Look on the bright side

[Little-Acorn]

http://opinionjournal.com

from "Best of the Web"
by James Taranto

[Former President Jimmy] Carter had a bit of a health scare this week, as the Associated Press reported yesterday:

Carter has landed in Washington after spending two nights in an Ohio hospital, where doctors said a viral infection likely gave him stomach problems.

Carter, wearing a dark blazer, walked down the steps of a private jet Thursday at Reagan National Airport, stepped into an SUV and drove away.

If you find yourself despairing about the state of our great country, just think about how unlikely it would have seemed, back in the malaise days of 1979, that Jimmy Carter would one day return to Washington via Reagan Airport.