Channeling a Hapless Peanut Farmer

The attractively named Myron Magnet (pun intended), leads off a City Journal article with this apt comparison.

For all their differences, President Barack Obama uncannily resembles his Democratic predecessor, President Jimmy Carter, in his stiff-necked, self-righteous inability to listen to others or to learn from experience or history. Against ferocious opposition at home and abroad, he is about to repeat the grievous mistake of appeasing Iran that Carter made over three decades ago and do even more geopolitical damage than the hapless peanut farmer wreaked in 1979.

I hope we have a superhero waiting in the wings to bail us out, as Ronald Reagan did following the Carter debacle. Putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle may not be possible this side of Armageddon.