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>>But Carter is more prominent in political circles than ever before.

They don't seem so "tired" of him now. They have Bubba and the Peanut for living ex-presidents. By comparison, they'll stand next to Jimmah, the nucular scientist.<<

I tend to see President Carter's role through political eyes - and while apparently he is a good negotiator he's too soft, and perhaps most importantly HE's NOT Frickin President any more and he should act like he understands that.

However, I live about 15 miles from the Carter Center and i can tell that when they are not over-seeing elections or interfering with foreign policy - they do good works. Particularly with fighting the Guiana worm - one of the most common and yet most horrible 3 foot long parasites a person can have. Under the Carter Program cases declined from several million a year to several thousand. Now they are working on river blindness, also caused by a parasite that infects almost 20 million people.

The volunteerism stuff he does with habitat for humanity is also good - sometimes he gets too much credit there but he does get them lots of visibility.

So, like a lot of other Georgians I have mixed feelings about Jimmy. He clearly never should have been President. He was a bad President even compared the the three bad Presidents who preceded him. And he's meddlesome to this day. But he started something with ex-Presidents doing more than just retiring to private life. President Bush43 has followed on this by using his father and President Clinton to lend Presidential names to the tsunami effort and send the American message.

I know intellectually I should dislike Carter but I just can't.

Carter's ROTTEN political rhetoric in the past 10 years has wiped out all of the grace I afforded him for his charitable works (which I admit were notable).

The man is fiercely partisan and intellectually dishonest.

His meddling affects situations and that is not his place. He's out of power. If he chooses to set US foreign policy through a shadow government of liberal synchophants, then I consider him to be an enemy of the state.

Power is granted through ballots. If he is still "able" to intervene, perhaps he should have run again.