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bottomofthehill

(9,040 posts) Thu Jan 9, 2025, 05:36 AM Jan 9

4:30 am and there is still a line of people paying their respect

People have waited on line in the bitter cold in DC to pay their respect to President Carter. It's about 20 degrees with a wind chill of 11 and still people came.

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4:30 am and there is still a line of people paying their respect (Original Post) bottomofthehill Jan 9 OP

Please tell me then how your country voted for him? arthritisR_US Jan 9 #1

Because that's US politics. Not enough people vote etc. LeftInTX Jan 9 #3

Hey, that's a question we ask ourselves every day. calimary Jan 9 #9

That speaks volumes about President Carter. William769 Jan 9 #2

Carter and Biden True Blue American Jan 9 #4

I feel like making a slight correction to that last sentence. OldBaldy1701E Jan 9 #5

Can not argue with another Old Lady True Blue American Jan 9 #7

How poignant. Mike 03 Jan 9 #6

Flag and half staff here in Panama City, Panama. Tom Dyer Jan 9 #8

arthritisR_US

(7,748 posts)

1. Please tell me then how your country voted for him?

Reply to bottomofthehill (Original post)

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 05:43 AM

Jan 9

LeftInTX

(32,712 posts)

3. Because that's US politics. Not enough people vote etc.

Reply to arthritisR_US (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 05:49 AM

Jan 9

Kamala Harris was very popular, but she didn't win.

calimary

(85,363 posts)

9. Hey, that's a question we ask ourselves every day.

Reply to arthritisR_US (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 10:39 PM

Jan 9

WHY? What for? What ON EARTH is the appeal of trump? Especially compared to President Carter - whose opening line was “I will never lie to you”.

Somebody has to explain it to me, cuz I just DO NOT get it. I don’t trust him as far as I could throw Mar-a-Lago. No way in hell I could EVER be talked into voting for him. He’s as far opposite President Carter as it’s possible to imagine.

William769

(57,281 posts)

2. That speaks volumes about President Carter.

Reply to bottomofthehill (Original post)

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 05:45 AM

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True Blue American

(18,430 posts)

4. Carter and Biden

Reply to bottomofthehill (Original post)

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 06:43 AM

Jan 9

Both will go down in History for what they accomplished. Money has destroyed our Politics, along with sensational, money driven media.

OldBaldy1701E

(7,400 posts)

5. I feel like making a slight correction to that last sentence.

Reply to True Blue American (Reply #4)

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 06:54 AM

Jan 9

"Money (and the insatiable greedy desire it creates)has destroyed everything, along with sensational, money driven media."

No need to nitpick. It has destroyed this country even as the few who horde almost all of it try desperately to convince us otherwise.

True Blue American

(18,430 posts)

7. Can not argue with another Old Lady

Reply to OldBaldy1701E (Reply #5)

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 07:34 AM

Jan 9

Like me who has lived through it Al, back to FDR, who I listened to on our fancy Crosley Radio. Fanciest piece of furniture in our house. My Dad got money when Grandpa sold the farm they owned. Bought our house and furniture. Farming community. No one went hungry.🥴

Mike 03

(18,211 posts)

6. How poignant.

Reply to bottomofthehill (Original post)

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 07:24 AM

Jan 9

Truly moving. I hope Jimmy Carter knew how respected, admired and loved he was by so many Americans.

Tom Dyer

(111 posts)

8. Flag and half staff here in Panama City, Panama.

Reply to bottomofthehill (Original post)

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 08:00 AM

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