President Carter at it again...

Poor President Carter. Now he's written a book "Our Endangered Values."

A brief story regarding the President and his book here

Unfortunately, President Carter has NEVER known what constitutes "American Values," which is why he was a one-term President. And, had we had a process to remove someone for gross incompetence, he never would have served even that full term.

The last line of the story cited above states

Carter's own presidency was controversial, but since then his humanitarian efforts in the world earned him a Nobel Peace Prize.

Uh, perhaps to someone who wishes it to be so, but the REAL reason President Carter won that Nobel is his criticism of the Bush Administration and the Nobel Committee's desire to poke a stick in President Bush's eye. Nothing more. I fully expect the nut from Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, to tickle the Nobel Committee's fancy next time around. What wasted credibility.

And really, along those same lines, the only reason he won the Presidency in the first place was backlash against the Republicans for Watergate. In that light, I guess he's always made his way based more on the short-comings of others than his own merits.

But even that being the case, it's sad to see an American president take such desperate measures to try to convince the American people his administration wasn't really the disaster it was. His Quixotic quest has gone on for 3 decades now and as it's grown more obvious, it's also become more pathetic. Almost a Carter Administration redux, and President Carter is just as clueless as he was in 1976.

Hopefully, one day, he will make peace with the fact that his political self is an abject failure and abandon that arena once and for all. In the meantime, I guess we'll just have to ignore books from him on subjects he's poorly qualified--if not completely incompetent--to discuss.