[Paladin2]

"His comments are significant irrelevant, given that he was the president when who is responsible for US relations with Iran hit(ing) an all-time low.

[CaptainMorgantown]

When Carter was President, I used to think he was a nice man who was simply too naive and weak-willed to govern competently. Had he been humble enough to admit his failings, and to support his successors, he could have rode off into the sunset with a few positives as his legacy: a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, his appointment of Paul Volker to fight inflation as Chair the Federal Reserve, and the beginnings of some of the de-regulation activities that were taken much farther under Reagan.

However, Carter's enormous weakness is his puritanical belief in his own righteousness. Rather than accept his shortcomings, he has engaged in a 26 year quest to vindicate himself. In the process, he has convinced himself that America is too corrupt and wicked to deserve a President as noble-minded and pure as he. Carter's mediocre Presidency would perhaps place him in the bottom third of all Presidents, but his nearly constant efforts to undermine the authority of every one of his successors, even at the price of damaging the security of the nation, cements his legacy as the WORST ex-President of all-time.