Jimmy Carter Eases up on Racist Charges

Well Carol yes , and you know in your heart I never thought you were racist its just the wording of some of your articles.. Yes it racist but if you think about it in some way we are all guilty of racists things about certain things..or we use to be at one point.

I agree Carol he sure is a handsome guy !! Maybe alittle too handsome !! Might get him in trouble!!lol

I can't tell you how many times I've been called racist because I don't like Obama's politics. I don't know him as a person, or a man, but as a politician he disgusts me. And it disgusts me that he is sending this country spiraling down out of control.
When I ask where his allegiance lies, because I'm certain its not with the U.S., I get called racist or worse...
But its ok, because I know I'm going to stand by my convictions.
I'm glad Carter got the peanuts out of his eyes and ears and backed up.....Nope never liked him either.!
Mooch

"When I ask where his allegiance lies, because I'm certain its not with the U.S., I get called racist or worse..."

And this surprises you? It is the tone of the criticism of Obama that has led to charges of racism. The stupidity of the whole movement that thinks he was not born in the USA and refuses to even look at the evidence that proves he was. Those who insist on calling him "Barry Soetero" just because as a young man he struggled with identity issues having been raised in two countries and by a step-father who came and went in his life, a mother who at times took him abroad and at times sent him to live with his grandparents. Those who have turned their disagreement with Obama's policies (supported by millions of Americans) into a smear against his loyalty to country.

Mooch: You have a preference for a certain image of America you hold in your heart; millions of Americans agree with that image; millions disagree with it and hold a very different image of America in their heart; your insistence that Obama pursuing policies aimed at realizing a different image of America puts his allegiance in question is, frankly, prejudice at least and quite possibly racism as well.

Oh yeah we have a local nutcase who puts up all these signs who refers to him as Soetero Hussein. As in "Votes for Soteroe Hussein are Hell-bound!"

Calling someone a racist is just labeling rather than saying anything meaningful. Similar to calling someone a "redneck" or whatever. It really doesn't contribute to a discussion.

I think you're right, Carol. My grandmother taught me that when a person accuses you of something that you know you're not (or not doing), that the accuser is probably the guilty one.

That is what I have been trying to say for a long time. I disagree with President Obama's politics. The color of his skin has nothing to do with it,.I didn't care for Carter's politics when he was in office either, and I didn't like Bush's. But that does not make me a receist. Just hard to please. I guess!

Actually, Deloris, that makes you a pretty smart cookie. (Please don't read any sexism into that comment. :-)

It is true that there is genuine disagreement with Obama's policies being expressed by many. It is true that many expressing that disagreement are not racist and are not pursuing a racist agenda.

However, many of the agitators of the over-the-top outrage being expressed against Obama, including people who host television and radio programs that have given support to calls for armed resistances or tried to justify it as well as the nutbars who bring loaded weapons to public debates, are either truly racist themselves or have used racism as a convenient means of stirring up the level of rhetoric and protest over the healthcare issue at least.

Can you think of a previous issue in America where so much vitriol was expressed so suddenly and so vociferously? Is it justified in any way? Can the temperature of the debate possibly have risen so high without racism being an element of it?

Those who are not racist but disagree with Obama must be the ones to shout down the hostile, racist and intolerant element who are willing to use or threaten violence to get their way against the will of the majority. If you do not oppose those who claim common cause with you but express themselves in ways that are not conducive to a harmonious society, then you risk being lumped in with them.

If you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas.

How's things going in Canada?

I imagine you've been embarrassed before ...... many times.

"I said those that had a personal attack on President Obama as a person, that was tinged with racism."

I have personally disliked /liked several people in my life time and it had nothing to do with their race. I dislike Obama more for his political party, his liberalism, his huge, giant ego, his lies, and his socialistic policies than I do for anything else. pffft

Jimmy needs to go build some more Habitat Houses and shut the fu*k up!

I'll remind you of that when Dubya gives his opinion on something.

Does that include past vice presidents, too? I imagine Cheney has plenty of views on the present administration. lol

It seems pretty obvious that Republicans are going to disagree with a Democratic president, whatever the color of his skin, and I don't believe that the majority of criticisms of Obama's health care plan are racist- I can recall the same level of vitriol back when Clinton tried for health care reform.

That being said, people like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh saying that the government paying for health care is reparations- yeah, I'd say that's racist. Particularly Rush's little Al Sharpton imitation. And then there's that Congressman who referred to Obama as "uppity." You don't have to be hyper-sensitive to read some racism into THAT remark.

Carter's mistake was that he was painting with too broad of a brush and came off like he was saying EVERYONE who disagrees with Obama is a racist. My guess is that he was trying to avoid naming names.

Very true about the partisanship going on, though it seems from north of the border that the level of hype far exceed what was reported up here during Hillary's attempt to push this issue.

I believe that Carter's latest remarks are an attempt to undo the media portrayal of his earlier comments as having been intended to tar too many with the racist brush. Now that may be the media's fault and it may be President Carter's fault, or it may be a little from column A and a little from column B. I tend to think the latter.