“It’s either an unprecedented low in partisan discourse or political surrealism worthy of Andre Breton: on Tuesday, former president Jimmy Carter, speaking on foreign soil, denounced the policies of his successor as ‘criminal’ because they fail to subsidize a genocidal Islamic terrorist organization that has killed Americans. Then, he blamed internecine Palestinian warfare on Americans and Israelis. ...Carter said the Bush administration had sinned against heaven and earth in its decision to withhold direct aid to Hamas once that group came to power in the Palestinian Authority. ‘That action was criminal,’ he said. The Palestinian people had elected Hamas fair-and-square in elections his Center described as ‘orderly and fair.’ (Carter said the same of Hugo Chavez’s election.) He deemed Hamas ‘shrewd in selecting candidates.’ The world’s most famous Sunday School teacher further praised the genocidal terrorist organization, at a human rights conference, by citing its penchant for bloodshed. Hamas, Carter doddered, was more orderly than the rival Fatah organization, which Hamas demonstrated in military clashes that showed its ‘superior skills and discipline.’ (The Jerusalem Post reported his argument thus: ‘Carter said Hamas, besides winning a fair and democratic mandate that should have entitled it to lead the Palestinian government, had proven itself to be far more organized in its political and military showdowns with the Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.’) One can only imagine how impressed he would have been by the ‘efficiency’ of the SS.”

—Ben Johnson