This man is so freakin' pathetic!  It's interesting that he fails to bring up his own failed foreign policy and how Iran freed the American hostages only AFTER he was out of office.

And he conveniently overlooks the fact that Americans experienced the highest interest rates and inflation rates in our nation's history during his administration.

Jimmah Cahter needs to shut up and go back to building houses. 

Never dance on an emtpy stomach unless it's a liberal.

Carter believes if he says this enough he may convince the American public that he wasn't the worst President in the 20 century. Who can forget his own foreign and domestic policies and what failure happened on his watch. I remember the lines at the gas stations, I remember the double digit inflation and interest rates and I remember him getting on television and telling the American people it was our fault and that we needed to tighten our belts. I also remember Jimma's military because I was in it. We couldn't fly our aircraft for lack of parts and fuel, we could not get our ships underway for lack of parts, fuel and personnel (the highest rate of AWOLs and lowest rate of reenlistments in history). I remember his answer to the Soviet Union invading Afganistan was to boycott the Olympics in Moscow, threatening the Soviets that there would "grave circumstances". I remember our embassy being overrun by college students and our people being taken hostage and held and paraded before the world and Jimma wrote the Ayatollah a letter begging him to release our people. The Ayatollah's son later recounted that his father realized then that America was a paper tiger and that we did not have the guts to do anything. That was when the phrase "Death to America" and "America is the big Satan" was coined. I remember JImma handing over the names of our CIA operatives to the Soviets in all the countries who were sympathetic to us and how those people disappeared in the middle of the night, never to be heard of again. To this day we can't replace those eyes and ears on the ground around the world. If ever there was a more pathetic excuse for a leader Jimma Cahtah was that man. His handling of the hostage crisis was a dismal failure. I was there too on board the USS Nimitz assigned to a helo squadron. That was the biggest goat roping anyone has ever witnessed and people's lives were lost. It was a damned suicide mission and everyone knew it. For him to question anyone's ability or policy would be laughable if it weren't so gut wrenching pathetic. He has been trying to rewrite his history ever since he lost to Ronald Reagan but there are too many of us that remember.

"The denunciation of a sitting president was unprecedented for Carter, a biographer said." (emphasis mine).

That is simply jaw-dropping! Has this guy been asleep for the past 6 years???

BTW, has anyone ever seen him and Rosie O'Donnel in the same place at the same time?

The Drudge report this AM says is all: "Jimmy Who?"

Sorry, Jimmah . . . you've got last place all to yourself.

This is the act of a desperate and fading man. He knows that he is arguably the worst President in the 20th century and does not have much time left to reform that. Unfortunately history is based on facts after all the politics is filtered out and old Jimmy will always be a failure. 

It can be argued that the very biginning of the current world problems started with you. You showed the world that America was vulnerable and, depending on the people currently in power, incapable of defending itself against even a weak and puny nation. You showed that America was unwilling to risk military lives to rescue innocent civilians taken hostage by a small group of terrorists trying to take over another country who we called our ally. Thanks to you and your hesitancy to act and your indecisiveness, you created the weak, vulnearble America image that allowed these terrorists to even think that they might have an outside chance.

Thank You, Jimmy. Your legacy will be unique and is fixed at the bottom as the only US President in history to have an act of war perpetrated upon us with hostages taken, who sat and cowered in the Whitehouse. For over 400 days you allowed those people to be held without doing ANYTHING! You will be, for generations, the prime example of what not to do as a President.

Before he was the worst President in U.S. history he was the worst Governor in the history of the State of Georgia!

In related news, Ed Wood has declared that Martin Scorsese is the "worst director in history," and New Coke is calling Gatorade "the worst idea in history."

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"Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine no possessions?'" - Elvis Costello

To get some outside perspective on this issue, I just took a sampling of opinions in some foreign countries. Here's the results:

- Panama residents: 2/1 in favor of Carter assessment

- Teheran residents, living near US Embassy: 2/1 opposed

(margin of error +/-3%)