Woodworker shares chair-making passion with former president

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SAN MARCOS – Palomar College woodworking instructor Russ Filbeck and former President Carter have something in common: They both like to build ladder-back chairs.

It brought the two men together recently, when Filbeck traveled to Carter's Library Center in Atlanta and presented the former president one of his ladder-back rocking chairs.

"It was quite an honor," Filbeck said. "I was nervous meeting him in person, but he put me at ease, and we ended up talking woodworker to woodworker."

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20050714-9999-1mi14russ.html

Remember when we had a smart man in the WH?

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1. /sigh/

will it ever happen again?

may Jimmy live to be 200!

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2. I still remember how much hell he got when he was President

and how they picked on him for every little thing. They even made fun of Amy, and this was well before Chelsea. I was going to University at a Loyola Marymount University, a private Jesuit University and felt that my admiration for Carter was like a shout in the woods.

He's certainly proven himself very noble in the years following. Public works for Habitat for Humanity, democratic peace missions, much more than Chimp. Can we ever have someone like him back in the Oval Office again?

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3. And if Carter's energy policies were still in effect

we wouldn't be in a tenth of the shit we're in today. He is a big man with a big heart and a big brain who can work with his hands and actually pronounce it: Nu-CLE-ah.

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4. "Can we ever have someone like him back in the Oval Office again?"

I was at a hair salon getting a cut, and I overheard two women (the stylist and the person getting styled) discussing a cable show on presidents' wives. They agreed that they both really liked Barbara Bush, but that it was also clear that Jimmy Carter should never have been President. He was a humanitarian and didn't have what it takes to be President.

Those were almost their exact words. You can't be a President of these United States and also be a humanitarian. I almost lost my lunch, and this is in Southern California - a very blue area too!

I don't know if we'll ever learn.

"War may sometimes be a necessary evil, but no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never good. We will not learn to live in peace by killing each other's children" - J. E. Carter's Nobel speech (may have not gotten it completely correct)

"We will fight our wars against ignorance, poverty and injustice for those are the enemies against which our armies may be honorably marshalled." - J. E. Carter's Inaugural Address

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