[Jimmy] Carter: Racism plays major role in opposition to Obama [HURL ALERT]

CNN.com ^ | 16 Sep 09 | CNN (Communist News Network)

[seanmerc]

(CNN) -- Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that racial politics played a role in South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's speech to Congress last week and in some of the opposition the president has faced since taking office.

Former President Carter tells "NBC Nightly News" that racism has surfaced in opposition to President Obama. "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," Carter told "NBC Nightly News." "I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way, and I've seen the rest of the country that shares the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African-Americans."

"That racism inclination still exists, and I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of 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 said.

Michael Steele, who is the first African-American to chair the Republican National Committee, denied Wednesday that race is fueling protests.

"President Carter is flat-out wrong," Steele said in a statement. "This isn't about race. It is about policy."

[TigersEye]

So what explains my visceral disgust and opposition to everything about Jimmuh Cawtah?

That's racist!

Probably. But just what the heck race is Jimmuh? He's one the most freakish looking beings on the planet.

So what explains my visceral disgust and opposition to everything about Jimmuh Cawtah?

That's racist!

Probably. But just what the heck race is Jimmuh? He's one the most freakish looking beings on the planet.

[EGPWS]

The most eloquent and well placed depiction of Jimma' Carter that I have experienced without malice.

Well put MEG33!

He's still a liberal a$$hole however IMO.

[MEG33]

That, too.
;o)

[Verginius Rufus]

I doubt the black Jimmy Carter likes the white Jimmy Carter out there in public blurting out what the leftist base of the Democratic Party thinks of the majority of the country which is not in favor of the Democrats' health-care plan.

Mara Liasson on the Fox All-Stars this evening opined that Carter was helping the Republicans. Maybe so...but I remember Hillary going on Matt Lauer's program and making up some nonsense about a "vast right-wing conspiracy" which was initially dismissed by pundits but soon became the media template for how the Lewinsky scandal was reported.

[Ooh-Ah]

WHY IS JIMMY CARTER SMILING?

[RepublitarianRoger2]

Oops, just for the grammar police, that should have said "So I guess racism is at the heart..."