Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday on Tuesday, making him the first US president to reach the milestone.
Carter, a Democrat who served in the White House from 1977 to 1981, has spent the past 19 months in hospice care in his home state of Georgia.
But the former peanut farmer, who first entered politics in the 1960s as a state senator, is “emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving,” his grandson, Jason, said in September.
And the centenarian still has political ambitions: “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris” in November’s election, the humanitarian and Nobel Prize recipient said, according to his grandson.
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I gasped before reading the title till the end
A rollercoaster of emotions within the span of a sentence.
You had me in the first half dot jpg
I had read the headline before this post and still gasped.
No no no no noooo noooo no oh ohh ohh ohhhh YES!
They knew they were fucking with us with that title and they did it anyway
He was the best president we have had since I was alive. He has integrity. He sold his family farm to avoid conflict of interest when running for office. He built houses for decades after leaving office for the needy.
I said yes quite vocally when I read this. I’m not even American, but that’s how desperate I am for some good news.
Fuck’s sake, country and world; get your shit together.
I really fucking wish that news articles would stop wording shit like this. Reading the title I initially thought he died.
You heard it here first, folks! The secret to longevity is: peanuts.
(Happy birthday, Mr. Carter!)
I really wish they would stop dressing him up and dragging him out to events. Let the man rest.
That’s an old pic. He’s been in hospice for the past 19 months & is just watching a broadcast of the celebrations. But yeah, he deserves the peace
Wild ride to the last two words of the title. It could have gone either way.
He was the last president who addressed Americans like adults without the need for rhetoric.
Every single time I’m scrolling and Carter’s face pops up at the bottom of my screen I think “Oh, he’s reached the end of his long, full life,” and them nope he’s fine and older than most people will ever get. Go Jimmy!
Credit to Jimmy Carter for that.
Happy birthday!
What a stand up guy, wow
probably be his finish line
I’d be happy with that.
I am glad my first thought about this headline was wrong.
