Carter said Obama lacked ‘proven substance’ to be president before racism charges

by Kay B. Day

Ex-president Jimmy Carter sees racists everywhere but he's changed his tune significantly when it comes to President Barack Obama.

If racism was an entrée on the dinner table, Democrats would be sitting in a chair rubbing their stuffed tummies and burping. News outlets like NBC and ex-presidents like Jimmy Carter simply cannot get enough racism. The same goes for a number of left leaners on social media networks. Carter, true to form, however is a contradiction.

Talking point of the leftwing extremist day: The September 12 march on Washington—with a crowd estimated somewhere between tens of thousands and more than a million so who knows?—was conducted by nothing but racists who just cannot stand seeing a black man in the Oval Office. Carter summed it up for the Noodle-Head network’s Brian Williams: “I live in the South. I’ve seen the South come a long way and I’ve seen the rest of the country that shared the South’s attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African-Americans. That racism—that inclination still exists, and I think it’s bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the South but around the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It’s an abominable circumstance and grieves me and concerns me very deeply.”

The American taxpayer should be concerned “very deeply” we’re still paying Carter a pension for a job  not well done.

I’ve had emails from people involved with different groups who traveled to Washington and I’ve deliberately spent some time on Facebook and other websites to test the waters.

The general conclusion I have come to is that many people who support insurance reform colloquially titled “Obamacare” have not read any of the legislation being proposed. Nor do those people have any idea how federal entitlement programs like Medicaid, Medicare and CHIP work. Both major political parties have “brainwashees” in abundance, but some of the lefties defy description. Take a look at a few liberal blogs and you’ll see what I mean. I have never met so many uninformed people who claim to be smart.

Of course it’s easy to understand why Dems push the race card—it’s been the best propaganda tool the party ever had.

People from every walk of life participated in the marches. They are angry about federal spending, the inevitability of subsidy cuts in Medicare, the tax increase that is sure to come. Some of the bravest who went to Washington are black conservatives. They endure criticism that makes what pomp media did to Bush look kind. And by the way, you will rarely if ever see pomp media interview a black conservative. That would erode the victimology approach that has worked so well for leftwing extremism.

Veterans, retirees, children, entertainers, just plain moms and dads and—pick any social profile—came together in a demonstration that by all accounts was peaceful.

The video of Carter blabbering to Williams is probably the lamest piece of propaganda I’ve seen. Take a look at the signs the protesters are carrying. Find one that is racist.

I’ve even wondered if Dem strategists skilled in the dark political arts didn’t place a few skilled actors in the crowd. Can’t prove it but the Democratic Party is the master of duplicity. Consider the myth of John F. Kennedy’s Camelot vs. the reality.

My favorite sign by the way was “Go Green—Recycle Congress.”

Carter jumped on the “Let’s create a diversion” bandwagon and did the same thing he does when he talks about Israel. He spewed nonsense and a leftist news outlet took him seriously. Meanwhile people who are the backbone of this country are demonized.

From the day the last Republican president took office, there was an all-out propaganda war to damn him no matter what he did. President George W. Bush was ridiculed, hung in effigy, fictionally assassinated in a film and verbally assaulted on a daily basis. Bush could’ve paved the streets of every public housing project area with gold and it still would not have been enough. And now Dems are wringing their hands because people are critting a Democratic president whose party represents Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and Chris Dodd (D-Conn.). Those four alone are enough to get a fiscal conservative activist going.

At the heart of the racism smokescreen is condescension and arrogance—and not just towards the September 12ers. Somebody should tell the Democrats their president is skilled in the political arts (Chicago, remember?) and a pretty tough guy. He doesn’t need you to further divide this country by falsely accusing people of racism. He doesn’t need you to defend him as though he is a lesser man. Obama didn’t get to The White House by being weak. He is one tough cookie and for that, I respect him. It also helps he called Kanye West out for what he really is.

This isn’t about racism and Obama. It’s about Democrats doing something, anything to deflect examination of the most arrogant, incompetent Congress in the history of our country.

If I were one of the organizers of the March, I’d be talking to an attorney. I’d be filing a lawsuit for defamation. I know it’s hard to prove but believe me, there’s enough on film to get a suit going. Whether the suit would succeed isn’t the point. Sometimes it’s good just to make a point when the racism meme is as worn out as a wheel beneath a 50-lb. hamster.

If you accuse somebody of racism, you are making an accusation of hate speech. None of the groups involved in spreading the word about the march is racist. Most of these groups focus on fiscal accountability, something the federal government has failed miserably.

And by the way, if we really have no idea of how many people were in the nation’s capital on Sept. 12, our president might want to talk to the Dept. of Homeland Security. You’d think that would be something DHS would want to stay on top of.

Somewhere in the bowels of the Washington bureaucracy you can bet your tax dollars there’s an estimate of that crowd.

Carter sees racists everywhere, but maybe it's because he's looking in a mirror. Carter's statements during the campaign suggest he is the racist, based on his own reasoning. In an interview as  the 2008 presidential campaign season neared, Carter said of Obama, “I just don’t think he’s got yet the proven substance or experience to be the president.”

We can however be grateful Carter’s taking time off from smearing Israel right now. In every leftwing extremist cloud there is a silver lining, even if it's made of peanuts.

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Update on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 1:41PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Updates

Read commentary about Carter from HipHop Republican. Lenny McAllister asks, "Really? Why must every criticism of President Obama be racist?"