I lived (and suffered) through the Carter years.  His policies where failures, his decisionmaking processes inept, and this judgment suspect.  His behavior as an ex-president has been terrible!  He was the one that handed a done deal to Clinton on the North Korean nukes, the one where they admitted to lying.  He's played kissy face with Castro.  He's given the stamp of approval to several illegitimate "elections" in Venezula and Iran.

Personally, I think the State Department should revoke his passport.

As to the "nuclear engineer" boast, he had, what, six months navy training?  He was clearly over his head and out of his depth during the Three Mile Island accident.

We are here to discuss energy policy, economics, and technology together.  Of course those topics stray into general politics where our opinions are much more divergent.  

If you are secretly hoping that peak oil will create chaos and extreme social and economic disruption, then you want a guy like Jimmy Carter at the helm.  He is a proven failure at dealing with energy issues.