For All Her Faults and Failings, It's Good to Remember What Makes America Great


On Wednesday, America's real First Family, Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter, will celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary. 


PLAINS, Ga. — When they arrived, they strolled hand-in-hand toward their pond with a graceful willow at its edge.

“We’re going to be buried right there, on that little hill,” Jimmy Carter said, motioning toward the lawn sloping up from the pond.

“There are little white azaleas all the way around the back of it,” Rosalynn Carter said, pointing and remembering the recent day when a beautiful bluebird landed on her future gravesite. “It sat there all the time I was talking to the man who was actually digging the holes to put the vaults in.”

Now, at 96 and 93, they're in failing health but that hasn't stopped them.

Jimmy had been treated for a series of health problems, including melanoma that had spread to his brain and liver. Rosalynn had osteoporosis and had recently undergone surgery for painful intestinal problems.

They had made their peace with the inevitable, but they said the hardest part was knowing that one would leave the other behind.

Lt. and Mrs. Carter, 7 July, 1946


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  1. LorneJuly 4, 2021 at 12:11 PM

    They have shown real class over the years, Mound. Jimmy's humility is something all should aspire to.

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  2. TrailblazerJuly 4, 2021 at 9:21 PM

    Americas days are long gone.
    It's time to move on.
    America is number one..
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/07/04/joey-chestnut-hot-dog-record/

    Goodness knows what comes next.
    China and India aspire for superiority but the USA and a lesser extent the UK control the purse strings.

    It's a strange new world.

    TB

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    1. The Disaffected LibJuly 5, 2021 at 8:40 AM

      TB, this is shaping up to be a summer that may reset plenty of global paradigms. I wish you had given your thoughts on the subject of this post - president and Mrs. Carter.

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  3. John B.July 5, 2021 at 6:18 AM

    I'm trying to think about whether there's a yabbut here. I've got it. What's Carter's excuse for all that humility? He wasn't what America needed in the long aftermath of its defeat in Viet Nam. He didn't have enough bullshit in his soul and that didn't sit well with the public. His humility paved the way the king of bullshit and by the time that huckster was finished, popular discourse had become totally infantilized and the libertarians had decided to focus their effort on the takeover of an established political party instead of wasting their money on the fringes. Carter would never have known enough to invade Grenada to restore America's spirit of self assurance. He remains very un-American.

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    1. The Disaffected LibJuly 5, 2021 at 8:44 AM

      Yeah, John. Carter should have beaten Reagan to the punch with tie glorious invasion of Grenada. After all, he's the outlier who never launched an attack, much less a war, in his single term in office. No bang, bang - Americans not happy. And he had the temerity to warn his people that the petro-binge days were over. Ronnie jumped all over that with the "morning in America" campaign.

      And here we are today.

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