Remember double digit inflation and double digit interest rates. Remember humiliation and retreat? Remember malaise and malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance?

Then you remember Jimmy Carter. Lately he has become a carper and whiner, when he is not hammering nails into walls, but I do agree with some of his latest Middle East pronouncements.

Hard to believe someone as intelligent as Carter could govern so incompetently.

he is a good decent person. a humanitarian who travels the world. and is well liked by dictators of other countries. he is a huge advocate for habitat for humanity. He has done a lot of good things after he was president.

he had his chance to screw up America, but may have done more good as an ex president.

Not at all. He wasn't a strong president but he is a die hard humanitarian who does a lot of good. He can use the celebrity he got from being president to do even more good. Carter is a great man.

Maybe he was not a very effective President,but he was the last DECENT man to hold the title.I am proud to have at least ONE ex-president who works his butt off to help the poor and needy in this country.Instead,Bush #1 is making a bundle as a war profiteer!

There is no denying that this man's stint in the White House is a sore legacy. However, he has been out of office for 25 years and in the meantime has worked as a human rights advocate and humanitarian. I am puzzled how this qualifies as screwing up anything.

A lousy president who has done real humanitarian work since his term ended. What a spiteful listing.

I missed the part were building houses for the needy and speaking out against a criminal administration was screwing up America ....

He had his chance years ago and didn't quite succeed. A horrible president that wasn't a horrible ex-president, and has now just become a muttering old fart.

How is Jimmy Carter screwing America? He's only been actively helpful since getting out of office!

He led by example. Forget that he was a one-term president. The fact was that America progressed when he was president from 1977-1981. Human rights was a factor when it came to his foreign policies. We were harsher on countries run by right-wing dictators and we sympathized with the torchered rather than the torcherers. America never dropped a bomb under his term. He wanted to move the nation forward and into the future. His 4 years made America better, unlike Reagan who radically reshaped the nation back to its tumultuous past. The nation would've been better off had Carter served a second term. He was much more aware of America's problems than his successors and predecessors.

Aside from his horrendous performance as a single-term US President, he broke the long-standing tradition shared by former presidents to eschew partisan rhetoric, particularly any criticizing of a sitting president of the other party. Eisenhauer did not criticize Kennedy, Johnson never criticized Nixon, Nixon & Ford did not criticize Carter, Reagan & Bush ('41) did not criticize Clinton, but Jimmy Carter entered the partisan fray on several occasions speaking out regarding GWB's policies, sullying the honor traditionally accorded former presidents.