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He did a 45 minute interview with Chris Matthews the other day looking back at his career. Many people don't know before becoming a shouting tv anchor Matthews worked in the White House during the Carter years as a speechwriter. Carter looks good and still as sharp. I still find him an enigma though - he was a conservative democrat for his era yet is now heralded by the left. It's taken almost 40 years for his presidency to get praise as opposed to him just being a great ex president. But also I know two people who have worked close with him - one passed away last year and had known Carter since he was running for Governor in 1966 (he was a local news reporter), and the other is an archivist in Georgia state politics who has had the chance to sit down with Carter as well as other significant Georgian figures like Zell Miller, Carl Sanders, Bill Schupp etc. The reporter says Carter was a great campaigner and was a man of the people type candidate but behind the curtain he was actually introverted and his campaign platform wishy-washy. It's not a surprise that the one job Carter has mastered all his life is teaching at Church. So in Georgia it was not a shock to political insiders that his presidency was full of crisis and his image was very weak. Back then in Georgia the governorship was one non consecutive term - there was no re-election but if there had been it has been argued he would have lost since a large group of people who voted for him because he was seen as one of their own (white rural farmers and the deep south) felt betrayed at his social and integration policies. But in the presidential election they all came out to vote for him because the south hadn't had a president for almost 150 years. He thought if he did things a certain way as president other people would follow him but in fact his micro-management rubbed people the wrong way since it made him seem like he didn't trust them. Also it was his wife who was really the political force and the ambitious one - she was against him giving the famous "Crisis of Confidence" speech because it was pretty much admitting he was overwhelmed by the job but he did it anyway. She was suggesting to take military action against Iran although most of the country were too eventually. During the 1980 campaign she was more optimistic than her husband and the defeat hurt her more than him. The other guy says Carter is a lot more outgoing as an older ex politician than he ever was as a politician. He didn't have many friends in politics because he didn't try to make them. Maybe because he's mellowed with age but I have a feeling he's privately happy not to have had a second term since he's been able to fulfill his goals and what he likes without the responsibility/burden of politics.

Geil: Erregung Öffentlicher Erregung means Excitement of public excitement. Song sounds like 1981 but is a fresh one. I have to keep an eye on this band!!!

Too fucking easy Eta, toastie, get the cunto for grammar/spelling.

Melissa Young is a former Miss Wisconsin, terminally ill with "autonomic failure syndrome" which shuts down parts of the brain, and she loooooooves Donald Trump. https://www.theepochtimes.com/terminally-ill-former-beauty-queen-speaks-out-to-fulfil-promise-to-trump_2690081.html She also looks like Melania and Donald loved her back.

Senator Walter Huddleston of Kentucky dead at 92. He was defeated for re-election by Mitch McConnell. This also brings the number of living Senators that are veterans of the Second World War down to six. https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2018/10/16/former-senator-walter-dee-huddleston-kentucky-dies/1657899002/

I would suggest that about 60% of those names will be under consideration but I suspect when all is taken into account no more than 4 end up on the final list. The committee have a massive list to choose from.

The people that follow them are the same people who buy from the Jacamo clothing range.

and may she live for many decades to come !

Uni lad down the shitter, and the carcass bought by Lad bible. Hope it goes the same way. Vacuous cunts and those who follow them.

Probably all 3.

And now, no longer dead but alive: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/139417/correction-guy-edwards He is risen, hallelujah! (Picking him for next year though now).

Yeah, you probably have an enlarged prostate, you have to go for a piss more times than Shergar and, when you do, it comes out so slowly it takes a fucking age to emit an egg cup full. To compound that you really are not sure whether you actually have the big C. Hey, lets ride a fucking bike with the boys, that will work a treat... It's no fun getting old.

for you: How many bladans did it take to invent this? If God exists, not to drink is blasphemy If God doesn't exist, not to drink is stupidity

Yes she is, because she's also Catherine Deneuve's mother.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/people.com/politics/barbara-bush-rushed-wedding-craig-coyne-grandfather-george-hw-bush/amp/

@SC...If your conjoined twins simultaneously shot each other on their birthday things would really be looking up. Would it be a murder suicide, a murder murder, or a suicide suicide?

That was quite fast, didn’t even shortlist him!

She's not showing that much, and could dress to minimise it. You don't upstage the bride on her wedding day with a major announcement like that. It's extremely bad manners.

The problem with the MeToo movement is it commands respect yet it shows little respect for others, particularly if you're a male and you're accused of something. It assumes guilty until otherwise proven innocent, and that in my eyes is just not acceptable in a 21st century democracy where everyone is supposed to be considered equal before the eyes of the law - it's an injustice to have your name smeared and your reputation destroyed. If a single shred of evidence existed other than just the usual he said, she said gossip then somebody would have pursued a conviction against Douglas and got it to court before now.

Just need to get hold of some bread slices that are shaped like bullets.

And so the shortlist cull continues. Who knows where all that time has gone?

Best not to try understanding the entire rules. Some seasoned campaigners on the forum still don't, just let your team speak and whoever runs this will sort out the details.

Oh! I opened several topics in separate tabs and this one read "General Perv" I thought it must be an offshoot of the Jimmy Savile thread.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus' sister, apparently died from cocaine overdose about two months now. https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/julia-louisdreyfus-sister-emma-44-dead-after-cocaine-and-alcohol-overdose/news-story/1ce04933990f55edbedc5c547836c2f4

Probably in the broadsheets, yes. There's also the story of her other actress daughter Francoise Dorléac who died tragically young.