GEEMAH's WELLSTONE MOMENT

There's a nice dig at the totally over-the-top, round-the-bend dweeb Jimmy Carter in the Wall Street Journal Online after the incompetent and inappropriate and thankfully ex-President from Peanutville made a completely silly comparison at Coretta Scott King's funeral.

But you know James Taranto had his tongue deeply in his cheek when he wrote the following:

After Lowery spoke, President Bush embraced him on the stage. Later, as New York's Daily News notes, George H.W. Bush poked fun at Lowery's metrical maladroitness: "Maya [Angelou] has nothing to worry about. Don't give up your day job." Baptist Bill Clinton, in turn, poked fun at his Episcopal predecessor: "That ain't bad for one of the frozen chosen." Even ultraliberal Sen. Ted Kennedy and Rep. John Conyers left contemporary politics aside and delivered entirely appropriate eulogies, according to the CNN transcript.

The one moment of true malice came when Jimmy Carter got up to speak. He said of Dr. and Mrs. King, "It was difficult for them then personally with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the target of secret government wiretaps"--clearly a swipe against President Bush's terrorist surveillance program.

Does Carter really mean to suggest that Robert F. Kennedy's spying on Martin Luther King is the equivalent of the current administration spying on al Qaeda terrorists? What an ugly and invidious comparison.

It's ugly and invidious, much like Carter himself, but the fact that liberal icon Bobby Kennedy was the spymaster on MLK was lost to the clueless airhead who constantly calls elections fair, as he recently did in Ethiopia, only to have the results disputed by everybody else, including all the other foreign observers, UN included!

Skunk at the picnic Carter just keeps getting stuck on stupid!