Ex-President Carter miffed at being left behind...

Miserable failure and Nobel "Booby" Prize winner, "Jimmah" Carter was left off the delegation list of U.S. officials heading to Vatican City for the funeral of Pope John Paul II. This was NO oversight. Both the President and the Vatican have plenty of reason for dissing the Peanut Farmer, as the Washington Prowler column in The American Spectator reports:

"Carter claimed a kinship with the Catholic priest, though it isn't clear that the Vatican thought so highly of Carter's diplomatic skills, particularly after he left office. Carter was often the wrong side of the political fence when it came to elections and policies in Latin America, where John Paul II devoted a great deal of time in the 1980s stamping out the Marxist "Liberation theology" movement. At one point in 1979, the Vatican sought assistance from the Carter Administration State Department to limit the travels of U.S. Maryknoll missionaries to Central American countries, where they were teaching and preaching Liberation Theology alongside like-minded Latin American priests.

"The other thing that people forget is that Carter has treated President Bush very badly. He has openly criticized the President in a manner that President Clinton has not," says a Bush administration source. "He has traveled around the world bad-mouthing this president and this country's policies. I would be surprised if a single person gave a thought to including him in the delegation."

What goes around, comes around, Jimmy. Now go build some more houses and stop embarrassing this country.

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