Carter still lives around 150 miles away from Atlanta. He and his wife are a combined 185+ years old. He sent his condolences, and you can be sure he earnestly meant them, but there’s no way he can be traveling any more. Even 150 miles.

She too needs to have a seat and rest as much as possible.

“Leguizamo who was born in Bogotá, Columbia...”

She shouldn’t have to be out here either.

Between Jennifer Holliday singing Take My Hand Precious Lord and then President Obama coming up after, I was a mess. I was sobbing.

Nothing to forgive; coincidentally, I literally just cited him last week in the same breath as Trotsky and Che when my stupid brother was braying that my owning a single AR (it’s a fucking Grendel, not a 5.56, it’s totally and completely legit for deer hunting) meant I was becoming a rightist. If you take reprisal…

We Latinxs gotta be real about the fact that “Latin America” is also made of white supremacist settler colonial states just like the USA. They just speak different European languages. Jaír Bolsonaro and Janine Añez would fit right into the Trump administration.

Did you read the very first line? I am not disagreeing with you. He made my life easier at work, is all. 

In a COVID-free world, that may have been possible. As Marceline noted, he’s not only had cancer, he also had some very serious falls; he broke his pelvis!!! President Carter, I say this with all the respect I can muster: dude, have a seat!!!

I’ve always felt Bill Clinton deserved a special corner in hell! And to you black public intellectuals who helped crown Clinton our first black president, Go To Hell Too.

I had forgotten that article. And I so admired Toni Morrison’s work but not that foolishness.

This dubious honor goes to Toni Morrison who called Bill Clinton “our first black president” in an article published by “The New Yorker’ magazine in October, 1998.

OK, I feel all of this and agree, but I have a Bill Clinton story (actually, I have a couple) that explains why I have a spot of gratitude for him.

Yup. I’m a cancer survivor; I’m in serious lockdown mode and I’m celebrating a (huge) remission milestone. You are right about colds; I’ve noticed my colds have much more intensity now.

Yeah that’s true, I thought since the funeral was in Georgia he might be able to make it.

He did face a consequence: het got impeached

Right? Who on earth thinks Jimmy Carter - a 95 year old cancer survivor who has survived multiple falls - needs to be running around out here?

True. Unfortunately at this point Carter, is probably in a pretty serious isolation bubble.

Health concerns. He sent a letter that was read at the funeral.

I have a feeling Jimmy Carter is to weak to travel or felt traveling with a compromised immune system was not a good idea.