Carter was the best U.S. President during my lifetime and I miss having someone who is honest and intelligent like him in leadership, especially with Trump being the complete opposite in almost every way.
Like me, Carter grew up in the rural south as a Southern Baptist back when Southern Baptists used to follow Christ. Also like me, he disassociated himself from Baptists and other Evangelicals when they quit following Christ and became a power-hungry, controlling, political movement. It hurts me when people say ” He was a good man but not a good president.” He was actually a great president (Nobel Peace Prize), accomplishing a lot! Some of which the crooked Reagan tried to take credit for. He never lied to the people while Trump has never told the truth, and yet half of the U.S. voted that convicted criminal back into office. I will mourn the loss of Jimmy Carter and as I will the destruction of the next four years in the states, while continuing to be thankful for my 2014 decision to move to Costa Rica! 🙂 I love my new country! 🙂
I hope you will continue to be one of the thousand or so people who read my nature blog and find peace in God’s creations regardless what is happening elsewhere in the world!
¡Pura Vida!
And hopefully by tomorrow I will have some of the photos processed from yesterday’s safari on Rio Tarcoles! 🙂 I am busy again today with a doctor’s appointment in San Jose to evaluate the sonogram of my neck as they continue to monitor for possible spread of cancer. Thanks for your prayers.
Truer words never spoken. I too am grateful I left the states to live here. That a convicted felon with no morals or ethics and a compulsive liar can be re elected gives me a very sad feeling about the state of the union.
Good luck with your medical reports today.
Pura vida- Steve
Thanks neighbor! 🙂
Amen Charlie. I totally agree with you about Jimmy Carter. His actions reflect the teachings of Christ. He walked the walk. Note he didn’t sell Bibles with his name on it.lol. He was a humble servant building homes for the people who couldn’t afford homes.
And I remember in the 1980s the Southern Baptist Convention never invited him to their annual meeting. He wasn’t a Republican and the SBC even then was turning into a GOP puppet and lobbying group. But they don’t pay taxes lol. . And deservedly now the SBC and other right wing evangelicals have zero integrity as they embrace the closest thing to the Anti-Christ Donald Trump. And they are self destructing. They ridicule to this day still a true servant of the Lord who Jimmy Carter was. God isn’t spelled GOP folks lol.
Thanks Debbie! For both agreeing with me and for adding more important information! And of course there is more that could be said! 🙂 But I won’t.
I will joyfully finish out my life here in the beautiful nature of Costa Rica and let my birth-country go the way the voters want it to go. The pura vida is mine!