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Jimmy Carter: Wilson comments 'based on racism'

Why?........because YOU think he should have stayed out of it?
(He probably just didn't take into account that you would find fault........Maybe write him & he'll retract his comments);)

& why is that you have a right to your opinions & can express them publicly but former President Carter doesn't?
I'm not a former president who looks like a partisan hack for supporting the premise of racism unsubstantiated.
 
88 pages, and not one statement that would indicate Carter had even a remote clue about whether or not wilson's comments were based on race.


I would submit that the "Racism" is on carters side for even bringing it up. It shows whats on his mind more than it does Wilsons.
 
88 pages, and not one statement that would indicate Carter had even a remote clue about whether or not wilson's comments were based on race.


I would submit that the "Racism" is on carters side for even bringing it up. It shows whats on his mind more than it does Wilsons.

Well there we have it! Glad we finally got THAT cleared up!:popcorn2:
 
Actual Topic Title:

Jimmy Carter: Wilson comments 'based on racism'
(it's printed at the top of each page);)

Uh, no, ace -- that's the headline of the news story, which is required to be the thread title by the rules of the forum.


Topic Title Is Not:
Is Carter Right Or Wrong?

The topic, as defined by the OP is:

"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 in response to an audience question 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.'"

I am failing to see how Wilson's outburst was in any way a racist one. Every comment made against an ethnic minority is not racist, there should be real reason to believe it is before making the accusation. Otherwise, it just makes the issue worse by adding more situations it can used in, even though there is no justification to do so.

What exactly was racist about it? Are people going to get tired of being accused of racism with it eventually backfiring on people like Carter who use it to explain something it is not related to?

Jimmy Carter: Wilson comments 'based on racism' - Yahoo! News

Sorry it doesn't fit with what you wanted to argue at that given moment, but there it is nonetheless, in plain English.
 
Yes, an informed opinion based on the many circumstances centering on Wilson's membership in a fringe racist organization, and a nasty vote to keep flying a flag that represents racism, violence and slavery - the St. Andrews cross.

I look at Wilson and I ask myself "Has this guy ever said the word nigger in a demeaning manner, in his liftime?"

The answer...

...yes.

You don't have to like my opinion, frankly I could not give a damn.

Anyone who votes to keep flying that flag at any public office is a racist son of bitch.

Anyone who sympathizes with Nazi war criminal, is in the pockets of anti-semitic Arab oil cartels, and vilifies Israel while completely ignoring the plight of Jews and any non-Muslims throughout nearly the entire Muslim world, is a Jew hating nazi.
 
So, someone who supports not extraditing a SS war criminal would be a racist; someone who supports flying the Confederate flag is NOT racist. Is this your position?

For the record I support neither preventing the extradition of a nazi war criminal and flying the confederate flag as I see the latter as culturally insensitive to African americans, however, at least with the latter I can understand how some southerners might see it as a part of their own culture perhaps having relatives who fought and died in the civil war, after all the South was made up of Americans too.
 
Nope. Carter's comments were in a broader context. Read the entirety of what he said. He commented on scatological language and a number of other phenomena in a more widespread atmosphere of disrespect.

I have already conceded that the phrase 'you lie' is not racist. Joe Wilson is however.

He is Strom Thurman's prodigy and a good ol boy who wants to fly the Confederate flag over the state capitol.

This was planned disruption and disrespect and Wilson's 'apology' is hollow BS.

There is far more evidence that Jimmy Carter is a Jew hating nazi/Islamist sympathizer than there is that Joe Wilson doesn't like black people, in fact I would say that the former has been conclusively proven.
 
Joe Wilson is a disrespectful partisan hack now playing victim. Wilson has a financial interest in opposing health care reform, and he will fight it with every privileged bone in his body.

Obama is a lying POS who bold faced lied to the camera and it's been proven, so wtf are we talking about Joe Wilson and not the lying POS Obama?
 
Obama is a lying POS who bold faced lied to the camera and it's been proven, so wtf are we talking about Joe Wilson and not the lying POS Obama?

If you're through with your childish rants, perhaps you'd allow the rest of us to actually discuss the topic?
 
If you're through with your childish rants, perhaps you'd allow the rest of us to actually discuss the topic?
89 pages, and you don't think it's been discussed enough?

:beatdeadhorse
 
I think we've been in it pretty deep, how much deeper can this **** get?
 
Are people going to get tired of being accused of racism with it eventually backfiring on people like Carter who use it to explain something it is not related to?

I hope so. I hope they so overplay the screeching of "RACISM!!!!" at every criticism of the President that the voters are thoroughly disgusted and take it out at the ballot box.
 
I hope so. I hope they so overplay the screeching of "RACISM!!!!" at every criticism of the President that the voters are thoroughly disgusted and take it out at the ballot box.

I think people are already tired of the Wilson debacle & I know I'm tired of discussing it.
However, I don't think voters will forget the tone of the anti-HC reform debate or many of the other anti-Obama movements over the summer ...such as bring guns near Presidential venues....yelling down free speech at town hall meetings....etc
Whatever his motives, Wilson's outburst just put an exclamation point on it which I feel will hurt the GOP in the next few election cycles.
 
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