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From the Media Blog at National Review Online:

Carter the Critic [Stephen Spruiell]
A great e-mail:
You've probably gotten a lot of e-mail about this but I just can't let it go. I've tried the breathing exercises and everything.
In this article on MSNBC.com, the author states:
Past critic
Carter has been an outspoken critic of Bush, but the White House has largely refrained from attacking him in return. Sunday’s sharp response marks a departure from the deference that sitting presidents traditionally have shown their predecessors. (my emphasis)
I always thought this was supposed to be a two-way street. I don't ever recall Ford, Reagan, GHW Bush, or Carter, or hell even Nixon! ever criticizing Clinton during his presidency. The fact that Bush held off this long is amazing to me.
Ok. I feel a little better now.

Pffft. Carter is so full of himself. Now he's trying to scramble around and say that he was misinterpreted. I'm glad the White House issued its statement:

On Sunday, in a biting rebuke, the White House dismissed Carter as “increasingly irrelevant."
“I think it’s sad that President Carter’s reckless personal criticism is out there,” White House spokesman Tony Fratto responded Sunday from Crawford, Texas, where Bush spent the weekend.
“I think it’s unfortunate,” Fratto said. “And I think he is proving to be increasingly irrelevant with these kinds of comments.”

And here's the comments from today's White House press gaggle in Crawford.

Q President Carter amended his comments over the weekend, this morning, saying essentially he didn't mean to say that the Bush administration's foreign policy was the worst in history, he was talking about it more in comparison with Nixon's foreign policy. Do you have any response to that?
MR. FRATTO: I don't think I have response -- a specific response to that. I think it just highlights the importance of being careful in choosing your words. I'll just leave it at that.