Former Presidents who Smear Current Admins. - Unprecedented before Jimmuh/Willie

[fossten]

Look - The worst President in history is calling someone the worst!

Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006 11:41 a.m. EDT

Jimmy Carter: 'Rumsfeld One of the Worst'

Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday major policy changes are needed because the Iraq war has divided the nation "almost as much as Vietnam."

"So there's no doubt that our country is in much more danger now from terrorism than it would have been if we would have done what we should have done and stayed in Afghanistan," he said on the campaign trail with his son, Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Jack Carter.

The former president said the Bush administration made a "terrible mistake" by invading Iraq and diverting troops from Afghanistan.

Jack Carter criticized his opponent, Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., for supporting the Iraq war. Both Carters also said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should go.

"I think he's one of the worst secretaries of defense we've ever had," the former president said of Rumsfeld. "Almost every decision he has made has aggravated his military subordinates and has also proved to be a mistake."

 

[Calabrio]

Very true- at least in modern times, there always was a certain amount of respect and courtesy granted by past Presidents. This is why George HW Bush was silent through the Clinton administration, and there was plenty to comment on.

Carter is the worst, Clinton is the most opportunistic. They are both embarrassments. The fact that they both happen to be Democrats must surely be coincidence? So far, the only polite respectful Democrats have been dead ones. Wilson, FDR, JFK, LBJ.

I don't know of any glaring Truman comments, but he was hardly a modern Democrat.