Carter was a military officer who served without distinction as far as I know. As president, he was a micro manager; a job way too big for him, or anyone else. He was also an outsider. He took a lot of crap for things that were not his fault. He also got Israel and Egypt to sign a peace treaty, an act that got Sadat killed.

After leaving office, he took to building houses for the poor while Ronald Raygun was flying around making speeches at a million dollars a pop.