Posted on 09/16/2009 12:51:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's spokesman publicly disagreed with former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday over Carter's contention that some conservative opposition to Obama is based on race.
"The president does not think it is based on the color of his skin," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.
Carter injected race into Obama's struggle for a healthcare overhaul after South Carolina Republican Representative Joe Wilson shouted "You lie" at Obama during a healthcare speech in Congress last week and thousands of conservatives rallied opposition to Obama at demonstrations in Washington.
"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," Carter told NBC News.
He said this "racism inclination still exists. And I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of the 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. It's an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply."
Carter's remark drew the condemnation of Michael Steele, the first African-American to become chairman of the Republican National Committee.
"President Carter is flat out wrong. This isn't about race. It is about policy," he said in a statement. "This is a pathetic distraction by Democrats to shift attention away from the president's wildly unpopular government-run healthcare plan that the American people simply oppose."
Obama, America's first black president, was steering clear of the issue, weeks after he injected himself into a debate about race in Massachusetts after black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates was arrested at his own home on suspicion of breaking into it.
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Obama must have been listening to Rush this morning.
WTF!? Obama employed Carter’s services to bloviate in the 1st place. BO is trying to play us like a fiddle! It’s not working. 88% of the public ain’t buying the “race card” BS!
YUP....taking Rush’s advice....this is going to be VELLY INTERESTING!
Rush should let them play the race card.
We all just have to hang in there, this hubbub too will pass.. for the Dems Thank goodness for accelerated news cycles these days.. them dems are generating new scandals continuously.
Ah, the Mouth of Sauron speaks.
That and calling Mr. West a Jack Ass. My aren’t we working to ingratiate ourselves. No accidents in D.C.
This sob (jimmie carter) continues to damage the country with his stupid nonsensical remarks. He really is a waste of oxygen!
Good cop, bad cop. Obama stays above the fray while ALL of his minions scream “racism.” Classic good cop, bad cop.
“It grieves me and troubles me very much” that Carter is still stealing aoxygen.
How that man can sit anywhere with his wife attached to his hip and spout these remarks is beyond me.
I am concluding that the only reason God keeps both of them alive is to remind us all what a terrible Preisdent he was and to never elct someone of his ilk again.
NObama is going to end up worse that Carter, but Carter and his utterings are a constant reminder.
Carter has never met a Socialist that he isn’t in love with. Regardless of gender.
GOOD. I’m glad he’s spoken out against Carter and his stupid remarks. What a goober Jimmuh is.
Obama playing the reluctant whore again. He does nothing to stop the race card, Thats what he would do if he didn’t agree with people like Carter.
Carter's amazing genius strikes again. It's obvious that Jimmy Carter lost to Ronald Reagan in a landslide because the Reagan voters did not want an African American as president. It's obvious that the militia movement and extremists who despised Bill Clinton as president in the 1990s were upset about having "the first black president" in the White House, hence, their maneuvers in the backwoods clad in fatigues. It's obvious that conservatives who criticized Hillary Clinton's "It Takes a Village" version of Alinskyite socialism did so because of her skin color. And, of course, the Bush forces stole the elections from Gore and Kerry because of racial fears about their prowess on the basketball court and their likely secret Muslim backgrounds. But the Carter-Obama Parallels do not end there...
How easily they forget it was DUmocrats throwing oreos at Micheal Steel, it was DUmocrats who slandered black republicans such as Alan Keyes, Clarence Thomas, Condi Rice and Gollum Powell (untill he showed his true colors and jumped on the Obamatron express).
Most DUmocrats weren’t voting for DUh-bama because he was black...they voted for him for the empty promises of “free” gimmies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI
The Democrat party has always been the party of slavery, sedition, subversion, socialism and surrender.
Even Stevie Wonder can see through this BS. Have drooling idiot Carter make a race-bait speech, and then Obama can “take the high road” and say it’s not about race. Yeah right. I was born at night, but not last night.
Okay...can I borrow that for my tagline?
Kind of like the Clintons did. get henchmen to attack people while saying they shouldnt.
And who listens to Carter anyways? This guy is nothing more than a washed up, warmed over traitor who is well past his sell by date. Carter is at best a moron, at worse a anti semite, anti American who ever sat in the oval office.
It must be his bad inbreeding, but everything that comes from his stinkhole is bound to offend any thinking American.
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