As President Carter Lies in Hospice, Let’s Reflect on His Positives
The prohibition against speaking ill of the dying has disappeared 280 characters at a time on Twitter, but while reading biographies of each president in order 20 years ago, I always seek to find the positives.

President Carter, 98, is spending his final days in hospice care at home. Republicans struggling to find something nice to say about the Democrat that won’t offend their base may settle upon the old canard, “Without him, we never would have had President Reagan.” Such eulogizing is not only lazy; it does a disservice to both men.
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