Jimmy Carter: Recovering Racist, Still a Bigot

Jewish World Review ^ | June 1, 2006 | Julia Gorin

[Sabramerican]

Jimmy Carter: Recovering Racist, Still a Bigot

By Julia Gorin

Jimmy Carter has been called everything from a humanitarian, to a crack pot, to the ultimate pacifist. But a look into his past reveals a shoe that fits better than all of these.

It's a story told to me by an acquaintance from Watertown, NY, a place situated way upstate, well north of Syracuse. The acquaintance had heard it from two barflies who were there the night in 1975 that Jimmy Carter passed through town in his first New York appearance during the "250-day 1975 portion of the presidential campaign," as Carter had called it.

The story goes that after giving a speech at the Holiday Inn, Carter stopped by the Rebel Room Tavern, a bar that once existed near the old Woolworth building and catered to southern servicemen based near by. Not knowing that an employee from the local paper was present, Carter joked around with the locals and, as two of those locals related the story to my friend, "every other word out of his mouth was 'nigger' or 'kike.'" But styling itself after The New York Times, the paper didn't print undignified information about candidates it was friendly toward, and the potentially damaging tidbit never made it into print.

At least that's how the story goes.

[woodb01]

That has got to be the most amazing link I've ever seen on a summarized history of the Democratic Party's Racism.

Do you have any other such treasures to show the perversions of the Democratic Party?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617409/replies?c=162

[Tenniel]

Ol' Jimmuh was not a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. At least not at first. He hired on as a paid spokesman, and then picked up the hammer when he saw how well it would play on the post-presidential stage.

Hey -- if the Lord won't call him home, can we send him to Venezuela, permanently?

[Steve Van Doorn]

You need to brush up on history. The Republican Party started with Lincoln.

The Democrat-Republican party had many changes during its history. But since the 1850’s the Democrat party has stuck to one theme and that is fear and contempt for our fellow man. It has never changed from that message.

I consider myself a Classic Liberal a Jeffersonian Democrat but never would I put myself in the likes of Democrat’s throughout most of our history.

[satchmodog9]

for later

[Diddle E. Squat]

Jimmy Carter is one of the 5 worst Presidents, but this slander is complete BS, not even close to being believable. Figures you would post such DU-style garbage, I've never seen any integrity in your postings.

[Sabramerican]

I've never seen any integrity in your postings.

Never? Not even once?

This piece is from a reputable author published on a reputable site.

I would tell you what to do with your sanctimonious bs but it would add to your opinion of me and we wouldn't want that.

[SJackson]

See post 40. You and Julia Gorin are as disreputable as Ed Koch and Cyrus Vance.

Next you're going to tell me Jim Baker doesn't like American Jews.

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

Of course 31 year-old hearsay in always accurate.

[SJackson]

Of course 31 year-old hearsay in always accurate.

I went back and reread the article.

The Watertown, NY incident in hearsay.

I've not read the Hayward book and have no immediate plans to. But Gorin is clear of the source, and I've no reason to suspect the incidents aren't in the book. Haayward could be a liar. Most everything else in the article, and that's over half it it, much in the last 10-15 years, I've seen multiple sources for.

[Sabramerican]

His behavior is not hearsay.

I would argue that someone who sticks up for Hamas against Israel should routinely call Jews Kikes just to be honest.

[SJackson]

Not the thread to mention it on, no personal attacks and all, but ole Jimmy's 1970 race against Carl Sanders was racially charged. Carl decrying Georgia as a backward, racist state, ole Jimmy in the Wallace-Maddox camp, criticizing Sanders for not meeting with Wallace, and using a campaign leaflet showing Sanders meeting with, horrors, a black person.

Naah, Jimmy's never been a racist.

To his credit, he didn't follow the Wallace-Maddox line governing. Just getting elected. So I suppose that's OK.

[SJackson]

I would argue that someone who sticks up for Hamas against Israel should routinely call Jews Kikes just to be honest.

Now you're bashing the freedom fighters.

The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel’s colonisation of Palestine
Jimmy Carter, peacemaker

And that's after Israel LEFT Gaza. And as Jimmy knows LEFT the Sinai. And was making plans to leave 95% of the 25% or so Israel hadn't already LEFT.

Of course the Jews were still planning on staying in Tel Aviv and Haifa. Even part of the Arab city called Jerusalem. So I guess colonization fits.

[GSWarrior]

Don't we have better things to do than smear Carter? He will always be remembered as an awful president.

True or not, this will only create sympathy for him among many.

[Sabramerican]

I'm still in shock at being accused of a lack of integrity on FR for an article that criticizes Jimmy Carter. At least we can still call Clinton names.

Funny but no one here to my knowledge has ever been taken to task for repeating Hilary's alleged "****** Jew bastard" comments.

I may be unique here in thinking Carter was and is immeasurably worse, not even in the same league, then Clinton.

[Sabramerican]

I must have awakened today in some parallel universe.

Carter, a former President, goes around the World constantly defaming the US and he is being defended on FreeRepublic.

[SJackson]

Funny but no one here to my knowledge has ever been taken to task for repeating Hilary's alleged "****** Jew bastard" comments.

I have, given the context, I've suggested they're far less serious than Baker's comments. Carter's too for that matter. And no, he's not in the same league as Clinton. Interns wouldn't give Carter a second glance, likely not a first.

[Sabramerican]

Interns wouldn't give Carter a second glance

That's a good thing because the prig only lusts in his heart.

[bitt]

he's a smarmy,prideful, arrogant tooth-addled idiot.

[xJones]

I may be unique here in thinking Carter was and is immeasurably worse, not even in the same league, then Clinton.

You're not unique at all in believing that Jimmy Carter was and is immeasureably worse than Billy Clinton.

I think that there's a matter of sematics involved here, because I was born and have lived most of my life in the South and I've never heard a Southerner use the perjorative "kike". I've only heard it on Hollywood movies like "Porky's". And the perjorative "nigger" would get you a good spanking as a child because only trash talked like that. "Colored" was the name I first heard (see NAACP), and "black" or "Afro-American" came in during the 1960s.

Jimmuh is despicable beyond words and quite possibly our worst president, but I really don't believe even ol' Jimmuh would cut loose and talk trash in a New York state cafe.

Now don't get mad, because I'll agree with you any day that Carter makes even Clinton look better.

[M. Espinola]

"…at a March 1980 meeting with his senior political advisers, angrily snapped, "If I get back in, I`m going to f--- the Jews." Jimmy Carter, March 1980"

Miserable wretched thing.