Jimmy Carter Man From Plains trailer

Jimmy Carter Man From Plains is an intimate, surprising encounter with President Jimmy Carter. Following the path of Mr. Carter's recent controversial book tour for Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, Academy Award©-winning director Jonathan Demme reveals a complex individual who, with the gusto and determination of a youngster, criss-crosses the country to get his message across, even as that message creates a media onslaught in which his credibility and judgment are called into question. Jimmy Carter Man From Plains explores both the private and public sides of Jimmy Carter, whose intense sense of justice compels him to pursue, with undiminished energy and hope, his lifelong and deeply spiritual vision of reconciliation and peace.

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[xdir]

Carter asked the American people to sacrifice short term luxury for long term prosperity, his malaise speech is a haunting reminder of what could have been done 30 years ago to resolve today's oil crisis, he was laughed off as a no nothing Peanut farmer yet history has vindicated him.

Just imagine if his warnings where heeded

[xdir]

But at least the 22% interest rate was real, you knew not to borrow money you could not afford to repay, the Gas lines showed that oil is a finite commodity and should be conserved and superseded by newer tech and the extra sweater was personal responsibility.

Reagans answer was greed & consumption, the 80's started the trend of living beyond ones means, where every problem was solved by American might not its exceptionalism.

[Gracelandification]

President Carter got the peace prize too. You know Obama was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize twelve days after taking office. Upon acceptance of winning it, Obama was praised by the committee, "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy". . They also gave the peace prize to Yasser Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the best known terrorist organization on the globe. This is like giving it to David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the KKK.

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Allen West 2012

[ryviuz]

while he has his mistakes, Carter supported many forward thinking actions that was under appreciated:

- law that allows the home-brewing, sparking beer renaissance

- create nature reserves in Alaska (ANILCA act)

- deregulating airlines

- Israel-Egypt peace treaty

- promoting renewable energy, etc

[ryviuz]

@99999albert

the Shah is a dictatorship .. it is only a matter of time before the country erupts,, just like French revolution

CIA has long helped Shah's brutal reign, especially during Operation AJAX to depose a reformist Prime Minister and training its spy agency SAVAK.. Carter halt the support for Shah,, and Shah crumble upon its own despotism

[99999albert]

How could the man that is responsible for letting the Islamist take over Iran and creating the Mujahedin which spilled to global Islamic terror campeign, lecture others about making peace in the Middle East?

What's next? Bush becoming English literature professor in Oxford?

[manofsan]

Carter is known to have signed a Presidential authorization for military aid to the Afghan mujahedin insurgents before the Soviets even invaded Afghanistan. Strange that he would later boycott the 1980s Olympics over a Soviet invasion that he sought to instigate. Furthermore, his administration's record on Cambodia is also frightening, because of his collaboration with China on supporting the genocidal Khmer Rouge. I feel these things disqualify him from being a man of peace.

[Nagira789]

@xawesomexelix isn't that the way it's always been? how many people have statues and streets named after them when they still live?

[drholmes1954]

what is the song towards the end of the trailer:

can't we all just get along, (something) think it's like modern-day apartheid

this song symbolizes how i feel and would be elated if someone helped me find it. oh and Carter wasn't the best president but he has done good after his tenure. his international and domestic activism has been wonderful.

[RonGA15]

Carter may well be thee worst preident in history. The kidnapped people in Iran; the 21% interest rates; gasoline lines; raising taxes; blaming Americans for the "national malaise", etc. His policies were rejected by ythe American people in overwhelming election loss to Mr. Reagan - a truly failed administration led by Mr..Carter

[readchesterton1]

Bush inflated the deficit by several trillion. The only recent president to leave office with a surplus was Clinton.

[readchesterton1]

Get out your volume of Shakespeare or Plutarch and start reading, please.