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Doc Sportello

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Sun Feb 19, 2023, 11:34 PM Feb 2023

Highly recommend 'Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President'

I had it on my watchlist and this moment seemed perfect to check it out. The doc is told though the perspective of Carter's love of a wide variety of music and that works as a fitting synopsis of the man's life, views and his effect on the world. It also includes a reference to the need to reevaluate his presidency and wipe off the dirt unfairly dumped on him by the repubs and enablers in the media.

There are so many thoughtful tributes from musicians and others. As one put it, paraphrasing: 'we're told not to meet our idols because you'll be disappointed. That wasn't true with Jimmy Carter.'
A couple of others:
Rosanne Cash telling of voting for Carter as a teenager, then going to bed on election night 1976 not knowing who won; then being awakened in the middle of the night when her parents, Johnny and June Cash, were whooping and hollering because Carter had won.
Also, and this is fitting for an example of how low current repubs have sunk, is John Wayne wishing Carter well while speaking on inauguration night to a roomful of celebrating Democrats. He said: "I am a member of the loyal opposition, with the accent on loyal."

The documentary is a beautiful tribute to a truly great man.


https://www.jimmycartermovie.com/

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Highly recommend 'Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President' (Original Post) Doc Sportello Feb 2023 OP
he won my grade school class election. i had 4 grandparents, but i hated reagan. pansypoo53219 Feb 2023 #1
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