Thanks for the great post.
I heard President Carter speak at an optometry convention in New Orleans. He began by praising Cuba for their free education and free health care and then parenthetically added "Of course they don't have freedom". He then went on to talk down to the optometrists and chided them for not providing free vision screening for pre-schoolers - typical nanny-state mindset. And of course he had to toot his own horn about the wonderful Carter Center. He's such a humanitarian.
I hope you meant sarcastic in your last sentence
"He then went on to talk down to the optometrists and chided them for not providing free vision screening for pre-schoolers "
All the while charging $7 to visit his *wonderful* library.