Jimmuh Backpeddles

After calling the Bush Administration the "worst in history", and then being called "increasingly irrelevant" by the White House, Jimmuh Carter is feeling the heat and trying to back away from his irresponsible statement:

CRAWFORD, Texas — Jimmy Carter backed off Monday from harshly critical comments he made of President Bush over the weekend after the White House offered a biting rebuke to the former president by calling him "increasingly irrelevant."

"My remarks were maybe careless or misinterpreted but I wasn't comparing the overall administration and certainly not talking about anyone personally," Carter said in an interview Monday when asked to explain comments over the weekend.

"(My comments) were interpreted as comparing this whole administration to all other administrations when what I was actually doing was responding to a question about foreign policy between (President Richard) Nixon and this administration, and I think that this administration's foreign policy compared to Nixon's was much worse. ... I wasn't comparing this administration with other administrations throughout history but just with President Nixon's," he told NBC's "The Today Show."

Carter, whose own administration was plagued by sky-high inflation and a 444-day American hostage crisis in Iran, was filling in a quote Saturday in which he said, "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history."

Jimmuh needs to just shut up and go away.