97 year old Jimmy Carter gives his wife of 75+ years, 94 year old Rosalynn a New Years Eve kiss.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Link to tweet

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. That true love

[brer cat]

2. I love that couple so much!

President Carter is looking very feeble.

[Delmette2.0]

5. The years seem to have taken their toll. nt

[Deuxcents]

19. What do you mean?

[MustLoveBeagles]

21. He's 97 years old

A few years back he was diagnosed with Brain Cancer. I'm sure that wasn't easy to fight off at his age even with the best treatments available to him. It was the same cancer that killed Ted Kennedy, John McCain and Beau Biden and they were significantly younger than him.

[TexasBushwhacker]

30. I looked up about his brain cancer

Jimmy had melanoma in his brain and liver. The others all had glioblastoma.

[MustLoveBeagles]

32. I see

Thank you for correcting me.

[TexasBushwhacker]

34. Well, I had to look it up

Granted, he's Superman, but he's still human. The fact that he could handle chemo and radiation in his 90s is pretty amazing.

[Deuxcents]

3. They've been married for about as long as I've been alive

The love story for the ages right in front of us. O..how wonderful

[colorado_ufo]

4. Mr. President and the First Lady.

Happy New Year to you both!

[SergeStorms]

6. Married over 75 years.

That's something you don't find much anymore, even with an increased population.

Happy New Year to the lovely couple. And I wish them many more. 🥂

[Ms. Toad]

10. My parents hit 66 this year.

They are currently 89 (for another week) and 90. They may make it!

[SergeStorms]

28. That's wonderful!

I envy people like your parents. Their love for each other, through good times and bad, is the substance of which fairy tales are written.

Congratulate them for me, and wish them many more years together. You should be especially proud of them.

[CousinIT]

7. The man is a saint. I'll cry a river when he goes.

[LoisB]

9. Me too.

[FoxNewsSucks]

12. You'll have a lot of company in that.

It disgusts me beyond words the way Carter is vilified by rightwingers and ignored by too many Democrats. He lives Christian values, and is the only former president who went on to do honest charitable work instead of "cashing in".

[MustLoveBeagles]

22. Same here

He's a genuinely good man who's walked the walk. I'm convinced that if the majority of Christians were like him they wouldn't have a PR problem.

[slumcamper]

8. National treasures, both. All the best in 22 to them! n/t

[SCantiGOP]

11. My first vote was for McGovern

Very proud that my first successful vote was for President Carter.

[electric_blue68]

13. That'd be almost true for me...

My first vote was as part of the first year of 18 yr old voters of which I'm very proud to have been part of; was in '71. I don't even remember what - I'll have to look it up.
I wanted my first vote to be a Presidential vote.
Of course I wasn't going to wait.

My first successful Presidential vote was for President Jimmy Carter. 👍

(And boy did it hurt after finishing my day at college to go to the McGovern hotel vote watch (I'd been a volunteer) and see projected on a big screen almost all the States going for Nixon)

[SCantiGOP]

20. I spent Election Day 1972

Driving people to the polls. I got back to my apartment after 7:00 and my roommates were getting ready to go out. I said I was going to hit the couch and watch the returns. They had a good laugh and told me it was already being called a
Landslide.

[electric_blue68]

25. Ohhhh, boy. Yeah, that was sooo sad.

[Evolve Dammit]

14. So much respect for this couple. True compassion and love for humanity.

[jeffreyi]

15. May they live well for a whole lot longer.

[George II]

16. That brings a tear to my eye. Beautiful.

[bdamomma]

17. Wow

God Bless them both.

[Alice Kramden]

18. Sweet

I love them - sweet, decent, humble people. Highly accomplished, intelligent, with a heart of service.

[UTUSN]

23. K&R

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. For this thread

Link to tweet

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[Raine]

26. They're the sweetest couple ever. ❤ ❤ 🥰 nt

[Demovictory9]

27. k&r

[malaise]

29. Lovely

Rec

[SafetyNet]

31. Jimmie Carter is my hero

And I don't have many heros

The work that he did as president and later in life with his foundation is amazing. Few people have accomplished more in life. He is such an amazing person.

I was proud to vote from Jimmie the first time that I voted. Unfortunately Jimmie was outvoted and Reagan won. And that began the massive slide to where we are today.

We all need to do everything that we can to elect Democrats in 2022 or else our democracy and country will be all lost

My apologies if I didn't post this correctly. I just was trying to add my 2¢

[malaise]

33. Welcome to DU

[red dog 1]

36. Welcome to DU!

Last edited Sat Jan 1, 2022, 10:38 PM - Edit history (4)

Reagan beat him using GOP "dirty tricks":

1) The so-called "October Surprise" caper..William Casey arranging the secret, illegal meeting in Paris with the Iranians, offering them weapons to use against Iraq if they would agree to keep the hostages until after Reagan was elected & sworn in (The Iranians were ready to release the hostages in October, 1980, which may well have helped Jimmy Carter defeat Reagan)

2) Casey also arranged for that White House CIA agent to steal President Carter's briefing papers for the 2nd debate, which George Will used to "coach" Reagan so he wouldn't appear as stupid as he did in the first debate. ["Debategate"]
["Well, there you go again"]


(I forget the name of that CIA rat bastard who illegally made copies of Carter's 2nd debate briefing papers while President Carter was out of town....He, Casey, Will, and the others should have been charged with espionage for that crime, imo)

Former Reagan staffer Barbara Honnegger wrote in her book "October Surprise" that George H.W. Bush & William Casey "had conspired to insure that Iran would not free the U.S. hostages until Carter was defeated." (Wikipedia)

Gary Sick, retired naval captain who served on Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan's National Security Council, also wrote a book on this called:
"October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan"

Also, "freelance writer Danny Casolaro (among others) claimed to be almost ready to expose the October surprise conspiracy, when he suddenly died a violent death in a hotel bathtub in Martinsburg, West Virginia." [Wikipedia: "October Surprise"]


(Sorry, I hadn't meant to make this as long as it is, but whenever I think about how the Reagan "Team" stole the 1980 election, my Irish blood boils over)

Again, Welcome to DU!

[red dog 1]

35. Probably the most underrated POTUS in modern history

(and my favorite former President)