Godspeed, Mr. President
Word is that former POTUS Jimmy Carter’s cancer has spread. Published accounts indicate at least four “small” metastases are present in his brain.
Carter is reportedly in good spirits, says that pain so far has been “very slight”, and that he hasn’t experienced weakness or other debilitating effects. He started treatment for his metastatic cancer yesterday.
I’d guess most here don’t much care for former President Carter. I’ve made no secret of the fact that I personally don’t care for him at all.
Still: if you’re so inclined, perhaps make the time to ask CINC-ALL to give the man strength and, if He so decides, a full recovery. Though I don’t much care for former President Carter, he’s not on the short list of those I feel are deserving of an exit due to terminal cancer. I’ve asked the Deity to bless and watch over him.
Godspeed, Mr. President. Best wishes for your recovery.
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FWIW: Carter’s cancer apparently is melanoma – the most deadly type of skin cancer. If any reading this happen notice the classic signs of skin cancer on yourself or a loved one, have them checked out pronto.
Category: Jimmy Carter
Similar feelings here.
I’ve seen a lot of stuff in hospitals, but it was the suffering and deaths of cancer patients that brought me as near as I’ve ever come to rejecting my belief in God. (It’s one of the things on my list of questions for when I get upstairs myself.)
I pray that whichever way the former POTUS Carter goes with his cancer, either getting better or passing on, that he does so with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity — and when you’re dealing with cancer, that’s a tall order.
Agreed. I’ve seen several people close to me go that way.
It is NOT a good way to go.
I don’t like the man either, he is a dunce! He is also a traitor as far as I am concerned, him and bubba the pervert were talking about starting their own religion…can’t remember the details now….but what a loser….my prayer for him is that he gets a sudden flash of wisdom and comes to Jesus…thats the best I can pray for him for!!
I agree mostly agree with the above.
President Carter was my first CinC October 1979.
As a former President he is most deserving of all of our best wishes, thoughts and or prayers.
I wish him comfort in his days to come!
Well put, Master Blaster…
Bless his heart.
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No seriously, Bless him and be well as much as possible.
I didn’t care for President Carter as president, but by and large I think he has been a very good former president. I’ve always had great respect for him as a good human being. I add my prayers and best wishes to those of others.
I will always remember when my wife, Bonnie, and I went to see him speak in the Mormon Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.
I also remember having a letter to the editor published in the “DESERET NEWS” daily Salt Lake City newspaper commending him and his wife for their openly practiced Christian activities and conduct.
That sounds more like the phony Carter I despise!
My contribution to the roast.
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/carter-kessler-service/2009/08/06/id/332143/
WOW!
That’s a side of him I never knew about.
I would take most of that like you would any other gossip. Half truths etc. Who travels with pictures of himself? Come on.
Um, you might want to read up on that author before you deem what he wrote to be “half truths”. Kessler’s written extensively on the CIA, FBI, and Secret Service – as in roughly 15 books over the past 30 years. And while Kessler’s been criticized from time to time, he generally is held to be accurate in the vast majority of what he writes concerning those subjects.
I don’t buy it. Sounds more like the ramblings of disgruntled employees mixed with a healthy dose of artistic license. That’s the problem with people who claim to have insider information; it’s hard to substantiate leaving one with no other choice but to use common sense to fill in the gaps between the more improbable parts.
Being believed or widely accepted and trusted doesn’t make everything you say true. Ask Brian Williams.
Not surprising, at all, 2/17. Thanks for the link.
The author of that book is hardly a credible source for anything written about any Democrat:
http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/07/31/discredited-author-ronald-kessler-has-next-anti/200277
You’re offering the Soros-funded blatant propaganda outlet Media Matters as a credible source? Seriously?
My sentiment as well. Disaster as a president, but has done good things in his life, and I would not wish the kind of illness he is facing on (almost) anyone.
I went on active duty Oct ’77. I remember the Iranian hostage situation well. I don’t know if I can forgive that administration for the weak attempt at the rescue (Operation Eagle Claw). I hope the families of the Blue Light/Delta guys can. Having said that, may God bless him and his family.
Didn’t so much care for or agree with much of his politics, but as a fellow Naval Officer, Georgia Tech alum, and someone who has called Georgia home for the last 15 years, I wish him a swift and painless journey whichever way the path before him leads.
Adios muchacho.
He is the reason I started voting Republican. Hypocrite.
I do not wish him a speedy recovery, but I do wish him a speedy and painless journey down whichever way God so deigns in His infinite wisdom.
What chaps my hide is that I see (and it could be merely in my own politically fevered brain) another example of “good for me, but not for thee”, in that here we have a 90 y.o. Libtard DemonRat ex-president political hack anti-Semite has-been, sucking up taxpayer money for his cancer treatments. Anybody else (Joe or Jane Six-Pack), who is unlucky enough to be on ObozoCare, would be lucky to even find a doctor to both accept an ObozoCare health “Plan” (gigglesnort) and prescribe Joe or Jane even an aspirin without breaking their budget.
If this was a just (by DemonRatic standards – irony alert!!) world, as soon as the docs got a look at Cahtah’s cancer, they would have sewn him back up, given him painkillers (but in limited quantities! can’t spend too much on anyone’s health care!), told him that he has so many months to arrange his affairs, and wished him Bon Voyage, See Ya At The Funeral.
THIS!…. Well said.
You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. The government can’t ration plans the way you claim they’re doing because they don’t own or control the health care plans; we’re using the same old deficient private health care plans we always have. It’s not “government health care”, but we’d be better off if it were, since Medicare, which is administered by the government and provides excellent care without a profit motive built into it, is considered the gold standard for health care in this country.
Obamacare is just a system put in place to fund subsidies and tax credits that enable people to buy healthcare, changes that allow more people to qualify for Medicaid, and an implementation of rules for minimum standards in health policies, meaning insurance companies can no longer sell the dirt cheap policies they used to sell that leave people with no real coverage when they end up in the hospital.
Any wealthy person, like Carter, will get better coverage than the poor in the US, but that’s not because the “taxpayers” are covering him and everyone else is being rationed. It’s because we’re the last industrialized nation on earth that allows an industry to make a profit on our health.
Hate to be the turd in the punchbowl but nope, fuck him. This was a recent remark from Jimmah:
“I wish I’d sent one more helicopter to get the hostages and we would have rescued them and I would have been re-elected,” Carter said”
Yeah, it’s all about you asshole. You should have stopped at “…would have been rescued”.
He was clearly kidding about being re-elected.
I’m sure the families of the 8 service members killed are yucking it up.
Exactly right. If they had another chopper maybe those 8 guys would still be alive, but like Jimmah says, re-election was the important thing. I served 76-85 and him being Prez during that first half left a stain on the fond memories I have of that time. Also couldn’t keep his pie-hole shut after he left (he loves him some palestinians). Sooner he’s planted the better.
Yep. The things the elite say about the common citizen… they don’t give a shit about our daily walk and concerns. From defending our families with basic self defense rights, to overbearing laws we live under while they liver above. Fuck ’em all.
“live” above…
He and I both went on active duty the same day… and he was so bad a President that I waited till after Reagan won before I reenlisted. (There can be only one.) At least he got to see one impossible thing in his life – a President who was even worse.
Post White House, acted like a good man when he kept his mouth shut. Best wishes for a speedy and as painless a resolution as possible.
I thought he was the most listless president ever. Then this other one got elected, and I was corrected.
I do not wish any one ill health, especially this kind. He is a very old man. If he recovers, fine. If not, so be it.
Jane Fonda is the only one I would wish brain cancer on. At least he’s able to see that he is no longer the worst president ever.
Now our 2cd worst President and a confirmed anti-Semite I won’t shed a tear when he is gone
Since I have nothing pleasant to say about Carter, I’ll say nothing at all.
Ditto on him not being my favorite president. Double dittos on not wishing cancer on anyone. I wish, post president, he had stuck to Habitat, and stayed out of politics. Had he done so, his reputation would have been much enhanced.
I have about as much sympathy for him as I did when the Ayotollah Khomeni or Ho Chi Minh died.
Carter’s spineless policies helped open the door the pandora’s box of militant Islam that is murdering Americans today. The blood of terrorist victims is always going to be at least partly on him.
Carter was a terrible President, but to be fair militant had taken root long before he ended up in the White House.
We organized an Iranian coup d’etat to reinstate the Shah, and thereby setting the stage for the Ayatollah’s future anti-western fundamentalist Islamic revolution. Dissatisfaction with British, American, and Soviet involvement in Egypt led to the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and started the fundamentalist pan-Arab movement that eventually gave us Al Qaeda and ISIS.
Decades of Western and Soviet geopolitical shortsightedness is what got us into this mess. Even if Carter’s foreign policy hadn’t been naive and spineless I don’t think there’s much he could have done to put a stop to it at that point.
His weakness encouraged them. The Iran Hostage Crisis was handled poorly. Militant Muslims were encouraged to act out further, knowing they faced a hand-wringing weak bitch in this peanut farming ass-clown.
Methinks someone might want to review Iran’s history from 1940 to 1979.
Short version: it wasn’t the Shah’s restoration that led to Khomeini’s Islamic fundamentalist revolution. Rather, it was the Shah’s modernization efforts that led to Khomeini’s political opposition, his exile in 1963 – and to his return after the Shah’s departure in early 1979.
Had Mosaddegh remained in power, there’s a damn good chance Khomeini would have spoken out against him as well, perhaps even sooner. Mossddegh was also a reformer intent on modernizing Iran. He was willing to do more along those lines and move faster than was the Shah.
However, in that event there’s also IMO a good chance Khomeini would have ended up dead vice exiled. By that point, there’s a damn good chance Iran would have been the People’s Republic of Iran with a more ruthless secret police (patterned on the KGB) than the Savak, and that Mosaddegh would not exactly have been running the show any more. Mosaddegh was backed by the Tudeh Party among others; their backing was invaluable when he overthrew the Shah. Mosaddegh’s policies were also quite Socialist.
The Tudeh Party, however, was communist – and was in turn strongly backed by the USSR, which (as Russia) had historically desired to possess Persia. You do the math.
While I considered President Carter to be the Second Worse President in my lifetime, I wish him no ill will. I do hope he recovers and if that is not to be, then I hope God allows him little pain and as peaceful a time remaining as possible. Yes, Godspeed Mr. President.
As for the First Worst President in ALL of U.S. history I do not think I could wish him the same, were he in the same situation. But that is the hardness of my own heart and whether it changes or not depends upon me and not Obama. But I must say, he is doing nothing to help that considered change in my heart.
Didn’t care for him as a President and many of the things he’s advocated for since are crap. But unlike many in the world, he actually has the courage of his convictions. He put his hat in the ring and tried to get them accomplished openly. I oppose that, but I’d never wish something like this on someone who has the guts to stand up for their beliefs.
Some of you people suprise me with your GUTLESS remarks. I can tell buy some of your remarks that very little is learned about the respect given to one that was once our Commandering Chief. Myself I was always told that,”If you can’t say something nice about a person, don’t say nothing at all, and maybe if a few of you would learn to do the same we might be a much better person. End of story!!!!!!!!!!!
Sam Where the tall corn grows
Sam. The problem is that there is another saying: don’t speak ill of the dead. So, under the circumstances, I’d say now is the time to slam Carter. It’s not as if his name comes up at TAH regularly. And Carter distinguished himself among all of our former presidents by assuming diplomatic rolls not his, among other of his offensive behaviors.
I like buttered rolls. I meant to write “roles” in my comment immediately above.
He is a truly kind and decent man. One of the most decent men to have ever held the office.
“One of the most decent men to have ever held the office.” Why, because he pardoned VN draft evaders on his first day in office? Because he wore a sweater? Because he labored tirelessly to free Americans held hostage and failed? Because he endorsed Lester Maddox and sidled up to George Wallace for votes? Because of his 1972 photo proudly taken with the Confederate battle flag? Let’s hear it. How is it that he was one of the most decent men ever to be president?
He was. And most people do not need to be told “why”. The fact you do indicates you do not see compassion, fairness, and empathy to be “values”. President Carter was one of the most empathetic, compassionate, and “just” presidents in history.
Your previous comments has made me suspect you were a borderline sociopath so I am not surprised you do not recognize President Carter’s character as “decent.”
Oh, golly, gee whiz. There he goes again – stating his opinion as fact, and then ascribing it to others – as if his reality must automatically be that of others just because he declares it so.
Fact: No one here wished the former prez ill. Actually, quite the opposite was expressed. THAT is compassion. THAT is evidence of those who post opinions here having an ability to separate regard for any human being from holding them accountable for their actions.
Count me among those who respect Mr. Carter for acting in principled ways. I simply think his principles were often wrong for this country and that his actions caused us irreparable damage.
Will go further to say that he seemed like a really nice guy, one who many of us would appreciate as a neighbor. Those are not traits which qualify anyone to be the nation’s leader. Some folks do not possess the ability and/or the desire to differentiate between likability and job performance.
His comment was sarcastic slams against the president as though he was so devoid of character the only basis I had for my opinion he was a decent man is that he “wore a sweater” and then used his response to me as a segway to pile on more anti-Carter bullshit political mudslinging.
2/7 is openly disdainful of President Carter and he was speaking ill of him. He even linked a unsubstantiated character assassination written by a notoriously and overtly partisan “journalist.
So don’t white knight for 2/7. 2/7 can take care of himself.
Lars, you’re an idiot. Most people do not need to be told why. See ya.
First of all, Larsie – it’s “2/17 Air Cav”, not 2/7. That’s par for the course for you, though – it’s the usual level of accuracy you exhibit any time you comment here.
Second: what 2/17 Air Cav posted were things called “facts”. As far as I can recall, Carter indeed did all of those things – and unlike you, I’m quite old enough to remember them personally. You haven’t yet answered his question. Are those the reasons you consider Carter a “decent man”? Or is there some other reason besides his political party?
If you wish to be taken seriously, you might want to answer that question with a logical argument vice an unsupported opinion. If you’re capable of doing so, that is.
So, Lars says Carter is one of the most decent men to have ever be president and, when asked for support for that view, he answers, “He was.” Gosh, what a bloomin’ knucklehead. And, Lars, what do you mean by calling me a borderline sociopath? Why did you hedge on that?
Lars: Here’s a present for you. I just know you’ll like it.
http://binaryapi.ap.org/20127a4b84ed4b07af58912420129b28/preview/AP720125030.jpg?wm=api
Larsie, you might like this little bit of history too:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/when_jimmy_carter_ginned_up_ra.html
You probably should read this link too, Larsie-boi.
http://www.newsmax.com/John-Gizzi/Carl-Sanders-Georgians-segregation-harmony/2014/11/18/id/608221/
Out of respect for a seriously ill and old man, I’ll refrain from quoting Carter here. Let’s just say the quotes from the links above don’t exactly paint a pretty picture, and leave it at that.
I have weighed in on wishing the former President comfort in his days to come.
I am not the type to kick a man when he is down. Well most men …
However, if others choose to factually comment on the President and his non-accomplishments … all good with me!
With repects to Lars, everytime he comments here I usually giggle, laugh heartedly and spit my coffee out all over the keyboard!
That is all!
He’s a troll, pure and simple. It’s best to not feed the troll. My apologies to the assembled for having done so. Going to go drink some lemonade as punishment.
(And perhaps even tend to the spousal unit as we prepare for some unplanned, non-elective surgery next week. This topic hits particularly close to home right now, which might explain my getting sucked into violating my own rule to never feed a troll.)
I think Lars has his ears covered, his eyes closed, and he is shouting incessantly, “Mommy, make the bad men go away!”
I have read all of the comments and I see none that wish Carter pain or torment. On the contrary, people here distinguish between his serious health issue and his presidency. We see no need to tedkennedy his ass, making him out to be a saint because of his plight. Nevertheless, that will come when Carter’s days on this mortal coil end.