It's not that every time Jimmy Carter goes gallivanting off around the world to monitor elections and declare the thugs of the world to be freely and fairly chosen by the people that makes him such a pompous fool.

It is his belief that anyone outside left wing fanatics believes he ever does any good with is globetrotting diplomacy. It shows either an extraordinary ego or a blithering idiocy - I haven't quite figured out which yet.

Jimmy's latest is his desire to meet perhaps the most egregiously thuggish group of terrorists in the world whose nauseating anti-Semitism and shocking use of children to further their ends of wiping the Jewish state from the map sickens all decent people around the globe.

Jimmy Carter wants to talk to Hamas:

Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.

The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter was planning a trip to Syria for mid-April, during which he would meet with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, on April 18.

Deanna Congileo, Carter’s press secretary, confirmed in an e-mail to FOXNews.com that Carter will be in the Mideast in April. Pressed for comment, Congileo did not deny that the former president is considering visiting Meshal.

“President Carter is planning a trip to the Mideast next week; however, we are still confirming details of the trip and will issue a press release by the end of this week,” wrote Congileo. “I cannot confirm any specific meetings at this point in time.”

Meshal, who lives in Syria to avoid being arrested by the Israeli government, leads Hamas from his seat in Damascus, where he is a guest of Bashar al-Assad's regime.