Good article. I still think he was a politically problematic president, but you can't argue his post-presidency wasn't great!
I didn't know just how white-knuckled his campaigns in Georgia were, or how much he dabbled in the unethical. Keeping in mind that Obama's first political success involved knocking a primary opponent off the ballot, I guess all successful politicians had something arguably unseemly in their political past, but not all of them had to pander to vicious racists in order to win election. I absolutely do take it as a given that Carter did have to do that to win. But it's highly unsavory and puts him in a very different light than what most people know about him from his later career.
Carter. The un-Trump.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jimmy-carter-presidency
Good article. I still think he was a politically problematic president, but you can't argue his post-presidency wasn't great!
I didn't know just how white-knuckled his campaigns in Georgia were, or how much he dabbled in the unethical. Keeping in mind that Obama's first political success involved knocking a primary opponent off the ballot, I guess all successful politicians had something arguably unseemly in their political past, but not all of them had to pander to vicious racists in order to win election. I absolutely do take it as a given that Carter did have to do that to win. But it's highly unsavory and puts him in a very different light than what most people know about him from his later career.