Carter Seeks Vote in U.N. Against U.S.

Jimmy Carter has slipped over the edge and no one has the heart to pull him aside to explain to him that he is not president anymore. Instead he continues to wander into dinner parties making promises for the county he once led. I can't tell if the world leaders he's talking to are just humoring him or genuinely believe anyone in charge here pays any attention to him.

The story, as Mr. Carter recalled, began with a recent dinner for 17 he attended in New York, where the guests included the president of the U.N. General Assembly, Jan Eliasson; an unidentified American representative, and other U.N. ambassadors from "powerful" countries at Turtle Bay, of which he mentioned only three: Cuba, Egypt, and Pakistan. The topic was the ongoing negotiations on an attempt to replace the widely discredited Geneva-based Human Rights Commission with a more accountable Human Rights Council.

"One of the things I assured them of was that the United States was not going to dominate all the other nations of the world in the Human Rights Council," Mr. Carter said. However, on the next day, Mr. Carter said, Mr. Bolton publicly "demanded" that the five permanent members of the Security Council will have permanent seats on the new council as well, "which subverted exactly what I have promised them," Mr. Carter said.

"So I called Condoleezza Rice and told her about the problem, and she said that that statement by our representative was not going to be honored," he said. But despite Mr. Carter's assessment that there are "a lot of people" in Washington who oppose Mr. Bolton on the Human Rights Council, Mr. Bolton's opposition to the proposed new structure became American policy.

I can hear Condoleezza Rice now as she's hanging up the phone saying "send someone over to assist the Former President, he seems to be lost."

There is no point in addressing his devotion to getting third world dictators and Islamists on the Human Rights Commission, or Council, or what ever new name that doesn't mean Useless Mob of Hypocrites. Maybe we could get President Carter named Secretary General of the UN, move it to Damascus and let them all play at ruling the world. Then no one will have to tell Jimmy Carter it's time to take a break.