Jimmy Carter Walks Back Racism Charge

Politico ^ | October 1, 2009 | Andy Barr

[marstegreg]

This is a "what is, is?" moment for Jimmy!

[Schnucki]

The question for me is whether Jimmy became senile before or after he was president. :p

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Desired effect had. Page 34.

[T Minus Four]

“By the way, that’s not what I said,” Carter interjected as he was being asked about the comment. “If you read the remarks carefully, you’ll see that’s not what I said.”

“I said those that had a personal attack on President Obama as a person, that was tinged with racism,” Carter explained. “But I recognize that people who disagree with him on health care or the environment, that the vast majority of those are not tinged by racism.”

“I meant exactly what I said,” he continued. “What I actually said, if you look at the transcript, is what I just repeated to you.”

[Tenacious 1]

Can somebody post the transcript of what Carter originally said? I think he is an articulate buffoon that said what he meant and meant what he said when he originally said it. I don't think he said anything about those who attack Obama personally and I recall some generalizations that would make me skeptical about what he thinks he said.

[kittymyrib]

When he lied to Candy Crowley’s face on CNN this morning, she just sat there like a toad and let him say that he meant only a “small number of people who expressed vitriol to the President” were racists. Since they didn’t show the original video, CNN obviously had him on to cover up what he had really said.

[all the best]

Some peanut farm is missing its idiot.

[angkor]

Jimmy Carter is still a noted Jew-hater and anti-Semite.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Carter!...Your brain farts are disturbing.....

[Tarpon]

Closet segregationist heads back to his closet.

[Gay State Conservative]

Long ago Jimmah admitted that he had felt lust in his heart for women.More recently he's been making it abundantly clear that he also lusts in his heart for numerous Marxist dictators.

[Sparko]

“Can somebody post the transcript of what Carter originally said? “

On NBC Nightly News, Carter said:

“I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American.”

At Emory University, Carter elaborated:

“When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kinds of things are beyond the bounds.

I think people who are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African American.

It’s a racist attitude, and my hope is and my expectation is that in the future both Democratic leaders and Republican leaders will take the initiative in condemning that kind of unprecedented attack on the president of the United States.”

http://primerct.blogspot.com/2009/09/jimmy-carter-pot-calling-kettle-black.html

[massmike]

Jimmy continues to prove that Billy had the brains in that family.

[pogo101]

CNN Transcript:

An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity towards President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American.

I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way. And I've seen the rest of the country share the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African-Americans. That racism in connection still exists, and I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the South but around the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country.

Carter's latest statement is a bald-faced lie.

[facedown]

(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 in response to an audience question 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."

Carter: Wilson's Remarks "Based on Racism"

[Yo-Yo]

How about a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnRpZ0GI7ug

[evets]

"this black boy"

[grey_whiskers]

It's not "racism-racism".

It's Obamian-Racism (think "Pickwickian" from Charles Dickens).

[Charles Martel]

It's pretty clear that Carter wasn *not* limiting this charge to the South.

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"an overwhelming proportion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, he's African-American," Carter, 84, told NBC television.

"I live in the South, and I have seen the South come a long way," Carter added.

"But that racism inclination still exists, and I think it has bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the South but across the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country."

"It is an abominable circumstance, and grieves me and concerns me deeply," added Carter.

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Not much of a recant.

[Freddd]

Too late, you can’t walk it back...

DAMAGE CONTROL....it ain’t workin!

[GOPJ]

You lie, Jimmah Carter.

[grey_whiskers]

Obama isn't black. He's RED.

Cheers!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Eat your words, Jimmah.

[Phlap]

Be easy on Jimmy today. It’s his birthday.

[JPG]

Heaven on Earth for jimmy carter would be to have lunch with Fidel, Hugo, Kim, Daniel, Evo and Zero.

[Allegra]

Jimmy, you stupid race pimp...I don't care if Obama is green with orange polka-dots...it's the huge, expanded-government socialism crap he embraces that I despise.

Go pee up a rope, Jimmy. That feeble race card stuff is old and tired.

[LibLieSlayer]

Rush just played it... catah is as big of a liar as hussein is.

LLS

[American Constitutionalist]

Before

[Carley]

Carter and Whoopie backtracking together.

They can take their denials and shove them. To quote Teresa Heinz.

[The Comedian]

Whenever a liberal says something stupid or evil, it is your fault for hearing and remembering it.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[crazyotto]

Jimmah go fly your helecopter through to sand storm for 900 miles. Please Jimmah.

[American Constitutionalist]

Heaven on Earth for jimmy carter would be to have a lunch orgy with Fidel, Hugo, Kim, Daniel, Evo and Zero.

There now, fixed.

[Cyber Liberty]

Well, see, there you go. The rubes thought “overwhelming portion” meant “most.” Duh.

[American Constitutionalist]

Needs more Peanut..i.e. Cowbell

[American Constitutionalist]

Needs more peanut... i.e. Cowbell

[American Constitutionalist]

I would add to that:

Whenever a liberal says something stupid or evil, it is your fault for hearing and remembering it, and it's your fault that you somehow provoked them to say it.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

The question for me is whether Jimmy became senile before or after he was president. :p

I think the evidence shows it was before. After all, the then aged, infirm, and nearly senile Ms. Lilian was more coherent in January 1977 than Jimmy was at that time--or at any time since.

[attiladhun2]

You are wrong. Heaven on earth for Jimmah ibn Qarter would be to be under the table wearing kneepads.

[VeniVidiVici]

So Carter’s finally admitting he thought “racism” had to do with NASCAR?

[T Minus Four]

Jimmy Carter is still a noted Jew-hater and anti-Semite.

And racist.

[Poser]

And may I quote Jimmah:

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American

I'd say he was pretty clear about what he thought.

[ExTxMarine]

[...it is your fault for hearing and remembering it...]

Not just hearing and remembering, but obviously remembering and hearing it incorrectly! That is probably just our “racist” minds twisting his words like “overwhelming portion” to some how mean, huh... er...well, “overwhelming portion.”

Obviously racist! /sarc

[American Constitutionalist]

Good point, the list keeps getting bigger.

[American Constitutionalist]

I guess Jimma is telling us , that it depends on what “ overwhelming portion “ .... is ( IS ) ....

[American Constitutionalist]

I guess we are misguided, and misinformed when we would say that the sky is blue, the sun rises in the east.... sarcasm..

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[Publius6961]

Be easy on Jimmy today. It’s his birthday.

Well, every day can't be cause for celebration.

Just saying.