WH: President Obama Disagrees with Former President Carter that Most Animosity Towards Obama is Race-Based

So Obama agrees that Carter was just race baiting then? Will Obama use this as a “teaching moment” and invite Jimmy over for a beer so he can scold him?

If President Obama doesn’t get a handle on this bogus “racism” crap it will be the end of his presidency.EVERY president gets criticism-it is the nature of the job.If he or his supporters continue to use the racism excuse he will look weak,which is already a problem.

Obama’s right. Carter’s racism accusation is without foundation.

Unfortunately Obama had no choice but to react this way.
If he says he agrees there is a racial components, right wing racists scream he is playing the race card and attempt to associate him with Sharpton.
Carter was right.
There is a real element of racism in the opposition to Obama.
We saw it at the tea parties and we see it in the birthers.

so pathetic that liberals have to continually play the race card. Seriously get over it.

Of course, learning that Cap and Trade would cost the Average American Tax Payer $1700+ wasn’t that helpful.
Didn’t the President say that no new taxes would be raised on the middle class?

I have discovered a “positive” to the Obama presidency: In the past whenever one was called out as a “racist” or accused of “racism”, the natural inclination was to recoil and retreat, even though intent was not “racist” in nature. With the use of the “race card” so prevalent today, those of us who are not “racist” by nature will no longer be silenced when called out as “racists” or practitioners of “racism” when our intents are misconstrued or skewed. We will push back.
The downside of this seemingly continuous of “race” as an excuse for personal failings, opposition, etc. is stated eloquently by “Lily”:
“Those who use the charge of racism so casually cheapen the meaning and damage the legitimacy of those who struggle with real racial bias. To many people, the term ‘boy’ doesn’t have the racial motivation that many people claim, and many times it says more about the biases of the accuser than the one who is being accused. Please think about the damage done to arguments of real racial inequality when using the racist label so mundanely.”

Good thing he waited long enough to
hear what the consensus on this was
before he acted. Pointing a finger at
everyone who disagrees with his policy
as racist or extremist only harms his
credibility more. Having gone to a
townhall meeting, there was not one
word of race brought up. This is about
policy. The so called mind readers
who” know “that this really is racially
based are the showing their own bias
towards anyone who does not fly in
their orbit. Step out of your elite
bubble and get with the program.
Your arrogance is showing and its not
flattering.

Too many posters on this blog have no experience with real racism.Ryan C, how many people of color do you know? How many veterans of the civil rights movement do you know?Have you seen the scars on those people , not the imagined slurs you feel that the president is getting. I knew one of the giants of the civil rights movement; Barack Obama couldn’t hold a candle to his bravery and character.It cheapens his sacrifice and efforts to throw around the term “racism” every time someone has the audacity to criticize the President.

“Too many posters on this blog have no experience with real racism.Ryan C, how many people of color do you know?How many veterans of the civil rights movement do you know?”
Let’s ask a few shall we
Congressman James Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives and the highest ranking black member, has raised doubts about Mr Wilson’s motivation.
“I don’t know if they [Republicans] would do it or not” to a white president, he said, after the president’s speech to Congress. “All I can say is, I’ve never seen it done.”
Georgia Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights-era icon , invoked segregationist Gov. George Wallace of Alabama in accusing John McCain and Sarah Palin of fanning the flames of hatred at Republican campaign events.
“What I am seeing reminds me of too much of another destructive period in American history,” Lewis said in a statement released to FOX News. “Senator McCain and Governor Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.”
It appears that people who lived thru the ugly racism of the civil rights movement feel that the right wing is exhibiting ugly racist behavior.

“To many people, the term ‘boy’ doesn’t have the racial motivation that many people claim, and many times it says more about the biases of the accuser than the one who is being accused.”
Calling a African American man “boy” is racist and meant to demean him.
Its why the Southern Congressman who called Obama boy so profusely apologized for doing so.
He was well aware of what his words meant.
For right wingers to pretend calling an African American man “boy” is not racist boggles the mind.

Carter needs to stay home and enjoy retirement.

segragated buses?
Rush Limbaugh is a racist.
Let’s hear you color blind right wingers call him out on it, beacuse none of your coward elected leaders ever will

@ (Repeat) Ryan (ctrl) C -
“Calling a African American man “boy” is racist and meant to demean him.”
No, not necessarily. Grow up, stop the race-baiting.

So Ryan C knows Rep. Clyburn and Rep. Lewis. He is a Congressional Page!

Give President Obama credit on this one – he came out quick to debunk the empty suitcase of racism that Mr. Carter was carrying.

“All because Joe Wilson uttered two words: “You lie”. Quite an interpretation by Rep. Johnson.”
I like Hank Johnson a great deal and was happy when he replaced McKinney.
Perhaps Hank Johnson is aware of Joe Wilson’s past support for the Confederate flag.

“No, not necessarily. Grow up, stop the race-baiting.”
Easy solution.
Stop making racist statements and then desperately try to justify them.
ABC “I’m going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button,” Davis said. “He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”
“Davis and his office did not dispute the accuracy of the quote. In his letter to Obama, Davis, a former Army ranger first elected to Congress in 2004, wrote that he “used a poor choice of words when discussing the national security positions of the Presidential candidates.”
“My poor choice of words is regrettable and was in no way meant to impugn you or the your integrity,” Davis wrote. “I offer my sincere apology to you and ask for your forgiveness.”

Of course it’s racism, one would have to be stupid not to see it.

Thank you President Carter. Someone had to say it!

Will Charlie know about this story tonight? Or will he do ANOTHER racial story like he did last night?

The President could have gone a step further by having No Comment and mean it. The press will set him up with stupid question after stupid question trying to gin up controversial stories. If I was him I would just stop answering them. Thank God he didn’t turn it into another “Teachable Moment”.

Thank you President Obama!

Jimmy Carter slandered every American when he made those statements. He, in a few words, gave notice that only blacks had a legitimate opinion, all others being merely racist rhethoric.
When people in this country lose the right to dissent on how the government proposes to recreate the country and the costs, it destroys what is left of this democracy.
It’s about the economy and country, stupid. Even Jimmy Carter should be able to wrap his head around that fact but then, he’s been making bizarre comments for a few years now. He needs to park his senility at home instead of spreading his garbage around the world.

Does anyone take Jimmy Carter seriously anymore? He has been a JOKE for the past 25 years!

“Ryan C you are the problem. Its people like you who still live in the 1700s and 1800s that are hurting this country. There is no racial motivation and you know it. ”
Racism ceased to exist in the 1800′s?
Are you unaware of Jim Crow laws?
Or how about just last year when Young Republican Ashley Todd faked an attack on herself, claiming it was a black man who carved a B in her cheek in order to stoke racial animosity?
“This man Wilson has personal knowledge of what the program is about.”
Except he did not since he cited House bill 3200 which specifically states no money will be used for illegal immigrants and Obama was discussing what HIS plan would look like.

I don’t seem to recall Jimmy Carter being to concerned when a black entertainer said that “George Bush hates black people.”
Typical liberal, apply the double standard when it suits them and shut down all logical argument. Liberal and logic do not even belong in the same sentence.
Posted by: enough already | Sep 16, 2009 3:23:59 PM
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Although some of these posts are laughable, every once in a while you’d think they deserve a response. While I remember the jack*** saying this about George Bush, you certainly didn’t have people questioning his citizenship. Now, why is that? Could it be because he’s white? Hmm, I’ll let you answer this. Did you have people protesting his presidency calling themselves real Americans?
I don’t think people have a problem with the protests…it’s the fake outrage for an administration that hasn’t even gotten his footage yet. The guy’s been called every name in the book from his first month in office. Of course people should feel unease because he’s different than all other presidents they’ve ever had. However, rational folks should’ve pushed back somewhat against those whose sole purpose for protesting had nothing to do with policy differences.
I’ve always maintained that because of how Africa’s been run people should of course have reservations about black folks’ leadership capacity. However, here you don’t have a dictatorship. This is the greatest country on the face of the earth, for God sake! You don’t truly believe Obama can just walk in and change everything, do you? I’m all for the protests. In fact, I believe this is what makes this country great. But this time the hypocrisy is overwhelming. Give him some time to lead, would you?

They’re BOTH right, to a certain degree. I’m a Southerner in a multiracial community (I live in a state neighboring Carter’s native Georgia). We’ve made great progress towards true color blindness, but we’re not completely there yet. There ARE still pockets of racism, but they ARE disappearing. Like the President, I remain hopeful that those times are vanishing.

9/10s of the time when someone says something like “boy” it isn’t meant to be racial. Not these days. The problem is in the way it is heard and perceived. That’s the person that hears it problem. Not mine. Just like some call each other the N word but let someone of a different race say it. Im over being politically correct and putting up with some blacks double standards and watching everything I say because some black guy or gal may take it wrong. To heck with you. I wasn’t put on this earth just to make sure I do not say something that may upset your “poor little black me” syndrome. I am 53 yrs old and have spent 30 yrs of that watching and being careful what I say. No more. No matter what we (whites) do its obvious you want to just keep the race thing going. That’s your problem. People are people bad and good and if you want to keep separating yourselves all the time from everyone else why should that be my worry. Yell racist all you want. I do not care anymore. I think Obama is great and voted for him. I think the black guy up the street is a lazy good for nothing. There is a white girl up the street that is the same. Get comfortable in your own skin and you wont care what anyone calls you. Grow up. I also think we need a White Entertainment Channel and a special on CNN called “Being White in America”

Well… I don’t think that folks will pull out the white sheets and uniforms and ride through the countryside, they have exchanged the sheets and hoods for police badges and Business suits, and sitting among us. It’s unfortunate that a man who grduates from harvard, 5th in his class. And his Republican opponent who went to far lesser school, who graduated 705 out of 715, is considered qualified. Hmmm…. Harvard or a community college????

“Sorry Ryan- but I’m a minority and this race card throwing is tiresome.”
So Ryan has ticked off another minority…that’s 3 by my count… Yet he is the one calling out others as “racists”…

“What DOES Obama’s plan look like?”
Obama has a 2 1/2 page summary of what he wants and the Senate committee just released the plan they negotiated.

This is silly.
Of course some of the hostility toward Obama is due to his race, just as it was during the campaign. And some is purely ideological disagreement. It’s not an either/or proposition. Some of Obama’s opponents are racists, and some are not.
It’s also not surprising that Obama has publicly disagreed with Carter over this. He wouldn’t be president today if (white) people thought of him as a “black politician”, and he has always sought to avoid that sort of race-based characterization.

THANKS PRESIDENT CARTER FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ryan C,
The original healthcare bill was 1018 pages long and all a Harvard educated man can come up with is a 2 1/2 page summary? I hope he used a small font when he typed it to get all that information in.

I don’t want to pay for anyone’s health insurance but my own. Call me selfish, call me uncaring, call me hateful, but don’t call me a racist. My husband and I have both had bouts with cancer, and had to take on extra jobs to pay the bills. No one helped us.

“The original healthcare bill was 1018 pages long and all a Harvard educated man can come up with is a 2 1/2 page summary?”
He was probably trying to mollify illiterate right wingers who claimed the plan was too darn long.

“Of course some of the hostility toward Obama is due to his race, just as it was during the campaign. And some is purely ideological disagreement. It’s not an either/or proposition. Some of Obama’s opponents are racists, and some are not.
It’s also not surprising that Obama has publicly disagreed with Carter over this. He wouldn’t be president today if (white) people thought of him as a “black politician”, and he has always sought to avoid that sort of race-based characterization.”
Great post.

Lisa-
I am in complete agreement with your assessment. This, however, is unprecedented territory we are traveling in because we have never had to face the fact that a President would be disliked due to his race alone. And it is a fact that many people, no matter what he does, will not like him due to race. However, I will not sit there and say that race is solely the root of the problem.
The problem that I have with Obama is that everything is a “crisis”. Housing crisis, banking crisis, healthcare crisis. Now there may some basis behind this that is completely justified (in fact I think most of it is). However, you can’t keep people on edge about everything and expect them to have a positive outlook on everything including the Presidency. He has to find a way to get so positives out of our current situation and not introduce a “crisis” every few months which makes people more nervous, upset and uptight then they already are. To tell you the truth, he should have waited a year before tackling the health care issue. There was a lot of divisiveness created by the stimulus package and adding health care issue right afterwords creates, as President Carter once said, a “crisis of confidence”. He has too much on his plate right now. He is my President, he will have my support and I wish him the best of luck.

Sammy:
president Carter is talking about all white people……But, there are many that he is referring to, esp. in the South….Look at that stupid confederate battle flag that stills flies on the state house grounds representing the whole state of South Carolina…….That flag should be banned…..I am not surprise that Joe Wilson is representing that backward state…….Should be a world wide boycott of South Carolina……

Either Obama is either pitifully naive, doesn’t know the southern white male very well, or he’s just trying to minimize the issue. Which both would be wrong. President Carter is telling it like it is.

The problem with Carter’s comment is that it was vague and too general. A hot button topic like race should be very specific to the situation. He would never say all black people or all asians, it’s the same with whites. It would have been better if he said someone specific or talk about an actual experience.

There is irrational hostility towards President Obama. Those who are fomenting it need to stop. Nothing wrong with disagreeing, in fact I consider that patriotic, but boorish intolerance is unacceptable. Especially from elected leaders.

tommy graves | Sep 16, 2009 4:47:26 PM
Yes. I do thinks they are equal. While it has been some time since I listened to Limbaugh, do you know Bo (not the pres)?

Carter needs to put in a home, preferably with a guard outside to keep him in. He was an embarrassment when he was president and he has gotten worst. He is just and old fool, who needs to stay home and shut up. His statements hurts our country and brings shame to his family.

“so yes republicans are racists and michael steel is a token appointment. the only way to stop this is to kick all republicans out of office on every level – send a strong message -”
Great idea! Are you familiar with totalitarianism?

Carter did plenty of harm to this Country when he was President. He is at it again with his comments which do nothing but harm all Americans. When is he going to say anything good about America? There must have been many minorities vote against him because he sure lost the election big time.

Jimmy Carter is an out of touch elitist. Economies and Governments have changed around the man and he still babbles his elitest ideologies.
The folks here that back up Carter’s comments are uninformed and do nothing but attempt to incite racial tensions. This is not about race, but about class conflict.
As a white male I am not angry with the president for the color of his skin..I voted for him.
What I’m ticked of about is that this proposed health plan may force me to pay $700 a month for insurance for my family of four and if I don’t pay I will be fined $3800 a year. This is nothing more than a tax. My family is healthy (thank goodness) and we spend no more than $700 a year in dental and health care out of our own pockets.
The president I voted for is attempting to redistribute my middle class dollars into the hands of the poor (whom I already subsidize) and to the rich lawyers, doctors, and insurance companies who will receive the money. This is why you do not hear the insurance companies or AMA complain.
I’m am now sorry I voted for the man and am disappointed with my party. I have a feeling come voting time a lot of heads will roll.
If this proposed Baucus bill passes I’m quitting my job and joining my “impoverished” neighbors who are receiving free health care, food stamps, a Habitat for Humanity house with a $200 a month house payment, and drive better vehicles than I do.
Why should I want to be middle class when I can stay at home and have free services subsidized by the middle class?

President Obama is not a “black man” any more than Nicole Ritchie is a “black woman”. Both are African-American European-American hybrids, so this whole racism claim by President Carter is just silly.

Thank you Obama, for recognizing and admitting that not all criticism is based on race.
That said …. I’m feeling kind of like this whole “incident” was a set-up, yet another one designed to distract people from how unpopular some of these health care proposals are.
Democrats just lost the one republican senator that supported the Senate Finance health care proposal – she withdrew her support because of the mandates and fines in the bill. Others, including many democrats are also withdrawing support because of the mandates and lack of financial support for people who can’t afford to buy insurance (look at it this way, people who can’t afford to buy insurance now will still not be able to afford even low cost insurance when it is legally required, unless there is financial support given — there’s none. These plans will generate revenue from fining people who do not comply with the new legal mandates to purchase insurance.)
So with support for health care reform withering, Obama visits Bill Clinton, who during his own presidency had also tried to pass health care reform. I think we can assume that Obama asked for advice, ideas, etc. on how to keep support alive.
Next day, Carter comes out with his quote saying opposition to Obama and his health care reform ideas are due to racism. Everyone is now arguing that only racists are opposed to health care reform.
Folks, we’ve been punked.

The number of U.S. medical school students going into primary care has dropped 51.8% since 1997, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Considering it takes 10 to 11 years to educate a doctor, the drying up of the pipeline is a big concern to health-care experts. The AAFP is predicting a shortage of 40,000 family physicians in 2020, when the demand is expected to spike.
“65%, of doctors say they oppose the proposed government expansion plan”
“360,000 out of the 800,000 currently practicing doctors (or 45%) would consider quitting if reform was passed.”
“More than seven in 10 doctors, or 71% — the most lopsided response in the poll — answered ‘no’ when asked if they believed “the government can cover 47 million more people and that it will cost less money and the quality of care will be better.”

As so far as the President intellect skin color will not get in his way, to me the man is brillant.

“65%, of doctors say they oppose the proposed government expansion plan”
As reported by Investor Business Daily.
The same outfit that claimed Stephen Hawking would have been dead long ago if he had been in the UK’s healthcare system.
In response Stephen Hawking, who is British, responded about the wonderful care NIH had provided him.
“”360,000 out of the 800,000 currently practicing doctors (or 45%) would consider quitting if reform was passed.”
ROFLMAO!
Right wingers can’t even report this lying poll without adding their own embellishment!
IBD “The IBD/TIPP Poll was conducted by mail the past two weeks, with 1,376 practicing physicians chosen randomly throughout the country taking part
More than 800,000 doctors were practicing in 2006, the government says. Projecting the poll’s finding onto that population, 360,000 doctors would consider quitting.”
The lesson as always? Right wingers lie.

Posted by: Joe the Non-Plumber | Sep 16, 2009 5:41:10 PM
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First, Carter did not say that EVERYONE who disagrees with Pres. Obama is a racist. I voted for Pres. Obama (for real) and I am not happy with this Baucus bill. However, there is no denying that there is a certain racial element that has risen to the surface. Why is that fact so difficult for folks to acknowledge?!
You should have NO reason to be upset with Carter’s comments, if you know in your heart that your disagreements are not racially motiviated.
Second, surprisingly, I agree with much of what you said about WHO is really benefiting from the Baucus Health Care bill- the insurance companies whose stocks rallied today upon news of the Baucus bill.
If people would stop blaming the “lazy” minorities and illegal immigrants (who somehow magically have so much power to control government) for the reasons that they are suffering and broke, this country might actually be saved from going to hell in a hand basket. Guess what folks, it’s not the poor people and illegal immigrants who are taking your stuff away, it is the millionarie CEOs and corporate interests, who basically own Washington D.C, regardless of which party is in power. These are the folks that are stuffing their pockets with your hard earned cash. Wake up people!!
Lastly, if you think you should get on welfare, and(all the other crap you said), you clearly have no idea what it means to be poor.

“but we know racism is still festering in certain areas.”
Like from Van Jones and his ilk, for example.

President Jimmy Carter is NOT referring to all white people. But when you have a state like South Carolina who still flies the confederate flag on the people house grounds, what else can you expect from Joe Wilson and certain other people? Thanks Jimmy Carter for telling the truth. Obama is just being nice….

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. ” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
I rejected Obama long ago because of the content of his character – or lack thereof – and I continue to reject him and his policies because they reflect his lack of character, his hatred of America, and his pigheaded quest to destroy every facet of our society and our way of life. The fact that he is 50% Caucasian is incidental. I would have been ecstatic to support a person of color who represented my conservative viewpoints and who loved my country as much as I do and genuinely liked and respected the people he or she sought to lead. Obama, sad to say, could never meet that standard.

Racism allows African Americans to continue to be victims. Why would they want to be on the weak end? They don’t. That’s why this is such a false argument. They know throwing out the race card will stir up emotions. This is all they have left. We know obama is not a victim – he is too intelligent for that. He and his group of thugs are strategists. Racism was a strategy in the primaries against Bill and Hillary Clinton and it is being used now against the opponents of obama’s policies.

A man with mature brilliant and intellect like our President, who my the way knows he is the President of all and not some, away see the greater issues at hand because of his higher Intelligents, inmature and lower intellect alway choose the baser issues, skin colors and such, their behavior is childish.

I partially agree with the President– these rude comments are not entirely race based– but rather based on the fact that for once– the President of the united States of America is above average in intelligence–and that fact alone scares the hell out of those folks who equate a strong central government with a strong intelligent president. While others voted against Bush because of his obvious lack of intellectual prowess, these people voted for him for the same reason.

Posted by: Lily | Sep 16, 2009 6:12:41 PM
So, are you saying that those who say the KKK are racist, are actually in the KKK?!
What???

Prs Carter did not say that most of the opposition to Pres Obama is rooted in racism – he said “overwhelming portion of the INTENSELY DEMONSTRATED ANIMOSITY” is based on race. Carter is a scientist and a writer and he uses words precisely.
If anyone wants to believe that race plays no part in the minds of most of the people who are foaming-at-the-mouth agitating against him (i.e., “intensely demonstrating animosity”), then you haven’t been paying attention.
Signs like “Obama’s Plan: White Slavery” or “Keep Your Black Hands Off My White Body” or showing him as a puppet controlled by Ophra Winfrey might give you a hint. You might pick up on the depth of the animosity from others: “We Came Unarmed – This Time” — “Obama Supports Sodomy, Abortion, Killing Senior Citizens, and Socialism.”
When have we ever seen that sort of ugliness in civil protests? When has violence been so routinely threatened, or people carrying firearms to presidential speeches? When has a Congressman ever been so disrespectful as to call a President – any president – a liar during a speech to Congress?
No, they aren’t opposing Obama because he is black; I’m sure they actually dislike his proposals or plans. But the way in which these people are acting is fueled by and made more dangerous by racism. What is gained by sticking your head in the sand and belittling someone who has the courage and honesty to say what is there to be seen? I thank President Carter for acknowleding the elephant in the room – it gives us an opportunity to separate the legitimate issues from this emotional overlay. Will we take advantage of that opportunity? Reading these comments, I fear we won’t, he was right to speak up – and correct in what he said.

Mr. Obama = Mr. Carter to the exponent 2

“Racism allows African Americans to continue to be victims.”
Racism is African Americans’ fault?

On most blog I always hear the word truth, the truth of the matter is, here is a organizer and Harvard Grade and Virtual unknown senator(and a American),who intellectually and tirelessly for two year straight campaigned, undermined his political rivals and became President of the free world beating out the number one contenter…Hillary Clinton and the Republicans number one seed..John Mccain. Obama during his campaign pretty much gave us a outline of his intent, of which America said yes too, therefore giving him a mandate of which he is following it almost to the letter and compromising some, came into office with a collapsing Financial bondodle. The dow, of which I know we can’t lay everything on, is now at 9656 as of today, the car companies are slowly coming out of the slump and wall street has pay back a lot of that money and then some, energy Efficient cars are on there way to America’s streets and the hope of cutting foreign dependency in half is nearer than you think, in 2011 America will be out of Iraq and will only have one war to Concentrated her military efforts on, I could go on, but my point is and the truth of the matter is.. he’s only be in office for 8months and has had everything but the kitchen sink thrown at him, now, and during the campaign…get the picture! this has nothing to do with skin color, the man is brilliant, skin color will not play a part here.

Posters protraying Obama as The joker, as a Witch Doctor, as Hitler at every town hall, thousands of e-mails circulating the internet showing him as a monkey, and you morons don’t think part of his opposition is racist? Please.

reachingout2u: Exciting fuel efficient vehicles, hybrids running on hydrogen and electricity and no fossil fuel!!! My gosh have you seen the oil companies commercials lately, running on life support…hell, they’re investing in renewables

People who can’t come up with solutions to real problems, who also can’t debate the issues will use skin color as a crutch, like they also use the brither thing, the socialist thing and many silly childish, why? because they real solution to real problems are out of their reach.

elephant4life…….what about his Character? I find it geniune and honorable. Who said he “hated America” did he or some “fearmongering racist”.

The overwhelming portion of Mr. Carter’s criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic.

Has anyone else noticed that the only people that have said the words “Obama is not qualified because he is black” are people on the left describing what people on the right are supposedly thinking. Seems to me those thoughts are only floationg through some “progressive” minds. Maybe the president would feel more comfortable being a Republican. The Republican party doesnt have any organizations that promote child slavery in minority neighborhoods. Just Saying…

In America we dare not to glorify Hitler, let along carry his face on a sign……and states one of your own as him. Please tell me the difference of policies and these signs…I thought you couldn’t. There’s no connection. The connection is ANGER and Ignorance=RACISM

If 75,000 people gather for a protest and 100 of them are carrying blatantly racist signs. Its a far stretch to attribute Racism to the whole crowd. If you go into ACORN offices and 80% of them dont blink when you tell them you want to set up a child prostitution ring in the neighborhood…..Umm I I would feel better supporting the 74,900 that are being unfairly accused.

President Carter is right. Racism has reared it ulgy head. How can people protesting so loudly and violently about the Government for the last 8 months(Obama) and been so quiet about the run this country in the ground of the last eight years Government(Bush)

Why they did not call Kanye West a racist for what he did to the white female singer Taylor Swift on stage during a nationally televised awards seremony?
Posted by: Walking Tall | Sep 16, 2009 6:53:52 PM
Oh my gosh…. the DEMOCRATS have to apologize for because a black man was rude to a white woman?
Following that logic…. I’m expecting Republicans in Congress to apologize next time Eminem sings a song about murdering his wife.
But you are right… racism isn’t the problem with the GOP. I think it’s an IQ problem.

“Has anyone else noticed that the only people that have said the words “Obama is not qualified because he is black” are people on the left describing what people on the right are supposedly thinking.”
Yes. It’s odd that they don’t see that they are projecting their own inner thoughts and fears onto others.

The cries of “racism” by Carter and others is nothing but a means to try and shut critics of Obamacare up. It couldn’t be mroe transparent. Carter and others actually believe people are stupid and will not understand what they are doing. Racism no. Obamacare no.

Great point phantomniter. The answer is that the democrats and lefties use whatever promotes their agenda. They are the party of double standards. Did we ever go a day without some lefty congressman calling Busch a “liar?” I did hear them complain then.

Why don’t conservatives have the strength to challenge Rush Limbaugh when he is wrong?

Did we ever go a day without some lefty congressman calling Busch a “liar?” I did hear them complain then.
Posted by: chas1299
I remember all the Dems calling Busch decent..
right after they pulled the tab at the top of the can…

When people gather to protest a policy, we disagree. We Debate. We make a decision and hopefully the country is improved. When people gather to protest a war it is different. Some of our enemies will immediatly back down if they think we are all united. They might fight longer if they think they can win by waiting for the protesters t0 succeed. I know. It’s ironic but sometimes war protests actually INCREASE the length of a war. But in this country….I wouldn’t deny anyone the right to express their opinions.

Dear wer’1, president Carter spoke about racism, not apologies. Joe wilson apologised too, but that wasn’t good enough for Mr. Carter. Are you smart enough to see the difference?

Jimmy Carter only had half a brain when he was POTUS. Apparently the remaining half has disappeared as well. So sad when they get old and lose their mind.

Didn’t the GOP also vote to censure MoveOn?
I mean, MoveOn isn’t even elected.
They had time for that.
They should have time to make one of their own apologize for interrupting the president’s speech. It violates, even, their own ethics rules for crying out loud.

What about when the whole Democratic party Boo’d president Bush?
Go get an argument and come back when you grow up.
Posted by: Mike
as if the Republicans never booed Clinton and worse… please… at least make an attempt at being reasonable and do some research back beyond the last 8 years……

I wasnt saying both parties arent guilty of interupting. I was just responding to someones claim that it was racist because…..” interrupts for the first time in history, the President’s address to Congress… who only happens to be black….”

The confederate flag is a symbol of racism…the war is over…kind of flying a swastika within a German state of Germany

I wasnt saying both parties arent guilty of interupting. Posted by: Mike
there’s booing, laughing, and a lot of noise making
on both side for sure… but…
this was the first time anyone ever shouted out that the president a liar.
obviously you don’t understand the difference,..typical, and sad

I hope everyone remembers it was a Republican that ended slavery.
Lets see. Republicans have control of most of the suburbs in the heartland where the schools are clean and plentiful. The Democrats have control of all the inner cities where ACORN gets a ton of money and very little seems to get to the people. How is that working out for you?

Of course, I remember Lincoln was a Republican.
That’s why I think it is so sad that the party of Lincoln has fallen so low.
If Lincoln were alive today… The GOP would push him into a corner and tell him to shut up… so that they could celebrate heroes like Rush Limbaugh.

Walking Tall;if you call that an apology, definition- usually applies to an expression of regret for a mistake or wrong with implied admission of guilt or fault and with or without reference to mitigating or extenuating circumstances…he did admit guilt or fault of anything, he didn’t say he was sorry for what he did,he said quote “Wilson] called up Rahm Emnauel, the President’s staffer, and said I was told by the Republican leader to make this call. And then the next day he told the press ‘I was told to make the call…I was told?? that’s not an apology.

Carter is dead on target. We have debated over the war, and no one ever shouted at the president, and I don’t recall any time in history this has happened. There are racists in both parties, but I say the republicans definately have the majority in that respect. Mr. Wilson does not owe an apology to just Obama, he owes it to the whole country, and the people who put him in office.

As an Africa-American, I deal withr racism daily in my job. My contributions and decisions are at best taken with a grain of salt as those who are supposed to be “Intelligent beyond question” run a business that is full of incompetence. I laugh at their behavior and I always maintain a professional attitude and more than anything don’t take any mess of no one. Racism, will not end in my lifetime, but hope that if the World is still around that the young generation will realize that ALL people have a contribution to add to this great nation. God help us!

Jimmy Carter has a guilty conscience. Reference Genesis 6:5. All humans are guilty.

Patx – I think we agree to disagree.
Yes, I really did vote for Obama. Yes, I do not like Carter. I do not like the undercurrents of his message that gives the idea if any white colleague questions or disagrees that they will be racist. This only rallies the majority of the masses that have been trained not to think outside of the box as to make blanket statements that all white men who question Obama must be racist. (The media included – it sells).
Yes, race is an issue in this country. I also see how race has beennstitutionalized into our government. To this day it polarizes the population in order for those in power to maintain control. We now have Mexicans to add to that arena.
Carter is a smarter man than to throw these kind of curve balls to the media. Especially when he has been president and knows by experience these kind of side items distract from the business at hand.
When I saw what Carter stated I thought maybe he switched sides to take focus off health care.
I will hand it to Obama though that he was very gracious in handling what the media laid in front of him.
The media does suck up to him pretty good. Political Correctness to the max. They are the ones milking the race issue. It sells well – we are here.

No matter how you slice it there have been enough people at these tea parties and the march holding signs that do indeed go racist. Nobody around them seems to have a problem with it. Aren’t you guys the ones constantly talking about how who you hang with reflects on you?

Apparently, Obama doesn’t quite understand southern pride, supremecy adn the southern white male. I think Obama is trying to be complacent and not rock the boat. Former President Jimmy Carter is right on target. If people think racism in today’s 21ST century is as open and your face as it was in the 1950s, 60s and 70s and even well into the 80s, you’ll have a hard time recognizing it into today’s American hidden race blind society.
Why is no one addressing the fact that more black males have been killed by police since Obama was elected in a very short time. For a while, it was happening on almost a weekly or less basis all across America. As if to say, “Now that we have us a black president we can go back to our old ways and no one will be the wiser?” Or “Obama is despised so much that they can’t openly go after him, so they go after that which most closely resemble him?”
When the question was put to Obama I wish he’d have said something more to the effect, “Shouldn’t you be asking Joe Wilson the question? I have no way of knowing what’s in another man’s heart and soul?” Hopefully, Obama will learn that he doesn’t have to answer every question that’s put to him on racial issues and, instead, lear to tell questioners to ask the individual themselves to see what’s in their heart, soul, mind and concscious.

Kudos to Pres Carter for pointing out the elephant in the room. Racism has never left us, it has only become less socially acceptable to voice in public. The real crime is how the right wing hate mongers, on behalf of their corporate masters, have tapped into the fears of the racist minority with tales of nazi-socialism and death panels. With no basis in reality, these fabrications are easily swallowed by those looking for more accepted reasons to be outraged. Joseph Goebells, the propoganda minister of Adolph Hitler, would be proud that his methods are being used to destroy the enemy that Germany could not defeat in WWII. US. “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”.

Just move on people. If Obama can let it go why can’t you. In Taiwan’s Parliament lawmakers actually exchange punches while trying to pass proposed legislation. They can’t cry racist because they are all the same race!

I feel sorry for Jimmy Carter. I feel sorry he evidently was raised in an openly racist environment and because of that, presumes every southern white man is in some way racist.
Carter’s words tell us far more about Carter than Joe Wilson.

“I feel sorry for Jimmy Carter. I feel sorry he evidently was raised in an openly racist environment and because of that, presumes every southern white man is in some way racist.”
Because Georgia in the 30′s and 40′s, when Jimmy Carter grew up, did not have Jim Crow laws?

I admire the work that Carter has done with Habitat for Humanity, a conservative concept, but he should take one long look at his own bigotry towards Jews before he starts pointing the finger at anyone else. He can’t claim the high road when not only are his views endorsed by Bin Laden but his party has done more to harm African Americans than any racist remark ever could and while I applaud Obama for disagreeing with him he isn’t doing anything to rebuke such nonsense and he continues to hurt African Americans in his own right by not giving those kids in DC the same choice of schools that his kids have, a policy move that was indefensible and more of the same liberal crap.

Jimmy….remember we have the right to disagree…even if the person we disagree with has skin of another color.

What happened to the post-racial President we were supposed to be getting? It seems that we ended up with the MOST-racial one instead. Sadly, this is what we’ll have to listen to from his entourage for the next four (heaven forbid, eight) years when he gets in trouble on policy. I guess if you can’t win debating the issues, drop the R-bomb! One upside; the slur will lose its power over time as it becomes clear the use is solely political.
Posted by: Miles | Sep 16, 2009 9:28:02 PM
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I’m sorry but I believe this article was about the former President Carter’s thoughts. Mr. Obama disagreed publically. So I don’t see how you can blame this one Obama. In fact I have not heard President Obama make one claim yet that anybody he’s dealt with was racist. It seems no matter what happens you attach it to Obama. Which is unrealistic. Therefore exactly why so many are starting to think there’s something to this accusation.

Most of the fringe element we are seeing have racist views. This is coming from a educated white man that lives in the south.
There is no doubt that race plays a big role in the amount of disrespect these bigots are demonstrating.

Carter is right on target,,obama dissagrees only to be politically correct

Earth to liberals. All white men and women are not racist A lot of them voted for Obama)and the race card is now irrelevant. Try to explain your policies so people can understand them but you can’t. Because if you do, you know people would reject them

By the way, ABC do you know what an ACORN looks like?

Sounds more like a PR set up….Carter comes out and says its racism (obviously very stupid) and Obama pretends to take the high road–oh its not racism. I smell manipulation.

Manipulation like calling Kanye a jackass “off the record” lol

“Republicans have control of most of the suburbs in the heartland where the schools are clean and plentiful.”
Better be careful. Joe Biden once took a lot of flak for saying of Obama, “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”

News is fake. The media on the left and right have spinned information they try to get through to the masses everyday. If you are emotionally detached from the information and aren’t on either side, it’s almost comical to follow.

Patx- it’s pretty clear you haven’t read what I said in the history of this thread. It’s typical of liberals. Take an item out of context, spin it to fit your agenda, and voila- nonsense. If you go back and read, and then debate what I said, feel free. Otherwise, you are spewing verbal tripe to pick a fight.

Jimmy should remember that Obama was elected president with more than 50 % of the white vote but, according to polls, he received 95 to 97% of the black vote. Who is prejudiced?

I voted for Jimmy Carter. He obviously can’t accept that he’s no longer in the spotlight. The look on Brian Williams’ face…I thought he was gonna…oh well, I can’t say it. Maybe he was just thinking “this is the BIG ONE”. Go take a nap, Jimmy. Brian, go check yourself. I’m SURE some people don’t like Obama because he’s black. But I’m also SURE that I don’t like him for what was done to Hillary Clinton and that his policies just plain suck. And I don’t like what is done to people that disagree with him. Channel 5 in St. Louis-who is in the tank for Obama- has been showing the bus video over and over again. It doesn’t look too good for Jimmy’s argument. The kid just sits there and gets pounded. One mother was upset that her son (although she says he was wrong) was singled out for whooping it up and taking pictures. They are also trying to decide what to do about the bus driver. Police that were interviewed think the driver should have pulled over. Who knows. I believe tomorrow the school will decide whether or not to expel the two kids that did the beating and maybe further discipline all the others. I’m hoping the kids will be charged with assault.

So dig this quote by Gibbs today in response to this issue: “The president does not believe that criticism comes based on the color of his skin,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters in his Wednesday briefing. “We understand that people have disagreements with some of the decisions that we’ve made and some of the extraordinary actions that had to be taken by both this administration and the previous administration.”
Admitting that “extraordinary actions” had to be taken by the previous administration (and implying that the previous admin’s job was at least equally as challenging as they believe their’s is) is curious and momentous coming from Robert “blame Bush” Gibbs. Sounds to me like a guy who slipped up and almost let on that they only “blame Bush” because it’s the politically expedient thing to do, not because they believe the previous admin actually did anything they wouldn’t have done themselves at that point in history.

SAN FRANCISCO — Most US doctors approve of a “public option” to supplement private health care insurance in the United States, as proposed by President Barack Obama, a poll showed Monday.
A total of 62.9 percent of physicians who participated in the survey by the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) said they favored a public option, or government insurance plan

People conservatives don’t like:
Barack Obama
Nancy Pelosi
Joe Biden
Bill and Hillary Clinton
Harry Reid
Barbara Boxer
Jimmy Carter
What do these people have in common? (Hint: It’s not that they’re all black.)

Look… the bottom line is that he is still the President of the United States, he deserves every ones respect no matter if he is black, white, green blue or red, or for that matter Republican or democrat. nuff said?

Racism or no racism, Obama was elected by you guys. Count yourselves lucky that you have him, bcos, his type comes once in a millennium!

Obama loves this…he isnt disagreeing with anything. Its always ALL ABOUT OBAMA . But ole Jimmy proved that he hates White Southeners and now they know what a racist HE IS. ABC where are your news stories on ACORN or are you and CHARLIE GIBSON still burying your heads in the SAND ? Whats up with that ?? I used To admire Charlie alot but I lost all respect for him now . Wake up…we arent in love with Obama anymore. His policies are disastrous. What part of that do you not understand ? Report the news..the facts.,.the truth……Wake up ABC.

“elephant4life…….what about his Character? I find it geniune and honorable. Who said he “hated America” did he or some “fearmongering racist
Ryan C | Sep 16, 2009 7:01:44 PM ”
Well, for starters, he’s a pathological liar. Had his campaign not played the race card so constantly during the campaign, he would have been properly scrutinized, vetted, and exposed for the leftwing wacko he is. As it is, I have encountered enough flim-flam artists in my lifetime to know one when I see one, and that’s the kindest description I have for the deep-seated character and personality flaws he now feels he can display with impunity, because he’s convinced he’s untouchable.
As for his hating America, I don’t need somebody else to tell me what my eyes and ears can discern for myself, and which is evidenced in every action he takes, every piece of legislation he signs, and every word he utters.
Intelligent? Brilliant? Phooey. Without his telepropmter and scripted comments, he shows himself to be liitle more than a mean-spirited talking head. Without his handlers Axelrod and Soros, and without the connivance of the media, he would still be nothing more than a lazy backbencher from Illinois. He and Jimmy Carter are two sides of the same counterfeit coin, elected the same way – by the media who adopted them as their darlings to demonstrate the power of a manipulative press.

While I strongly disagree with the President on health care and cap and trade
I think he’s doing a good job in Afganistan and Iraq. And not accepting Carters theory that all dissent show racist thinking shows class.

Carter’s general assessment may be right, but there is no direct link to indicate the “liar” Senator was racially motivated. More likely it was partisan motivated by a fixated politician. I have noticed certain people have become fixated on the self-defined “liberal” concept and react emotionally instead of rationally.

hkdakota – I was with you almost all the way, until you commented that Obama’s doing a good job in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama isn’t doing anything with the two wars but cheerleading from the sidelines, like he’s doing in Washington while Pelosi and Reid run this country from the bench. If it weren’t for the extremely experienced and patriotic commanders in charge making the calls, and troops on the ground fighting the battles, the two war fronts would be yet another Obama failure. He IS the worst Commander-in-Chief this country ever had, next to Carter, and I’m glad I had the chance to retire before Obama was named top dog in the military chain of command. The only difference between the Obama and Carter, is Carter didn’t go around the world apologizing to our enemies for the USA being the big baddies, and then go on to conduct two wars using the very same doctrine Bush layed out against the very terrorists he apologized to. I would be surprised if Obama makes it out of Washington in 2012 with anything positive to add to his historic election to the position of presidency. Throw worthless Biden “I’ll go to Iraq to visit my son any time I want” into the mix, and you have the whole quandry this nation is in, A TOTAL LACK OF LEADERSHIP.

It’s a little early to put him on that pedestal, Austin.

When citizens disagreed with or critized Carter, Clinton or either of the Bush Presidents no one called them racist. When the Jane Fonda crowd protested the war, no one called them racist. I could go on and on, but I think this should make the point.
JJmmy Carter needs to keep his mouth closed, he and the people that keep talking about racism, racist, etc. do nothing for the country except seperate blacks and whites further apart rather than unifying them.
Carter was the worst President we have ever had during my life time and I am 65. Interest rates on homes went to 18% under him, making it almost impossible for young families to buy homes. He wouldn’t do anything to end the war. All he could say was that he was “born again”. If you are born again you will not have to tell people, they will know. He made that statement so much, that I decided he wasn’t what he said he was and I switched parties. If the democrats don’t shut him up they will lose more democrats to other parties. This man is dangerous the the democratic party.

It’s crazy that there are all these people saying President Obama is a racist! Has everyone forgotten that his mother was a white woman??? He always talks about how much he loved her and her family! How can that equal racism?

Jimmy Carter is not delusional, he knows full well that some members of his race are racist. Joe Wilson’s comment may not have been directly based on race, but it would be interesting to see the atmosphere under which Wilson was raised, who is friends are and what he believes, because it may be indirectly related to race. Look, the root cause of the race problem is extremely clear, but only to people who’s minds are not tainted.

Why isn’t a black guy storming onstage, ripping an microphone from the hands of a young white woman and blathering that a black woman should have won the award racist?

ABC can just read the past 8 months of comments on this site……..look at the Signs carried by the “aliens from planet earth” …… and this is NOT about policy… AN ELECTED person has been censored by Congress for the first time in over 200 YEARS…. this ISN’T about Policy…..and furthermore, during the campaign, he was subjected to the same Racial elements of this country…ie: McCain and Palins Rallies. He HAD NOT MADE ANY POLICIES YET…..the President will NEVER Think as low as these people, BECAUSE IGNORANCE BRED AND BREEDS RACISM, AND HE CERTAINLY ISN’T IGNORANT. THE PRESIDENT UNDERSTANDS RACISTS, BECAUSE HE UNDERSTANDS ALL PEOPLE. I thank the Former President as well as Ronald Reagan Jr. for NOT continuing to LIVE A LIE…. so
WHO is the LIAR.

You know whats soooo good about this ? DO YOU ?
Look back at all that has been said right here, go ahead, I’l wait……… see it ? Well go !….
Now, what has been intended, has manifest, the expectations of those that intend to get people mixing this all up , just like what you read through here (if you bothered to other then yourself ) this was the intention, they expected nothing less due to the history of manipulation……….. !!!!
You gave them just exactly what they asked for.

I’m an old white guy who was born in the South, and I have relatives who still live in the South. I am not quick to play the race card, but I have to agree with Carter on this. The opposition to Obama is bitter and vitriolic, and has little basis in facts, and the only thing that can explain this, to my mind, is racism, latent or overt. These loudmouths believe in fantasies and accuse Obama of the most vile and ridiculous things. If their criticism was based on facts, I could believe it was not racism, but the critics have no regard for facts that stand in the way to their irrational opposition to Obama’s efforts to do something that would benefit the majority of the American people instead of a privileged few. Yes, racism is an element, no matter how unacknowledged.

Racism does exist that is a fact. It will always exist because people are people and some are small minded and others are not. However, it is not racist to object to policies that are clearly BAD. If Obama were as white as the driven snow I would still oppose him on his policies. They are BAD. Government should not OWN car manufacturers, the government should not take over banks, the government should not spend us into oblivian, our president should be praising the values that America stands for and not apologize over and over and over again for us. NO nation on this planet has a lilly white closet with no skeletons….just 60 years ago Germany and Japan killed people by the millions. The Soviet Union killed millions of their own people to acheive a dictatorship. We have made missteps but our overall ideals are correct. Sure some folks in this world don’t like us but when disaster strikes who do they call….the USA. Why? Because whether friend or foe we will offer aid in times of crisis. We as a nation give more money to causes than ANYONE in the world and i am not talking the government, I am talking private citizens time and time again not only offer a helping hand but open wallets freely. this nation is great so he can just stop apologizing. Now today he wants to cancel a missle defense shield for eastern Europe. I’m sure we have a few allies not pleased with that one. He stands shoulder to shoulder with the Castro brothers and Chavez on the Honduran issue….what is tat all about? The president has some serious flaws in his policies but NONE of that has to do with is color.

Carter is just thrilled that Obama will take his place in 4 years as the worst President of all time! LOL

Patx: do you go around endlessly every day apologizing for your mistakes?….I would think not…..God, I hope not. There are many out there that want us to still apologize for slavery. I will be the first to say slavery is WRONG but is still practiced in many parts of the world…not here. No American alive today has owned slaves. No person of color in America has been owned. This nation shed the blood of hundreds of thousands to end that practice (my family lost people to that cause)so I will not apologize again and again and again for something I did not take part in. Just one example of the apology express. Instead I would rather point out to folks that as a nation we did shed blood to end that institution and be proud in that.
As far as the bailouts (banks and car) should not have happened. They shoyuld have been allowed to go into Chapter 11 and work it out….if that doesn’t work they should have been allowed to fail. That is the way free markets are suppose to work. If GM goes under so be it. Am I sad about it yes but it’s not the end of the world. People will be out of work for a time and that is unfortunate but what happens then is good. Ford, Toyota, etc now have a larger share of the auto market. This means thay will need to hire to keep up with the higher demand for their product.
Banks are insured. They are insured for a reason. Every account holder is covered up to 250,000 by the FDIC even if the bank goes out. That money will go to banks NOT in trouble and the free market keeps going.
As for “government spending is exactly what needs to happen.” is WRONG. I do know about economics and going further into debt is not a way to be free of debt. If that were the case then 90% of credit card holders would be free from worries. The government can not spend it’s way out of a reccession/depression. FDR tried and it only prolonged the depression. Government spending only dropped the unemployment from 25% to about 18% and that didn’t last long and it started rising again.
If you want to get out of a reccession you cut taxes and let the people have more of THEIR money to meet there needs…not government. When you and I buy goods and services it produces jobs….when government spends money it does it in a effective way….most of it goes to government workers that already have a job and the droppings get out to the market place which has no effect on jobs or production.

Adam,
Just a couple of points.
You are being a bit hyperbolic about the apologizing stuff. Nobody is “endlessly every day apologizing” about anything. Pres. Obama made ONE speech in Cairo, which the right has latched onto as some sort of apology for America.
GM did go into bankrupcty, with government assistance, yes. The point here is that failure of the car industry would have impacted MILLIONS of people, as well as the already “depressed” economy. You would have been more than sad if they had failed.
Anyway, I’m done…this is pretty useless.

Patx: his first European trip was nothing but endless apologies. Obama is NO cheerleader for the USA. He’s top dog, he should be singing our virtures. Second, that was no bankruptcy….that was a mugging by the government. A true bankruptcy would have been restructuring done by the courts….NOT the White House. Instead of investors (people who hold stock such as indiviuals and 401′s)getting the best deal possible they were TOLD to accept 30 cents on the dollar. The bankruptcy hearing they got meant the government now owns 60% of GM and the unions 30%.

Former President Carter gave his opinion about his thoughts and his concerns with how he views the attitude and the anger that some have display towards President Obama ideas and how President Obama is trying to move the country through some difficult times. The underling of some this hate and anger is in some ways racial based. Some folks in America never really deal with race and its deep rooted poison which inflames a flame of ignorance that the elephant is not in the room! Until, we as a society address put this issue on the table for discussion maybe we can move in positive direction. The race card is in play whether we like or not because America was built on racism by way of slavery as a means to an end regardless of moral for humanity! The question is when will our humanity for others kick in to stand up to address the wrong of America’s properity as well address the needs of those who have falling on hard times. Health issues, Wall Street issues, and the wars. Much is given and much is required. Distraction is a part of not part of the solution. The easiest thing is to point a finger the hardest thing is to seek assistance to solve a problem. President Obama has asked for assistance to solve thess issues, but others want to play the blame game instead of working together there is some racial baggage that must be address as well. Stay focused on the objective and not be distracted by the nonsense of stupidity of others who do not really care about the well being of America’s recovery to excellence! Peace and joy, Talmadge L. D!!

It seems that anyone who remotely disagrees with the President will be labeled as a racist by someone. Obama doesn’t have to do it, others will do it for him so he looks like he’s above the fray.
President Carter, I once respected you as the most honorable man to hold the office. Not anymore. You stooped to the level of a lackey within your party.

I don’t think that everyone who criticizes Obama is racist, and Carter didn’t say that either, even though Fox News claimed he did. However, Griff Jenkins from Fox News, when he was live with the DC protesters said: “They’re old, they’re young, they’re black, they’re white, they’re male, they’re female…”
And as the Fox camera panned across the crowd, we saw that they were male, they were female, they were old, some were young, and they were white.

Fanning racial flames is not a good idea, period. People have no tolorance for the racially vile and corrupt ways of the past. It’s best to leaving this issue alone, agree to disagree, regarding the color of ones skin, for those who are racist, but respect eachother’s rights. It’s the only thing that will work. Just leave it alone.