The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly

Re:The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, li... by DanielGee on Sunday August 19, 2018 @09:35AM (#17794248)

The most "un-celebrity"? I'd say carter is the most "celebrity" ex-president we've had in a long time. He has used his celebrity to advocate for his charities ( habitat for humanity for example ) and for human rights ( same sex marriage, race equality, etc ) and political issues ( north korea, iran, etc ).

If you equate celebrity with making it rain in clubs, then I guess carter is "un-celebrity". But the guy has been the most visible ex-president in media. Think that makes him the most celebrity ex-president in history.

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Re:The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, li... by freddie_mercury on Sunday August 19, 2018 @10:59AM (#17794526)

I just read a story about Obama and Arethra Franklin yet you think Carter is the most visible ex-president?

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Re:The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, li... by humanrebar on Sunday August 19, 2018 @04:55PM (#17796134)

OK. Second most celebrity is fair. Why downvote a valid opinion, folks?

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Re:The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, li... by freddie_mercury on Sunday August 19, 2018 @08:21PM (#17796972)

I didn't downvote you but my guess: because your "opinion" included facts that were so obviously incorrect that they could only be the result of tremendous amounts of bias that make you unable to correctly judge reality. Which makes your "opinion" not a useful contribution on a site that (tries to) value correctness.

If you were able to express your opinion without resorting to tremendous amounts of hyperbolism that make it trivially easy to imagine you as a frothing-at-the-mouth partisan you probably would have been able to more effectively convey whatever it was you wanted to get across to the readers at HackerNews.

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Re:The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, li... by humanrebar on Sunday August 19, 2018 @09:33PM (#17797208)

That wasn't my post.

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Re:The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, li... by jumbopapa on Sunday August 19, 2018 @11:53AM (#17794734)

The most "celebrity" ex-president is definitely Obama. Netflix series, Beyonce concerts, you name it - that family eats it up.

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Re:The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, li... by accnumnplus1 on Sunday August 19, 2018 @12:40PM (#17794968)

Yachts and private islands with Branson...

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