Dave, the Carter piece you linked to was interesting in other
respects, too. Perhaps none more so than the man's invincible
narcissism, as when he offered that "the best treatment he has
received since leaving the Oval Office was from the first President
Bush, and the second-best treatment he got was during the Reagan
administration, especially from Secretary of State George P.
Shultz. The worst treatment he's received, the former president
said, was from President Clinton."
He does not seem to have ever considered that his successors in
office were under no obligation to even return his phone calls. And
it becomes more and more apparent that they should never have
bothered.
Carter ran for president in 1976 quoting Bob Dylan's famous
line, "He not busy being born is busy dying." Another Dylan line
seems more appropriate now: "There's no success like failure, and
failure's no success at all."
