Good man/bad president?

I've heard friends, including conservatives, say that Jimmy Carter was a bad president, but a good man. He did bad things for the economy and was inept at foreign policy, they agree, but they maintain that he is still a good person. Some even agree with leftist media assessments that he is a great ex-president, whatever he may have done in office. They are wrong. Obviously, it takes a bad ex-president to undermine his own country's war effort by publicly opposing the war while it is still going on. But is he a good man, though misguided?

Well, Jimmy Carter accuses - without evidence - Americans of routinely torturing prisoners around the world. He lies about Guantanamo Bay, portraying it as a hellhole, when in reality the worst accusations made about the interrogation techniques there are things like "turning the air conditioning way up" and "playing really loud music" at the prisoners.* He pretends to be very morally superior to those who disagree with him, when really he lies when it suits him, and defames his own country.

Don't get me wrong. I encourage everyone to oppose policy decisions of the president if they think there's just cause for doing so. That doesn't make you a bad person, even if you're wrong. But to accuse American soldiers of war crimes they didn't commit, while they are still at war? That gives aid and comfort (and a recruiting tool) to our terrorist enemies, and that is evil. I will say it again, so you don't misunderstand. Former United States president Jimmy Carter is depraved, and his words and actions are evil.

SRS