Atlanta – Former President Carter Celebrates 90th Birthday

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    Former President Jimmy Carter, right, blows out candles on a birthday cake as wife Rosalynn looks on during his 90th birthday celebration, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)Atlanta – Former President Jimmy Carter celebrated his 90th birthday Wednesday in Atlanta, blowing out three candles representing the past, present and future and thanking family and friends for their support and love.

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    “It’s been a good first 90 years,” the 39th president joked before telling the crowd gathered in a chapel on The Carter Center grounds that he is looking forward to much more work. Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, founded the international health and human rights organization after leaving the White House.

    Carter said his life was most shaped by his marriage to Rosalynn and growing up in Plains, Georgia, where he worked and played with black children who didn’t have the same rights as he because of their race. Carter said he still feels guilt for not realizing sooner how wrong that was.

    Being elected president, he said, was the highlight of his political life. However, he said he’s had the “best times” of his life since establishing The Carter Center, “this beautiful place on earth that has set moral and ethical standards that exemplify what a superpower like America ought to be.”

    Rosalynn Carter choked up while introducing her husband, telling him she’s proud of him for both his work and the family they built together. As for what’s next, Rosalynn Carter said only one thing is certain.

    “It will be something because Jimmy Carter is miserable if he’s not doing something,” she said, laughing with the crowd.

    Carter is the second-oldest of the five living U.S. presidents. He was born 111 days after President George H.W. Bush, who celebrated his 90th birthday earlier this year.
    Former President Jimmy Carter, center, walks through the crowd as he takes his seat for his 90th birthday celebration, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)


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    HankM
    HankM
    9 years ago

    May he live to be 90

    Rafuel
    Rafuel
    9 years ago

    90, and gehenum is still refusing to take him.

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    9 years ago

    Was the cake sponsored by Hamas?

    9 years ago

    Tzaddik vrah lo. Roshoh vtov lo. He is the ultimate roshoh and antisemite. He walks without a cane and is strong like a horse. He should be a kapporah for all of us.

    RebKlemson
    RebKlemson
    9 years ago

    sonei yisrael!

    Teddybear
    Teddybear
    9 years ago

    An alter kaaker, a שונא ישראל, he might be lucky and give his well deserved honor title as the “WORST PRESIDENT” to Mr Obama ירים הודו

    9 years ago

    I can’t believe the antisemite is still alive when R”L we have lost so many tzaddikim. I look at our young people who are seriously ill & I wonder why this rasha walks around spewing his hate. Time for him to go – preferably painfully & miserably, but I’ll take anything just to get rid of him.

    lazerx
    lazerx
    9 years ago

    This is what a secret service man, Kessler, said about Carter:
    JIMMY & ROSALYN CARTER:

    *A complete phony who would portray one picture of himself to public and very different in private e.g. would be shown carrying his own luggage but the suitcases were always empty. He kept empty ones just for photo ops. He wanted people to see him as pious and a non-drinker but he and his family drank alcohol a lot! He had disdain for the Secret Service and was very irresponsible with the “football” with nuclear codes. He didn’t think it was a big deal and would keep military aides at a great distance. Often did not acknowledge the presence of Secret Service personnel assigned to serve him.*

    *She mostly did her own thing.*

    BarryLS1
    BarryLS1
    9 years ago

    90 physically, brain dead always.

    9 years ago

    He was an awful president, and even more awful ex-president. May we soon merit seeing his tombstone. he has not missed a single opportunity to support terrorists and to stab Israel. May be lost in history.

    marcia
    marcia
    9 years ago

    “Only the Good Die Young”