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Re:The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, li... by humanrebar on Sunday August 19, 2018 @08:33AM (#17794040)
No, he's a nice man but a poor leader.

He had lots of really nice things to say about Chavez and Castro when they died, for instance. Even if you're left wing, you need to acknowledge they did some pretty awful things to their people as leaders.

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Re:The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, li... by icebraining on Sunday August 19, 2018 @01:34PM (#17795260)
He had lots of really nice things to say about Chavez and Castro when they died, for instance.

Lots of really nice things? What he said about Castro: "We remember fondly our visits with him in Cuba and his love of his country."

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Re:The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, li... by humanrebar on Sunday August 19, 2018 @04:54PM (#17796126)
It's an odd thing to be fond of visiting with a man with the justified infamy of Castro. He is responsible for human rights violations, escalation of the cold war in the Western Hemisphere, crippling the Cuban economy and any number of other things. But I guess he loved his country. Except for the people he exiled to the U.S. I guess.
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Re:The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, li... by icebraining on Sunday August 19, 2018 @06:11PM (#17796460)
"He is responsible for human rights violations, escalation of the cold war in the Western Hemisphere, crippling the Cuban economy"

Those would indeed be funny accusations for an ex-POTUS to make.

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Re:The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, li... by humanrebar on Sunday August 19, 2018 @07:10PM (#17796729)
Well, he could have not cozied up to dictators and avoided the whole issue.
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