"When Carter Is Your Best-Case Scenario, You're In Trouble"

Full length Glenn Reynolds piece begins strong and goes from there:

People on the right have been comparing President Obama with Jimmy Carter for a while now: The rise from nowhere via inexplicable press adulation, the smarmy moralizing, the excessive faith in his own abilities, the tendency of everything he touches to turn to crap -- all seem eerily reminiscent of the Carter presidency.

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