The Stache wrote:
People sure like to speak (type) in hyperbole around here....
Why is everything so black or white? Either Carter is an asshole or Scott is an asshole? Not so simple, I say.
Carter probably should not have boycotted the 80 Olympics. It helped no one, and made the US look silly and weak. Plus, yeah, all those athletes got shafted. I would probably be pissed about missing those games, too, if I were in the position. And Carter made some other grave mistakes as president.
Now, I will admit I don't know all the details of his presidency and political life, but to say that Carter does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize shows a lack of understanding of what the man has done since leaving the presidency. His organization has helped broker treaties to bring peace/truces/cease fires all over the world. The organization has worked tirelessly to ensure that fair voting practices are upheld in fledgling democracies all over the world. This latter point alone, to give the common man AND woman a voice in the world, is deserving of the architect of it all to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Carter might have been an asshole while in office, he might have been an asshole as a person at some point...But he is a GREAT man, and a GREAT ambassador for the US and for democracies everywhere. Scott should be ashamed saying that the notion of Carter winning the prize turns his stomach - the boycott and the peace prize are totally unrelated and if Scott cannot recognize the good that Carter has brought in the world, then he sorely lacks vision and respect for others on this earth. Scott comes off as a crybaby saying all these things. Stick to the sports, Steve, because you clearly do not understand the rest of what is going on out there.
Conclusions: 1-Carter made a really bad choice on the Olympics (and may have been an asshole otherwise). 2-Carter is now a great man doing far greater things in this world that you or I or Steve Scott can fully wrap our brains around. 3-Steve Scott was a very good runner. 4-Steve Scott comes off like a whiny baby in this article.