Hellfire103@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoJimmy Carter, former US president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dead at 100reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1388arrow-down19cross-posted to: usnews@beehaw.orgworldnews@lemmy.mlusa@lemmy.mlusa
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minus-squareJo Miran@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up63arrow-down2·9 days agoGreatest ex-president ever.
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down4·9 days agoThomas Jefferson was before my time but was supposed to also be pretty good.
minus-squareGiveMemes@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down9·9 days ago Plantation/Slaveowner and sorta rapist that paved the path for manifest destiny and westward expansion of the US pretty good Pick one
minus-squarenogooduser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 days agoAlso said that he was against slavery but didn’t free his slaves even though he could have done legally in his state.
minus-squareERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down8·9 days agoNah. Lincoln Honorable mentions: FDR (that is, if you weren’t ethnically Japanese) George Washington (that is, if you weren’t black, he’d been a great president) Yea I feel like every “Great” leader has a dark shadow. There are no saints in leadership, especially not a leader of a large country.
minus-squareStovetop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·9 days agoOf the names you listed, only Washington was ever an ex-president. Lincoln and FDR died in office.
minus-squareERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·9 days agoDead is technically an ex-president. They are no longer a president. Former, now dead, president.
minus-squarePlaidboy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 days agoWashington was a pretty bad president if you were Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois).
Greatest ex-president ever.
Thomas Jefferson was before my time but was supposed to also be pretty good.
Pick one
Also said that he was against slavery but didn’t free his slaves even though he could have done legally in his state.
Nah.
Lincoln
Honorable mentions:
FDR (that is, if you weren’t ethnically Japanese)
George Washington (that is, if you weren’t black, he’d been a great president)
Yea I feel like every “Great” leader has a dark shadow. There are no saints in leadership, especially not a leader of a large country.
Of the names you listed, only Washington was ever an ex-president. Lincoln and FDR died in office.
Ex-President
Dead is technically an ex-president. They are no longer a president. Former, now dead, president.
Washington was a pretty bad president if you were Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois).