Jimmy Carter is getting my 2007 Idiot of the Year Award (I don’t remember doling it out already, but it’s no big deal if two idiots get it this time) for his statements on Hamas.

“This effort to divide Palestinians into two peoples now is a step in the wrong direction,” he said. “All efforts of the international community should be to reconcile the two, but there’s no effort from the outside to bring the two together.”

Well, Mr. Carter, maybe that’s because Hamas is a terrorist organization bent on the complete destruction of Israel and the murder of its entire Jewish population. Think that might have just a little tiny bit to do with the West’s refusal to legitimize them?

Carter told the Toronto Star:

Despite the concerns expressed about the character of Hamas, we have to hope for the best. My prayer is the Hamas leaders, now serving in positions of unprecedented authority, will lead the Palestinian people on a peaceful, non-violent path toward a two-state solution.

What Carter may be suffering from, aside from Idiocy, is a bit too much optimism. Or, it could be due to the fact that he sees himself in some, I don’t know, Messianic light after brokering the Israeli/Egypt peace deal.

Of course, all that self-congratulation must have gotten to his head, because, as we all know by now, Mr. Carter has described Israel’s relationship with the “Palestinians” as apartheid.

The only funny thing that’s come out of all of this isn’t really funny at all. I think Dry Bones has said it better than I can. Read the strip below and you decide….

All cartoons courtesy of CoxAndForkum.com and Drybones.