Others have remarked on the prospect of Jimmy Carter meeting with Hamas and Barack Obama’s disinclination to criticize him for it. (We should be gratified, I suppose, that Obama has finally found an enemy dedicated to Israel’s destruction with whom he would not meet.)

There may be multiple political motives to explain why Obama has not spoken out against Carter. Newt Gingrich points out that Obama’s worldview is eerily reminiscent of Carter’s. But we should remember from the Wright affair: Obama doesn’t do condemnations.

Once again with Carter we get a “Who am I to condemn Mr. X?” response from Obama. He doesn’t condemn Wright or his own loudmouth surrogates. He certainly won’t damn Carter.

Given this track record, one wonders how Obama’s meeting with, say, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would go: “Who am I to condemn Holocaust deniers?” Will we hear that Ahmadinejad is “brilliant” and “deserving of our respect,” but that he’s caught in a “time warp”? Obama’s political world is populated by the misunderstood and the estranged, the time-trapped but well-meaning, and enemies waiting only for a bit of “dignity promotion” before they become our fast friends. Honest. So do not hold your breath for any condemnations or denunciations from the Obama administration, should we get that far. It’s just not his thing.