Isn't this same fella that Jimmy Carter embraced his election and had a lovefest with?
It would have to be. Carter has a perfect record of supporting losers at the world leader level who systematically and thoroughly abuse their people whether intentionally and negligently.
Carter is the master of economic and social malaise. The one thing he cannot and will not tolerate is a cheerful, optimistic, prosperous, and self-reliant people.
Those elections were as democratic as Saddam's. As Stalin said, "It doesn't matter who votes. What matters is who counts the votes." When Carter blessed them we should have known this would be coming.