Kurt Nicklas wrote:

By Christopher Hitchens
Monday, May 21, 2007, at 11:35 AM ET
Former President Jimmy Carter
Almost always, when former President Jimmy Carter opens his big, smug
mouth, he has already made the psychological mistake that is going to
reduce his words to absurdity. When he told the press last week that
the Bush administration had aroused antipathy around the world, he
might have been uttering no more than a banality. But no, he had to
try to invest it with a special signature flourish. So, he said
instead:

I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world,
this administration has been the worst in history. The overt reversal
of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations,
including [those of] George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard
Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.

Leave aside the sophomoric slackness that begins a broken-backed
sentence with the words "as far as" and then cannot complete itself.
"Worst in history," as the great statesman from Georgia has to know,
has been the title for which he has himself been actively contending
since 1976. I once had quite an argument with the late Sen. Eugene
McCarthy, who maintained adamantly that it had been right for him to
vote for Ronald Reagan in 1980 for no other reason. "Mr. Carter," he
said, "quite simply abdicated the whole responsibility of the
presidency while in office. He left the nation at the mercy of its
enemies at home and abroad. He was the worst president we ever had."

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http://www.slate.com/id/2166661/

Poor old alcoholic Hitchens, still trying to slime Jimmy Carter.-

he said
instead:

I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world,
this administration has been the worst in history.

The overt reversal
of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations,
including [those of] George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard
Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.