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Life has ironies. Jimmy Carter was a true Boy Scout. He loved God. He loved his wife. He loved his country. He was an exemplary human being, but he was a bad president. He could not embrace the street smarts needed for Realpolitik.

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He was a terrible governor, terrible President, a nice person on the outside but a narcissist on the inside. He thought only he could solve the Middle East Problems, that he could convince the Russians and Chinese to be nice as long as others were nice to them (delusional at best), undermined Taiwan, gave away the Panama Canal, wrote a letter five days before the military action against Saddam Hussein undermining the President George W. Bush. He should have been charged with Treason twice.

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