Former US President Jimmy Carter is resting after being taken to hospital for an upset stomach after a flight to Cleveland.

"He is resting comfortably and is expected to resume his book tour this week," the Carter Center said.

The 86-year-old was travelling to promote his new book White House Diary, which was released last week.

Mr Carter was elected as the 39th US president in 1976 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

According to the website for Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Mr Carter was planning to attend a book signing in Cleveland in the US state of Ohio.

The former president was taken to Metro Health Hospital around 1130 local time (1530 GMT).

Mr Carter has recently called for the US to develop stronger ties with Iran and North Korea.

Last month, Mr Carter secured the release of Aijalon Mahli Gomes, a 31-year-old American citizen detained in North Korea.

He founded the Carter Center a year after leaving the White House to promote elections and mediate conflicts around the globe.

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I just saw him on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last week.

I hope the old man gets well soon.  As long as Carter is able, he will continue to do good work.

The Gentleman President, that's who he is.  I don't care what anyone says about him, he is tops in my book

Keep well. Mr Carter.  Wish you a quick recovery.

Going to Cleveland is enough to make anyone sick.


I truly admire the guy and have A LOT of respect for him. I wish him a speedy recovery.



Cat

Going to Cleveland is enough to make anyone sick.


I truly admire the guy and have A LOT of respect for him. I wish him a speedy recovery.



Cat


Tell me about it...

I live there! The 2nd poorest city in the nation! :P

Tell me about it...

I live there! The 2nd poorest city in the nation! :P


By median income, apparently you are second only to Detroit.
http://dcjobsource.com/richest.html

Nice guy but a horrible president!  I wish him well though!

Nice guy but a horrible president!  I wish him well though!


If he was a horrible pres. it was because he was a nice guy and tried to be moral

I heard about this the other day, and certainly wish all the best for him. Also, today is his 86th birthday. http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/birthday.gif

If he was a horrible pres. it was because he was a nice guy and tried to be moral


As an old boss used to tell me "LyricBoy, you don't get points for trying, only for getting the job done"

I heard about this the other day, and certainly wish all the best for him. Also, today is his 86th birthday. http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/birthday.gif


Happy Birthday, Mr. President...

http://www.marilynmonroecollection.com/Pictures/Christies1999Auction/Lot55/Lot55r.jpg

I like that can even better than this can:

http://www.rustycans.com/Graphics/Billy.GIF

As an old boss used to tell me "LyricBoy, you don't get points for trying, only for getting the job done"


Who'd you work for, Henry Kissinger?
8)

Who'd you work for, Henry Kissinger?
8)


Nope.  A boss whose behind-his-back nickname was "Satan".

Nope.  A boss whose behind-his-back nickname was "Satan".


Like Max said, Henry the K

Like Max said, Henry the K


Yet both both Satan and Jimmy are both recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.  ;D

I like that can even better than this can:

http://www.rustycans.com/Graphics/Billy.GIF


I like that can.  There's a story behind it.

I typically show up not to praise Carter, but to bury him, but even I have to respect the man for his deregulation of brewing and the opening up of the now-burgeoning US craft brewing industry.  American beer used to be a joke.  You bought whichever fizzy pale imitation of a light lager paid for the best commercials, and that was that, because it was illegal to even homebrew.  Thanks to the 1979 deregulation, there are thousands of craft breweries around the country, and I'd try damn near anything by any one of them.

When Carter finally kicks the bucket, I'll have plenty of foul things to say about him, but they'll be tempered by the fact that the craft brew in my hand wouldn't be there without deregulation.  Long live Billy Beer!  (The full history is here, but the fact remains that craft brewers almost invariably start out as homebrewers, and the first brewpubs in the early '80s wouldn't have existed had it remained illegal to brew one's own beer in the very early '80s)

Yes, I remember Billy Beer.  We finally got Coors in the East -- the kind of beer they were smuggling in "Smokey & The Bandit" in 1984, I think it was.  The yuppies went for Sam Adams like it was the mead of the gods.  Before the "microbrews" there was the foreign beer fad, exemplified by Heineken, which was pee-water only slightly better than Schlitz. 

Frank Booth says it best

Caution: strong language

This is...it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxGgCY9PKw

Yet both both Satan and Jimmy are both recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.   ;D


Yeah, Kissinger got it for making  peace in VietNam, after sabotaging peace in VietNam several years earlier

Yeah, Kissinger got it for making  peace in VietNam, after sabotaging peace in VietNam several years earlier


And dropping more bombs on Cambodia than both sides dropped in WWII!  It's like giving the school bully a commendation not for beating the nerd up, but for stopping!
:D