Posted on 09/15/2009 7:42:41 PM PDT by Steelfish
Jimmy Carter: Wilson Comments 'Based on Racism'
ASSOCIATED PRESS September 15, 2009
ATLANTA (AP) -- 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.
''I think it's based on racism,'' Carter said at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta. ''There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.''
The Georgia Democrat said the outburst was a part of a disturbing trend directed at the president that has included demonstrators equating Obama to Nazi leaders.
''Those kind of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate on whether we should have a national program on health care,'' he said. ''It's deeper than that.''
Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, was formally rebuked Tuesday in a House vote for shouting ''You lie!'' during Obama's speech to Congress last Wednesday.
The shout came after the president commented that illegal aliens would be ineligible for federal subsidies to buy health insurance. Republicans expressed their disbelief with sounds of disapproval, punctuated by Wilson's outburst.
Tuesday's rebuke was a rare resolution of disapproval pushed through by Democrats who insisted that Wilson had violated basic rules of decorum and civility. Republicans characterized the measure as a witch hunt and Wilson, who had already apologized to Obama, insisted he owed the House no apology.
Wilson's spokesman was not immediately available for comment, but his eldest son defended his father.
''There is not a racist bone in my dad's body,'' said Alan Wilson, an Iraq veteran who is running for state attorney general. ''He doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes.
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Is there any way he can be retroactively impeached ?
My goodness if there is a bigger douche bag on the planet than the rabbit warrior I don’t know who they are.
Carter is Arabic for camel dung. As in don’t step in the carter.
Good god hasnt that old fart kicked the bucket yet? He needs to sit down..and shut up. No one cares two wits what he thinks..except him.
Actually yes.
But why bother? Does anyone take peanut boy seriously?
Only a sexist homophobe could reach such a conclusion.
Hey Jimmy, I guess your feelings for the Zionists qualifies under religious hatred not racism.
Jimmy,
He is 50% black.
He is also 50% white.
Bite me.
So irresponsbile as to be.....
These types of comments are going to have bad reprecussions for years.
Why would Jimmy Carter call Congressman Wilson a racist ?He has never met him.
Sorry I answered my own question.
Carter should be happy - we now have a prez that will far eclipse him as worst ever. Think he may have hit himself in the head with that hammer a few times. What a maroon.
BTW, Jimmah should be grateful that’s he’s been replaced as worst president ever before he croaks.
‘’I think it’s based on racism,’’ Carter said at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta. ‘’There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.’’
— There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that a black president should not be a COMMUNIST.
Now that Ted Kennedy is gone, Carter is definitely the biggest douchebag. And he’ll hopefully join Teddy down in hell soon.
There was a time that I thought Carter was an inept weenie. A nice guy with bad policies and poor leadership skills. I now realize what a hateful, corrupt and bitter little man that sorry excuse for a human being truly is.
I have always felt that Carter got an undeserved reputation as being a well meaning incompetent. He is really a sleazy scumbag of a jerk with no good intentions at all.
Carter shows he is an ignorant bigot. Again
Carter is a mind reader now? Only Rep. Wilson knows why he disrupted obama’s speech with that outburst. Me, I think he just got fed up with hearing obvious lie after obvious lie from someone the Nation should be able to trust and respect.
Jimmy, I hate your guts and I’m white, so does that make me racist since your white
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