Good Deed Doers

By Miss Kubelik

Goodness gracious, the controversy rages on. How the world trembles when an 85-year-old former President speaks.

Which is how it should be, we cats think. Jimmy Carter isn't a member of The Elders for nothing.

But now, everyone's knickers are in a twist because Carter dared to say that his accomplishments as an ex-President are superior to others'.

Gee, what could that mean? That eradicating disease and forging peace are slightly more important than playing golf in Japan, as Gerald Ford did, or.... whatever it was that Ronald Reagan did (i.e., nothing)?

As far as we're concerned, with the exception of the tsunami and earthquake relief efforts — both of which were undertaken at the behest of sitting Presidents — the only other former Chief Executive who's cared enough to do any good in his post-White-House life would be Bill Clinton. But nobody comes close to Carter.

People can carp and moan as much as they want, but there's a reason Ronald Reagan didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize.

(IMAGE: "Back where I come from, there are people who do nothing all day but good deeds." —The Wizard of Oz, MGM, 1939)