RIP Jimmy Carter, 39th President
Jimmy Carter once went fishing near Plains, Georgia when he saw a white rabbit swimming toward his boat. The rabbit was hissing menacingly at him and Jimmy called it the ‘killer rabbit’—hence this cartoon.
Jimmy Carter, our 39th President, is dead at the age of 100.
When I came of age, I voted in my very first presidential election—Ford vs. Carter. I voted for Ford. This annoyed my dad, who voted for Carter. My father was a career Navy man and so naturally he favored Carter, a Naval Academy graduate and nuclear submarine expert. Dad was also mad at Ford because “he pardoned that sonofabitch Nixon!”
My first attempt at caricature was Jimmy Carter. He was easy to draw—big hair and big smile. A lot of editorial cartoonists had a field day when Carter ran for re-election against Reagan. They both made great cartoon caricatures.
Carter lost in a landslide. As it turned out, Americans were ready to move on. The country was plagued by very high inflation, an energy crisis, as well as an outright recession. Carter tried to solve the malaise by forcing Americans to deal with less. If homes were cold in the winter he wanted the people inside to put on sweaters. Summer heat meant using fans—not air conditioners. He lowered the speed limit to 55 mph on the nation’s highways. Everyone in large states such as Texas and Montana were greatly annoyed by that.
He dealt with the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan by cancelling the Olympic Games for American athletes.
Jimmy Carter, being the nice guy that he was, gave away the Panama Canal. To make matters worse, the hostage crisis in Iran highlighted Carter’s weakness. The Camp David peace accords with Israel and Egypt was a success for Carter, but his domestic failures were his downfall.
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After his defeat he went on to build houses with “Habitat for Humanity.” Unlike the obviously corrupt Joe Biden, Carter projected an image of civility and decency. Still, Carter left the presidency with an all-time low rating. Biden’s rating will easily be lower when he finally leaves.
As an evangelical Christian, Carter was a man of strong faith. Godspeed, Jimmy.
— Ben Garrison
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