The pre-Hillary
President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that, his wife, Rosalynn, could have made the jump from first lady to presidential candidate…30 years before Hillary!
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Speaking at Washington’s Motion Picture Association of America before a screening of Jonathan Demme’s new Carter documentary entitled, “Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains,” Carter said that, if Rosalynn had “gone home from Georgia and run for Senate” (a la Hillary), she would have been a formidable candidate.
But “she didn’t want to do that,” he added, without a trace of regret.
Demme’s film tells the story of Carter’s life and Demme follows the former prez on his book tour for his controversial tome, “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid.”
“Of course, I’ve been on TV before,” said Carter, who just turned 83. “But I’ve never been in the theater before.”
“At first I was quizzical about whether Jonathan Demme would be balanced on the film. I was waiting to see how it turns out, whether I’m going to be a villain or a hero.” But Carter said he was quite pleased with the final result. Not a big surprise, considering Demme’s fawning praise of Carter in a statement issued to the press.
“I have always held President Carter in high esteem, so I leapt at the opportunity to do a documentary portrait of him,” said the director of “Silence of the Lambs.” “I love how his un-self-censored behavior and attitudes help reveal how authentic and deep President Carter’s faith-based motivation really is.”
Carter said he was also surprised at the access Demme demanded, explaining that the director had cameras on him 16 hours a day, every day, beginning the moment he stepped out of his hotel room in the morning.
Carter said Demme once even put a scuba-diving cameraman in the pool with him during his morning swim (which should provide more ammunition for those who say Carter has always been all wet).
