I can stomach Clinton going in the delegation, but Gerald "The Soviets do not dominate Poland" Ford, or Jimmy Carter better not be.
Ford is not in good enough health, I suspect.
Jimmy is probably busy trying to build a house somewhere. Noble cause, but he had a chance to build a whole economy once and didn't.
I just wish someone would replay the video of Bubba's visit to the Pope. It was after the Monica scandal. He was walking in FRONT of the Pope and looking at all the artwork in the Vatican like he was a tourist in a museum. The pope was left behind and ignore like an old man holding up the tour. So disrespectful.
On the contrary, each living president who is capable of making the trip SHOULD be there. In addition to being the Spiritual Leader of 1.1 Billion Catholics, the Holy Father was also the head of the Vatican State, not to mention a World Leader in perhaps the truest sense of the term that we've seen in these 100 or so years, probably ever.
All of them, regardless of their current position or past political meanderings should pay their respects to this great man.