A noted historian has resigned from his long-time association with the Carter Center over Jimmy Carter's Middle East fantasies and lies:

President Carter's book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analyses; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments. Aside from the one-sided nature of the book, meant to provoke, there are recollections cited from meetings where I was the third person in the room, and my notes of those meetings show little similarity to points claimed in the book. Being a former President does not give one a unique privilege to invent information or to unpack it with cuts, deftly slanted to provide a particular outlook.

A lot of people can argue over who is the worst president, but Carter has to be the worst former President, hands down.

Actually, the way you've phrased this suggests that there's only one candidate for the title of "worst president" because all presidents are former presidents once they leave office.

But I know what you meant. I don't agree or anything but it's interesting to consider. Probably have to go read the book now.

...it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments

So, basically, it's Jimmy Carter as usual, nothing new. This guy is, was and shall go down on history as a joke.

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Jimmy Carter.

(for God sake, DO NOT open THAT door!)

*sacrifices some peanuts at the altar*

I'm sure they didn't mean it, Jimmy.

Former President Teddy Roosevelt decided to run against his protege, split the Republican vote and gave us Wilson. Wilson promptly did a horrible job with WWI. We should have stayed out and tried to negotiate a peace deal among the combatants. Given that Wilson wasn't smart enough to stay out, he should not have been so wedded to the useless League of Nations that he allowed the punishing peace that drove Germany to start WWII.

So, since former President Teddy Roosevelt gave us Wilson, I'd say he was in the running for worst former president. But since then? Carter for sure.

Yours,
Wince

I disagree.

It should be obvious to anyone who listened in to the SecDef nominee's comments that trying to solve problems by violence doesn't get one very far unless one is willing to make that violence absolute as expressed in genocide.

Carter represents a saner approach to solving problems in the world, one that reaches out to the best in people.

Serial demonization (Saddam, Ahmedenijad, etc..) which is in vogue in the neo-con lexicon,can only get one so far. While satisfying to the cave-man instinct, the things Carter didn't do such as bomb the hell out of Iran, may have saved us from a much worse situation such as what we now see in Iraq.

"Toast_n_Tea" - you forgot your sarcasm tag.

yeah

those Camp David Accords, what a disaster.
Creating a durable peace between Israel and Egypt.

Damn him, he cost lots of war-mongers their jobs.

If a country has a period of 25 years that is peacefull and without any internal strife then they should look to helping other countries to do the same, if not stay at home.

I hear Uncle Jimmy wants to be buried out in the front yard of his ranch by his favorite tractor. What a hillbilly.