Personal to Jimmy Carter: You had your chance to run things and it didn't work out so we elected someone smarter. Now it's time for you to just STFU and go away. NOW, not later.

Below the fold:

• Carter Blasts Bush on His Global Impact
• 'Carter is irrelevant,' Bush administration shoots back
• Jimmy Carter, you want to see the worst president in
  history? Look in the mirror 
• The worst president in US history tries to hand off his crown
• Frog calls Bush ugly

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Carter Blasts Bush on His Global Impact

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Former President Carter says President Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations, taking aim at the White House's policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.

The criticism from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented for the 39th president, also took aim at Bush's environmental policies and the administration's "quite disturbing" faith-based initiative funding.

"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history," Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a story that appeared in the newspaper's Saturday editions. "The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me."

Carter spokeswoman Deanna Congileo confirmed his comments to The Associated Press on Saturday and declined to elaborate. ...

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'Carter is irrelevant,' Bush administration shoots back

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) -- The nasty words between President Bush and former President Jimmy Carter continued Sunday.

In a biting rebuke to Carter calling the Bush administration the "worst in history," the White House on Sunday dismissed Carter as "increasingly irrelevant."

Carter was quoted Saturday in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette as saying "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history."

The Georgia Democrat said Bush had overseen an "overt reversal of America's basic values" as expressed by previous administrations, including that of his own father, former President George H.W. Bush.

White House spokesman Tony Fratto shot back Sunday from Crawford, Texas, where Bush spent the weekend.

"I think it's sad that President Carter's reckless personal criticism is out there," said Fratto. "I think it's unfortunate. And I think he is proving to be increasingly irrelevant with these kinds of comments." ...

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Jimmy Carter, you want to see the worst president in history? Look in the mirror
Kim Priestap

It's unbelievable that Jimmy Carter has the nerve to call President Bush the worst president in history when it's Carter himself who is responsible for the Islamofascism that is now wreaking havoc on the free world today when he and his administration participated in the overthrow of the Shah of Iran. From Iranian Voice:

As if a light were switched off, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlevi, portrayed for 20 years as a progressive modern ruler by Islamic standards, was suddenly, in 1977-1978, turned into this foaming at the mouth monster by the international left media. Soon after becoming President in 1977, Jimmy Carter launched a deliberate campaign to undermine the Shah. The Soviets and their left-wing apparatchiks would coordinate with Carter by smearing the Shah in a campaign of lies meant to topple his throne. The result would be the establishment of a Marxist/Islamic state in Iran headed by the tyrannical Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The Iranian revolution, besides enthroning one of the world's most oppressive regimes, would greatly contribute to the creation of the Marxist/Islamic terror network challenging the free world today.

At the time, a senior Iranian diplomat in Washington observed, "President Carter betrayed the Shah and helped create the vacuum that will soon be filled by Soviet-trained agents and religious fanatics who hate America." Under the guise of promoting" human rights," Carter made demands on the Shah while blackmailing him with the threat that if the demands weren't fulfilled, vital military aid and training would be withheld. This strange policy, carried out against a staunch, 20 year Middle East ally, was a repeat of similar policies applied in the past by US governments to other allies such as pre Mao China and pre Castro Cuba.

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Khomeini was allowed to seize power in Iran and, as a result, we are now reaping the harvest of anti-American fanaticism and extremism. Khomeini unleashed the hybrid of Islam and Marxism that has spawned suicide bombers and hijackers. President Jimmy Carter, and the extremists in his administration are to blame and should be held accountable.

Indeed. Tragically, though, Jimmy's obfuscation has worked in that he has not faced any consequences for his role in helping to bring Islamofascism to power. Instead of taking any personal responsibility for participating in the overthrow of the Shah of Iran that directly resulted in the rise of Islamofascism in the world, he and his willing allies in the press have so far successfully put the blame for the unrest in the Middle East on President Bush, the man who's doing the most to clean up after Carter's incompetence and defeat Islamofascism.

Sister Toldjah writes about Jimmy Carter's moral bankruptcy: ...

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The worst president in US history tries to hand off his crown
Posted by: McQ

From an abandoned peanut warehouse in Georgia:

Former President Carter says President Bush’s administration is “the worst in history” in international relations, taking aim at the White House’s policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.

The criticism from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented for the 39th president, also took aim at Bush’s environmental policies and the administration’s “quite disturbing” faith-based initiative funding.

“I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history,” Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a story that appeared in the newspaper’s Saturday editions. “The overt reversal of America’s basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.”

The paucity of credibility Jimmy Carter brings to such criticism should be evident to anyone who lived through his presidency. If there is anyone more responsible for feeding the "paper tiger" meme which has so enabled our enemies, I'd like to know who it is. The 444 days in which Iran kidnapped and exploited our embassy employees while he sat morose and powerless stands right up there as the worst, as far as I'm concerned.

Oh, and his punishment of the USSR for it's invasion of Afghanistan? No Olympics for the US. By gosh, that showed 'em. And that boob is lecturing others on reputation and foreign policy? ...

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Frog calls Bush ugly
Don Surber

This is not a parody: Jimmy Carter called George W. Bush the worst president ever on foreign policy. From the AP:

“I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history,” Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a story that appeared in the newspaper’s Saturday editions. “The overt reversal of America’s basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.”

Wait, did Carter just praise the foreign policies of Reagan and Nixon?

I seem to recall the Carter administration portraying Reagan as a war-monger who would start World War III.

Maybe Carter thinks the appropriate response to 9/11 would have been to boycott Afghanistan’s Olympics.

And then put together a hastily assembled team in a few helicopters to travel hundreds of miles into the hills to free the hostages.

And then consult his twin daughters for foreign policy advice. ...