Upholding the dignity of the office

Jimmy Carter burnishes his *cough* well-earned Nobel Peace Prize with an editorial in the New York Times today (Sunday). Is there any point in reading it? War? He's against it. Permission from the United Nations? He's for it. Blah blah - ah, just go read the superb counter argument on OxBlog and be done with it.

Whatever happened to the tradition of ex-presidents retiring from the public eye and leaving the field to the new Commander-in-Chief? Write your memoirs, make some speeches, and then play golf. But not the Democrats: Jimmy Carter and Bill "60 Minutes" Clinton simply cannot keep their gums from flapping and expressing their perpetual disappointment. Please, have some self-respect, and shut up.