I think President Biden's remarks are not only praise for President Carter...

[3catwoman3]

...but an attempt to send a message to Trump.

[alarimer]

1. Yes

All that talk of character and service.

[Cattledog]

2. Yep

[nolabear]

3. How could you not? It's simple truth.

[EnergizedLib]

4. I noticed that

Jimmy Carter, and many other officeholders, even those we didn’t agree with, had qualities that were commonplace and have been replaced with evil.

[CrispyQ]

9. The social contract is broken.

We used to hold those at the top, those in positions of authority & power to a higher standard. Oh sure, we weren't always successful, but we still held to the ideal of holding presidents, CEOs, doctors, judges, law enforcement to a higher standard of conduct. IDK when it changed. The pardoning of Nixon? But the social contract is broken. Now those at the top, those with power & money & influence, get all kinds of slack cut for them while those at the bottom are held to a higher standard.

To those who much has been given, much will be asked. Ha ha. The new reality is, to those who much has been given, even more will be given.

[yellow dahlia]

10. Well said.

[keep_left]

14. Yep, that's been pointed out on several occasions by DUers--there are no...

...longer any consequences for crime. And here I'm not talking about the acts of minor street thugs, I'm speaking of our highest leadership and authority figures. No matter what they are caught doing, the consequences for their actions seldom if ever arrive. The case of Nixon is an important one, but at least Nixon was eventually forced to resign. Later bad actors, like the "October Surprise", Iraqgate, and Iran-Contra conspirators (pretty much all the same people), were never disciplined for what were enormous crimes. And think of all the other scandals which were never even properly investigated, or even worse--the investigators themselves were persecuted. (Two good examples are the cases of Iran-Contra reporter Gary Webb and that of Hazel O'Leary, who declassified records about Department of Energy radiation experiments on humans).

[CrispyQ]

17. Right now our government is doing things we think only other countries do.

Love the one, "Right now Ed's got his hands full" as Eddie breaks into a lead. Rockin' song with soooooo much truth!!

[wcmagumba]

5. Trump don't care even if he could understand, he doesn't....

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. CHARACTER matters!

An attribute tRump lacks.

I noticed that Joe looked his way when he made those comments.

[Ocelot II]

7. Yes, especially the part about the worst sin being the abuse of power.

But I'm sure it went right over Trump's head.

[robbob]

12. As far as tRump is concerned

power is there specifically for him to abuse. For him, the whole point of being president is to see how much HE can get out of it. Service? Bah, that’s for “losers”, he’s literally been quoted saying that about those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

[3catwoman3]

16. Might be had for anyting to break thru that hairspray helmet he needs...

...in order to keep that fugly mop on his head from falling down.

[milestogo]

8. Trump is as dense as a brick.

[MLAA]

13. And is not listening, he's thinking about McDonald's on the plane on the way home.

[Raven123]

11. As were Harris' remarks a couple days ago.

[mn9driver]

15. I listened to all of the eulogies. Every single one

brought up Carter’s character, honesty, compassion, selflessness, great love for his life partner, his family, his faith, the simplicity of his post-politics life, and his devotion to work for the betterment of all people until he couldn’t.

Several of them also noted that he accomplished a huge amount while he was president- contrary to the myth that he didn’t, most of which is still being felt today in terms of making the world a better place.

And Trump scowled thru every one.

[AverageOldGuy]

18. And, of course . . .

. . . Trump will take it to heart. Right?

[Escurumbele]

19. Falls in deaf ears, trump is not capable of understanding any of it, not sure if he was there but,

if he was, his mind was going "hummmmmm" while anyone else was speaking, his brain cannot rationalize anything good.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. Watch how uncomfortable Trump appears without Biden ever mentioning his name.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[3catwoman3]

21. Joe was definitely giving him...

…the stink eye.