Posted on 09/15/2009 7:42:41 PM PDT by Steelfish
Jimmy Carter: Wilson Comments 'Based on Racism'
ASSOCIATED PRESS September 15, 2009
ATLANTA (AP) -- Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act ''based on racism'' and rooted in fears of a black president.
''I think it's based on racism,'' Carter said at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta. ''There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.''
The Georgia Democrat said the outburst was a part of a disturbing trend directed at the president that has included demonstrators equating Obama to Nazi leaders.
''Those kind of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate on whether we should have a national program on health care,'' he said. ''It's deeper than that.''
Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, was formally rebuked Tuesday in a House vote for shouting ''You lie!'' during Obama's speech to Congress last Wednesday.
The shout came after the president commented that illegal aliens would be ineligible for federal subsidies to buy health insurance. Republicans expressed their disbelief with sounds of disapproval, punctuated by Wilson's outburst.
Tuesday's rebuke was a rare resolution of disapproval pushed through by Democrats who insisted that Wilson had violated basic rules of decorum and civility. Republicans characterized the measure as a witch hunt and Wilson, who had already apologized to Obama, insisted he owed the House no apology.
Wilson's spokesman was not immediately available for comment, but his eldest son defended his father.
''There is not a racist bone in my dad's body,'' said Alan Wilson, an Iraq veteran who is running for state attorney general. ''He doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes.
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Is there any way he can be retroactively impeached ?
My goodness if there is a bigger douche bag on the planet than the rabbit warrior I don’t know who they are.
Carter is Arabic for camel dung. As in don’t step in the carter.
Good god hasnt that old fart kicked the bucket yet? He needs to sit down..and shut up. No one cares two wits what he thinks..except him.
Actually yes.
But why bother? Does anyone take peanut boy seriously?
Only a sexist homophobe could reach such a conclusion.
Hey Jimmy, I guess your feelings for the Zionists qualifies under religious hatred not racism.
Jimmy,
He is 50% black.
He is also 50% white.
Bite me.
So irresponsbile as to be.....
These types of comments are going to have bad reprecussions for years.
Why would Jimmy Carter call Congressman Wilson a racist ?He has never met him.
Sorry I answered my own question.
Carter should be happy - we now have a prez that will far eclipse him as worst ever. Think he may have hit himself in the head with that hammer a few times. What a maroon.
BTW, Jimmah should be grateful that’s he’s been replaced as worst president ever before he croaks.
‘’I think it’s based on racism,’’ Carter said at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta. ‘’There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.’’
— There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that a black president should not be a COMMUNIST.
Now that Ted Kennedy is gone, Carter is definitely the biggest douchebag. And he’ll hopefully join Teddy down in hell soon.
There was a time that I thought Carter was an inept weenie. A nice guy with bad policies and poor leadership skills. I now realize what a hateful, corrupt and bitter little man that sorry excuse for a human being truly is.
I have always felt that Carter got an undeserved reputation as being a well meaning incompetent. He is really a sleazy scumbag of a jerk with no good intentions at all.
Carter shows he is an ignorant bigot. Again
Carter is a mind reader now? Only Rep. Wilson knows why he disrupted obama’s speech with that outburst. Me, I think he just got fed up with hearing obvious lie after obvious lie from someone the Nation should be able to trust and respect.
Jimmy, I hate your guts and I’m white, so does that make me racist since your white
This man was once President.
Have a nice day. :)
On behalf of the Georgia Freepers I would like to apologize that this moonbat comes from our state.
I met him at a private function about four years ago, and I was appalled not only at the smallness of the man but the size of the entourage of hangers-on that followed his every move.
Jimmy, what color is liar?
I saw the video of Jimmy saying this.
It was simply disgraceful.
This man was once sane.
I think.
Well, the old coot got that one all wrong.(he wakes up in a new world everyday)Jimmy, sir that should read, ''There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that a Georgia peanut farmer should not be president.''
The late Bob Novak put it well when he said Carter was the most disgusting former president.
Carter, like all lefty Dems, has always been a race baiter and tried to keep our divisions alive because it’s important to his party. Then they have the nerve to call him a “peacemaker.”
The only thing worse than a Nobel prize weiner is a senile Nobel prize weiner. Stuff it Jimmah! Oops. Jimmah’s a ‘RAT. I guess I’m being “rasis” again.
This coming from one of the biggest Jew-hating scumbags this side of Hamas.
Jimmy Carter —born an idiot!
When is that stupid bastard going to die?
It's not pretty watching a former President decline due to mental illness. Sad, actually.
Didn’t Bin Laden say Jimmuh book was his favorite.
Sheesh.....I can’t believe the media still reports what this old fool has to say.
“It’s not pretty watching a former President decline due to mental illness. Sad, actually. “
especially sinc the point of origin was so low to begin with.
The ex-urinal graces us with his wisdom yet again.
Who has that dude with the face-palm picture???
Hey Jimmy - go grind up some peanuts or something! It has NOTHING to do with the color of his skin it has to do with the CONTENT OF HIS CHARACTER! LYING is part of someone’s CHARACTER and NOT a part of their genetic makeup!
And, if this was all race-based wouldn’t he have had to say you’re a “half-liar”?
It saddens me each and every day just how bad Jimmy’s dementia is getting.
Prayers for his family.
;)
Jimmy Carter is a RACIST scumbag. Prove to me he isn’t. Remember facts don’t matter.
That rabbit must have really done a number on him!
He’s a southern Democrat - he should know all about racism.
That is rich coming from an America Hater of the first order. hey Jimbo go pound sand you traitor.
Could this idiot BE less relevant?
Quite right. And as a born idiot (anyone remember his disastrous presidency?) he is unable to judge human nature very well and could not tell if someone was a racist or not without the target of his attack using words toward "the Messiah" such as stupid [n word].
The same goes for Maureen Dowd and most other Liberals. Their embrace of watered down Marxism shows that they do not understand human nature or if they do understand it they just ignore it in their caculations and that makes them too evil to criticize other people.
I don't think either Dowd or Carter understand human nature very well and cannot judge people as racist as easily as they do.
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