Jimmy Carter, RIP
President James Earl Carter has died. Pray for his family. They’ve lost a father and grandfather.
Because Carter was a Democrat, the media will treat him valiantly. They will not be able to excuse his failures in office. He is, after all, a man who once said the Office the President had become too big for one man. He then enlarged it. It was not too big for Reagan, who the nation replaced Carter with.
The media will praise Carter for his good works after he left office. They’ll praise him for his foreign policy, plenty of which was actually disastrous.
I have several anecdotes from Jimmy Carter from former presidents of both parties. One Democrat former president once said being a politician means you’re used to lying and he’d keep his mouth shut about Carter until he died, then praise him. A Republican former presidents once said if you ever see the presidents interacting together, there’s a reason Carter was always off to the side.
Carter’s public persona and his interactions with ordinary people will win him praise. I am one of many, many people whose hand he shook as he walked on board a Delta flight. But, his theology was worldly and used as a cudgel by secularists to attack Christians, he is the only President to glad hand with the terrorists of Hamas, he was one of very few Presidents who was smaller than office of President, and I should say nothing else to avoid speaking ill of the dead.
Jimmy Carter did many private acts of compassion and his family loved him.
Much of what we are about to witness will be a white washing of history because Carter had a D next to his name. I’ll just leave you with this — as I’ve mentioned, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting presidents from both parties, some of whom I had vehement disagreement with. All said kind and supportive words about each other. None ever had anything good to say about Carter. But Joe Biden liked him.
One thing that can be said of President Carter he is no longer the worst president.
He was a kind soul who never should have been president.
Jimmy Carter was the only US president that I ever met, and I met him before he became president. As I recall, I shook his hand. I was 16 at the time, and I am 71 now. Out of respect for him and his family, I will say little more about former President Carter. The point of my post is that, like Mr. Carter, we are all going to die. What people say about us after we die is of no importance. What the Creator and Saviour of the World says to us after we die is the only importance. When at last they meet Him, many will say, "Lord, Lord, die we not prophesy in Your name, and cast out demons in Your name, do many mighty works in your name?" Jesus will not argue with them for they did all this things, but He will then utter the worst words that any of us can hear: "I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness." Whether Mr. Carter knew Jesus Christ as Lord or not is not for us to know. What there is for us to know is that we are saved by grace and not by our works, irrespective of how respectable those works might be. There are those who have died without the notoriety of a world leader. Nobody here praised them or remembered them, but these little known of humanity heard these words when they stood before Him before whom we must all stand: "Well done, good and faithful slave. Enter into the joy of Thy Master." The accolades of man pale in comparison to those gracious words. I hope and pray that Mr. Carter heard those words.