Jimmy Carter Still Sucking Up to Dictators...at American's Expense

So the worst president in history decided to take it upon himself to travel to Cuba, hang out with his commie homies and put down America and her people once again. This time he championed Cuban spies and denigrated American Allen Gross, a democracy activist, who was jailed, in Cuba, for that very reason. Smilin' Jimmy never took the time to try and procure Gross's freedom as he did with the Cubans (petitioning both Bush and Obama) and he made sure everybody knows that the murderous Cuban dictator is his "personal friend." Is this guy a spectacular failure, or what? In what capacity does he have any official diplomatic position with the U.S. government? I mean if a Republican ex-president (W. for instance) went to say Australia to discuss how to stem the tide of illegal immigrants or how to tell the radical Muslims in America that want to institute Sharia Law where to stick it and to get out of America if you don't like it. Would people like Katie Couric and Mat Lauer champion them then?