HE SPEAKS – AT 8:47 A.M. ET:  Speaking of the devil, and he is, Jimmah Carter is now commenting on events in Egypt.  As usual, he is profound and far beyond our understanding (choke).  Reader Joseph J. Gallick alerts us to this:

PLAINS, Ga. -- Former President Jimmy Carter called the week-long political unrest and rioting in Egypt an “earth-shaking event” and said his guess is that the country’s president, Hosni Mubarak, “will have to leave.”

Leave it to Carter to inform us.

Carter’s remarks came at Maranatha Baptist Church, where he regularly teaches a Sunday School class to visitors from across the country and globe.

“This is the most profound situation in the Middle East since I left office,” Carter said Sunday to the nearly 300 people packed into the small sanctuary about a half mile from downtown Plains.

Left?  Most of us recall that he was fired.

Carter spent the first 15 minutes of his 50-minute class talking about Egypt.

Carter was president from 1977-81 and brokered the historic peace agreement between Israel and Egypt in 1978. He brought Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin together for an agreement that still stands today.

No he didn't.  It was Sadat who initiated the contacts.  No Sadat, no brokering.

As the Egyptian unrest has escalated, Carter said he has been watching closely on his computer the coverage on Al Jazeera, an international news network headquartered in Qatar.

Huh?  That's what he watches?  No wonder Carter always sounds so well informed.  Well, I wouldn't imagine he'd watch Fox News.

COMMENT:  Carter is the last man I'd check on this situation.  His botching of Iran during his one term in office haunts us to this day.  He shares with Barack Obama two characteristics:  Carter was a weak president, and did not seem to understand the mechanics of actually doing things.  On the other hand, Obama comes nowhere near Carter on the "obnoxious" meter, a relief to all of us.

January 31, 2011