{"id":183,"date":"2006-12-13T18:13:25","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T23:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/12\/13\/in-praise-of-jimmy-carter\/"},"modified":"2006-12-13T18:13:25","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T23:13:25","slug":"in-praise-of-jimmy-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/12\/13\/in-praise-of-jimmy-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Jimmy Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at dKos, in the process of discussing Carter&#8217;s recent book, the all-too-common dismissals of Jimmy Carter were popping up.  In an excellent essay outlining Carter&#8217;s achievements, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2006\/12\/13\/133130\/33\">the author makes a point<\/a> worth repeating:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut I do worry about us as Democrats.  I worry what it means that we should constantly allow a man who has given his life over to the ideals of honesty, decency, and hard work to be constantly derided.  The Republicans took on the elevation of Ronald Reagan as a kind of public works project, laboring decades to erase the real man and build the myth that&#8217;s worshiped today in the public square.  Why are we so reticent in pushing forward a man who is everything Reagan claimed to be.  And intelligent.  And thoughtful.  And who, yes, turned his post-presidential career into a continuation of his own good work rather than taking it as an opportunity to line his pocket with lucrative speaking engagements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t ever want to engage in anything (for any man) that approaches the GOP deification of Reagan, but I do think that it&#8217;s a goddamn shame that many Democrats, nevermind the nation at large, fail to give Carter his due.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at dKos, in the process of discussing Carter&#8217;s recent book, the all-too-common dismissals of Jimmy Carter were popping up. In an excellent essay outlining Carter&#8217;s achievements, the author makes a point worth repeating: But I do worry about us as Democrats. I worry what it means that we should constantly allow a man who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}