Let's Be Fair to President Carter

I know it is a parlor game among conservatives to weigh whether President Obama is better or worse than President Carter. Things like this would seem to tilt the scales in favor of Carter's exceptional awfulness:

Jimmy Carter, America's 39th president, denounced the Obama administration for "clearly violating" 10 of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, writing in a New York Times op-ed on Monday that the "United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights."

Sure, former president Carter is a national embarrassment. But when making comparisons with President Obama, remember that President Carter's ineptitude took some time to become sheer repulsiveness as a former president.

Compare apples to apples, eh?

Jimmy Carter really is a repulsive man. "Model ex-president," indeed.