Say goodnight, Mr. Carter

Something must be seriously wrong with Jimmy Carter. Surely he couldn't be as verbally unhinged without the help of some external force:

"We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened,"

Just a few points, and I'll be brief. He mentions the foreign policy of Reagan, a man who went into Lebanon without being attacked; Bush 41, who attacked Iraq without a shot being fired at us; failed to mention Clinton, who bombed Slobodan Milosevic and killed hundreds of civilians (and took out the Chinese Embassy) without being fired upon, either. Has he forgotten how hated Reagan was for eight years?

But let's go back further. How much of a direct threat was Vietnam? Shall we make a logical leap and say that because 50,000+ American troops were lost along with countless Indochinese for a war based on "lies" that Kennedy and Johnson are actually the worst.presidents.ever?

Apparently Mr. Grits doesn't own any history books because, as Stormwarning points out, he could have read about his own fumbling of the Shah situation and subsequent weak-kneed response to the Iranian hostage crisis, which many believe advanced Islamic terrorism by leaps and bounds. Need we go into 20 percent interest rates?

The former president is also apparently oblivious that several of his successors have kept quiet all these years about his awful legacy purely out of respect for the office, something he no longer has.

Could it be a petty desire to finally find a president who appears more embarrassing or less successful than he was? Good Lord, let's hope he's not that shallow or forgetful of his own late brother Billy Carter, the unofficial Secretary of Beer. Actually, Billy looks pretty good by comparison based on recent history.

Whatever the case somebody needs to get him on the next plane to Plains. His bashing is hurting the country and besides, isn't it time to plant the goobers, or water them or something?

MORE 5/21/07

President Carter is now backtracking on the worst.president.ever thing--as he did earlier this year about comments made in his book on the Israel-Palestinian thing, as he did with inaccurate comments made about Memphis Pastor Adrian Rogers in an earlier book. He might as well start wearing an apology disclaimer around his neck when giving interviews.

While it might appear to the casual viewer that something is neurologically wrong with this man, Carter has always been too honest for his own good (as ridiculous as that sounds). Maybe in his older age he's completely lost the ability to suppress spontaneous blurts of his true feelings, and although that might be uncomfortable for him it provides an interesting window into the leftist mind that once ran the country for the rest of us.