Posted on 09/17/2009 2:51:12 AM PDT by markomalley
Oh, the irony that former President Jimmy Carter has claimed big headlines by saying that South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst against Barack Obama during the president's speech last week was racially motivated.
The irony stems partly from the timing of all this: Just days after the incident, Carter's former press secretary Jody Powell died. Perhaps more than any other Carter aide of yesteryear, Powell helped the Carter White House to conquer a Washington establishment that had a bias of its own against Southern politicians.
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Enter now the "atonement" concept. There isn't a living political expert from that bygone era who doesn't know that gubernatorial candidate Carter -- running against the progressive Carl Sanders -- said many times in public appearances that he was a Lester Maddox Democrat. That doesn't mean Carter was spewing racial epithets. It does mean that he "played the race card" himself to get elected.
What's unfortunate is that Carter now has chosen to flip that race card over and play it for the opposite effect he sought a generation ago. Though no racist himself, Carter now perhaps is seeking atonement for his campaign rhetoric of years past.
But that doesn't explain why he presumes that those who oppose ObamaCare or other potential government expansion programs are racists. Can't people justifiably feel that Obama has become something different as president than what he promised as a presidential candidate? Remember that more than enough Americans cared little enough about Obama's race to elect him president.
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Or he’s trying really hard to maintain his status as worst President, Evah!
I dunno. He's got some serious competition for the first time now.
Now he has opened a can of worms that inevitably will spill disproportionate harm on Republicans, conservatives and the people of the same part of America that propelled him to the White House -- the Deep South.Oh, really?
So all any flaming leftist has to do is lie about racism (calling anyone a racist who criticizes a leftist) and they win the argument?
I don't think so.
I see this doing more harm to the real liars (those who call all critics racists) than to the critics themselves.
It's not much of a legacy, but it's the only legacy he will ever have.
Exactly! Could it be racism?
Could he be concerned about losing his title as Worst President to a black man?
Perhaps, but we'll always have his: River Rabbit adventure, high gas and interest rates, highest energy costs, gas lines, sweaters (an even match with Dukakis), Lust in his heart, Brother Billy (bad beer)...
In the immortal words of our beloved leader, Zero: ‘He’s a jackass’.
Don’t forget his UFO sighting, his discussion with his daughter about nuclear proliferation (but when he said “nucular” the press defended it as a charming idiom), the botched hostage rescue attempt, and his willingness to unilaterally disarm the US.
I hope the Jimmy Carter faction keeps up their stupidity, between the old anti-semite and the new anti-semites together with the WORST Presidents in history, BO & JC as CoC should cure the voter infatuation with the Left for a couple of generations!
Being an old country boy I observed that the first chicken that clucks laid the egg.
I say JIMMAH is racist. He thinks the way he says Wilson thinks.
JIMMAH needs to go back to peanuts. Something simple. . . .
I lived in Atlanta when JIMMAH was president. They caught Billy pissing on the tarmac at Hartsfield Airport.
JIMMAH is from the same stock . . . . . . .
don’t yo know, brotha yo Jimma from the Peanuthood is getting his street greed on.
So, stories of people pissing on themselves and thinking that it's raining would be true. Seems to work with this nitwit.
ANy cry of racism regarding Obama at this point is beyond any reason argument. It is pure unadulterated PC/”social death threats” against free speech.
Jimmuh needs to grab that can of deoderizer and get off his dad-gum throne!
He’s stinking up the joint!
Full disclosure - I was an idiot. I voted for Carter over Ford. Somehow I thought I wanted a Sunday School teacher in the White House.
But look back.
Carter ran with this bunch in the primary-
Jimmy Carter, former governor of Georgia
Jerry Brown, governor of California
George Wallace, governor of Alabama
Morris Udall, U.S. representative from Arizona
Henry M. Jackson, U.S. senator from Washington
Frank Church, U.S. senator from Idaho
Robert Byrd, U.S. senator from West Virginia
Sargent Shriver, former U.S. ambassador to France from Maryland
Fred R. Harris, former U.S. senator from Oklahoma
Birch Bayh, U.S. senator from Indiana
Lloyd Bentsen, U.S. senator from Texas
Terry Sanford, former Governor of North Carolina
Milton Shapp, governor of Pennsylvania
Not much to pick from.
Gerald Ford, having never been elected to the office of POTUS ran against Ronald Reagan in the primary.
Carter messed things up really well, but it kept other democrats out of the office until Ross Perot allowed Bubba to sneak in under the radar.
Republicans did not want to deny their sitting president the nomination, but for four years people had to stop and think what if the Republicans had nominated Reagan and he got the win. Certainly we would not be in this mess.
Fast Forward to 2008.
Was there really a choice between the two parties. For conservatives, only Sarah brought them out to the polls.
We will have the run up to the 2010 House/Senate elections to encourage us, but truly, we need to get ahead on a strong viable candidate for 2012, and folks, for my vote, it will not be Romney!
I remember voting for James Earl Carter on the ballot, so who was this Jimmy guy? His effort to be so casual turned out to be a smoke screen to his whacked out serious side.
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