Former President Jimmy Carter makes rare appearance on 100th birthday

Kicking, OP?! I saw nary a movement.

R1 when 100 years old YOU reach, look as good you will not.

Team Jimmy

He was announcing the debut of his OnlyFans account tomorrow.

Jimmy team

His siblings died young of cancers

I'm happy that he is still around. And I hope he feels fine. But when you're a hundred years old, what are you doing all day when you cannot really do anything anymore? Watching that little video I'm wondering if he is just coping with his illness and age all day. Is there anything else? Do chirping birds in the morning and sunshine make your day at that age?

President Carter is such an accomplished, sober, quietly faithful man, I had no idea his brother was a burnout

President Carter is a bad ass. He said he is holding on to cast his vote for Kamala Harris as POTUS!

He looked vegetative at his wife’s funeral ten months ago. It’s nice he reached the milestone, but I hope life isn’t a burden for him.

He's stealing my look.

That video seems invasive. Shame on the one who posted it.

Weekend at Bernie's

[quote] That video seems invasive. Shame on the one who posted it.

Bullshit.

It's his 100th birthday, and he's a former President of the United States.

It's a fucking monumental occasion, and I say more power to him.

The only President of the United States to live to be 100 years old.

r10 vegetative or not he'll hang on until Election Day, it's who he is. He's a strong willed man.

I really enjoyed this documentary about him

I hope he's already mailed his absentee ballot.

Early voting doesn’t start in Georgia until Oct. 15, R17.

Oh dear. Get up... I mean stay up, Jimmy, we love you!

I don’t mean to sound like a jackass but is he legit conscious or are they just wheeling around a vegetable. Great American patriot he is.

That documentary above is excellent, much more fun than I expected.

r20 He is not vegetative. The man's entire body is slowly and cautiously ebbing away. His senses are dull but they're there. He is conscious and oriented to time, person and place. He has comprehension.

Something is keeping him alive, he must be very strong willed. Medicine can't be the only solution. Didn't he also have a serious form of cancer?

R9,

My dad breathes through his mouth like that and he's only 92. I guess that's something that happens with old age. Dad's hanging around to vote for Kamala, too although he's really more of a Bernie Sanders socialist if he had that option.

I wouldn't wheel him past any open bodies of water

R12, I assume CBS News was given access by the Carter family.

R9 If he's holding on to vote for Kamala, the best way we can honor his life accomplishments is to get out and do the same.

Remember, the next leader will likely be the one delivering the presidential eulogy once he does pass on. If its Biden (in the lame duck period) or Harris, we know they will give thoughtful, heartfelt speeches. I shutter to think how Trump and his ilk would act in the same situation.

He may be 100 but he dosen't look a day over deceased.

If Trump fucks around and wins he won’t be delivering the president eulogy. He will not be invited to the funeral. I’m pretty confident she will take it. God please let sanity prevail.

Do former Presidents get old and fat Secret Service agents to protect them?

Something is keeping him alive, he must be very strong willed. Medicine can't be the only solution.

How does medicine apply once one is in hospice? Isn't pain relief the only medicine that then comes into play?

I met both him and the First Lady in Los Angeles in the mid-90s at a Habitat for Humanity event. After the event, they visited with the volunteers and made sure to speak with everyone in the room for a brief moment before they left. They are the most gracious and endearing couple I have ever met.

R32 a hospice can also carry on a life-preserving medicine regime

I take a Zoom class with about 25 members. One of the participants looked quite old. I was guessing 90s. She vanished and it was announced that she went into assisted living but didn’t like it so she was going home. And that she is 107 years old. She definitely looked old but not that old. Some people are amazing.

[quote] a hospice can also carry on a life-preserving medicine regime

Other than providing nourishment, what does that entail?

r36, comfort care.

I get comfort care, what I don't get is the assertion that "a hospice can also carry on a life-preserving medicine regime."

R38 like giving your blood pressure or heart meds for example.

Thanks, R39.

This may sound corny and dumb of me, but I wonder if part of the reason he's hanging onto vote for Kamala is partially to honor Rachel Clark. Rachel Clark was a black woman who lived and worked on the Carter family farm. He spent a lot of time with Rachel and her husband and worked in the fields with them. I saw an interview years ago where he said she was an additional mother figure to him.

It's so sad to see a man once so vibrant and strong in what appears to be a near vegetative state.

Bless President Carter.

I'd still vote for him over Trump.

I still maintain that life-enhancing drugs are being shared with a small group of elites, including the British royal family and former US presidents and first ladies. The lifespans of American first couples from the last 50 years is crazy:

Gerald Ford: 93, Betty Ford: 94, Jimmy Carter: 100 (and still alive), Rosalyn Carter: 97, Ronald Reagan: 93, Nancy Reagan: 94, George HW Bush: 94, Barbara Bush: 94

Obviously it's too early to comment on the younger presidents and first ladies.

Strange to think that the current US president would only have to live 18 more years to equal Jimmy's record.

God bless him.

R12 is a fucking frau Kunt face, ff her to hell, go back and do it, don't be pussies, He needs to die, it is a terrible state he is in, a vegetable, who wants that? God is a bitch to have someone die like that, suffering and falling apart.

Are we sure that Georgia doesn't have a rule where if you early vote but pass away before November 5th, the ballot isn't counted? I wouldn't be surprised given all of the other fuckery there.

I remember an interview Carter gave thirty years ago in which he described the corrupt voting practices in the Georgia of his youth. He claimed votes were accepted in the name of dead voters but only for a limited time because, after a certain point, the survivors could no longer accurately determine how the deceased would have voted.

[quote] Are we sure that Georgia doesn't have a rule where if you early vote but pass away before November 5th, the ballot isn't counted? I wouldn't be surprised given all of the other fuckery there.

I posted on another Carter thread that Georgia is among those states having no law governing this possibility.

Thanks R49. I didn't catch that.

🎶 Jimmy! Car-tah! 🎶 Jimmy! Car-tah! 🎶

The democrats would say he was sharp as a tack, fit for office, and you should vote for him.

No, R52, it was the Democrats who waylaid their old guy. The Trump Party is still a cult of personality behind their old guy. Do try to keep up.

Well then should I dig up all the Uncle Joe is still running, and should, threads from Datalounge?

Better yet, look within your own party.

r46 Take a valium, geez.

R14 You completely missed my point. Comprehension is a skill. Learn it.

R46 take SEVERAL Valium. What is wrong with you?

I wish him well and trust that his maker will take him when the time is right.

Nice to see the Carter family got all dressed up for that event...

R44 Are those ages any different to other people who earn $400,000+ per year and those worth millions? I suspect they are not.

Is Jimmy Carter blind, as someone on DL has suggested? When I googled all I could find was this guy.

As I have pointed out elsewhere, Carter's biographer Jonathan Alter noted that he is blind, stemming from 2019 brain surgery.

This article says:

[quote]He had a subdural hematoma, which affected his vision and mobility.

But it makes no mention of him being blind.

R64, maybe the author was being more respectful of his health privacy than was his biographer.

R22, how the fuck do you know that?

The more prolific you get, the more jack ass you get. Dial it down, maybe.

[quote]I wish him well and trust that his maker will take him when the time is right.

I think we have to consider the very real possibility his maker cannot find his glasses, so cannot read his to do list.

r65, the mere mention of him being blind is showing disrespect? Um, no. Just no.

Too bad Jimmy isn't taking our advice.

Former presidents Clinton, Bush & Obama, alone, along with President Bush, sent video birthday messages.

He has Stage IV melanoma, and stayed productive several years post diagnosis due to cancer research.

When is he going to get back building those houses for the poors?

I know he's for marriage equality, but what is his view on abortion?

R73, abortion hadn't yet crystallized as a galvanizing political issue when Carter ran for president. But I recall he was opposed to abortion rights during his active political career.

[quote]Former presidents Clinton, Bush & Obama, alone, along with President Bush, sent video birthday messages.

So basically all of the living presidents who understand decency and respect for others who've held the office.

r66, shove red hot anal beads up your ass.

R76, if you’re waiting for me to cower, pack a lunch. It’s going to be a while.

r77 Fine. Shall we watch a Ropers-heavy Three's Company episode to pass the time?