Ten best

Rob at Gut Rumbles lists his ten "favorite" people:

#1: Jimmy Carter. That man was the worst President of the Th Century and I believe that the grinning bastard may hit the top five of ALL TIME WORST!!! before all is said and done. The man was a complete incompetent. And anybody who believes that the trouble we have in the Middle East TODAY didn't start under Carter's watch is full of shit. Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.

It continues and gets better -- Michael Moore, Rachel Carson and Jacques Chirac make appearances. My personal ten list would be almost the same -- delete Fonda and Clinton, they aren't malevolent, just stupid and blind to the big picture. I would add Yasser Arafat - he was a Russian KGB tool for a long time but he had multiple chances to break from them and if he really cared about the Palestinian Jordanian people, he would have broken the cycle of terrorism a long long time ago. I would also add one person but also a composite of behavior that we see all too much today -- Neville Chamberlain -- the sense that terrorism as a tool of state can be countered by appeasement. Carter could have raised a finger and said "Unh Unh" and the Middle East would be a lot quieter today. Clinton could have spent more time on foreign policy than on himself and 19-year-old interns and the Middle East would be a lot quieter today -- this would have taken longer than if Carter had nipped it in the bud but it could have been done. Neither of them saw what was happening. Clinton was just stupid and blind but Carter should have had some sense. Good that he was only a one-term-wonder -- hate to think of what the balance of power would be if he had a second...