What Goes Around, Comes Around

While the Bush family, Condi Rice and Clinton are attending Pope John Paul's funeral Friday, Jimmy Carter will be sitting on his front porch rocking, whittling and waving at passing cars. Seems he was "snubbed" when it came to selecting the five-person delegation that will attend the event. Well, it's not like the death of a pope is that big a deal. When Pope John Paul I died, Carter sent his mother Lillian to the funeral. I guess Billy was busy at the brewery. And it's not like Billy had no diplomatic experience. After an unauthorized visit to Libya in 1978, Billy Carter said, "The only thing I can say is there is a hell of a lot more Arabians than there is Jews." And then there is Jimmy Carter's refusal to just shut up. One of our country's most ineffectual presidents is still bitter that he didn't win a second term to office. Never mind his disastrous foreign policy, never mind the gas crisis, never mind the Iranian hostage crisis that kept him a captive in the White House, he thinks he deserved another term. And since he left office, he has been a constant critic of American policies and sitting presidents -- in violation of an unwritten code of etiquette that makes such criticism as improper as picking one's nose in a five-star restaurant. He has been especially critical of our current president -- so much so that the Nobel committee acknowledged they awarded him the Peace Prize as a backhand to George Bush. This morning on the Today Show, Matt Laur wanted to know why Condi Rice couldn't give up her seat to Carter. Soooo, he wants a black woman to get bumped off a flight for a white southern male? Just sit on your porch and whittle. Jimmy crack corn and I don't care.