Atlanta, GA - Millard and Linda Fuller began their dream to build houses for the poor in 1976. Since then, Habitat for Humanity has built more than 150,000 homes for the impoverished. While it is estimated that 140,000 of those homes currently operate as crack houses, nobody doubts the sincerity of the Habitat volunteers. After he left us lining up for gas on odd days while American hostages waited hopelessly to be rescued in Iran, Jimmy Carter left the White House to become one of those valiant volunteers building houses for those less fortunate than everyone who didn't live through his administration. In a tragic accident Sunday, Carter may have demonstrated why he would be better off playing bridge at a retirement community. "He nailed my damn hand to the wall," Kathryn Bennis, a Habitat volunteer said. "It really hurt." A Carter spokesman issued an apology from the former President, which read, "I did not mean to nail Kathryn's hand to the wall. I remember when I was a child growing peanuts on the farm in Georgia with my father. He used to tell me that every peanut has a shell and to eat the peanut, you must break the shell..." (Our reporter on the scene fell through a hole in the floor and was taken to a local hospital before Carter could finish his story. We found his notes to bring you this portion of it.) The White House issued a statement calling the former President the worst carpenter in American history.
