He’s been officially demoted to second most feckless after Obama’s handling of the current Iran crisis… but anyway…

Hamas reportedly foiled an attempt by Palestinian terrorists to kill former US president Jimmy Carter during his visit to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

Well, it would be silly if they didn’t stop the plot, seeing as how Carter is their biggest cheerleader on the world stage.

But wait… who really stopped the plot?

Israeli security sources said they had learned of plans to target Carter and had passed on the information to his security detail in “real time.”

[Israeli] Security officials said soldiers in a lookout post spotted Hamas forces dismantling explosives. They said they passed on a warning to Carter’s security detail.

So how is Carter taking the whole thing? I mean, even for an ex-President an assassination attempt must be scary, right?

Oh- he’s taking the official Hamas position: it never happened.

But Islam Shahwan, a spokesman for the Hamas Interior Ministry in Gaza, denied the report of the assassination plans, which appeared first in Ma’ariv.

According to Shahwan, explosives were not discovered near the Erez border crossing and Carter’s visit had gone according to plan.

Carter later said that he did not believe an assassination attempt had occurred.

In speaking with reporters in Tel Aviv in the evening, Carter said he was not aware that anything was going on and that his staff and drivers were not aware that they had been rerouted.

Nothing to see here folks… move along…

Carter, clueless? I find that hard to believe.