The Pendragon's Hall

Due to some technical difficulties, I have so far been unable to post my #1 person ruining America. So now, for the fourth time, I will attempt to do so. #1 on the list of people ruining America is...Jimmy Carter! No one can measure the contempt I have for this man. In addition to a failure of a presidency where gas prices skyrocketed, inflation and unemployment were in the double digits, terrorism and communism rampaged unchecked through the world and America became such a joke that Carter accused his own people of "malaise", he has since become the most active ex-president in history. Ex-Presidents used to keep to themselves, writing their memoirs and building their libraries. Now granted, Carter didn't have much of a legacy to pass on but he seems to think he did. And he seems to think we all want to hear from him at every opportunity. That's a bit bizarre given he barely squeaked out a victory over Gerald Ford and was crushed at the polls when a real Republican took the scene but the man is nothing if not narcissistic. Only most recently he has taken to lecturing the Bush administration on the Middle East peace process, saying if he had been re-elected there would now be peace between Israel and the Palestinians. What if the first Bush said that? In the 1990s, moreover, Carter came out of retirement to help the Felon in Chief broker an agreement with Stalinist North Korea. This was the deal: We would continue to fund their existence and they wouldn't build nuclear weapons. We all know how well that one worked. When Carter authored an insanely boring and politically-correct book on the American Revolution, the media gave it glowing reviews. Readers just yawned. But that doesn't compare to his accepting a Nobel Prize, essentially for his anti-America rants, on the eve of war with Iraq. He even traveled to a foreign country to give an acceptance speech that attacked the American government and undermined American foreign policy. Article III's definition of treason is somewhat vague but I think he would be covered if we still prosecuted traitors. But why listen to me? Just tie the guy up somewhere so he can't inject himself into any more policy disputes.