Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is a confirmed Apple iPod and iPad user.
Dave Gilson reports for Mother Jones, “The folks over at Big Think have just posted a recent interview with President Jimmy Carter.” An excerpt:
We’ve become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don’t produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas… I have an iPad and also an iPod, both of which are made in China. Although we have designed them here with Apple, for instance, they are manufactured overseas.
Full article here.
The video of Carter can be viewed here.
Let the flaming begin.
Carter is self-immolating.
Peanut Boy helped send jobs overseas, the goddamned hypocrite….starting with some real important jobs in Panama.
And Rush Limbaugh is an avid Mac fan and user, too. So where does this leave us (other than with a rapidly shrinking U. S. manufacturing base for which both parties are responsible)?
Does any one give a rats ass what Carter is using !
This news calls for a big “So what!” As if it makes up for the damage he did while in office….
[Full disclosure: I voted for the guy. We’ve all done stuff we come to regret.]
Even a blind squirrel finds a peanut once in a while.
I hear he bought it on a credit card with a 30% interest rate and had to wait in line for three hours. The sad part is, they were stolen by some Iranians. He knew were they had them, but decided to just blame Israel and then go get some new ones.
It must have taken a lot for MDN not to write a take on this one…
Why should I give a flying F what one of the worst presidents in our history uses?
Wow, first time I’ve wanted to be not-known for using an Apple device…
@David… worst pres would be reagan or dubya hands down. reagan is why we are in the current economic mess in the first place… carter predicted most of what ails the us today… thanks for playin tho
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but how can they? if they were such bad presidents, why did they serve two terms? oh wait, the american people like to get fscked a second time without k-y.
Under Jimmy Carter, the US didn’t attack anyone. Amazing, considering the tendency of this country to wage war.
Carter’s biggest mistake is that he had the gall to tell the American people that they were f__ked and had to clean up their act.
Since we Americans prefer only good news from our politicians, we threw Carter out and elected a series of gentleman who told us we could continue our wasteful, imperialistic ways.
Well, the chickens have come home to roost and we are now really f__ked. Maybe if we listened to Carter 20 years ago we wouldn’t be borrowing craploads of money from the Chinese to buy petroleum from the Saudis who use the money to fund people who want to kill us.
@Arnold Ziffel
I’m no war monger but have you forgotten what happened in Iran when he was president?
@Hiflier,
Of course, I remember – all the hostages made it home safely.
If either one of the Bushes been president then, they’d have started a world war.
@@David
Why don’t you use your own handle? “Carter predicted most of what ails us today.” Carter caused most of what ails us today. You know nothing of the Reagan presidency if you think he was worst. I voted for both of them. I sincerely regret the vote for Carter.
One other thing…
Things were so bad during the Carter years that economists invented the Misery Index to track all the bad news.
@Arnold Ziffel,
Check your dates. The hostages were returned after Reagan took office.
Yes, the hostages were released the day Reagan was sworn in. Very convenient and suspicious.
Presidents do good and they do bad. But W. is by far the worst.
He was still the shittiest president ever and Obama may just top him.
dispite your cute “handle” you are none too bright… history is there for those who want to get educated about the truth….
Reagan’s fans give him credit for restoring the nation’s prosperity. But whatever economic growth occurred during the Reagan years only benefited those already well off. The income gap between the rich and everyone else in America widened. Wages for the average worker declined and the nation’s homeownership rate fell. During Reagan’s two terms in the White House, which were boon times for the rich, the poverty rate in cities grew.
Mr. Reagan is often credited with having caused the collapse of the Soviet Union, but this is doubtful. He did use the Cold War as a pretext for other interventions, including funding and support for horrific violence against the civilian population of Central America. In 1999 the United Nations determined that the massacres of tens of thousands of Guatemalans, mostly indigenous people, constituted “genocide.” These massacres — often involving grotesque torture — reached their peak under the rule of Mr. Reagan’s ally, the Guatemalan General Rios Montt. Tens of thousands of Salvadorans were also murdered during Mr. Reagan’s presidency by death squads affiliated with the U.S.-funded Salvadoran military.
But it was Mr. Reagan’s efforts to overthrow the government — democratically elected in 1984 — of poor, underdeveloped Nicaragua that almost brought down his presidency. Congress cut off aid to Mr. Reagan’s proxy army, the Contras, as a result of pressure from Americans — led by religious groups — who were disgusted by the Contras’ tactics of murdering unarmed teachers and health care workers.
The Reagan administration continued to run the war from the basement of the White House, and paid for part of it with the proceeds of illegal arms sales to Iran. Hence the Iran-Contra scandal, in which Mr. Reagan escaped prosecution because his subordinates claimed that he had no knowledge of their crimes.
The Reagan revolution continues today: the “war on terror” has replaced the Cold War as pretext for intervention abroad, including the disastrous war in Iraq. Tax cuts for the rich and huge increases in military spending have revived the era of giant budget deficits. As the Great Communicator used to say, “There they go again.”
The above post is for our Sparky friend deep in the bunker of denial.
To: @David…. You have one demented twisted view of our history. What a fscked up individual you are.