Just had a contentious discussion with someone who insisted that Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer.
Jimmy Carter was not a peanut farmer. His family owned a peanut farm, and I imagine he knows a lot about peanut farming. But by profession, before politics, Jimmy Carter was a nuclear engineer and a Naval officer.
You can probably guess that the discussion was contentious not just about Carter’s credentials, but also his performance (presidentially speaking), and his legacy. I won’t rehash that here.
Except for this summary, of which I’m as certain as I can be: if he’d sent one more helicopter to Iran, he’d have been re-elected in a landslide.
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