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Jimmy Carter will be 100 years old on Oct. 1. That in itself might have been enough to stage a concert in his honor. After, no other president has hit the century mark, and so why not? Yet when the roster of D-listers, has-beens and never-weres took the stage to honor Jimmuh last Tuesday, they weren’t content with praising his unprecedented longevity. Instead, they spent a great deal of time hailing “the singularity of his achievements” and praising the ways in which he supposedly made the country better. That’s right: once again leftists exchanged fantasy for reality.
The New York Times reportedFriday that a stellar lineup including the B-52’s, BeBe Winans, Angélique Kidjo, Chuck Leavell “and many others,” some of whom you may even have heard of, took the stage at Atlanta’s venerable Fox Theatre to honor the failed president.
The air was thick with undeserved praise. “You can see he had a relationship to music — look at how we gathered here together tonight. He used it as a powerful tool to bring people together.” Carter brought people together? Then why is the country so divided today? I know, I know: The Gipper and the Bad Orange Man. Anyway, the business about how Carter used music to bring people together were the words of country singer Carlene Carter; the Times noted that Carter “is not related to the former president but said he still feels like kin.” According to multiple online sources, Carlene Carter is a woman and doesn’t claim to be a man, so it remains unclear why the Times referred to her as “he,” but it may just have been wishful thinking that she would jump onto the trans madness bandwagon.
The Times was less confused about the concert for Carter. “In many ways,” the Paper of Record pontificated, the concert “mirrored the scope and ambitions of the man it was celebrating: Global and idealistic in its reach, but firmly planted in Georgia, molded by religious and cultural traditions as well as the rich but complicated history of the rural South.” Uh huh. Global and idealistic and the worst president of the latter half of the twentieth century.
The performers showered him with praise. Michael Trotter Jr. “of the married duo the War and Treaty” called him “our forever president.” Carlene Carter added that Jimmy was a “mighty fine man.” Hannah Hooper of “the alternative rock band Grouplove” gushed that he was “an environmental god.” Musician Dave Matthews, addressing the hero of the night, who was not present, said: “You are most definitely the rock ’n’ roll president.” Chuck Leavell of the Allman Brothers band said: “We were so proud of his administration and all the accomplishments that he made.”
Accomplishments? During his one term as president, Carter fought the “energy crisis” by scolding Americans for using too much energy and overseeing a proliferation of government regulation in order to make Americans become more energy-conscious and less wasteful. But the whole endeavor was built on sand: there was actually no energy crisis. The world’s oil reserves did not run out in the 1980s, as had been predicted, and not because Carter saved the day by winning what he called the “moral equivalent of war.”
Carter only made the real problem worse: oil companies were so beset with restrictions and regulations that they couldn’t take adequate steps to find new oil supplies. Carter’s successor, Ronald Reagan, changed that, and the days of the energy crisis were over, at least until apocalyptic climate hysteria of a different kind became the centerpiece of later Democratic presidents’ efforts to assert even more federal control over the lives of Americans.
The Department of Education is another Carter failure. Despite pouring tens of billions into U.S. public schools, student performance has not improved; just the opposite has happened. Even worse, the federal bureaucrats who oversee the Department of Education have created national standards and curricula that are marred by a pronounced leftist bias. This has taken the form today of a manic attention to race and diversity, at the expense of giving children a basic education.
Carter has received a great deal of praise, as well as a Nobel Peace Prize for the Camp David Accords, but in reality, they accomplished little. The final agreement had Israel making substantial territorial concessions in exchange for promises that Egypt would not attack Israel, which the Egyptians kept because U.S. foreign aid was made contingent upon peace. Other than that, the Accords brought no peace to the Middle East. They legitimized the existence of the “Palestinian” people, a propaganda invention of the KGB in the 1960s, and advanced the assumption that Israel was occupying territory to which only Israel actually had a legitimate claim.
Meanwhile, the Iranian hostage crisis, as well as the abject failure and apparent amateurishness of the rescue operation, epitomized the Carter administration’s impotence in the face of repeated provocations from the nascent Islamic Republic of Iran. In a very real sense, Jimmy Carter is the Father of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a rogue regime that still viciously oppresses its own people while allying with and financing jihad terror groups around the world.
Only Old Joe Biden has now ensured that Carter will not be thought of as our worst president ever. So what were these people celebrating? Why are “celebrities” usually on the wrong side of every issue? If Jimmy Carter was a great president, the nation sure could use some bad ones.
It was Jimmy Carter, Democrat, Georgia, who pushed the Shah of Iran out of power. We all know what happened: The U.S. embassy takeover, the bungled rescue attempt, the ascent of the Ayatollah Khomeini and radical Islam. It was Ronald Reagan, Republican, California, who secured the unconditional release of the embassy hostages, even before he took the oath of office. Iran is now the leading sponsor of terrorism worldwide, all thanks to Jimmy Carter, Democrat, Georgia.
As history repeats itself, Jimmah’s fumbling weakness enticed Russia to invade Afghanistan.
His stern response was some tepid boycott of the Olympics.
(Thankfully, the winter half of the Olympics was attended, in spite of Carter, and we had the miracle on ice.)
He went around undermining other presidential foreign policy. That was got him the bullshit Nobel Peace Prize – a token prize given only to Democrats, idiot conspiracy theorists, & jihadists.
Egypt has been in violation of the peace treaty’s anti-incitement provisions since it broadcasted “Horseman Without A Horse” 22 years ago.
Egypt has been fine n violation of the peace treaty’s anti-weapons smuggling provisions since 2005.
Jimmy Carter did not want there to be a peace treaty in the first place. He wanted Israel destroyed, and signalled this to Arab heads of state. This frightened Anwar Sadat because he felt Israel would take revenge against Egypt as well as other Arab capitals.
So Sadat took the leap and visited the the Temple Mount …..respectfully, from the Israeli approach…..thus putting his neck out. This forced Begin to take Sadat’s peace overture seriously, which in turn forced Carter’s hand.
Carter HATED it, but tried to make lemonade out of the lemon by casting himself as the “man of peace” …..all the while being nothing more than Ruth and Billy’s sober brother. (By the way, Ruth was Larry flynt’s sky pilot. They all hated Jews.)
Jimmy Carter will be dead and in hell soon.
Like all the other Carters, he won’t know why….which I’d beautiful, imo.
Imagine, Carter spending eternity in hell crying out “This Is SO Unfair!” 😃
Errata..
“…has been in violation…”
“…which is beautiful ..”
“he” refers to Jimmy Carter. Don’t be obtuse. There is no need to chase a seemingly shiny object when there is so much to attack with regard to Carter’s record.
Even worse ex-pres than pres, if that’s possible. JCart ignorant and hateful
Well, Carter managed to have an economy that was both stagnating (unemployment) and overheating (inflation) at the same time. That is a singular achievement.
Google has not turned up any major musical acts at that crap-show.
A couple of once-major acts who are long past relevance were there, but consider who wasn’t…
• John Carter Cash
• REM
• Derek Trucks
• Bob Dylan – whose absence is especially noteworthy given his support of Jimmuh in 1976
• any of the the former players in Lynyrd Skynyrd – ditto
As a fan of southern music, I wish Tom T. Hall had lived long enough to have the opportunity to slag off Jimmuh, with whom he once was tight, for his anti-Semitic brinksmanship.
Silly me …
I forgot to include Willie Nelson on the roster of notable absences.
Willie was especially tight with Jimmuh. However, Willie was also friends with Kinky Friedman, whose recent passing, during this time of global war against Jews, must have hit Willie hard.
Man, I was so stoned all the time back then… It is coming back to me in bits and pieces…
The MSM – in the aftermath of Watergate – was trying to be hip and with it. It christened the rock-and-roll South as “the New South” and anointed Lynyrd Skynyrd and Jimmuh as the leaders, and cursed Anita Bryant as the throwback.
After Reagan won in ’80, things got back to normal most places, but still the “New South” held on to its image makeover.
John Anderson released “Look Away” on his “Seminole Wind” LP in ’92 and it contained the following, which y’all should hear…
🎶 Dixie’s had her face done
🎶 They say she’s looking better ~
🎶 I sorta like the old one
🎶 I never will forget her ~
🎶 Look away look away
🎶 So far away, Dixieland ~
🎶
Achievements? I wouldn’t exactly call anything Carter did a positive – one bad achievement after another, the worst giving our canal, U.S. Territory ( McCain was born there) to Panama, for them to give to the Chinese to operate. Totally bad.
Deregulating the airlines and beer industry maybe?
Other than that, a disaster.
Thanks to the Peanut Farmer’s creation of the Department of “Education” Costs have skyrocketed, Gov’t and other grantors determine who publishes or perishes, and test scores at all levels have plummeted. Wow, and take a gander at our $35 trillion debt!
Yeah, Habitat for Humanity came to our town to build a house. Who did Habitat award the home to. Whom did they think deserved a free home in our VERY expensive San Diego county Coastal little town.
They awarded this beautiful home to a couple then came to this country illegally. The man was actually living and working mainly in Fresno Ca and the wife was STILL illegally in our country. She had just gotten here and could not speak a word of English.
Most of my renting neighbors, had lived, worked and paid taxes for their entire life in this expensive place to live and were not even considered for this beautiful home, NOT at all appreciated by this couple and family, that sold it exactly 2 years later and took the money and moved away. I’m sure laughing all the way at the stupid Gringos. How do I know. I knew a family a few doors down from the home.
I will never give Habitat for Humanity a dime.
In truth, Carter wants to hang around long enough to witness the beginning of the end of America. The end of America is the fulfillment of every democrat’s dream. It’s their vengeance upon America for coming out on the losing end of the Civil War.
For the democrats, the end of America is justice delayed but justice at last. Next task: round up all republicans, conservatives, Christians, Jews, Libertarians and then… (They’ll be warming up the ovens at the FEMA internment camps in due time!!)
Jimmy Carter is also responsible for the current rise of Communist China.
He ended US recognition of Taiwan and threw them to the wolves. He turned appeasing China into a bipartisan thing, giving the CCP a death grip on our economy and allowing them to infiltrate our institutions with their spies.
I once worked with a Chicom engineer who we were all convinced was a spy.. He was a loathsome individual who didn’t like much of anything about America. And his food stunk so bad that he was banned from using the microwave in the break room! And he was rude to our secretary!
He was hired at a time when America tech companies were hiring foreign engineers (H-1B visas) by the bushel. That didn’t always work out so well. The individual I described above finally got terminated for incompetence and had to go back to China (or “Chiner” as my colleagues from the Boston area use to say.) I don’t like seeing a person lose their job but in this case……..
The way things worked back then (1990s), if a foreign worker here in the US lost their job, they lost their sponsorship and had 30 days(?) to voluntarily leave the country or be forcibly deported.
Today, they have 30 days to leave the country or not.
When I read the headline I thought, “name one” then I remembered — he did best a rabbit in one on one combat, so there’s that.
Although Carter was a terrible president, I’m respectful of him because he was/is also a fellow engineer. I also went through the rigors of earning an engineering degree(s) so I will always respect him for that accomplishment.
I don’t know whether Mr. Carter will still be conscious enough to realize what ‘birthday’ means, but as far as his achievements are concerned: please, dont rub salt on the wound. If it were not for him, the abominable ayatollah regime would never have seen the day and plagued the world as it still does today. Shame on you, Mr. ex-President!
It figures one of the musical guests would be Dave Matthews, given that he joined in on that pro-Hamas mob that agitated outside of Netanyahu’s speech to congress.
Carter was a mediocre President, but during his retirement he did excellent charity work for Habitat for Humanity and to cure rivef blindness. His election foundation moderated elections, preventing civil war.
The Peanut Eater Kid blew it big time but his one plus side is that his polls are higher then Bidens