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Obama Is Not Like Jimmy Carter

Publication of Jimmy Carter’s White House Diary have pundits comparing him to Obama. But 44 is nothing like the incompetently messianic Carter—and has more in common with Tricky Dick.

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Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama & Richard Nixon (AP Photo 2; Getty Images)

No doubt the parts of President Obama's U.N. speeches in recent days will make the usual bloviators on the political right ratchet up the comparisons–always intended as derogatory– between

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