Modest or not, Carter’s comments over the weekend were rather dimwitted and ironic. To argue the war in Iraq is the first pre-emptive war in U.S. history shows a clear lack of knowledge on the history of this nation. But that’s Jimmy.

Carter’s presidential legacy is sealed, however you’ve got to wonder if his senility over the past decade has somehow influenced the way history will judge this man. He has tried in earnest to change his past with something, anything to put his accomplishments in greater light, but all I see is Ahmadinejad.

One of the more interesting reactions I read over the weekend related to comments given in response by White House Press Secretary Tony Snow. Reporting on Snow’s rebuke indicated current administrations don’t speak ill of former presidents, thus presenting the Bush Administration to look bad for breaking tradition. There’s also a tradtion of former presidents not bashing current ones, a tradition Jimmy Carter broke many moons ago and continues to do so because he’s above all of that that.