Former US President Carter asks Georgia Secretary of State Kemp to resign

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"Drawing inspiration from his work on the Camp David Accords, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter founded the Carter Center in 1982 in partnership with Emory University. Its mission is to advance peace and health worldwide. The center reports that it has helped to improve life for people in more than 80 countries by resolving conflicts; advancing democracy, human rights and economic opportunity; preventing diseases; improving mental health care; and teaching farmers to increase crop production.

Through the Carter Center, the former president launched a fight against Guinea worm disease , a devastating tropical infection that incapacitates its victims. The center has announced that the disease, which was estimated in 1986 to affect 3.5 million people, was reduced to 126 cases in 2014. It will likely become the first human disease eradicated since smallpox.

The Carter Center has also observed 100 elections in 38 countries – Carter himself has observed 39 – to ensure fairness and to help establish and strengthen democracies. The first was in May 7, 1989, when Carter and former President Gerald Ford traveled to Panama. After that visit, Carter condemned dictator Manuel Noriega for refusing to allow free and open elections, and he called for “a worldwide outcry against a dictator who stole this election from his own people.”

Carter has long been associated with Habitat for Humanity , first working with it in March 1984 when he joined a work crew in building a home for a needy family in Americus. Habitat for Humanity has honored the former president’s efforts for the charity by holding an annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project. The next one, the 32nd, will take place Nov. 1-6 in Nepal to help that country recover from a massive earthquake.

Carter in 1998 was one of five activists from around the world to receive the United Nations’ Human Rights Prize . The prize is only awarded every five years.

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in 1999 received the Presidential Medal of Freedom , the highest civilian honor bestowed by the U.S. government. President Bill Clinton, in presenting the medal, said, “Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter have done more good things for more people in more places than any other couple on the face of the Earth.”

Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”

I would not assume I could change your mind, but name one other former President who has come near to accomplishing as much as Jimmy Carter after his Term of office was over.

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i’m thinking specifically of the continued support of the shah along with the admission of the shah into the country after he was overthrown.along with greenlighting any number of weapon systems which reagan increased.

it’s virtually impossible for an american president to enter office without taking the burden of blood on his hands. still, i admire what he did after he left.

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Does it have to be indisputably positive? TR basically got Wilson elected by running his 3rd party candidacy, and Wilson arguably had a great effect on American and European history. I think it’s sad that modern presidents end their elective careers at the White House, unlike JQ Adams who returned to Congress. Bill Clinton would have made a great senator and stayed in public life as a “Lion of the Senate” till he dies. Love him or hate him, we’ve seen few orators of his like recently.

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He was the first presidential candidate I ever voted for. God I’m old.

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If you really want to drag Carter, there are much bigger things to criticise than his role as an observer in Venezuela.

Carter armed and encouraged the Indonesian genocide of East Timor. He’s also the one who began arming the Mujahideen (before the Soviet intervention).

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Still doesn’t change the reality that when Carter was in Venezuela to observe the election with Chavez there was widespread reporting of fraud, boxes of votes being thrown on the side of the road, etc. All of this publicly reported by Venezuelan reporters. And then Carter says that he sees no problems with the election and calls it the finest in the world. So you know what? idgaf what he’s done.

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It’s so astounding how Kemp, as Secretary of State and overseer of the election, has an even greater advantage than any incumbent will ever have. I mean, he’s the one who certifies the election. He’s the one who, if there’s a dispute, has to adjudicate those disputes (or not).

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Yeah, I have been reading more on that, I don’t know the complete story, but by 2012 Venezuela :

“In Venezuela, voters touch a computer screen to cast their vote and then receive a paper receipt, which they verify and deposit in a ballot box. Most of the paper ballots are compared with the electronic tally. This system makes vote-rigging nearly impossible: to steal the vote would require hacking the computers and then stuffing the ballot boxes to match the rigged vote.”

2012 Venezuela had a better system then the US does in 2018.
So what ever mistakes were made, the outcome caused change for the better?
No one is a saint, but in this political day and age, to find a political figure who actually tries to have a positive impact on the world, is rare, and in my opinion should not be demonized.

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