10.8.19 Hero of the Day: Jimmy Carter

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A SPECIAL HERO OF THE DAY!

Name: Jimmy Carter
Age: 95
Occupation: 39th president
Last Seen: Plains, GA
Awarded For: being the Energizer Bunny
 

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Some people treat the word "retirement" like a four-letter word.

Many of us want to retire in our 60s. For others, now is more appropriate. But all the time, you see elderly folks doing some type of job, whether it's Walmart greeter or janitor. Sadly, some people work because they have to. Others work because they're afraid that once they retire, they'll die.

Jimmy Carter seems to be one of them.

Yesterday, 39 was at work in Nashville helping to build a house for a cause near and dear to his heart, Habitat For Humanity. This just one day after falling in his home in Georgia, requiring several stitches. Carter proved to be rough and rugged, nailing nails into boards with a giant black eye.

Of course, it seems that even though he's 95, nothing could stop Carter. Not even an 18-wheeler or even in real life, cancer, after beating it a few years ago.

At 38, I'm somewhat amazed that there's a president who served before I was born that's still alive. After all, Reagan and Bush I have both left us. Sometimes, I wonder what this world would be like if Americans voted him in for a second term. I think the wealthy would be paying more in taxes and unions would still be aplenty. But in 1980, people wanted a celebrity as their president and, well, we got fucked. Royally. I think the fact that he told Playboy in 1976 that he had lust in his heart played a role in the Religious Reich telling people to vote for Reagan. And yet, today, Carter is a Sunday School teacher.

Of course, Carter lives quite the modest life. He lives in a $170,000 home in his birthplace of Plains, GA, pop. 700. He often meets and greets people with wife Rosalynn at the local Dollar General, blocks away from the tiny downtown that also boasts the Jimmy Carter Museum. Even better is that in 2016, he supported Bernie Sanders. He's pro-choice, pro-gay and pro-woman, and yet, he and Obama just might be the most-Christian presidents still alive.

And even better, today, he commented on Drumpf's impeachment inquiry by saying, "tell the truth for a change".

You know, the fact that Carter's now the longest-living ex-president ever and is STILL out there building houses for the poor shows his true moral character. It's a shame that in 1980, he lost because of pressure from a group of fake Jebus freaks who thought that Reagan was the more-Christian candidate. But then again, Jesus spoke out against excess wealth and bearing false witness, especially with homophobes bitching that God created AIDS to kill off gays. For Reagan to turn the other cheek on the AIDS crisis showed how truly un-Christian he was. Same with the fact that he was racist and anti-middle class.

And this coming from a man who had six letters each in his first, second and last names.

In all, God bless Jimmy Carter. The fact that injury and illness has not slowed him down at his age shows that I think for now, God still wants him here on Earth to make life better for those in need. The fact that he does something many don't want to do shows that he's not done yet, and there's a lot more to do. The world definitely needs more Jimmy Carters and less Drumpfs.

Jimmy Carter: a man who is showing the world that age is nothing but a number.

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