Ex-president and nice man Jimmy Carter shakes every damn hand on an airplane
Ex-presidents normally get a sort of hazy glow of mass public acceptance—just look at the ongoing transformation of war criminal George W. Bush into a sweetly incompetent painter having trouble with a rain slicker. And yet despite this post-office depoliticization, Jimmy Carter has made a name for himself as a genuinely humble, genial man, devoting himself to charity work, international diplomacy, and human rights issues.