Now add 'anti-Georgia'

Since leaving the White House, Jimmy Carter has made a living of putting up houses and tearing down America.

"Jimmy Carter has long been a favorite of those abroad who are anti-American," columnist Thomas Sowell once wrote, citing North Korea and Cuba as examples, "and a case could even be made that he was the first anti-American president."

Carter, for instance, has "certified" rigged foreign elections, while at the same time casting aspersions on the integrity of American elections.

Carter's infamous and chronic worldwide America bashing - a thorn even in fellow Democrat Bill Clinton's side - ultimately won him the same Nobel Peace Prize given to the late terrorist Yasser Arafat. Several Nobel judges made it clear Carter's award was little more than a back of the hand to the face of American foreign policy.

So why should it come as any surprise that Carter speaks out and hurts his home state of Georgia?

It was largely on the urging of Carter that the Base Realignment and Closure Commission voted this week to keep the Submarine Base New London open in Groton, Conn. - costing Georgia's Kings Bay base the more than 3,000 jobs that would have been moved there from Connecticut.

"It would have been a tremendous impact to our businesses and to the economy, and we are disappointed," St. Marys Mayor Deborah Hase told reporters.

That Carter sent BRAC a letter urging the commission to overturn a Pentagon recommendation to close the Groton base was "very important" to the decision, one member said.

"I guess my question is, and the question of many Georgians is, what was he thinking?" said Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue.

"I was just shocked and a little disappointed that he chose to engage the BRAC commission," said one Kings Bay supporter.

So are we.

Although, truth be known, we don't know why we'd be shocked.