Essential Estrogen

Not too long ago I sent an email to Lyn which read:

Lyn, Carter's making waves. You should blog about it.

To which I received the following reply:

Still busy with Scouts. You do it. :-)

So... you get the non-hard-news-writer today. My apologies up front.

There's an article on Yahoo! News from Reuters which discusses former Pres. Jimmy Carter "blasting" George W. Bush's presidency as "the worst in history" in international relations.. AND denouncing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as little more than a Bush lap dog.

You know, outside of the fact that it's former Pres. Jimmy Carter saying it, I'm not really sure what's so news-worthy here. Carter says nothing I haven't overheard in the check-out line at the Hy-Vee for well over a year. (And I can tell you that you DO NOT want to know what the fellows at the corner donut shop are saying if this little piece of Carter news upsets you.)

The funniest part? The White House has nothing to say. Instead, they let the RNC take pokes at Carter. Once again I'm reminded of that Steve Martin movie, "Leap of Faith." It's obvious the White House doesn't wish to provoke a man of real faith and prefers to allow the 'underlings' do the job.

...

"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history," Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, said in a telephone interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette from the Carter Center in Atlanta.

"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," Carter told the newspaper.

...

"Abominable. Loyal, blind, apparently subservient," Carter said when asked how he would characterize Blair's relationship with Bush.

And that's only a taste.