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hunter

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30. God bless Jimmy Carter, but he brought a feather and a Bible to a knife fight.

Reply to The Wielding Truth (Reply #27)

Sat Jan 28, 2017, 07:03 PM

Jan 2017

Obama's Chicago political experience served him well.

Jimmy Carter and Obama are both impeccable gentleman, but Obama was better able to anticipate and mostly check the grotesquely ungentlemanly behavior of his opposition.

The election of Ronald Reagan was a horror, and since then the Republican Party has only gotten worse. (I despised Reagan as much as I despise Trump.) My only glimmer of hope is that Trump will be the end of them. It took every dirty trick the Republicans had to get Trump elected, and even then he did not win the popular vote.

I still have faith the majority of U.S. citizens are neither deplorable or irredeemably ignorant.

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We really should. hedda_foil Jan 2017 #34

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k&r. . . . . . n/t annabanana Jan 2017 #12

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This moved me to tears Mira Jan 2017 #17

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My absolute favorite story of the entire 2008 campaign. I sent this to everyone I knew. MgtPA Jan 2017 #19

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This actually makes me cry..He is such a lovely, wonderful man whathehell Jan 2017 #21

Me too, makes me cry...again. BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2017 #23

Same DesertRat Jan 2017 #25

Hey, don't forget Jimmy Carter. Obama is the classiest and the equally most decent president. The Wielding Truth Jan 2017 #27

God bless Jimmy Carter, but he brought a feather and a Bible to a knife fight. hunter Jan 2017 #30

I totally agree with all you have said. Hunter, you prove your own point. The Wielding Truth Jan 2017 #31

Agreed...at least within a couple of generations. whathehell Jan 2017 #35

Wait, How did he do this when he was in Kenya? joanbarnes Jan 2017 #22

K&R... spanone Jan 2017 #26