by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Donald Trump likes to prattle on about his great wisdom and "big brain" - with his lower middle school vocabulary, but when it gets right down to it, Trump possesses one of the duller intellects of any Presidents in the history of the United States - and he certainly could not hold a candle to Jimmy Carter.
Carter, who entered the White House as the nation's 39th President in January of 1977, at the age of fifty-three, had quite a distinguished career in the public sector before he entered politics. He was a graduate of the US Naval Academy and serving as a Naval Lieutenant when famed US Admiral Hyman Rickover selected him to be part of his personal team advancing the notion of nuclear submarines. Carter went on to become a noted nuclear engineer. By the time Jimmy Carter entered politics he had taken over his family's large peanut-growing operation in Georgia.
Jimmy Carter went on to only serve one term in the White House, due primarily to the Iran hostage crisis which happened during his term and took up much of the political oxygen of the times. However, Carter did not wander off into the sunset after his term ended. Instead, he chose to stay politically and socially active and demonstrated to the world just how productive an ex-chief-of-state could be. He and Rosalyn have fought poverty, disease, and hunger worldwide through the work of the Carter Center, and he has often been called on to travel abroad and supervise international elections. Having Jimmy and Rosalyn in your camp is considered to be the gold standard human rights and democratic movements.
The aging former First Couple have also been involved in building thousands of houses for Habitat for Humanity.
Two years ago Jimmy Carter survived and defeated brain cancer, and a few weeks ago he suffered a fall in his home that left him with a bruised face and dozens of stitches - but he is already back out building houses for America's disadvantaged citizens.
Today at ninety-five, Jimmy Carter is the oldest surviving President in US history.
Jimmy Carter has made news a couple of times lately. In June he was participating in a human rights panel when he proffered his concern that Donald Trump was likely not a legitimate President due to Russian interference in the 2016 election. Carter said that he believed a full investigation would bear out his conclusion.
The former President has also made some very recent statements that touch on the advanced age of some of the current crop of Democratic presidential candidates. If Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders is either one elected, that person would turn eighty during his first term in the White House. Carter said:
Jimmy Carter remains one very wise American!
Citizen Journalist
Donald Trump likes to prattle on about his great wisdom and "big brain" - with his lower middle school vocabulary, but when it gets right down to it, Trump possesses one of the duller intellects of any Presidents in the history of the United States - and he certainly could not hold a candle to Jimmy Carter.
Carter, who entered the White House as the nation's 39th President in January of 1977, at the age of fifty-three, had quite a distinguished career in the public sector before he entered politics. He was a graduate of the US Naval Academy and serving as a Naval Lieutenant when famed US Admiral Hyman Rickover selected him to be part of his personal team advancing the notion of nuclear submarines. Carter went on to become a noted nuclear engineer. By the time Jimmy Carter entered politics he had taken over his family's large peanut-growing operation in Georgia.
Jimmy Carter went on to only serve one term in the White House, due primarily to the Iran hostage crisis which happened during his term and took up much of the political oxygen of the times. However, Carter did not wander off into the sunset after his term ended. Instead, he chose to stay politically and socially active and demonstrated to the world just how productive an ex-chief-of-state could be. He and Rosalyn have fought poverty, disease, and hunger worldwide through the work of the Carter Center, and he has often been called on to travel abroad and supervise international elections. Having Jimmy and Rosalyn in your camp is considered to be the gold standard human rights and democratic movements.
The aging former First Couple have also been involved in building thousands of houses for Habitat for Humanity.
Two years ago Jimmy Carter survived and defeated brain cancer, and a few weeks ago he suffered a fall in his home that left him with a bruised face and dozens of stitches - but he is already back out building houses for America's disadvantaged citizens.
Today at ninety-five, Jimmy Carter is the oldest surviving President in US history.
Jimmy Carter has made news a couple of times lately. In June he was participating in a human rights panel when he proffered his concern that Donald Trump was likely not a legitimate President due to Russian interference in the 2016 election. Carter said that he believed a full investigation would bear out his conclusion.
The former President has also made some very recent statements that touch on the advanced age of some of the current crop of Democratic presidential candidates. If Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders is either one elected, that person would turn eighty during his first term in the White House. Carter said:
"If I were just 80 years old, if I was 15 years younger, I don't believe I could undertake the duties I experienced when I was president. You had to be very flexible with your mind. You have to be able to go from one subject to another and concentrate on each one adequately and then put them together in a comprehensive way."President Carter has not decided who he will support among the Democratic candidates, but he is not going to support the reelection of Donald John Trump. Carter said that Trump's reelection would be a "disaster."
Jimmy Carter remains one very wise American!
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