The Bidens and the Carters...

I know folks shrink as they age, but it never occured to me just how small The Carters are.

Rosalynn Carter looks like a miniature person or a doll next to Biden.

I love the Carters but Biden looks like he's holding a ventriloquist dummy.

Biden looks so handsome in that electric blue suit...love that color. Jill looks chic.

I also know the pain and humiliation of not being offered a seat.

A portrait of DECENT Americans.

Makes me teary eyed.

I'm glad the Carters got to see another democrat win Georgia

I'm glad they got to visit.

America’s two worst presidents meet.

And on the next episode of "WIFE SWAP"!

These rich white people sure live long.

Sorry, no R11. The worst would be the orange piece of shit playing golf in Florida.

Seeking advice on how to be a one term president?

oh my GAH! the carters are the only folks who truly make the bidens seem YOUNG

96 and 93. WOW! Lovely!

r15 If he wanted to know that he could've asked Trump

I will cry when Jimmy goes. That is my childhood.

I love how deplorables claim Biden is the WORST ever yet he's doing a much better job than Turd did in his entire 4 years and he's only in his first year.

r19, same here. We have so few public figures that give like they have. The Carters, Rev. Barber...who else?

R11 was referring to this meeting:

The Carters?

Where is Beyonce???

If Biden stood up his head would hit the ceiling. Even the furniture is tiny, WTF is going on in that photo?

Perhaps just the camera angle R24.

I’m so grateful that Carter didn’t die while Trump was President. He’s a tenacious old cuss; bless him. Love the pic OP; thanks

I will NEVER forgive Jimmy Carter.

He had the unmitigated bad taste to wear a Cardigan sweater in the Oval Office!

Thank the Lord Jesus Christ Almighty for ridding us of these two uncouth, backwoods, peanut-farming Georgia bumpkins after one term, and blessing us with the eternally well-dressed, fashionable, dignified, and classy Reagans!

The chairs are tiny and the pictures are hung low. Jimmy is slouched in the chair so it makes it look like it's miniature but it's not really a camera lens.

The Bidens look like they stepped into a dollhouse.

Try picturing Joe sitting in Rosalyn’s chair, it’s bizarre. We’re the Biden’s badly photoshopped into that scene or something?

It's the angle, let it go...

Can someone please post the pic again? All I see is a green line.

[quote] The Bidens look like they stepped into a dollhouse.

Seriously. And what’s the deal with them kneeling on the floor next to those 2 teeny tiny petrified old fossils? It’s kind of creepy.

r32, here you go.

Thanks R34

Four decent people, but... It reminds me of the old Geico tiny house commercial.

Amy is bathing in the coffee cup..

Carter carried his own luggage when boarding his helicopter for Camp David to prove he was a man of the people. Of course according his staff, the suitcases were empty. Neither he or Mrs Carter were very well liked by the people worked for them at the White House including my father. So, I have no use for them.

I don't really believe that R38. My father met Carter several times (he was a WH journalist) and said he was the most genuine "christian" he'd ever met and my dad was not a big "christian" fan.

I'll bet the Carters still don't poop their pants like the former guy

I'd love to know what Carter and Biden talked about? How to survive the republican menace?

Yes but can Mrs. Carter speak 5 languages?

Biden's approval rating today is 59 percent. The highest Trump ever scored was ha ha ha 47 percent. Pathetic, just like his penis.

Of course he was honest, and america hated him for it. Apparently they don't want honesty they want a charismatic bullshitter to lie to them like Reagan.

People on Twitter are saying the photographer had to use a certain lens to capture them all because it was in the Carter's home. That contributed to the weird curvature and weird perspective.

[quote] Of course he was honest, and america hated him for it

True.

If people would have supported him, and heard the very hard truths Americans needed to hear at that time, we might be in a very different place in so many ways.

I’m glad Rosalynn is still working. Did Joe ask her how that’s going — representing the lollipop guild?

R37 I often smile at some of the funny things people post here. But this, I believe, was the first time I ever laughed out loud at something here. That was very funny.

R43. Agreed, and had Carter won a second term, it would have delayed and perhaps even prevented the poisons that Reagan injected into the American political system: Government is bad; cut taxes drastically and the money will trickle down from the wealthy to the poor; fire striking unionized employees; impugn the integrity of your political opponents; ignore people dying of a viral disease. Reagan was the beginning of all the travesties we live with now. As a Boomer, the only thing I'll take the blame for from younger generations is I should have worked harder to get Carter re-elected.

I love the Carters, and I'm delighted to report that Sumter County GA where they live, went Biden 52% to 47%.

The Bidens are closer to the camera, and the wide angle lens also distorts size near the picture edges.

^^ I was going to mention, look how gigantic Jimmy's feet are!

The Biden's wear masks outside but not indoors next to the ancient Carters and y'all eat it up. I hope they all catch covid from each other.

They're all vaccinated and undoubtedly recently tested for Covid, psycho @R51.

"—Them's peanut-stompin' feet!"

Does Jimmy still make his world famous peanut wine?

The Carter's wedding picture. They're the same age as my parents and have been married just as long

The Carter's stole my dead mother's powder blue living room.

I'd love the photo if the Bidens weren't in it. But to their credit, at least they took a time-out from their "purposefully walking outside the White House" publicity photo shoots.

The portrait on the wall of Rosalyn and Amy Carter made me think of the old Breck Shampoo ads; same painting style!

Why shouldn't the Biden's walk outside? Better that than walking to a church for a photo op with a bible while peaceful protesters are being attacked.

I have never seen an ex head of state live so humbly.

Because Jimmy Carter long ago reached the status of secular Saint r59

I love the picture, but . . .

Rosalynn Carter IS The Incredible Shrinking Woman

Also, when I'm that age I hope I know the importance of buying pants with the right inseam measurement

[quote]The Biden's wear masks outside but not indoors next to the ancient Carters and y'all eat it up. I hope they all catch covid from each other.

Catch it how? What is it about having been vaccinated that people don't understand?

I want Joe’s suit

You can tell they still fuck.

Wholesome AF

Wholesome fucks

That’s really cool since Carter was the first Democratic President Biden got to work with after joining the Senate.

r63, The Bidens or the Carters?

both, together

I always felt so sorry for their daughter, she had to look like she did in the public eye. At least the press wasn't quite as cruel as they would be to poor Chelsea. I always like to think Amy called Chelsea, and was a support for Chelsea during the Clinton years, but, being a Carter, did not seek publicity for the kindness.

Joe's suit is gorgeous, as is Dr. Jill.

The Carters NEVER would have received the former and his whore in their home.

I tried to say something nice about Jimmy Carter the other day and my boyfriend snapped at me about him being a homophobe. I know he's very religious -- it's a Pope type situation right, love the sinner hate the sin? I am far younger, I don't know Jimmy Carter from Mamie Eisenhower

R71, Jimmy thinks Jesus would be fine with gay marriage. The man is a true Christian, if there ever was one.

Lovely picture. I'm sure afterwards they whipped out their metal straws and pierced an infant's neck nape to slurp on some refreshing adrenochrome.

indeed he is

r71, tell your boyfriend that Bible-reading Carter is quoted as saying that homosexuality was VERY well-known in the era of Jesus yet Jesus chose to never mention it once, so if He had no issue with it then we shouldn't either

Swingers?

That is a shot that needed the peculiar genius of Diane Arbus behind the camera.

I love their wedding day picture; so much happiness. They look like some earnest young couple from a Jimmy Stewart movie

Carter is a mixed bag, but you have to give him this: his good works since the end of his presidency have overshadowed his less than stellar time in office. He may not be a good leader (or a good boss, as someone else noted), but he's a good human.

[quote] He may not be a good leader (or a good boss, as someone else noted), but he's a good human.

What the fuck kind of compliment is that?

Someone wrote, I hope the Bidens enjoyed their visit to the Shire.

I was living in Atlanta when Amy was in college there. She used to work at Chapter 11 bookstore right down the street from my house. She was extremely shy and would get very upset when people would point and look at her. Bless her heart, she was such a homely thing

^ (cont) But when they say, "there's a cover for every pot", they weren't kidding when it came to Amy and her husband...

I’m glad Carter has lived long enough to help restore his image. He’s a decent guy but was a fucking shitty President

Carter wasn't that bad a president but he was president during a fucked up time. Hostage situations, recession, etc.............

If you look at key events he actually accomplished some pretty impressive things diplomatically speaking.

Just before he became famous. Hilarious clip.

Don't forget that Jimmy gave us Billy Carter. A loveable, awkward hillbilly if there ever was one.

Did the Bidens make the pilgrimage there because Jimmy is on his way out?

Everyone keeps talking about how humble the Carters live. I don see anything wrong with having a nice home and property to live in post presidency.

It's not like anyone lives in some crazy ridiculous Mega Mansion in some obscene Tony neighborhood. Well...the Reagans did live in Bel Air. But their house wasn't a mansion, it was a mid century modern home.

The Obamas have nice home's too, but again it's nothing crazy. The same with the Clintons and the Bushes already had that huge Crawford ranch before they went to the white house. They bought the other house right before leaving office.

Trump is the only former president who is ridiculous with his real estate and living situation.

You can't expect everyone to live modestly, that's basically a security risk. They have to be behind the gates today and have really good protection in this highly political polarized atmosphere we live in today.

Trump is tacky, that's why.

"The Obamas have nice home's too, but again it's nothing crazy."

Oh, please... Not that there's anything wrong with it

Carter took the fall for the stinking economy he inherited. The cynical press, who hated Nixon, didn't give Carter a chance. Roslyn wore a dress from Sears for the inauguration, BFD. His family owned a profitable business that happened to be a peanut farm, BFD. Every little meaningless incident was portrayed as a scandal.

I thought Bilbo Baggins was a bachelor.

Honey, I Shrunk the Carters

[quote] Carter wasn't that bad a president but he was president during a fucked up time.

Not only did he not unfuck it, he made things much worse by his incompetence. The country needed someone decisive, who would retaliate against our enemies, who would break the Soviets, who would reform the government, the tax system and the economy, and who would be a great communicator.

How exactly was he supposed to "unfuck it" R94?

I have extended family who live not very far from Plains GA in tiny rural Georgia towns and almost all of them have turned Republican. But they all say that Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter are incredibly humble, decent people and are well loved in the area. I think Jimmy Carter was the type of politician who truly believed in public service and trying to put forward ethical, honest policy for the betterment of all the citizens of the country. I think for years after his presidency Jimmy Carter still taught a Sunday School class in their Baptist church. To go from that to slick actor Reagan who was all about appearance and enriching his cronies and donors while paying lip service to "born again" evangelicals who only cared about abortion, gays, and prayer in school. A politician can be a pussygrabbing, lying, cheating, thrice married, hopped up on drugs, vain, obese, ignorant idiot but if he promises to overturn Roe v Wade by God he has the Christian vote. To someone like Jimmy Carter that has to boggle the mind.

Like R91 said. Carter took the blame for shit that really wasn't his fault and those things are more complicated to "fix" than we can comprehend. It's like when dipshit deplorable blame democratic presidents for oil prices or give credit for oil prices. The president has little if nothing to do with that.

As has been noted in another thread, Jimmy, per his most recent biographer, Jonathan Alter, is now blind.

Well, that's in the wrong thread...

Looks like this pic was shot with that same stretchy distorting wide angle lens realtors use to make rooms look bigger.

[quote] How exactly was he supposed to "unfuck it" [R94]?

By being a competent president instead?

A competent president still may not be able to fix certain things. That's the point. Both Clinton and Obama were competent presidents and they couldn't "fix" everything, much of it having to do with being stymied by the GOP.

He got rid of inflation but you have to raise interest rates to do it and that's not popular. Reagan should have thanked him for that.

That photographer is a real asshole. What a dirty trick.

They look Photo-shopped. Badly.

I'm assuming the photographer didn't have a lot of space and had to use a different lense to get everyone in the shot.

[quote] He got rid of inflation

If you are going to attempt revisionism, you should try with something less well documented. The inflation rate for Carter’s last year in office was 13.5%. It was 5.7% the year before he took office. Inflation skyrocketed under Carter’s mismanagement.

The Carters approved and posted the photo so don’t blame me!

There's no excuse for this fun house photo. For whatever reason the shot was manipulated and the result is hilarious.

Carter was not a good manager and wasn’t good at blowing smoke up Americans’ asses like Reagan. He was a grim president for a grim time.

The chair next to Biden looks normal sized in relation to him.. so the two miniature couches are custom made, including that side table.. the frames on the wall are also low. Strange.

It’s like a Diane Arbus (but color).

r111 Maybe the Carters want furniture that is suitable for their situation.

Yes.. i should’ve written "it looks strange“. It does make sense if you’ve shrunk to 4 ft.

I have always loved him, maybe because he was president when I was born or maybe because he’s actually a good guy.

Semi related: I have an unopened can of Billy Beer (it was my Dad’s)

pretty tiles

The WAPO has the explanation:

At 5-foot-5 and 5-foot-10, the Carters “aren’t tiny people, but they are in the medium-to-smaller size among presidents and first ladies,” Alter told The Washington Post. That, and “the fact that when you’re very old, you shrink.” (Joe Biden, by comparison, is just under 6 feet tall, although the first lady is about half a foot shorter.)

Marlena Sloss, a freelance photographer in San Francisco and contributor to The Post, said the image also appeared to have been captured with strong flash and a wide-angle lens.

Although President Biden is kneeling much farther in front of Rosalynn Carter, the flash reduces shadows, a key part of what allows objects to have depth. The resulting effect is that Biden and Rosalynn Carter appear to be side-by-side on the same plane, she said.

This illusion is magnified by the fact that the photographer probably used a very wide angle lens, which helps to capture everything in the frame from within a tight space.

Another factor in the optics of the photo, perhaps, is Carter’s slim build, Alter said. The former president regularly ran long distances while living in the White House, learned to ski in his 60s, and — even well into his 90s — traveled to exotic locales like Siberia for fly-fishing trips. He was also a skilled carpenter who crafted many pieces of wooden furniture, including the round coffee table on display in the image.

The WAPO has the scoop:

At 5-foot-5 and 5-foot-10, the Carters “aren’t tiny people, but they are in the medium-to-smaller size among presidents and first ladies,” Alter told The Washington Post. That, and “the fact that when you’re very old, you shrink.” (Joe Biden, by comparison, is just under 6 feet tall, although the first lady is about half a foot shorter.)

Marlena Sloss, a freelance photographer in San Francisco and contributor to The Post, said the image also appeared to have been captured with strong flash and a wide-angle lens.

Although President Biden is kneeling much farther in front of Rosalynn Carter, the flash reduces shadows, a key part of what allows objects to have depth. The resulting effect is that Biden and Rosalynn Carter appear to be side-by-side on the same plane, she said.

This illusion is magnified by the fact that the photographer probably used a very wide angle lens, which helps to capture everything in the frame from within a tight space.

Another factor in the optics of the photo, perhaps, is Carter’s slim build, Alter said. The former president regularly ran long distances while living in the White House, learned to ski in his 60s, and — even well into his 90s — traveled to exotic locales like Siberia for fly-fishing trips. He was also a skilled carpenter who crafted many pieces of wooden furniture, including the round coffee table on display in the image.

Sorry for the double post.

WAPO for the SCOOP

winning the pulitzer one photo at a time

The weird proportions are clearly the distortions from a very wide angle lens - look a the difference between Biden’s shoulder that’s near Roslyn’s head vs the one closer to the edge of the frame — the closer shoulder has “grown” just like Carter’s feet, which are both angled away from the rest of his body and closer to the edge of the frame. None of the picture frame edges are remotely straight when you put a true line next to them, even though the pictures read square when you’re just glancing at the photo.

Fox News was wondering why all the participants were maskless while indoors, yet the Bidens were masked when they emerged outside.

I'm sure they've all had their shots.

Fox News was making hay over the "muddled" message of telling vaccinated people they don't need to wear their masks outdoors unless they're in a large crowd.

I've meet the Carters and Jimmy stands about 5'2", Roselyn is a few inches shorter. This was 20 years ago, so I'm sure they've shrunk a few inches from that. I don't think the photo is that much of a distortion.

I just noticed that Carter has clown feet in that picture. His feet are out of proportion to his body and huge compared to Biden's feet.

r126, no Carter has always had large feet, even as a child. Growing up he had to stomp peanuts in a vat to make peanut butter, resulting in flat and overgrown feet.

He's a size 11, r127, but in that picture it looks like he has Shaq's feet.

He looks blind

Apparently Clinton and Obama didn't like Carter, thinking him a meddlesome old coot. Clinton became close to George H W Bush.

[quote]The Biden's wear masks outside but not indoors next to the ancient Carters and y'all eat it up. I hope they all catch covid from each other.

[quote]The Carter's stole my dead mother's powder blue living room.

[quote]Why shouldn't the Biden's walk outside?

Stop using apostrophes to make plurals! It's not that complicated!

[quote] Apparently Clinton and Obama didn't like Carter, thinking him a meddlesome old coot. Clinton became close to George H W Bush.

Carter has said he was closest to 41 as president than all of his other successors. Maybe it was a shared disdain for Reagan; they had in common a defeat at the feet of Reagan.

R91 , Rosalyns Inaugural dress was the same one she wore when Jimmy was Inaugurated as Governor of Georgia .She purchased the Dress at Rich's , an Atlanta institution .

It's still hard to imagine that Rosalyn was so friendly with serial killer John Wayne Gacy. I wonder how Jimmy feels about their relationship.

r134, Rosalynn has said that it happened during a break in her marriage, she and Jimmy are at peace with it...

Dave from WashPo TIkTok for the win

[quote]Jimmy stands about 5'2", Roselyn is a few inches shorter.

TF?

The press said Jimmy Carter was attacked by a giant rabbit in 1979, but I always suspected the bunny was normal size. Now I'm convinced.

The Making of the President author Theodore White noted that in his 40-year career that ended in the early ‘80s Jimmy was among just 4 politicians he could be certain was faithful to his wife on the campaign trail. But apparently poor Jimmy had to deal with his wife’s affair with John Wayne Gacy.

In spring of 1980 inflation was 18% and home mortgage rates were 14%. That was the Cater economy. He was terrible.

[quote] In spring of 1980 inflation was 18% and home mortgage rates were 14%. That was the Cater economy. He was terrible.

Check your cost of living price increases. We will probably be seeing this again very soon.

[quote] I think for years after his presidency Jimmy Carter still taught a Sunday School class in their Baptist church.

That's nice, R96. Another story I heard was that you always knew when it was Jimmy's turn to cut the grass on the church lot, because there would be a small contingent of fit men in black suits and sunglasses hanging around, trying and failing to be unobtrusive.

"The press said Jimmy Carter was attacked by a giant rabbit in 1979"

It's true...

More...

This thread is becoming as classic an analysis of a photo as the Christmas party photo

The picture is hilarious

The room the Carter's are sitting in has the decor of a country music star like Loretta Lynn.

I 💕 Jimmy & Rosalyn.

They are America !

she looks very bitter

[quote]The room the Carter's are sitting in has the decor of a country music star like Loretta Lynn.

The room the Carter's are sitting in has the decor of a nursing home parlor.

"she looks very bitter "

That's because Jimmy lusted in his heart for other women

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they don't seem piss-elegant at all

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^ They're old people and they look like it

[quote] she looks very bitter

It's been said that, more than her husband, she never got over the loss to Reagan. And she's been further embittered by the treatment she & her husband experienced with their Democratic successors. Most recently, as an early proponent of mental health care, a failure to receive an invitation to a mental health symposium organized by Michelle Obama.

r147 r150 see r131.

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A bunch of old farts...inside and NO ONE is wearing a mask. Hypocritical Mother Fuckers.

^ They were all vaccinated

r159, is an ignorant shit stirring fool.

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R161 Clueless piece of shit.

People that are fully vaccinated don't need to wear masks around each other, the Carters and Bidens have been vaccinated for several weeks, if not months. Why is this so difficult for some to understand?

Because they are shit stirring trolls R166.

[quote] People that are fully vaccinated don't need to wear masks around each other, the Carters and Bidens have been vaccinated for several weeks, if not months. Why is this so difficult for some to understand?

I think the scorn was more for the Bidens putting their masks on to go outside, when logically, and with the CDC’s blessing, that’s when you would be taking it off. People are trying to understand why Biden keeps wearing a mask outside, with no one anywhere near him.

Who cares R168? Seriously, if someone wants to wear a mask outside let them.

R168, you're just stupid

The Bidens wear masks outside to model behavior that is considerate to those around you, and to try and undo some of the damage wrought by the Orange Shitstain.

r171, Deplorables don't understand that because the idea of being considerate is foreign to them.

Deplorables are horrid

[quote] The Bidens wear masks outside to model behavior that is considerate to those around you

There’s been no one around him when Biden has inexplicably paraded outside with a mask on, contrary to the CDC guidelines.

Doesn't matter R174. Perhaps he's just trying to give a nudge as to considerate behavior which deplorables have no clue about.

Wouldn’t it be better for Biden to follow all current CDC guidelines, as a role model to encourage everyone else to follow them also?

Do not try to explain politeness to deplorables.

Somehow it turns into "you're not better than me," as everything does with them.

R176, I'm not sure Joe can spell CDC, let alone follow their guidelines.

Forgive them, but the deplorables can't seem to settle on whether Biden's senile or unleashing socialism in the US.

[quote] The country needed someone decisive, who would retaliate against our enemies, who would break the Soviets, who would reform the government, the tax system and the economy, and who would be a great communicator.

Reaganites make me sick. Joe is just beginning to try to undo some of the damage that the son-of-a-bitch Reagan did.

The Carter's sitting room hasn't been redecorated since 1977.

Paul Volcker solved inflation, not Reagan. And Paul Volcker was appointed by...Jimmy Carter. I'll give Reagan credit for reapppointing Volcker.

[quote]The Carter's sitting room hasn't been redecorated since 1977.

See R131.

The Carters' sitting room.

[quote] Paul Volcker solved inflation, not Reagan

He solved it by raising short-term interest rates so high that America was thrown into the deepest recession it had seen for 40 years. Probably better if we don't get ourselves into that situation again.

Biden says weak jobs report underscores need for more spending as critics demand he scrap $300-a-week unemployment benefit that stops people looking for work

April jobs reports says economy added only 266,000 jobs last month

Economists had forecast payrolls would advance by 978,000 jobs

The unemployment rate rose to 6.1% in April from 6.0% in March

Business leaders know far more about business than Biden, and they say people are choosing to live on the enhanced dole rather than working for a living. More government money is going to make it worse.

[quote] Biden says weak jobs report underscores need for more spending

I suspect we are all going to add the term "stagflation" to all of our vocabularies again.