Jimmy Carter, racism expert?
(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - Yesterday, I suggested that using the new Jimmy Carter Standard for racism as a cause of criticism of political leaders would make Carter himself one of the most prominent anti-Semites in the US, after Carter’s decades-long criticism of Israel and his palling around with Hamas. Today, Carter tried doubling down on his new standard in an address at Emory University:
Former President Jimmy Carter reiterated Wednesday that he believes racism is an issue for President Obama in trying to lead the country.
“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.
posted by BP News Bureau | 12:18 PM
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I think there are people who genuinely believe this, and then I think there are a lot of people who don't, but who want to use it as a way to stifle opposition and debate.
Look, in the Bush years, we were told that dissent was the highest form of patriotism. Obama himself as a candidate once used a formulation like that in talking about his refusal to wear a flag pin.
And now, dissent used to be the highest form of patriotism, and now it's the lowest form of racism. In August and over the summer, it [dissent] was a form of mob rule, a demonstration of anger, unruliness, anarchy, and now it has gotten worse.
Look, this charge is so stupid. It is also so offensive, and it's [so] lacking in any evidence of any kind that…this only helps the Republicans. And that's why the White House is not playing into it.
It will increase the intensity of the opponents of Obama healthcare and the [other Obama] policies, because people don't want to be told when they genuinely disagree with a policy that the reason is the lowest of all reasons, namely, racism.
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