Deconstructing Carter

I'd rather not be so overtly partisan but news like this makes it impossible not to be: Jimmy Carter (the golly-gee former president who presided over the most disastrous and morale sapping four-years for our nation than any president in recent memory) will be meeting with an exiled leader of the terror group Hamas, Khaled Meshal. The State Department is beside itself with incredulity. This is why Democrats cannot be trusted with the reins of power. Is this how Carter thinks he can remain relevant? Is this how we are supposed to forget about his humiliating series of blunders in office (virtually wrecking the economy, the Iran hostage fiasco and the mystifying insouciance toward the communist threat, to name only a few) and, finally, the forceful way in which America vomited him forth from its mouth in 1980 by electing Reagan in an overwhelming landslide? It's sad, really.

From the news report:

A senior Hamas official has confirmed that former President Jimmy Carter will meet with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, during a visit to Syria next week, according to the Associated Press.

The official, Mohammed Nazzal, told the AP that Carter sent an envoy to Damascus requesting a meeting with Hamas leadership, including Meshal, and that Hamas "welcomed the request." The meeting will take place on April 18, he said.

The State Department has designated Hamas a “foreign terrorist organization.” Chief spokesman Sean McCormack once said of the prospect of meeting with Meshal, “That’s not something that we could possibly conceive of.”

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,348989,00.html

Here's the 1980 electoral map of Reagan's victory over Carter. Red states: Reagan, Blue states: Carter.