RIP, Mr. President: I could say something pseudo-clever like, “I come to bury Jimmy, not to praise him.” But that would be a lie. And Jimmy Carter — the “Jimmy” in question here — was the first, last, and only president who got elected by promising not to lie.
Fat lot of good it did him.
Carter was 100 when he died a on December 29. Not a minute too soon, when you consider present realities. His body now lies in state — which means in the U.S. Capitol, where lawmakers can look and wonder at the man.