Posted on 09/16/2009 11:19:30 AM PDT by lbryce
Former President Jimmy Carter’s view that some of the recent protests against President Obama, including the “You Lie!” outburst by Representative Joe Wilson last week, are “based on racism,” has fueled a new war of words over this already charged issue.
The former president first weighed in on Tuesday during a question-and-answer session at the Carter Center in Atlanta. Mr. Carter responded to a question about Mr. Wilson’s eruption by saying that he did believe it was laced with racism. Coupling the Wilson remark with the images in recent weeks of angry demonstrators wielding signs depicting Mr. Obama as a Nazi or as Adolf Hitler, Mr. Carter said: “There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.”
He lamented the tone of disrespect toward the current president, adding: “Those kind of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate on whether we should have a national program on health care. It’s deeper than that.”
Mr. Carter’s criticisms drew a sharp response from Michael Steele, the African-American chairman of the Republican party, who called the remarks an “outrage.” In a statement, Mr. Steele said: “President Carter is flat out wrong. This isn’t about race. It is about policy. This is a pathetic distraction by Democrats to shift attention away from the president’s wildly unpopular government-run health care plan that the American people simply oppose.
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Mr. Carter responded to a question about Mr. Wilson’s eruption by saying that he did believe it was laced with racism.
Are you going to pay the slightest attention to someone who claims to have seen UFO's, giant attacks rabbits?
Coupling the Wilson remark with the images in recent weeks of angry demonstrators wielding signs depicting Mr. Obama as a Nazi or as Adolf Hitler, Mr. Carter said: “There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.”
Hey, Jimmy Boy, as a farmer yourself you know very well that you reap what you sow. What the Democrats now have to deal with in full-reap-mode is what they sowed with the BushisHitler propaganda campaign against our former president.
“There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.”
You mean the inherent feeling among (the) many Americans who voted for him, enabled his presidency (that harbor such anti-African-American sentiment you've conjured up in your mind?)
He lamented the tone of disrespect toward the current president...”
Well, Jimmy boy,this is one area that you, as ex-president, certainly have outdone all others,knowing first hand all about presidential disrespect you've managed so very deservedly to earn.
Carter probably doesn’t think he’s dissing a black man when he disses Michael Steele.
Jimmy is nothing if not the poster child for the term “Useful Idiot”.
It’s just a shame that Billy Carter is no longer with us, he was an even better reminder of all that was (and still is) wrong with the Carter administration and everything it represented.
Still, it’s great to have Jimmah out on the front page calling people racists and blathering on at the exact time Obama is trying to socialize 1/6th of the economy.
Who’s next? Whoopi? Bono? Or maybe they’ll bring on the real firepower and see what the Dixie Chicks have to say.
not the shade, but the shadiness
To even report the comments of this senile old anti-Semite is a waste of bandwidth.
Below is the message you submitted to the Jimmy Carter Library & Museum on Wednesday, September 16, 2009.
Name Bob xxxxx
Email xxxxxxxxxx
Type General Comment
Subject Racism
Comment, Question, Request
President Carter I dislike you more than I do Barack Obama, and you are not black! It is about philosophy, not race, tear up your race card, people will think it's the only tool you have!
Bob xxxxxxx
“Where’s The Beef?”
Jimmy Carter: Raising Incompetence To An Art Form Since 1976”
Please don’t use that word as a verb... or at all...
Carter’s just another
RACER.
What else needs to be said?
The libs are pounding the racism drum for all it's worth and it isn't taking except for infuriating people by trivializing the policy debate. The longer it goes on the more damage control the Dems are going to need before November 2010. Even now it's going to take a lot, and by participating in the damage the MSM are marginalizing their ability to paper the whole thing over when it comes time to do that. The election will become a referendum on the MSM and that isn't where they want to be. This is going to be a very interesting 14 months.
So sorry for dissing you.
Bringing out Carter is such an obvious sign of desperation, I’m surprised even the RATS would stoop to this. How could reminding the public that the worst President in history (so far) is an Obama supporter and leftie race-baiter possibly help Obama?
The problem is that today's conservatives are mimicking this.
You mean the inherent feeling among (the) many Americans who voted for him, enabled his presidency (that harbor such anti-African-American sentiment you've conjured up in your mind?)
I would gather that he is referring to the many who are conservative and didn't vote for him.
Question:
Suppose the president lies.
How do you call him on it in nonracial terms?
I dunno. I think “You lie” pretty much does it, don’t you?
Or what? Black people don’t lie?
Oh, yeah, that’s it.
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