I’VE BEEN SAYING FOR A WHILE THAT A CARTER RERUN IS NOW THE BEST-CASE SCENARIO FOR THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY, but Holman Jenkins fills in the blanks. “Mr. Carter had served aboard Navy submarines. He ran a peanut plantation. He served one term as Georgia governor—real jobs that produce real effects. Mr. Carter saw himself in some realistic relation to the world. . . . Mr. Obama’s career has been one in which the main effect has been the impression he leaves on audiences—the main effect has been himself. Familiarity with his country—or any other country—would be helpful at this point, if only to counterweight his mesmerization with the arc of his personal story.”