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Jimmy Carter is like fine wine -- he has improved with age. Not a great president, but he has turned into one of the greatest ex-presidents with his concerns for global human rights and humanity in general. Not for him a jetsetting life palling around with plutocrats and dictators, or smiling on the golf course with one of the Bushes.

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It seems to be easier to do good in theory than to do good in practice.

This is because the Presidency is a position where it is difficult to good. Now, it is easy for Carter to push for good -- but his pushes carry far less weight.

Unfortunately, a position's power is negatively correlated to the position's support for speaking of humanity's great concerns.

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