Jimmy Carter; former president or deranged lunatic? Yes.

The name Carter is doing for the phrase “dumber than a hoe handle” what the name Lewinsky did for term “oral sex”. Soon foremen across America will be issuing threats like, “And the next time you Carter something up, like the time you tried to save us money by adding five gallons of water to all of our fuel tanks, you’re fired!”

Jimmy Carter is not content to go down in history as a failed president who tried to help people by building houses for the poor after leaving office. He wants to go down in history as a failed president who tried to help people by building houses for the poor after leaving office while codling and standing up for murderous dictators around the world. Carter has sat in praise of Fidel Castro and just about every Middle Eastern, South American and African thug imaginable.

Now Jimmy Carter, the man who gave rise to the Iranian problem we now face in the first place, is lecturing us on how we should treat Hamas. Hamas is the Iranian backed and more radical of the two Islamo-terror-fascists groups vying for control of the Palestinian territory. Carter thinks that it’s “criminal” that President Bush will not deal with Hamas, a known terrorist group on the US watch list.

The Palestinians, practitioners of that religion of peace, elected Hamas to run Palestine because Hamas promised to be more belligerent toward Israel than Fatah a more moderate Islamo-terror-fascists group. As it turns out, Hamas first had to be more belligerent to their own brothers of peace in the Fatah Party.

So Hamas has overthrown the ruling coalition government in Gaza, murdering Fatah party loyalists in the street in front of their wives and children. What’s criminal is that a former president of the United States – a Nobel Peace Prize winner no less – wants to reward the murderous barbarism that was on display in Gaza with US recognition and support. Any Western support or legitimacy supplied to these soulless freaks will end up back on Israel’s doorstep – or even our own doorstep - in the form of bombs and rockets.