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A vicious, bitter, petty, hand-wringing pretender, and an out-and-out bust as an executive.

As a cub reporter I covered the Kennedy challenge to Carter in 1980. I saw firsthand Carter's campaign of hate, led by his son, Chip, whom I interviewed in New Hampshire. Kennedy was at least running a campaign of ideas but Carter, with none of his own, was only out to get him. No smile in American politics was ever as phony. A "decent man"? Bah. In his bitter dotage now he writes bad novels and proselytizes for "peace," that is to say, American acquiescance to every third-world bully and his gussied-up grievances against American "oppression."