President of the U.S., 1977-1981; Former Democratic Governor (GA)
Most animosity against Obama is because he's black
Perhaps the most difficult and insulting attack Tea Partiers have had to endure is the charge of racism. Former president Jimmy Carter took this charge from the lunatic fringe to the mainstream. His comments arrived several days after the massive
September 12 Taxpayer March on Washington in an attempt to explain the unpopularity of the president's health care proposal. "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack
Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American," Carter told "NBC Nightly News".
Do Democrats really believe that any person who disagrees with President Obama's policies is inherently racist?
Of course they don't, but it's a great way to change the subject.
President Carter obviously neglected to listen to any of the actual speakers at the event he targeted with his sweeping animus (including African American speakers).
Carter proclaimed January 15, 1973, Martin Luther King Day, to honor the slain black leader. An above the advice of some of his closest aides he hung King’s portrait in the state capitol. He had taken a stand against prejudice in his own community of
Plains in 1965 when he and his own family were the only one sto stand up and be counted in a vote for the admission of blacks to his church. For that, he was boycotted, his children were beaten, and their cars were pelted with stones.
Source: How Jimmy Won, by Kandy Stroud, p. 12
, Jan 1, 1997
ERA is about women's rights, not gay rights nor abortion
The main obstacle to the ratification of the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment establishing gender equality) in Illinois and in Georgia and in the other States that have not yet made this decision is the allegation that it is only supported by radical kinds of
people. And the question of homosexuality and the question of abortion and religious beliefs and the sharing of restrooms and the destruction of families--these artificial arguments are put forward, .and they can best be knocked down by a
person who's known to be sound and committed and balanced and patriotic, with a stable family and a good job. Those are the kinds of people who must speak out. And the religious leaders in Illinois, and the mothers in Illinois, and the labor leaders in
Illinois, and the business leaders in Illinois and in all those States are the ones that can knock down these false allegations that influence adversely some of the members of the State legislatures in the nonratified States.
