statue in London to Jimmy Carter, a native Georgian and these days perhaps almost as much an icon to liberals as Reagan is to conservatives. (Emphasis mine.)
Carter an icon?! Grab the reins! FDR should be an icon to the left—heck, maybe even LBJ or maybe even Woody Wilson, if they’re going old-school (though certainly JFK has most ikon-like portraits hung in nice Irish ladies’ parlors). But Carter?! James Earl Malaise Stagflation Killer Rabbit Lust in My Heart Desert One Hostage Crisis Dictatorphilia Carter?!
I gotta go lie down.
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Re: Reagan Statue
I gotta go lie down.
Me too.
May '10
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With the help of one of his greatest contributions, though made through his brother, I might be able to forget that sentiment with a "Billy Beer."
A statue of Carter in Cairo however might indeed be appropriate, some $70 Billion later.
May '10
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I really think it's not so far-fetched.
Then again, I think Shemp was the best of The Three Stooges.
Jul '10
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Call Me crazy, but I'm all for it.
Jun '10
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I always thought Carter to be an honorable man, something I can't say about many presidents. I don't think he made a very good president.
Apr '11
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Peter Robinson: I gotta go lie down.
Me too. · Jul 4 at 5:09pm
I would too, except, if I did I'd probably go to sleep and have visions of hostages and long gas lines.
May '10
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Honor is doing your duty as you see it then shutting up when that time is over. Jimmy Carter is not an honorable man.
Nov '10
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Please remember that it was Carter that got rid of regulations on airlines, trucks, telecom, ...
Also, I think that Carter was comparatively sincere (though often mistaken) while in office. Nowadays he's a little bit resentful at being labelled the worst president ever. His intentions were good.
I esp. enjoyed his micro management; probably he discovered, somewhere along the line, that the system was too complex to be managed.
Edited on Jul 4, 2011 at 5:47pmApr '11
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The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions. If we don't get this ship righted immediately we'll be right there with good intentions....in a handbag.
Jul '10
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From the NYT account of its unveiling:
Huh.
That crafty, crafty NYT... trust it to make me feel sorry for "liberals."
Dec '10
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Of course President Jimmy Carter is an icon to liberals. He went further than any President before him towards unilateral surrender in the Cold War -- even going so far as to divulge what was then the USA's most closely-guarded military-industrial secret, the Stealth program. solely for political points.
I know that conspiracy theories are verboten here, but I will still say that it won't surprise me if someday the deepest archives of the Soviet GRU yield up the tidbit that a young officer in Adm. Rickover's nuclear Navy was turned back in the 1950s and groomed for a rise through the ranks of the Democrat Party.
Aug '10
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Maybe I'm missing something (or maybe the NYT stealth-edited the article), but I don't see that guy mentioned in the linked article at all.
Jun '11
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As a Cub Scout I shook Governor Carter’s hand in 1970 or thereabouts. And then as an equally gullible new voter I voted for him in 1980. What a boob; me at the time and Carter then and now. He is a disgrace to Georgia, Protestants, and all Americans.
Speaking of former Democratic presidents, Politico sang the praises and made a big deal of Bill Clinton's remarks recently in Aspen about his take on the issues..
How can so many Americans respect former presidents who disgrace themselves and America?
Jan '11
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I found it here: http://rssbroadcast.com/?p=54966
Looks like a stealth-edit, indeed.
Sep '10
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In liberal academic circles (well, outside political science) this is certainly true; I've heard him praised to the skies at conferences. When I once replied that Mr. Carter is the most arrogant, overinflated ego that I knew of, there was a resentful, stony silence.
He's a secular liberal saint.
Jul '10
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I'd chip in a donation to see that dapper shoe immortalized in bronze.
Jun '10
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Palaeologus
From the NYT account of its unveiling:
Huh.
That crafty, crafty NYT... trust it to make me feel sorry for "liberals." · Jul 4 at 6:20pm
Try to makes us feel sorry. Is he really "perhaps as much an icon" to liberals as he was to us? FDR maybe, but I haven't seen too many liberals trying to say they are the reincarnation of Jimma
May '10
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Carter is from a tiny farm town just down the road from my grandma's own small town in Georgia. I know a pig farmer there who would be happy to host the statue.