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Yeah...I heard part of his press conference today. Damned shame. Didn't agree with some of his policies and decisions but never doubted his integrity and sincerity. Good dude.
" Former President Jimmy Carter is slated to begin radiation treatment for several melanoma spots on his brain Thursday afternoon, he said at a news conference in Atlanta.Carter, 90, told reporters he had a mass removed from his liver on Aug. 3, which he learned was melanoma."I'll be prepared for anything that comes," he said."
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...gnosis-n413026
Yeah...I heard part of his press conference today. Damned shame. Didn't agree with some of his policies and decisions but never doubted his integrity and sincerity. Good dude.
Doesn't look good for him. He said he is at peace -- and he has definitely lived a full life. Hopefully, he'll continue to fight on hard though.
By all appearances, he had a great life for 90 years. Of course the Repugs HATE the guy and screwed his attempts to free the hostages.
I wouldn't bother with many $100Ks in treatment and suffering. Try to beat the pain and go quickly.
Decent man. Met him at a party in Miami. Great great guy
Whatever his faults as a President may have been, President Carter has used the platform of his fame and power to do very good things for a lot of people. His post-Presidency should be a model for others who follow him into that spotlight.
The signs of his mortality are saddening.
I hope that whenever his time comes, others will pick up his mantle and continue the good works of his life.
President Jimmy Carter's amazing last wish
President Jimmy Carter has spent the past 30 years waging a war to eradicate guinea worm — a battle he has nearly won.
This make's Carter's wish at a press conference today — to discuss a cancer that has spread to his brain — especially poignant.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta
✔@drsanjaygupta
"I hope the last Guinea worm dies before I do." Pres Carter reflecting on the work of the Carter Ctr.
Guinea worm is a debilitating parasitic disease that in the mid-1980s used to infect millions in the developing world.
But thanks to the work of the Carter Center, there were only 17 cases of guinea worm counted in the first five months of 2015, a stunning public health victory.
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/20/9182531/jimmy-carter-guinea-worm
Ted Cruz Chooses Perfect Day To Be A To Jimmy Carter
Sen. Ted Cruz, displaying the warmth and basic decency that have made him a legend among near-human beings, chose the day after former President Jimmy Carter announced that he has brain cancer to natter on about how terrible a president Carter was, but at least the man only had a single term before Ronald Reagan Saved America.
Less than 24 hours after the former president said, “I just thought I had a few weeks left,” and thanked God for his “exciting and adventurous and gratifying existence,” Cruz mounted the Des Moines Register’s candidate soapbox at the Iowa State Fair on Friday and shared his own take on the significance of the dying former president and world peacemaker, who helped negotiate a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel:
“I think the parallels between this administration and the Carter administration are uncanny: same failed domestic policies, same misery, stagnation and malaise, same feckless and naïve foreign policy,” Cruz said. “In fact, the exact same countries—Russia and Iran — openly laughing and mocking at the president of the United States.”
Cruz then paused and asked, “Why is it that that analogy gives me so much hope and encouragement?”
“We know how that story ended,” he continued. “All across this country, millions of men and women rose up and became the Reagan revolution.”
http://wonkette.com/593195/ted-cruz-chooses-perfect-day-to-be-a- -to-jimmy-carter
Thanks, TX Repugs, all y'all ignorant "Christian" rednecks sure know how to elect assholes.
Leave it to Cruz and boutons to politicize Carter's condition.
Isn't Carter over 90? Pretty long life, tbh.
ty take. Leave it to The Great Boutons to rub in your fcae the bag Repug politicians you people elect. Krazy Kruz is one the tiest bags. Thanks, Repugs!
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Leave it to boutons to deflect again.
The thread is about Carter, not Cruz you ing hack.
...said every Republican ever...Jimmy Carter's in bad shape
TByou less stalker, Krazy Kruz was talking about Carter's Dem defeat by the cheating, treasonous St Ronnie assholes in 1980 as a template for a Dem defeat in 2016.
The thread is about Carter and his health. Not about your obsession with Cruz.
wit. :facepalm
You Lie
Christian supremacist Krazy Kruz made Carter's cancer announcement an opportunity to say Repugs beating Dems in 2016 would be like Repugs beat the Repugs' hated Carter in 1980. Just in case you Repugs forget how ing nasty, sadistic, inhuman YOUR politicians are.
No. You're obsessed just in case you forget how ing pathetic moonbat hacks are.
Jimmy Carter was a very nice guy that was way out of his depth as President. The metastasized brain stuff killed my sister...it wasn't that bad a way to slide out.
I assume he's a dead man walking.
My bball team's center lasted 7 months after diagnosis and after a few $100K of futile treatments, radiation, chemo, whatever. That was after he went into hospital for a hip replacement, caught MRSA, and laid in the hospital for months while MRSA ate up his butt and headed for his spine.
End-of-life metastatic (brain) cancer care is a huge scam in nearly all cases. And that's w/o even mentioning the huge decline in quality of life, pain, sickeness from the treatments.
The new Cancer Viral treatments look a awseome tho.
lol, says the guy who probably vote for George W. Bush. This idea that Carter was the worst ever is typical conservative "in the bubble" delusion.
Carter was a more bold president than anyone that's been at bat post Reagan, certainly more intelligent than Dubya and Nobama.
Full life for sure.
Respect and peace Jimbo.
immunological approaches are promising but it's still very early, and of insanely expensive.
marijuana is here now and worth a try for any short timer like Carter.
I think targeted chemo delivered by nanoparticles will be more immediate, or targeted nanoparticles locking in to cancer cells and then heated by magnetic or other wave energy. Cancer is very sensitive to heat, as in killed at lukewarm 110F.
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