I don't think I've ever seen a more obnoxious combination of smug sanctimony, condescension, and lust for personal glory (thinly veiled under a guise of altruism) than in Jimmy Carter. Our former commander-in-chief, who presided over the most disastrous presidency of my lifetime (quite a feat in a lifetime that has included Nixon and Clinton) has never met a murderous third world dictator he didn't love. What about his listless, hapless, inept term of office convinced this guy that he was capable of running the whole world?