Jimmy Carter, I still think you’re a bad man
One of the most commented upon posts I’ve ever written had its genesis in an attack I made against Jimmy Carter. I think now, as I have thought for years, that he is a very bad man. I’m grateful that the vote I cast for him in 1980 came to nothing. Claudia Rosett, writing at National Review, doesn’t think well of him either, and writes a lengthy article about funding questions related to his Carter Center. It’s a good article, and strikes me as being quite fair insofar as it doesn’t draw conclusions beyond the limits of the available facts (and, as to Carter Center funding, facts are surprisingly unavailable). I especially liked the following two paragraphs, so I’m printing them here. I think, though, you should read Rosett’s whole article, not just this quote:
All this might be less disturbing had Carter confined his post-presidential efforts to such good works as vanquishing the guinea worm. But for years he has run his own mini-presidency
