Jimmy Carter Speaks On Racism, Revisionism, And Republicans
October 4, 2009 · carl · Print This Article
Former President Jimmy Carter recently made the ludicrous claim that opposition to Barack Obama is based upon racism.
A few days ago, he denied making that statement.
On these pages we have disputed his racism claim in terms that even a peanut-head like Mr. Carter should be able to understand.
However, for those of you who may be coming in late, perhaps President Carter is changing his tune because, as we have stated earlier, people don’t oppose President Obama’s policies because he is black, they oppose President Obama because of his policies!
And of course the majority of the voices raisied against the President are those of Republicans.
So what caused Carter to try and take back his racial slurs against Tea Party protestors,people speaking out at town hall health care reform events, etc., and more importantly, does he really think the rest of us are as delusional as he is?
Because that is the only possible explanation as to how he thinks we would forget his words.
Here is his original interview:
“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.”
That statement seems fairly plain to me.
No taking it “out of context”, no need to put a “right wing” spin on it.
It’s fairly plain that Carter is saying that if you speak out against President Obama, it is because you are a racist, or at the very least that you have tendencies towards racism.
All because the man leading America is a black man.
Now however, Carter is revising his remarks:
So which one is it Jimmy?
Are we racists, or are we just part of a “fringe” element?
You know, Jimmy Carter has always struck me as being so stupid that if it was raining chicken soup, he would run outside holding a fork.
And his latest remarks have only served to confirm that belief.
Someone please take President Carter by the hand and explain to him that Tea Party protestors, town hall attendees, and Republicnas themselves are not racists.
Speaking out against the President is not racism.
It is called democracy.
Then try and make him understand that two million people showing up for a 9-12 event in Washington D.C. is surely not a fringe element.
Point out to him that, if he makes a statement that is recorded, it’s a bit silly to say “I never said that.”
Last of all. find him a comfortable chair, take him out to his peanut patch, and let him go back to visiting whatever world it is that he lives in.
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