By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-22 14:42:23 | Updated at 2024-09-30 07:26:51
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As His 100th Birthday Approaches, Concert Honors Jimmy Carter’s ‘Singular Achievements.’ Like What?
PJ Media ^ | 21 Sep 2024 | Robert Spencer
Posted on 09/22/2024 7:06:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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 reported Friday 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....
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.
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Gawd what a pair!
The performers showered him with praise. Michael Trotter Jr. “of the married duo the War and Treaty” called him “our forever president.”
Fortunately not!
1 posted on 09/22/2024 7:06:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
Living to be nearly 100 is his achievement.
2 posted on 09/22/2024 7:09:34 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
To: Rummyfan
I can think of only one achievement for Carter. Putting Ronald Reagan in the White House.
3 posted on 09/22/2024 7:09:35 AM PDT by Orosius (“Wake America Up Again )
To: Rummyfan
I'd say that living to be 100 is a pretty good achievement. He seems to have outlived
most of his family. Health wise, the deck seemed stacked against the Carter family.
4 posted on 09/22/2024 7:09:44 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: Rummyfan
5 posted on 09/22/2024 7:11:09 AM PDT by Hieronymus ( )
To: Rummyfan
6 posted on 09/22/2024 7:11:18 AM PDT by null and void (Don't hallucinate and legislate, don't hallucinate and educate, don't hallucinate and procreate)
To: Rummyfan
He taught us how to stay home and wear sweaters.
7 posted on 09/22/2024 7:11:21 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
He’s been in hospice for over a year and one-half; it was a good way to attract attention for this consummate failure of a president and a big phony at that.
8 posted on 09/22/2024 7:12:18 AM PDT by laconic ( )
To: Rummyfan
Too bad Van Halen can’t be resurrected and perform Panama for the big event.
9 posted on 09/22/2024 7:13:41 AM PDT by plain talk
To: Rummyfan
"...to bring people together.."
What a load of horse crap.
I lived through that era, so I know. I wouldn't say he was evil or corrupt in the same way Obama and Biden are.
But he was a complete incompetent.
10 posted on 09/22/2024 7:15:44 AM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
To: Rummyfan
Carter remains King of High American Interest Rates.
Biden now bears the Inflation Leadership Crown.
11 posted on 09/22/2024 7:16:40 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (Don't vote to be a tax slave on Kamala's plantation.)
To: Rummyfan
He got U.S. servicemen killed in Iran. He can share that achievement with Biden, who got 13 U. S. servicemen killed in Afghanistan.
12 posted on 09/22/2024 7:16:53 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: telescope115
In my eyes, Carter living to be 100 is a liability.
13 posted on 09/22/2024 7:18:38 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
He outlived the attacking aquatic bunny.
14 posted on 09/22/2024 7:20:07 AM PDT by Paladin2
To: Orosius
“ I can think of only one achievement for Carter.”
Giving away the Panama canal was not an achievement!
15 posted on 09/22/2024 7:21:20 AM PDT by 9422WMR
To: Governor Dinwiddie
And getting Muhammad Ali to back Reagan.
16 posted on 09/22/2024 7:23:12 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: Rummyfan
Carter’s main achievement is to make Obama and Biden look good.
17 posted on 09/22/2024 7:26:39 AM PDT by caver ( )
To: rlmorel
He may have brought SOME people together but maybe not in a favorable way. Maybe my thinking is a little dated, but I seem to remember him for the infamous Price & Wage Controls. Am I wrong on the dating? Could be, I’m not sure. I know that deal was a big flop for many of us.
18 posted on 09/22/2024 7:29:25 AM PDT by oldtech
To: Rummyfan
“..Jimmy Carter’s ‘Singular Achievements.’ Like What?”
Held the position as the worst president in history for 44 years after giving the Chinese control of the Panama Canal.
19 posted on 09/22/2024 7:32:52 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
To: oldtech
I believe that was Nixon who implemented wage and price controls, and you are spot on-those were terrible policies.
But I have always liked Richard Nixon. I will always be grateful to him for Operation Linebacker II.
But he takes his lumps for the EPA and price controls. I think he is pilloried unfairly for his China policy.
20 posted on 09/22/2024 7:32:57 AM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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