After first treatment, Jimmy Carter and family returned home to see the streets lined with support

What a sight to behold as the Carter family returned from his first radiation treatment.

Former President Jimmy Carter held a press conference yesterday to announce that in addition to the previously discovered liver cancer, doctors had also discovered four melanomas on his brain. Despite the diagnosis, he remained upbeat and positive, saying "I'm perfectly at ease with whatever happens." He continues to to lead with grace and dignity, even in the face of a brain cancer diagnosis. It's no wonder the residents of Plains, Georgia admire him so. And it was this admiration that spurred supporters to start a new campaign—Jimmy Carter for cancer survivor. As President Carter and his family returned home yesterday evening, they found the streets of Plains lined with supportive messages. Friends and Plains residents scrambled to get them up before the Carters returned home:

“If we can put a smile on his face, it’s worth it,” said Jill Stuckey, a close friend of the former first couple and a board member of the Friends of Jimmy Carter National Historic Site, which organized the sign campaign. The idea was first hatched last Thursday when Stuckey and others got a look at that day’s cartoon by the AJC’s Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, Mike Luckovich. The cartoon, which Luckovich created just after Carter revealed Wednesday he’d been given a cancer diagnosis, features a couple pounding in a lawn sign bearing the slogan “Jimmy Carter for Cancer Survivor.”

I think this is one campaign we can all get behind—Jimmy Carter for Cancer Survivor.