Carter is often maligned unfairly

I love Carter. I just don't think he had the stomach to be president. His actions were always guided by his faith and morals and I think the bribes and other shady dealings that he saw politicians in DC partake in made him squeamish and shattered any illusions he had of idealism. For Carter fans, I recommend the documentary Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains.

I just don'think that it is his place to inject himself into this debate and making such a broad reaching remark about people being racist.
I don't think it's his place to try and go to bat for a President who is really up against it. You can correct if I am wrong, but I don't ever recall Ronald Reagan or George Bush senior ever coming to the rescue of a President that was coming under strong scrutiny by their constituents.

As a courtesy, he should have called the President first and run this by him, instead he has added gas to the fire.Unfortunately, this will add to Mr. Carter's long list of failures and I think in the end will have made that much more for any minority to ever get elected to the White House.The President has to show some leadership on this issue and listen to his constituents who are unsure of his policies.We all know that racism still exists but at the same time we have taken a huge leap by electing our first Black President. I think Mr. Carter should have acknowledged that and held back his comments.

Surprised to find myself saying this, but you may be right.

I do recall Bush 41 coming to his son's defense once or twice.

I believe Jimmy Carter knows that Obama needs to stay in the background on this issue. Carter is a wise, wise man. [:-)
JerrySatire
www.Lampoon.net

Thank you for this article! Carter's book - "Our Endangered Values" is one of the first honest accounts of how the "Right" has changed since Bush 43. Carter may not have been the best president, but he is a brilliant man and he is fair and honest.

We don't have a true two Party system in this country anymore. Just take a look at how few sane voices remain in the Republican Party. It's all pretty sad.

As I posted before on another mindless encomium to this, the worst of our modern presidents, anyone believing that Jimmy Carter has somehow been some sort of paragon of virtue on the subject of race, I commend to you the following piece entitled "Jimmy Carter's Race Problem," just posted Friday on NRO's The Corner by Hans von Spakovsky.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTViNzM0ZmUxOTdhMzU3MDYyZmIzNTdlNWFkMWVkOTc=

It begins:

"When former president Jimmy Carter accuses the opponents of Barrack Obama’s policy of nationalizing broad aspects of our economy and spending us into bankruptcy of being 'racists,' perhaps he should look in the mirror. In his 1982 book, Keeping Faith, Carter disingenuously said he 'was not directly involved in the early struggles to end racial discrimination.' No kidding — in fact, he directly and unambiguously supported segregation. When Carter returned to Plains, Georgia, to become a peanut farmer after serving in the Navy, he became a member of the Sumter County School Board, which did not implement the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision handed down by the Supreme Court. Instead, the board continued to segregate school children on the streets of Carter’s hometown."

Spakovsky goes on to fill in the blanks on the great hypocrite, who I personally believe is now apparently attempting to assuage his own personal sense of guilt by falsely lashing out at others today . . . those who oppose the current President's alarming policies and radical appointments.

He concludes:

"The idea that opposition to Obama’s policies reflects 'racism' is absurd; even the White House has rejected it. All of this raises a larger issue about Carter’s remarks. When he makes such a claim, is he projecting his own inner racial beliefs? Is he so guilt-ridden over his past racist behavior that he wants to make amends to the race-baiters that today populate the Left? Or is he just cynically helping them score political points?"

Based on his history of unwarranted and outrageous race-baiting comments I would conclude that in the long run, he is scoring points only with the extreme and mindless haters on the left -- preaching to the choir, as they say!

Carter seems intent on recovering his firm grip on the title of least credible nationwide public figure. Even Joe Biden rejects his rubbish.

And the latest Rasmussen poll firmly backs that up -- only 12 percent of Americans say that he is right!

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/12_say_most_opponents_of_obama_health_care_plan_are_racist

While the poll indicates there are also some who say they are unsure, fully two-thirds of Americans reject Carter's stupid and venal claim of racism.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-200909171653tmsbpresstt--m-a20090917sep17,0,333195.story?obref=obnetwork

Bill Press -

"But, believe me, there are also a lot of people who refuse to accept Obama only because he's black. I know. I receive ugly, racist emails from them every day in response to my own support of Obama. They don't hesitate to use the "N" word, and they're not shy about signing their own names"

"At least, they're proud to be racists. In a sense, they're more honest than many other Obama-haters who are just as racist, but pretend not to be. We saw them at Sarah Palin rallies with monkeys bearing Barack Obama bumper stickers. We saw them at town halls, where they knew they couldn't use the "N" word, so they called him code names instead -- "agitator," "communist," "socialist" -- and said they want to "take back America" (from the blacks?). We saw them at a recent Washington protest march, carrying drawings of Obama as a witchdoctor with a bone through his nose. I saw one of them standing outside the White House with a poster of Obama as the joker, with painted white face. We saw one of them "joke" about Michelle Obama's gorilla ancestors. We saw another one, a Confederate flag worshipper from South Carolina, shout out, "You lie!" on the sacred floor of the House of Representatives"

"No racism involved? Get real. One thing for sure: Joe Wilson would never have shouted out the same remark -- to a white president"

Bill Press is your answer? Pathetic!

If Bill Press is the answer, then the question must have been,

"Quick . . . name someone in the media who will have something baseless, nasty, biased and downright stupid to say, regardless of the topic!"

I notice that none of you "12 percenters" have an answer for the poll.