Did anyone watch Jimmy Carter on 60 Minutes tonight?

[Maccagirl]

n/t

[hlthe2b]

1. why don't you tell us about it?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. what he had to say about Ted Kennedy ...

interesting.

[pampango]

4. What was the Carter health care bill that Kennedy opposed? n/t

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. here are a couple of links

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100917/ap_on_go_ot/us_carter_kennedy

http://www.hnn.us/articles/131473.html

[malaise]

8. Carter was a much better President that

Reagan or the Bush men.

He also had a great batting average. The Carter hatred is all propaganda.
I love Jimmy Carter. He was right Bush was the worst president in history. I'll be buying his diaries.

[shireen]

33. +1

[nmbluesky]

3. Well..

I watch Manning Bowl game...

[malaise]

5. Here's the link

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6881954n

[Exilednight]

7. I watched it. Tonight's entire show was pretty good ...........

But the Carter segment was quite interesting. It makes me want to run out and buy the book.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. did they say 5000 pages ..?

or was that something else?

[Fuzz]

10. His diary that was transcribed from tapes was 5,000 pages.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. his diary is 5000 pages ... transcribed from the tapes. right n/t

[Exilednight]

17. 5000 pages transcribed, but only around 600 published in book form. n/t

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. need to put it on my list, thanks eom

[napi21]

12. I believe Jimmy was the only HONEST President we ever had.

At least in my lifetime, and I'm 67. He's STILL the only really honest one alive or dead.

[Graybeard]

15. When he took office he said, "I will never lie to you."

He never did. One of our great Presidents.

[G_j]

25. Reagan lied: "We don't negotiate with terrorists"

but brought us Iran-Contra 'Arms for Hostages'

While Carter kept his word,

[malaise]

35. That's a profound observation

Corporate America, the Pentagon and the RWs hated him - that means he was a great man.

[Graybeard]

13. Carter's book is 592 pages.

Don't get freaked out folks. President Carter has edited the transcript and annotated it with his retrospectives on the events and personalities of his White House years. Can't wait to read it.

[Exilednight]

14. self delete, wrong place. n/t

[mdmc]

16. I can't wait to read it either

I've learned so much by reading his writings..

[pnorman]

21. It'll be released on September 20,

but it's now available on Amazon Kindle for $15. To those who don't already know, Amazon has free versions of "Kindle for PC" and "Kindle for MAC", as well as for various smart-phones.

[H2O Man]

23. I'm looking forward

to reading it, too.

[malaise]

34. Same here - nice birthday present for him

His 86th birthday is October 1st.
Carter is an amazing man - I think he works every day of the week and then some.

[spartan61]

19. I enjoyed this segment on 60 Minutes.

Carter was such a man of peace. So unlike the fool from 2000 to 2008 who wanted to be a "War President"

[GreenTea]

20. Republicans trash EVERY democratic prez from FDR to JFK from Carter to Clinton - And then

they try to shove bullshit down our throats that union busting, tax raising, huge deficit creator, big government spender Ronald Reagan as some sort of great president.

NO one can name one fucking thing in eight years that Reagan did for the poor, the workers, the middle-class or small business - But Reagan certainly went out of his way to give all he could to the rich and their corporations....Reagan tore down much needed corporate regulations, increasing hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to corporations (corporate welfare) stopped alternative clean renewable energy incentives in favor of polluting oil & coal corporations while still offering gigantic tax cuts for corporations 9and the wealthy).

Republicans feed us lies and offer bullshit about asshole corporate pig-shit like Reagan - Who literally ruined this country, our economy and destroyed the workers only voice - while taking from us - and giving to the wealthy and their corporations....

Bush just did exactly the same thing, only Bush wasn't even coy about it, Bush had a republican congress & senate so he just spit right in our faces, as well as the poor and the workers & gutting and destroying as much as the social fabric as he could with his lying wars for corporate profits...Bush laughed right at us and didn't give a fuck - Bush is one narcissistic sociopath - a torture loving psychopath....who cares about no one and hasn't the capacity for compassion or to feel others pain - He just doesn't give a shit!

Republicans don't want the American people to remember anything fondly that democratic presidents have done for the less fortunate - they just want to trash the Dems in our memory....And now we see what they are doing and hoping to do to destroy democratic president Obama in the peoples minds forever!

[jillan]

24. I kept thinking that if him and Teddy weren't competing for the Presidency, we may not have had

Reagan. Well - maybe for just one term.

[WinkyDink]

28. You mean, If Kennedy hadn't challenged Carter at re-election time,....

[jillan]

22. Him and Rosalyn sleep on a murphy bed - he's so down to earth.

[unkachuck]

26. yep....

....it was a good interview....

....the more I watch President Carter, the more I like him....he's a man who is definitely comfortable in his own skin....

[stevedeshazer]

27. Jimmy Carter is a saint.

Well, he would be if I believed in sainthood, whatever that is.

I'm sure I'm not the only one here who pines for Jimmy Carter's honesty.

And I had the nerve to vote against him in the 1980 Democratic primary election and instead voted for Ted Kennedy.

Now that was a tough choice.

Long live Jimmy.

[mmonk]

29. Yes.

I am a contributor to the Carter Center. He is an honest man, a rarity in American politics. I look forward to his book.

[cilla4progress]

30. Probably his honesty that was his undoing!

[mmonk]

31. It is true that many Americans do not want to deal with the truth.

[elocs]

32. Apparently anyone did watch. What were the odds on that? n/t

[yellowwood]

36. Carter Was Discussed

Carter was discussed here yesterday on a popular thread until mods relegated it to the netherworld. I don't know why, since it concerned an American discussing American policy.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x332744

[Obamanaut]

37. I'm sure some did, but I didn't. nt