re: #176 Walter L. Newton

Carter again cites racism as factor in Obama’s treatment

And that’s one of the few times in recent memory when I happen to agree 100% with Jimmy Carter: Carter again cites racism as factor in Obama’s treatment.

“When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kinds of things are beyond the bounds,” the Democrat who served from 1977-1981 told students at Emory University.

“I think people who are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African American.

“It’s a racist attitude, and my hope is and my expectation is that in the future both Democratic leaders and Republican leaders will take the initiative in condemning that kind of unprecedented attack on the president of the United States,” Carter said.

Every word of that is on the money. And he is not saying that ALL opposition is racist. You really should try reading what he actually said.