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Jimmy Carter Continues ‘Obama Attacks Racist’ Rant, Targets 9/12 Protesters

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Picture 6Despite the growing criticism from his own side of the aisle over yesterday’s remarks that much of the anger directed at President Obama is racially motivated, former President Jimmy Carter kept hammering at it last night during an address in Atlanta. Only this time Carter was a tad more specific, targeting those “demonstrators” as who describe Obama “as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that we should have buried Obama with Kennedy” as having a “racist attitude.”

Is this a sign that Carter is planning on going after Glenn Beck? (One imagines the White House is very much hoping otherwise.) The presence of the Obama/Kennedy signs at last weekend’s 9/12 rally were well documented, and last month Beck made headlines for comparing aspects of Obama’s health care plan, to the Nazi’s eugenics program during WWII. The Obama as Hitler signs, meanwhile, made their appearance during some of the more rowdy town halls this summer. It’s hard to miss Carter’s insinuation here.

Regardless of what Carter’s long-term goal is with these sorts of remarks, President Obama wants nothing to do with it. From today’s New York Times:

But this time the White House has made clear that it does not want to engage on the topic, which beyond threatening to distract attention from the health care push could also put further strain on Mr. Obama’s broad but tenuous electoral coalition of liberals and moderates, Democrats and independents. Signaling that he had no intention of lending his voice to Mr. Carter’s accusation, the president declined to answer a reporter’s question on the subject in the Oval Office on Wednesday.

Whether or not that’s realistic remains to be seen. Carters full remarks below.

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  • greenhaven

    Jimmy Carter continues to dig a deeper hole with his mindless rants. He’s embarrassing himself as well as the Democrats. Even the Obama Administration is keeping their distance from this guy.
    The 70′s are over JImmy. Your ridiculous comments only make you look like an old buffoon. Please channel your energies into something positive, preferably somewhere far, far away.

  • JimW

    I hope Jimmy Carter keeps it up! I also hope the entire Democratic Party continues along their merry path to self destruction. And to make this a perfect world, Glynnis MacNicol could even become a White House spokesperson. Yes! It’s all breathtakingly beautiful. The Republican part, just a few months ago, was mortally wounded beyond redemption. There wasn’t a shred of hope for anything Republican for many years to come. Then along comes this gang of perfect fools. Wow, what a difference a flood of idiots can make. To top it all off, the New York Times is finally viewed as clueless and Maureen Dowd is exposed as a groundless race-baiter.

  • ImNotBlue

    Yet again, I feel it necessary to point out the hypocrisy of Carter and those on the left making this argument. If “carrying Na*i” signs (however insulting and distasteful) is a sign of racial intolerance, how does Carter justify the protests from the last 8-years?! Where was he then? Oh, that’s right… he was speaking out AGAINST the President then, agreeing with the protesters… so no objection necessary.

    Yet again… the link to some photos– http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621

    This is not a “they did it, so we can do it,” argument. The Na*i talk should be STOPPED by EVERYONE! But what it is, is illustrating how lame these bits of “evidence” truly are. If you want to claim that the Na*i stuff is evidence of racial undertones, or evidence that the crowds are full of lunatics, you should have spoken up before! To only speak when it’s YOUR SIDE that being protested, not when your side IS protesting is obvious evidence of hypocrisy, but even stronger evidence that the issue is POLITICS… not civility or respect, as is being claimed! What you’re really saying is, “Stop disagreeing with me politically!”

    This is nothing more than an attempt to smear the opposition, attack them harshly enough that they “stay inside” next time, and threaten the undecideds.

  • clearlydeparted

    Let me get this straight…people are carrying signs comparing Obama to Hitler, and Carter says this is racist…so Carter is saying these people are racist because they think Obama is an Aryan?

  • libra blue

    If Carter is going to malign an entire race at least he could get his facts straight. The signs did not say “Bury Obama with Kennedy,” they said, “Bury Obamacare with Kennedy.” Quite a leap don’t you think? Maybe not so much for a peanut brain like Carter.

  • m

    There is no doubt that a lot of the people in those protests were racist. I don’t see many conservatives or Republicans denouncing them either. Maybe because they help fill up the crowds.

  • CaptainAmerica

    Please let Jimmy Carter continue to bring this up and we can only pray that he goes after Glen Beck and FNC!! Nothing could be better for Republicans!

    Let Glen and FNC bring out the big guns when it comes to Jimmy. Bring out a bunch of specials about how Jimmy Carter almost single handily destroyed America in only 4 years!

    But most of all, let all the comparisons begin between what a screw up Carter was and how Obama is just morphing into Jimmy Carter. Pretty soon Obama will be telling us to put on a sweater and turn up the thermostat.

    Ah, with Jimmy Carter behing him, Obama could see his poll numbers drop to the 30% range very soon.

  • m

    I love the fact that every single comment to this story so far attacks Carter instead of denouncing the extreme vitriol that comes out of these protests. Why are you attacking him for something when you don’t even denounce it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Jones/1384303476 Chris Jones

    No, I can’t say I know anyone like that. What I do know is that Carter was possibly the worst president in our nation’s history.

  • http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

    Extreme rhetoric on both sides is a bad thing. And it now officially out of control. One side yells “Nazi.” The other yells “racist,” and before you know it, the debate over any issue becomes a stream of hate and anger with zero integrity.

    Carter is as wrong as can be here. So is Beck. So are the people (on both sides!) that summon the image of Hitler at every opportunity.

    Remember, the same people that are condemning the Obama/Hitler signs happily carried the Bush/Hitler signs. 3 years ago, the same people that now defend the Obama/Hitler signs condemned those with the Bush/Hitler signs as traitors and worse.

    And while the extremes on both sides dominate and drown out any real debate, the issues wither on the vine.

    I have never been happier or prouder to be No Party Affiliation.

  • libra blue

    I think most people denounced the extremists at the tea party rallies, but you can’t lump everyone together like Carter and some others have done. Funny thing is no one on the left denounced Obama, Wright, Pfleger, Gates, Holder, and Jones for their racist comments. Why is this any different?

  • libra blue

    @Keeva, That is the fault of the MSM. Left wing media organizations like CNN and MSNBC insist on concentrating on the extremists because it promotes their Obama centered agenda and FNC does it for the opposite reason. This is why you will never see a balanced debate on this issue on any of those networks, although FNC comes closest with the “Special Report” panel.

    Seriously how balanced can you be when race baiter Roland Martin is a participant?

  • CaptainAmerica

    M what do you want denounced? The Hitler signs. We’ve discussed those before. Odd they are now racist when lunatics from the Daily Kos etc used them against Bush all the time. But the MSM didn’t love to point that out every chance they got. They had no problem with them then. Just like they had no problem with Bush as “The Joker” but they went ape **** when there was one of Obama as the Joker.

    Now Carter lies about what the signs said. Of course, Carter is also too stupid to realize that it was only minutes after Kennedy’s death that the Democrats were trying to use him to rescue Obama care by renaming it Kennedy Care. That Harry Reid said Kennedy’s death would help. For some reason, the reason behind the signs get left out.

    But should we really take any advice from Carter on race when his views on Israel/The Jewish people aren’t that different from Rev. Jermiah Wright?? Also, shouldn’t Obama be condemned for staying in that racist, hate filled “church” (and I use that word loosely) for 20 years? He must have agreed with alot of the message to stay that long.

  • zflynn

    Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy: just when you do something admirable, such as building houses for poor people or help provide clean water for some outcast community in the outreaches of Africa, you do something nit-witted like try and be politically savvy. Remember, a smart man knows his limitations. Don’t forget some of the other brilliant political brain storms you had such as giving the Panama Canal back to a megalomaniac crook who held all the international trade ships hostage for extortionist fees. Then we had to pretend it was the war on drugs so the US could send in its troops to make the canal open to commercial fleets again. Jimmy, don’t sound like the morons who give this shyster lawyer credit for being some sort of messiah. It really denigrates the good works you do. Stick to being Mr. Helping Hand Nice Guy and don’t tread onto the political stage, otherwise you just sound like another fool who goes off half-cocked in support of a corrupt narcissist. Okay?

  • ChuckfromTacoma

    I have been called a racist by many different media folks, politicians and left leaning liberal progressive people in the last couple of months than in my entire life. Of course none of these people know me or the racial make-up of my family.
    But to be called a racist by Jimmah Carter because I am against socialist programs is laughable. I don’t exactly remember where, but I do remember Carter referring to President Obama as a “black boy” during and interview on national TV last year.
    Carter is an anti-Semite racist bigot of the first order and has zero credibility on race issues.
    (good to see you’re not completely lost I’mNotBlue)

  • m

    Not much of any denouncement from you guys who write here. Interesting.

  • shootfromthehip

    Carter lives the word of God, Bush just talked about it. Carter knows a thing or two about the south and is entitled to his opinion. I, for one, think he is dead on and is saying the things many know is true deep down. Not all the 9/12 folks are racist, but you cannot say 100% of them aren’t reflexively against the President because he is black.

  • Billy Carter

    Jimmah…..this is Billy calling from the grave. Hey fella, are you gettin’ them thar folks riled? Go on down to the holla and get that rusty ol 6-pack of Billy Beer I stashed back in ‘77. It’s time to come home, Jimmah. Ya don’t wanna tangle with them thar folks on that thar newfangled blahgosfear thing.

    http://www.the-forum.com/advert/BILLY.HTM

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