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If you could bottle that feeling and sell it, youād make a fortune.
Had no idea that Mike Bloomfield was on Weeds. Or Nicky Hopkins.
Former Astros reliever Jack DiLauro. Pitched for the Mets in 69. Was a rule 5 pickup that played for us in 1970. RIP.
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Another former Astro, infielder Gary Sutherland. I vaguely remembered him playing for us in 72-73. Most of those years he was back in Triple A. I remembered him more from being on the first Expos team. RIP.
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Greg Gumbel, 78 (!)
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If you had asked how old he was I probably would have missed by 20 years.
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Jimmy Carter, 100
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Hard to think of a better ex-president.
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He led an incredible life.
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A real American, and though Iām not religious, a great Christian, really embodied what it is to be both.
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There have been very bad people who made good presidents.
President Carter was a very good person who made a bad president and decided not to let that define his life. A truly great American
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I borrowed this quote, hope you donāt mind.
Itās more perfect that what I would have said.
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I disagree. Carter is highly underrated as a President. After 45 years, the Egypt-Israel peace treaty holds. That was Carterās doing. If Reagan hadnāt ditched Carterās energy plan, wars would have been prevented.
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Carter was the first president I voted for, and I voted for him again four years later. There were two reasons that I recall that Carter is remembered as a bad president, the Iran hostage affair and inflation, including massive interest rate increases.
His attempts at resolving the Iran hostage affair were largely sabotaged. I suspect 1970s inflation wouldnāt have happened had the federal reserve controlled interest rates as they do now. He was probably not a bad president, but he was a president at a point of crisis, and his results werenāt perfect.
There was never a better man.
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The irony, lost on the MAGAts of course, is that Carterās energy plan was ādrill baby drillā¦letās put those Arabs out of the oil businessā¦America First!ā Reagan, who they claim to revere, undid all of that and simply crippled Americaās energy independence ambitions.
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What were Carterās policies that turned into Reaganās policy changes?
Itās been too long to remember what my dad said about it (he was on the lending side of the O/G Industry back then)
The notion that Carter was a bad president is Reaganite bullshit tailor made for mouthbreathers.
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The hostage situation was engineered to not be fixed before Reagan was President.
The rescue in the desert was a great plan, the best plan, formulated by brilliant experienced people who ran into unforeseen problems, which is what happens when you send people into battle under less than 100% circumstances (which is all of them)
If if had worked, Carter would have been a hero.
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Carterās energy policy boiled down to one thing: reduce dependency on foreign oil. This would be accomplished by conservation and developing alternative energy, increasing coal production, and increasing domestic oil production, particularly developing Americaās vast oil shale deposits. Reagan said āfuck that, OPEC will sell it to us cheaper. Letās just buy oil from them.ā He subsequently killed all efforts to develop oil shale.
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