Jimmy Carter: The Biggest Loser
September 16, 2009
by Brian Woodward
The pacifist Jimmy Carter let 53 Americans be held hostage in Iran for 444 days while he stood by and did nothing. The day after he left office and the day Reagan assumed the White House the hostages were set free. Many refer to him as the worst President of all time.
Just when you thought his stock could not sink any lower it hit a new bottom.
He recently stated in an interview with NBC's Brian Williams that much of the criticism towards President Barack Obama "is based on the fact that he is a black man" as well as that there is a "belief among many white people not just in south but around the country that African Americans are not qualified to lead this great country."
The Associated Press reported this, "Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act 'based on racism' and rooted in fears of a black president."
If you took the same logic that the network news and the Jimmy Carter branch of journalism took and applied it to the criticism that President Bush received than that as well would be termed racism. It would involve the majority of minorities criticizing the President because he was white. The entire assumption is non-sense. Are there those who are racist? Sure there are. But they were racist long before President Obama took office.
The concerns expressed towards the President are that of idealogy and principle, not that of race. The opposition is rooted in beliefs of free market principles, lower taxes,and freedom of speech.
South Carolina's former Democratic Party chairman Dick Harpootlian, who has known Wilson for decades said that he doesn't believe Wilson was motivated by racism, he stated "I think Joe's conduct was asinine, but I think it would be asinine no matter what the color of the president. I don't think Joe's outburst was caused by President Obama being African-American. I think it was caused by no filter being between his brain and his mouth."
When a former Democratic Party Chairman calls you out in such a manner you know that you are likely off base and on the cusp of being radical.
Jimmy Carter is suffering from an inferiority complex and is out to justify his abilities before he fades away. He wants to be to be relevant and what better way to accomplish this but by stirring up a race controversy.
Carter is projecting.
From here: http://www.usa-presidents.info/carter.htm
This: "In his 1970 campaign Carter was elected governor on a pro-George Wallace platform. Carter's campaign aides handed out thousands of photographs of his opponent, the liberal former Gov. Carl Sanders, showing his opponent associating with black basketball players. On the stump, Carter pledged to reappoint an avowed segregationist to the state Board of Regents. He promised as his first act to invite former Alabama Gov. George Wallace into the state to speak. Old-line segregationists across the state endorsed Carter for governor.:
I find it jump to infer racism from: "You lie".
Jimmy Carter is not one who ought to be pointing fingers.