I Miss Bill.

Does anyone else miss the days when the biggest problem caused by ex-Presidents was obliterating the meaning of the word "is"?

In the last week, I confess that I've engaged in a few Clinto-sanguine reminisces. Maybe its the jading of age, but even as the Co-President's campaign for the actual elected office grows ever more strident, I've adopted a softened perspective toward our most recent former president.

For that, you can thank Jimmy Carter.

Don't get me wrong. Bill Clinton wreaked havoc while in office. But I have to admit, in retirement — at least pre-Hillary '08 — the former prez has been pretty, well, entertaining.

The founding and dedication of that double-wide by the river fondly known as the William J. Clinton Presidential Center. Office space in Harlem so the First Black President can keep a foot on his home turf. The housewarming in Chappaqua. My Life, a memoir that bears a striking resemblance to the phone book for the Dallas Metroplex — both in number of pages and quantity of women's phone numbers contained therein.

These are all things a conservative can chuckle over and dismiss. "It's just what you'd expect," we might say, "of a good-ole-boy ex-president from a small Southern state who's enjoying the twilight of his modern relevance by polishing up the tattered legacy of a failed administration —"

Wait a minute. I think we have two of those.

But while Slick Willy is trying to gild his rep with the modest goal of snaking his wife the highest office in the land, the Other Democrat Ex is polishing his own legacy by cozying up to anyone and everyone on Forbes 400 Dictators & Terrorists List.

Paul Greenberg likens Carter's meeting with the leader of Hamas to those of Americans who sought approval and decorations from the Nazis in the 1930s. Meanwhile, Rep. Sue Myrick, R-NC, has called for the State Department to revoke Carter's passport. If ever there was someone who could make things like Bill Clinton's disbarment from practicing law seem like trivial college-boy hijinks, Jimmy Carter has accomplished that in spades.

While Clinton's biggest crime — at least according to his supporters — transpired as the result of an ill-considered pants-drop between two consenting adults, Carter has single-handedly managed to unzip the collective fly of Americans right in front of our enemies. The most dangerous result is not revealing his personal lack of cajones.

Like it or not, as a former President, Carter is a representative of the United States government and the American people. His actions in the face of our enemies have painted our people and our government as anxious to appease, willing to negotiate, lacking resolve to obliterate those who mean to obliterate us (not to mention our allies, the Israelis). By bolstering our enemies' already dim opinions of our ability and determination, Jimmy-boy's posturing has endangered more American lives: not only those of our servicemen and women, but the lives of civilians as well.

Frankly, pulling the Nobel-winner's passport is not enough; Carter should be prosecuted for giving aid and comfort to America's enemies. It won't happen, of course, but the time has come for our citizens and our lawmakers alike to condemn self-appointed "peace brokering" in direct contravention of established State Department policy. There have been others, including Princess Pelosi, but as a former president, Jimmy Carter has indeed put the "dip" in diplomacy.

I miss Bill.