A Musical Quotation of the Day

 

When I commit to the Quote of the Day without having a particular quotation in mind, I’ll often go see what happened on the date, who was born, and who died. Usually I find something in such a list, some famous person who can be quoted, some event worth mentioning. As I was going through the list for October First, I saw our former President of the United States Jimmy Carter. He turns ninety-seven today, a respectable age.

I looked through the quotations listed for Jimmy Carter, and I was struck with one thought: “How did this country ever elect such a vapid nothing with his noggin so stuffed with excrement?” Extenuating circumstances, of course. Still, I saw no quotations of Jimmy Carter worthy of being brought to you. Instead, let me share this musical interlude with a song about a major incident in Mister Carter’s presidency:

 

Can you think of a better summary of the Carter years?

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  1. Judge Mental Member
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    Let me put on a sweater and think about it.

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  2. Arahant Member
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    Judge Mental (View Comment):

    Let me put on a sweater and think about it.

    Indeed.

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  3. Nohaaj Coolidge
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    LOL, I do recall that vaguely, a very weird bunny attack story.

    Carter was often called the most inept president, with good reason. He was a horrible president.  But I somehow got the sense that he was still a very good man, and didn’t act out of malevolence towards the country.

    In Oblama and Obiden, they act on their hatred of the country, their perception that the USA is evil and needs to be “brought down to size” and particularly in Obiden’s case, he acts in his own self-interest, using Hunter and his brother to build their own slush funds and corruption scams. Country be damned. 

     

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  4. Arahant Member
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    Nohaaj (View Comment):
    In Oblama and Obiden, they act on their hatred of the country, their perception that the USA is evil and needs to be “brought down to size” and particularly in Obiden’s case, he acts in his own self-interest, using Hunter and his brother to build their own slush funds and corruption scams. Country be damned. 

    Yep, they moved Jimmy Carter up two ranks in the worst ever category.

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  5. Arahant Member
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    For those who are not familiar with the story or don’t remember: Jimmy Carter’s Rabbit Incident.

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  6. Percival Thatcher
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    Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

    — Ronald Reagan, sending Jimmy Carter home

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  7. Chuck Coolidge
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    Percival (View Comment):

    Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

    — Ronald Reagan, sending Jimmy Carter home

    “There you go again” – Reagan debating Carter.  (It sure did bumfuzzle Jimmah)

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  8. Percival Thatcher
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    I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience.

    — RR, sending Fritz Mondale home.

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  9. She Member
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    Oh, I don’t know.  I have developed a certain nostalgia for Jimmy over the past few months, remembering him as almost Churchillian in his oratory, and polymathic in his brainpower, compared with the present occupant of the White House….

    Love the song!  It reminds me a bit of some of the Burl Ives classics from my childhood.

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  10. GLDIII Purveyor of Splendid Malpropisms Reagan
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    Percival (View Comment):

    I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience.

    — RR, sending Fritz Mondale home.

    I saw this live and knew at that point the race was over.

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  11. Percival Thatcher
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    GLDIII Purveyor of Splendid Ma… (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience.

    — RR, sending Fritz Mondale home.

    I saw this live and knew at that point the race was over.

    I did too. And you could tell by the look on Mondale’s face, that he knew he was cooked.

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  12. Jimmy Carter Member
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    Now a comic book Hero.

    Read all about it.

    Edit to add: in Yer face, Reagan.

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  13. Percival Thatcher
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    Jimmy Carter (View Comment):

    Now a comic book Hero.

    Read all about it.

    Edit to add: in Yer face, Reagan.

    I can’t. They want me to log in. 

    Is Jimmy’s nemesis a swamp bunny?

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  14. Flicker Coolidge
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    Percival (View Comment):

    Jimmy Carter (View Comment):

    Now a comic book Hero.

    Read all about it.

    Edit to add: in Yer face, Reagan.

    I can’t. They want me to log in.

    Is Jimmy’s nemesis a swamp bunny?

    Not the Iranians.  Of course not.

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  15. Jimmy Carter Member
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    Percival (View Comment):
    I can’t. They want me to log in.

    Log in? Not Me.

    Just search Jimmy Carter comic book.

    The drawings are pretty cool.

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  16. Jimmy Carter Member
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  17. Jimmy Carter Member
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  18. Percival Thatcher
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    Jimmy Carter (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):
    I can’t. They want me to log in.

    Log in? Not Me.

    Just search Jimmy Carter comic book.

    The drawings are pretty cool.

    No rabbit.

    Now, John Carter. That I can get behind.

    Particularly, Dejah Thoris.

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  19. Jimmy Carter Member
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    Percival (View Comment):

    Jimmy Carter (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):
    I can’t. They want me to log in.

    Log in? Not Me.

    Just search Jimmy Carter comic book.

    The drawings are pretty cool.

    No rabbit.

    Now, John Carter. That I can get behind.

    Particularly, Dejah Thoris.

    Please…. She couldn’t hold a candle to Rosalynn.

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  20. Percival Thatcher
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    Jimmy Carter (View Comment):

    Please…. She couldn’t hold a candle to Rosalynn.

    A candle? Probably not.

    How is Rosalynn with a sword, though?

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  21. Jimmy Carter Member
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    Percival (View Comment):
    How is Rosalynn with a sword, though?

    I don’t know. I’ve never questioned Her.

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  22. Flicker Coolidge
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    Jimmy Carter (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):
    How is Rosalynn with a sword, though?

    I don’t know. I’ve never questioned Her.

    Jimmy Carter (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):
    How is Rosalynn with a sword, though?

    I don’t know. I’ve never questioned Her.

    That’s funny.  Stad can answer without hesitation.  If you don’t know the answer, your wife doesn’t know how to use a sword.

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  23. Bishop Wash Member
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    Percival (View Comment):
    How is Rosalynn with a sword, though?

    G. Gordon Liddy had a theory that Jimmy stopped being known in his post presidency for his work with Habitat for Humanity because of Rosalynn and Nixon’s funeral. Not sure if the timing works but Liddy would imagine after the funeral, Rosalynn telling Jimmy, look how well Nixon was rehabilitated. Now get out there and do something worthwhile. That’s when he started dabbling in foreign policy.

    I do remember people calling Carter a great ex-President. Now a lot of those people have stopped saying that and refer to him as an anti-Semite. Should have stuck with the hammer.

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  24. Skyler Coolidge
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    Nohaaj (View Comment):
    Carter was often called the most inept president, with good reason. He was a horrible president.  But I somehow got the sense that he was still a very good man, and didn’t act out of malevolence towards the country.

    He is still able to convince people of that, but he is rotten to the core.  It takes a malevolent view of our country to do all the things he did. 

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  25. Skyler Coolidge
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    Percival (View Comment):

    I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience.

    — RR, sending Fritz Mondale home.

    Even Mondale had the grace to chuckle at that one too. 

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  26. DaveSchmidt Coolidge
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    Nohaaj (View Comment):

    LOL, I do recall that vaguely, a very weird bunny attack story.

    Carter was often called the most inept president, with good reason. He was a horrible president. But I somehow got the sense that he was still a very good man, and didn’t act out of malevolence towards the country.

    In Oblama and Obiden, they act on their hatred of the country, their perception that the USA is evil and needs to be “brought down to size” and particularly in Obiden’s case, he acts in his own self-interest, using Hunter and his brother to build their own slush funds and corruption scams. Country be damned.

     

    My “quick take” on Carter is that he is honorable, if often mistaken, man.  

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  27. Percival Thatcher
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    Skyler (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience.

    — RR, sending Fritz Mondale home.

    Even Mondale had the grace to chuckle at that one too.

    I think Fritz and his team had an attack all planned, and even though he chuckled, he knew that avenue had been closed.

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  28. Jimmy Carter Member
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    Skyler (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience.

    — RR, sending Fritz Mondale home.

    Even Mondale had the grace to chuckle at that one too.

    Mondale did not chuckle out of grace, He chuckled because the remark was genuinely funny.

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  29. Skyler Coolidge
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    Jimmy Carter (View Comment):

    Skyler (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):

    I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience.

    — RR, sending Fritz Mondale home.

    Even Mondale had the grace to chuckle at that one too.

    Mondale did not chuckle out of grace, He chuckled because the remark was genuinely funny.

    Sure, but he gracefully recognized that it was funny.  He is a democrat and thus was likely a communist, but he didn’t let hatred keep him from recognizing the humor.  I doubt any politician today could do so much.

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  30. Dotorimuk Coolidge
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    How about Ray and The Kinks? This is his perspective on the Carter malaise:

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