In case you missed it, former President Jimmy Carter recently called the current President Bush administration “the worst ever” before semi-retracting his statement.

The New York Post offers:

Actually, we understand his bitterness – as president, Jimmy Carter’s leadership skills hardly inspired the kind of loyal support that Blair has shown for George W. Bush. Carter’s naive decision to throw the shah of Iran to the wolves essentially precipitated the humiliating 444-day hostage crisis that ensued. That, and the comical farce of a rescue attempt that Carter ordered up, weakened America’s position in the region – and, indeed, the world.

Indeed, a lot of people would call Carter’s administration – with its long lines at the gas pumps, its near-tripling of crude oil prices, its double-digit inflation and 18 percent mortgage rates – the worst in history. At this point, though, such lessons are lost on Jimmy Carter. He is what he is – a thoroughly embittered ex-president so desperate for attention that he has embraced a succession of dictators and hard-left wannabe world leaders.

Scrappleface came up with a quote:

“I know that President Carter and I have had our differences,” said Mr. Bush, “But I think most Americans will agree with me that he’s a terrific ex-president. Things have never been better since Jimmy Carter left office.”

And our friends at Cox&Forkum think Mr. Carter has a Guilt Complex:

Click on the image to read the commentary and for an explanation of the attack bunny.

Update: Cox&Forkum later added a link to an editorial entitled Look Who’s Talking:

On taking office in 1977, Carter declared that advancing “human rights” was among his highest priorities. America’s ally, the Shah of Iran, was one of his first targets, with Carter chastising him for his human rights record and withdrawing America’s support.

One of the charges was that the Shah had been torturing about 3,000 prisoners, many of them accused of being Soviet agents. Carter sent a clear message to the Islamic fundamentalists that America would not come to the Shah’s aid. His anti-Shah speeches blared from public address systems in downtown Tehran.

The irony, as noted by Steven Hayward of the American Enterprise Institute in his book, “The Real Jimmy Carter,” is that the regime of Ayatollah Khomeini “executed more people in its first year in power than the Shah’s SAVAK had allegedly killed in the previous 25 years…”