Former President Carter says racism is an "overwhelming portion" of the criticism toward President Obama. Does racism play a role among Obama's critics?

You need to change your poll because race plays a role in EVERY politican - white, black, red, yellow, pink and green. People don't like President Obama because he is black and people didn't like President Bush because he is white.

The race card doesn't belong on this subject. A lot of us, white, black and "other" don't like Obama's policies. Carter is senile.

Every time someone criticizes Obama, the Democrats play the Race Card. He is not black, he is bi-racial and he has LOUSY ideas. Had it not been for ACORN he woudl not be in the White House.

Did racism play a role in that kid getting the snot beat out of him in Belleville, IL? The cop in Newhaven, CN being nationally harassed? Get over it!

I for one am sick of "the race card".It is funny how it is used any time someone dissagrees with any black folks but not used whe someone dissagrees with white folks.People should stick to the issues of the debate,Jimmy Carter was out of line with that type of comment.I expect better than that from a former president.

Carter is senile and full of crap, just like obamanation's policies and ideas. Capatalism is being killed and we are turing into a socialist society, whether we like it or not. The media is the biggest player of the race card as they know it sells and gets attention, pure crap, that's why the media is not trusted and seen as in the left's pocket.

Race has NOTHING to do with his critics...we just think he's doing a bad job.

While there are some who do not like President Obama because of his race, I do not feel it's the over riding factor. Many have ligitamate complaints regarding the direction of this administration. Others wear the party jersey so close until it really doesn't matter what the other party does they are going to be against it. polarization seems to be the wave of the future.

Who among us wants to be perceived as a racist? None of us. Playing the race card some will stop some critics from voicing their opinion. It is the company he keeps and the words Obama uses, the bail out money, on and on, that keep the critics talking. Not because he is a black man and most critic's are very straight forward in defining what they do and do not like. I will give you there are racist's in the world. But when you look at the amount of Bush hater's still vocal, you have to agree, it is politics, not race.

I's that the same as the overwhelming portion of crazy things said by people over 70 is due to senility?

It is not racism as it is the race toward socialism. President Carter, undoubtedly the worst president in history cannot be taken seriously. This single term peanut farmer who gave Iran to the Islamic extremists and destroyed our intelligence gathering capabilities is now considered an elder statesman. What a joke!

I'm American first and foremost! I'm also white, he is half white, could someone please tell me that since I do not agree with his militant socialist ideas how in the Heck that makes me a racist?

PS I like to consider myself a equal opportunity hater, I hate everyone that is not simply an American!!!

Anyone want to take a guess who split us all apart from just being Americans, using cute little special names for different races of people?

RIGHT! THE DEMOCRATS!!!

Carter was a terrible president. Just review his handling of the economy and the Iran hostage situation when he was president. He may not be senile, but he is certainly irrelevant.

Hey, JRP. Carter is over 70, does that excuse the crazy things he says? ...Obama is not close to 70, so how do you explain the crazy stuff he says?

Racism? No.

Obama's particular brand of facism/socialism? Yes.

Jimmy Carter is an old liberal moonbat.

I believe that the main reason the Democrat hierarchy promoted Obama was because he was black. They knew that they could then label anyone who opposed Obama and their liberal agenda as racist and that the media would willingly trumpet that charge.
Its more difficult to defend and debate their policies than it is to use the race card.

This is not a race issue, it's what the man has done Here's a few things that scare me:

HB1388 passed August 27, 2009 at 5:06pm in Legislation and Bills in Congress

You just spent $20,000,000 to move members/supporters of Hamas, a
terrorist organization, to the United States ; housing, food, the whole
enchilada.

HB 1388 PASSED

Whether you are an Obama fan, or not, EVERYONE IN THE U. S. needs to
know....

Something happened.... H.R. 1388 was passed, behind our backs. You may
want to read about it.. It wasn't mentioned on the news... just went by
on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen.

By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of
$20.3 million in "migration assistance" to the Palestinian refugees and
"conflict victims" in Gaza .

The "presidential determination", which allows hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States, was
signed and appears in the Federal Register.

Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that the order provides a
free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who
have displayed their overwhelming support to the Islamic Resistance
Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.

Let's review....itemized list of some of Barack Obama's most recent
actions since his inauguration:

His first call to any head of state, as president, was to Mahmoud Abbas,
leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory.

His first one-on-one television interview with any news organization was
with Al Arabia television.

His first executive order was to fund/facilitate abortion(s) not just
here within the U. S. , but within the world, using U. S. tax payer
funds.

He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of detainees
halted.

He ordered overseas CIA interrogation centers closed.

He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the USS Cole and
the "terror attack" on 9/11.

Now we learn that he is allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian
refuges to move to, and live in, the US at American taxpayer expense.

These important, and insightful, issues are being "lost" in the blinding
bail-outs and "stimulation" packages.

These make you wonder This is not a race issue, its one of what is happening to this country

This is another rediculous question. What do expect the results to show when you ask racist people if they are racist?

I have never considered myself a racist, just an
American cititzen concerned about the future of this country.
WELL, the Acorn issue has changed my mind. This issue "stinks" of racism
because the President is ignoring it!!! This is HIS group, mostly black, and he
is not commenting? What if it was a mostly white organization. Hmmmm
This nation is falling far short in its moral standards, and it scares me!

This has nothing to do with race. It has all to do with politics. Give us Walter E Williams as the next US president.

Let's face it, racism is a fact of life. Whether you want to admit it or not everybody is a racist. You may not want to be called a racist but you know you are and it doesn't matter what race you belong to. If you are black chances are that you harbor feelings about whites or orientals that have nothing to do about the person but only because they are not like you. The same goes for everyone else. If you say you are not a racist regardless of of your skin color or ethnicity you are lying.

Benjamin Franklin said it best, "Birds of a feather flock together". That is a fact of human nature and is unchangeable. You see it every day in every situation but you do not want to acknowledge it. The sooner we understand and accept that the sooner we will be more acceptable of other races and ethnic backgrounds. Trying to force people together that don't want to be together only causes more animosity, fear and distrust.

Typical Jimmy Carter. He got this wrong too.

Carter was a failure as President, why would anyone listen to him.

While it is true that some people don't agree with President Obama because of different thinking, some of the antics are purely due to racism. If people think that racism is dead and doesn't play a major role in some of these outbursts, they have on blinders. Racism is alive and well especially in the southern states; however, in this case, it may be masked by "having a difference of opinion".

Not surprising to hear a comment such as this from former President Carter. He is by far the worst president in my lifetime. He calls President Obama black. I thought he was half white. He just needs to shut up and stay on the peanut farm.

CARTER IS LACKING COMMON SENSE

Of course it's racism. Whenever someone says "It's not because he's black", you know it's because he's black.

Unbelievable! I supported Alan Keyes in the past based on policy, and I oppose some of President Obama's policies based on my own politcal (and sometimes moral) beliefs.
I can't help but wonder if President Carter is the front man to make us conservatives feel guilty and give up our opposition. It would make sense; he would be the lightning rod apart from the administration or the party. Just a thought.
We have not arrived in terms of MLK's dream. Jimmy Carter's remarks are a prime example.

Great now a known anti-Semite is calling me a racist.

So funny...out of all of these comments the one Stacy and Jim pick to read was skjd's. Who clearly ________. You can fill in the blank.

Carter was born and raised in a small, small southern GA town long long ago....that may be were he is coming from...even though he has seen the world, some people just can't shake were they come from.

the most blatant racism I observe is that of blacks..they will push for a person who is black to balance a situation,for instance in a job etc. and they do this unashamedly..the main racism I see belongs to blacks who are a very racist people.

OF COURSE it's not racism. I'm so sick and tired of race being used as a shield to deflect legitamate and deserved criticism.

I thought that with the election of Obama, the age of racism was over. I guess this is yet another line the public was fed during the campaign that turned out to be a load of bull.

I take it back. The more I think about it Obama is just the wrong man for the job at this time. I hope this settles everything. Again, my apologies for causing any bad feelings.
Amy says Hi.

When was the last time you heard someone ask a white president to prove he is an American? Have you ever seen Bush's birth certificate?

Who cares what Jimmy Carter thinks anyway? And besides, Obama is bi-racial.

BWL, when was the last time we had a white president whose father was from Kenya or any other African nation? We have a pretty good idea that George Bush was an American considering his father was president also. What a stupid argument! What rock did you crawl out from under?

You can always count on Democrats to inject race into an issue when they want to take the focus off of the details of the policy...rather than give any credence to Mr. Carter's remark, I would rather focus on the questions that are not being asked here....Is this President voilating his oath of office to defend the Constitution by advocating the takeover of one sixth of the US economy by the federal government...has this President violated his oath of office to defend the Constitution by taking over General Motors...has this President violated his oath of office by funneling hundreds of billions of dollars to every Democratic cause including the funding of ACORN...what does it say about the true state of the United States government when a majority of 500 people in Washington can vote apparently to take anything from anybody they wish and give those resources to any cause they wish. These are the critical issues we should be discussing.....not the ravings of a disgraced and bitter and inconsequential Georgia peanut farmer.

Apology accepted, Jimmy. However, you are still the worst president in history but Obama is giving you a real run for the money.

I disagree with the ideas, policies and propaganda of President Obama. I despise Jimmy Carter. To some this makes me a racist but then racist is a lazy label a d does not break any bones.

Racsism probably plays some role among some of Obama's critics. Reckon it plays any role among his supporters?

Pure crap from a senile,hateful old man who is trying to deflect attention away from the worse idea (socialism) the world has ever known.

Being a black man, when Joe Wilson yelled YOU LIE at our black president, I heard YOU LIE, BOY! I am used to racism and live it every day. This incident just made it to prime time. Good for the Carter to bring up the elephant in the room.

I never heard the word "boy". I think it was your racism against whites that caused you to hear a word that was never uttered. I rest my case, you have just proved my earlier comments correct.

Jimmy Carter's low opinio of the American public isn't a surprise. He is still mad that they turned him out of office after one term because he was a weak and ineffectual President (see Bob Green's book "Fraternity" where he interviewed all the living ex-Presidents).

Jimmy Carter was and apparently, ever shall be the biggest moron to hold the office of president. Most of the people protesting this president's policies, philosophies and ideology would support Alan Keyes in a heartbeat. It has nothing to do with race, and you in WBT know that.

Martin Luther King's dream will not be realized as long as we look at everything through the prism of race. Look at the issues....
Government owning the auto industry, banking industry, housing and if the democrats have their way, the healthcare industry is not what America is about.

Lose the hyphenated nationalities, lose the victim status, lose white guilt and most importantly, pray to the Lord God and this country can be healed. But those who profit and benefit from victimhood must be ready to move on.

This poll is VERY biased. If you look at who listens to WBT, it is right wing neo cons. Normal Joe six packs do not listen to RUSH or this station. Just the rabid few. I am a WASP monderate republican who grew up here in Charlotte and day after day this station spits out yellow journalism. I am seriously considering changing to independent because of the way the GOP (Grand old Party) has moved. I do believe Carter is correct. I went through busing here in Charlotte, and I can see the hate in the eyes. The current Republican party reminds me of the "Brown shirts" during Hitler's rise to power and "McCarthyism". Look it up. So please don't crow about how "The people" feel with these polls. Just look at your demographics. I guess your listerners want "Animal Farm".

Unfortunately, former President Carter has once again demonstrated just how out of touch he is with the American public. Regardless of race, Presidential policies will be juged on their merit, good or bad. President Bush was admonished not for being a white president, but for bad policies. The same is now true for President Obama. His detractors are pointing to bad policy or program decisions, not his race. The Democrats who continue to play the race card need to understand they are detracting from their President by saying his decisions are not worty to stand on their own and be jugded.

Who cares what Jimmy Carter says or thinks. This Georgia bumpkin embarassed the United States when he was president and now every time he opens his mouth. Yes, racism is alive in the U.S. it always will be. Every time one punk shoots someone his family is first to say, "Oh he is a good boy". The media is first to play the race card. I do not like Obama, not because of his race, but for his policies and socialist ajenda.

Obama's miserable performance has not manifested an appropriate universal rebuke because of his race. Certainly Obama's race has provided him with "a soft approach" from with the media and more patience from the public than he deserves. Jimmy Carter should be happy because Obama appears to be someone who will supplant him as the all time worst president.

Jimmy Carter was an embarrassment as a president [and I am embarrassed to say I voted for him], and he gets more embarrassing as he ages.

Racism towards Pres. Obama exists mostly in the minds of the looneys of the left and is fanned by Democrat spinmeisters.

Think about it. Pres. Obama is half white and half black, so to label criticism of him as racist is jut plain silly!

The day after President Obama became president shelves of gun dealers started to dwindle and gun and ammunition prices shot up....To say there is no relationship in that and what has happened since then to racism is a stretch....Remember it's not what you say but what you do that counts....

If it looks like racism, smells like racism, and sounds like racism, it's racism.

RC, I am pretty open minded about the whole thing and you made a good point. It's quite possible.

the closet racists are coming out now. i'm a middle aged white male who voted for the president. we are americans and should stand behind our president. the man has been disrespected since day one by rush and tara. they call themselves americans. give the man a chance ,look at the mess he was dealt by the last republican president. he has done more in the last 9 months then george bush did in 8 years. i understand this is a bias republican station and entertainment radio . come on , give it a chance

Wow...some guy hears, "boy" in Wilson's accusation. He probably needs a dose of reality soon.

I bet you probably thought when the Right was upset about the self-declared communist "Green Job Czar" that we were just looking for someone to lynch.

You should stay away from preachers who preach, "Black Liberation Theology," stay away from radio stations that preach victimhood, and probably back off of Barack's acolytes at ABC (All Barack Channel), CBS (Constantly Barack Speaking), MSNBC and CNN.

I know you guys have tried to demonize Fox News, but you are missing most of the facts in every story because your news sources are withholding anything that doesn't fit the agenda.

Get some counseling too...your hatred is manifest throughout your writing.

Picture A: An angry, white man poking his finger at a black man and yelling at him. Picture B: A cool, calm and collected black man demonstrating complete control. What picture do you want to represent America?

Bob,

You are simply, simple. Barack was elected by America primarily because we were all sick of Bush. Conservatives were sick of him for pandering to you guys on the left, instead of simply honoring his oath and defending the constitution. By the way, we liked McCain even less...so Barack won a majority of votes without anyone knowing what his policies would be. His entire campaign was platitudes, smoke and mirrors. The media was crucial to his succeeding in passing that off as wisdom and maturity.

Elections are almost always, either a vote for the lesser of two evils, or a vote for change...I think you know what happened in this case.

Just in case J Carter is right, I'll reserve critisism of his policies until he's another race. I wonder how long thats gonna take? If he's not going to change races, when will any critism be seen as genuine and not racist?

Carter has proven once again that he is a tool.

Even though this poll is geared towards people that often listen to WBT as Sambone stated; however, I am very surprised and energized to know that people who listen to some of the things that are being stated on your station are aware that racism is especially on some of your broadcasts. It is not blatantly stated but it is masked as a "difference of opinion". When has Rush Limbaugh asked to see any other president's birth certificate or wished that any other Democratic president failed. Of course when he's called out, then he changed it to he said that he hopes his policies fall which like I said, racism is often masked by having a difference of opinion. Why is it that people have to first see President Obama's Back to school address to the kids before showing it in the schools (and don't say it didn't happen because it did happen in York, SC) or the mass phone calls from the Rock Hill School District that informed parents to send a note if they did not want their kids to listen to his speech. This is purely ludicrous and racist (but expected in SC). I cannot remember it being a choice (when I was in school) if I wanted to listen to a President's address.

As a fellow evangelical Christian, I am continually disappointed by Jimmy Carter's views, positions & statements. Where is the evidence of racism from the those who passionately disagreem w/ Pres. Obama? You cannot just make a blanket accusation like he did without any evidence. Why can't there be well founded disagreement with Pres. Obama's opinions & policies? I guess that is the new definition of racism. How can Jimmy Carter call these comments racist & not say anything when Rev Wright clearly makes racist statements.

I didnt like Carter. I didnt like Clinton. Am I racist? Maybe. I dont like the letter "C" for the beginning of people's last names. See have effin rediculous that sounds? Thats what all of you people who call anyone who doesnt agree with you sound: ABSURD. You're all retards. The word racist / claim of racism is so overly used and diluted that it means NOTHING to me anymore. Its just another lit match to throw on what is already a 4-alarm fire. Now, to address "get real": Rush probably didnt ask any other President (including the dipwods Carter and Clinton, BECAUSE THEY COMPLIED WITH THE RULES AND PROVIDED WHAT WAS NECESSARY TO THOSE WHO ASKED FOR IT you imbecile). There. I am also RACIST because I dont like Get Real - and I dont even know your color, religion, sex or sexual persuasion -- right? See how absurd you "race card" jackasses look? Idiots. I am surrounded by over emotional, overly defensive and highly unintelligent idiots all day long.

It is about race. The race towards socialism, the race towards destroying what is left of our tattered Constitution.

Carter did every thing to distroy this country. He should just stick to getting dictators that kill there opponents in office. Jimmy was an idiot in the in the seventies and he is an idiot now. Why is it when ever you dont like liberal policies you are a racist? and to the one who said racism is alive in the southern states i am from up north why is it that the KKK main office is in minnisota?

a person that i worked with asked me who i was going to vote for.when i answered she said that i was prejudiced,even though i pointed out how bad his policies would be for the country.when i asked her why she was voting for obummer,she stated that it was because he was black,even though she didn't like his policies.i don't want to hear about this race B.S. because it's not white people that have a problem with his color,it seems to be the blacks that are preoccupied with it.

Wait...Does raceism like 90% of black people voted for the biggest commy president ever, just because he is black count?

Race does play out in the criticism. The fact that folks in a Baptist Church in California are praying for his death; the birth certificate issue (don't think Hilliary Clinton would not have uncovered that. Give me a break); not debating facts on health care and referring to him as "Hitler, a socialist, communist (remember MLK?); "take our country back" Have your forgotten we had an election and the winners are taking back the country?
Let's face it, black and white, we have racist tendencies. What about the clown faces displayed at the get togethers? Wilson fought removing the Confederate flat from the state house in South Carolina. It was put there in 1961 after integration became a hot issue.
Race is the issue. There are debatable issues in the health care plan but no one focuses on it.

For healthcare imporovement, I believe in market based solutions, real competition (not gov intrusion), tort reform & portability - this will actually work. Evidence that the government can do this effectively is woefully lacking. I guess I should be called a racist.

WILL!!!! HOW DARE YOU!!! Black people cannot be racists!! That is called "Reverse Racism"

It was mentioned earlier that the mainstream media was derelict in its duty of revealing the real Barack Obama and that they were failing to report on stories that don't fit the agenda...

This quote from Charles Gibson on the ACORN story, a group that is under investigation inf 14 out of 57 states (don't want to be called a racist for correcting our dear leader), a group that has received 53 million taxpayer dollars and is about to get billions more in taxpayer money...should illustrate that you are not getting the full story.

"I don't even know about it," Gibson said, laughing. "So you've got me at a loss. ... But my goodness, if it's got everything, including sleaziness in it, we should talk about it in the morning."

When one of the radio show's hosts described it as a "huge issue," Gibson said ABC had "done some stories about ACORN before, but this one I don't know about."

SO, this man is calling such a story tabloid journalism?????

If you watch him for your news, you are going to remain ill-informed.

It's simple if you keep looking for racism you end up causing it.

Just what we need, the old peanut brain, who was the worst president in history, trying to cause more problems for all races!!!!! He has never shown patriotism, just anything for his own agenda.

This isn't a new argument, and it isn't just used in politics, it is also a commonly used tactic in middle school playground arguements........

Hey Jim, add G to the list as you don't like people's names that starts with G., lol. More power to ya. It doesn't change my feelings towards you because I don't know you. Just because I might disagree with you doesn't mean I don't like you. And your comments are idiotic without even thinking in terms of race. See how that works, I didn't call you any names or spew any ill will towards you, I used terms to describe your behavior. The world needs more love, not hate.

Consider the source... Jimmy Carter is an idiot. This is about the most ludicrous babble I have heard... all of this racist talk if you disagree with Obama. If you were black and disagreed with Bush then you were racist also by this logic. I disagreed with Bush on a lot of his policies and I disagree with Obama on most of his policies, so I guess I can't win... I must hate everyone.

Race?
If race was the issue Obama would have never won the election.
Stupidity knows no color.

I think what no one has brought up n the last six months is the fact that Pesident Obama is probably not a bad man. I have felt from the beginning that he is indeed a puppet. That's right, a puppet. Do I think that all of these ideas come frm his careful insight and feelings for the US? NO. He s being driven by soeone or something in the background to achieve a goal in some groups agenda. Anyne ever see "The Manchurian Candidate"?

mark, the overeducated man that gets all his facts from talk radio. i might be a simple man but i know where reality is , do you? when was the last time you actually read any of these bills? thats what i thought!

The people who think others don't like Obama because he's black are racists themselves. I considered voting for Obama, but after listening to his campaign speeches, I decided he was just full of socialist rhetoric. He's still making campaign speeches full of nice-sounding, empty promises while the political machine behind the puppet pushes the prosperous America we know over the cliff. This man's legacy is going to be the destruction of everything that has made our country great.

well the voting took place and what did we get from the few that voted. more of the same. all the names we know won. even in the gop mayor race more of the same. no new names there. no real change is coming for us because we let so few decide for all of us. shame on us.

If nothing else, this poll clearlydemonstrates that this Presidents' inane blame games, deflecting finger pointing, obvious distortions of facts, and special interest favoritism has POLARIZED THIS NATION. 2012 can not come soon enough, if the USA is still around.

The Honorable Mr. Carter the last time this nation tried Hope and Change remember it well

The majority of the citizens of the US have moved beyond racism and are concerned about the policies of the present administration.It serves no purpose but Carters to speak of racism, lets talk about the policies that this administration is trying to PUSH for "the good(?) of the people of the US"

My thoughts exactly, pratt! They go into the polls ignorant of the issues, look at the names and pull the lever next to the names they remember without knowing how they stand on the issues.

May I also add that on your side you keep choosing Susan Burgess. Man, what are you people thinking?

Good for President Obama that he stays above the fray on this. Watch our President's response to Joe Wilson's accusation – it's a great demonstration of man in command. To all of us outside of the right wing echo chamber, the racism of these so-called conservatives has been obvious for a long time. William F. Buckley, Jr. would have been horrified. White people, and especially white men, have ruled this country since it' founding, and it took the election of a black man to make whites realize they will soon become the minority in "their" country. Anytime people lose something of such emotional value, their response is denial and anger. The "I want my country back" screams demonstrate that these people don't realize that the country has moved on while they have stood still. When they realize they can't have it back, they respond with the types of outburst we hear all day long on talk radio, Faux News and now in Congress. Racism is like alcoholism: First you have to recognize that you have a problem. The discussion on this blog demonstrates that the majority of WBT listeners have yet to take the first step toward dealing with their issues.

I.M.Dem,
I was praying for Colin Powell to run as president on the republican side of the court. Why? because maybe that way the black voters would listen to policies and campaign platforms instead of just pulling the lever for a black man. I don't care what race the president is, I care what his ideas for me as a member of this nation are. Quite frankly I do not like his ideas, or the ideas of the democratically controlled congress. So I hate Nancy Pelosi and her ideas. I really dislike the corruption being demonstrated by Senator Baucus and his "gang of six". They are the ones that want fines for those who don't get health insurance. No one mentions that 1/4 of the campaign funding for the people in that room comes from.. INSURANCE COMPANIES. Get your head out of the sand and stand up for yourself. This nation is getting railroaded into a socialist style economy faster thank you can blink. Just remember, "A government that has the power to give you everything, has the power to take it all away."

If people continuously point out racism where it does not exist all your going to do is create it.

"If people continuously point out racism where it does not exist all your going to do is create it." Dan S

What was it Rush said yesterday about racism? Your GOP leader speaks! Talk about calling the kettle black! Wow

Senior. One of your fellow seniors, John McCain was not born in the United States. So, what do his fellow white Senators do? In 2008 (S. Res. 511) they declare that he is an American. Where was that same effort for Obama? See how our worlds are different? We have been living in your world for a long time and can see all the racism that fills it. Hopefully the diversity we see blooming everywhere will help all of us see the racism and allow us to eliminate it.

i just had a thought.if you don't like someone's idiology and you catch them and call them on a lie, and they happen to be black,and that makes you a racist,you are doing your race an injustice.i would call that stupidity.so i guess that what the blacks are saying is that they're all stupid liars.remember,it's the blacks that are saying this,not the whites.

He was born in the Panama Canal zone to parents that were American citizens as his father was in the US military. The Panama Canal Zone at that time was considered to be US property. You are so blinded by your hatred of white people, BWL. It is you that is the racist. When I arrived in this country many years ago I was subjected to all types of discrimination even by the teachers as I attended school. I got over it, maybe you should too!

Does racism play any major role in criticizing President Obama today? No more than it did with Bill Clinton yesterday!

Every time something isn't going their way, minorities and those who support their issues cry racism. And we continue to fall all over ourselves trying to prove it isn't true. If they really wanted racism to die, they'd stop using it as a tool. We're willing to do anything to disprove we're racist, so it is too profitable to give up.

The discontent with Obama has nothing to do with his being black and everything to do with the fact that he is pink (a socialist) and is doing his best to turn the country in that direction.

Carter's statement lends credibility to this 'Hail Mary pass' of an arguement. NOT!! If I was once a flaming liberal and changed my mind when Obama came along I guess you might be able to suspect racism. I, however, was and still am a fiscal and social conservative and loathe the policies that Obama supports.

Why don't you ask the land-owning adults who voted for the very first time last year what made them finally get off their fat a**es and go to the polls? HMMM what could it have been?

Sambone,
I don't listen to Rush, I think he's a pompous windbag. However if he said that, I'll agree with him on at least that point. You can't continue to accuse people of being racists or bigots or liars without creating animosity towards the people pointing fingers. You want to solve the race problem quit bringing it up unless it's true. No one's burning crosses in yards here, they are disagreeing in a socialist agenda that the president and his cronies are pushing through the senate.
Go read the health care bill, if your're in the middle class you're SCREWED if you have to get your own insurance. Cheap insurance is between 8-9k a year for a family. You are now REQUIRED to purchase it or face large fines. If you're household income is above 77k you get no tax credit from the government for purchasing insurance.
Those plans tend to have deductible in excess of 10k. So now you decide to have a kid, or god forbid something happen, you just spend in the neigherborhood of 20k of your 77k (before taxes) on healthcare. So that leaves you with around 30k to pay your other bills that year (assuming around 30% in taxes). I don't like that at all.. does that make me racist?

Oh yes and the "Gang of Six" that created the plan, that Barak has said he has reservations about, are all white.

Jimmy Carter is a IDIOT.

For Pete Sake, why is every thing about race??? I admit I am prejudice against fascism and tyranny . Perhaps that will soon will be in a hate bill? I don't care what color your skin or if you don't even have skin (so libtards will understand , I put that in for humor) if you want to tread on our liberties, I don't like you. If you lie to steal our liberties, I like you even less. Jimmy Carter was an embarrassment as president and continues he exemplary stupid service to date. I believe Obama is not a leader of America, he is a fascist community organizer.

Senior, you missed my point. I did not say McCain was not an American, just that he was not born in the United States. My point was the preferential treatment afforded him by his fellow Senators. They rushed to try to legitimize McCain, while the black man got no such benefit. I would like to see the Senate declare Obama an American so that this bogus rumor about is finally deligitimized.

BWL: Do you really think that John McCain should not be allowed to be president because he was born on a US military Base while his father was serving???

Now, I'm not saying that John McCain should be president, however he was the lesser of 2 evils. And for those who want to complain; the problem of the McCain/Palin ticket was not Palin...it was clearly McCain that sunk that ship.

But, I don't think that race had anything to do with the fact that John McCain was deemed worthy to aspire to be the President of the United States. ANY person born of US citizens on a US military base, while 1 or both of the parents are serving the country should be allowed to attempt to be president. In my opinion the children of a military person would actually have more of a right than (did I use this right??) I do, and not less.

Can someone please explain to me, and I know it has been stated before, but why is it that if a white person voted for someone other than Obama they are racist, but if a black person voted for him they are not? I guess the same rules would apply: if I'm proud to be white then I'm racist, but if someone is proud to be black then it is ethnic pride, or being proud of ones heritage/ancestors. I just don't understand how the rules are so different.

The only reason people blame racism as the cause for opposition towards Obama, is because he is black. No one claimed racism when people were so blatantly disrespectful and against George Bush. I am tired of the special interest always pulling the discrimination card, can no one just take responsibility for their actions and not try and place the blame on racism. Its ridiculous and to me make those who scream racism more racist then any of us! I don’t like Obama because of his policies and his dishonesty. He is inconsistent and has done more damage in a few months being in office than any other president before him. Please all you who like to pull the race card GET OVER YOURSELVES! No one cares about your skin color...

BWL...I suspect means, "Black While Living"

You are surely a pitiful victim. Maybe some reparations would help?

i did not vote for her

I am not saying that at all, BillF. All I am saying is that he was not born in the United States. That is a fact. Also, Mitt Romney's father was born in Mexico, Bill Richardson's parents were both born outside the United States, James Buchanon's parents were born in Ireland.... My point, once again, is to raise the question why Obama was no given the same deferential treatment. Why did nobody ask McCain, Romney and Richardson for their birth certificates? Senior's explanation that Obama's dad was born in Kenya bears no relevance, since others with parents born outside the United States did not have their citizenship questioned. It is this type of discrimination we live with every day. Members of dominant groups have the luxury of obliviousness. Black are not that oblivious, since they are the victims.

BWL,
Simple, his mother at the time of his birth was not old enough (14) to convey citizenship to Obama based on the law at that time. If he was born outside the US, he would not be a US citizen. There has been suggested documentation that he went to school in Indonesia/Polynesia as a citizen of those countries. Additionally he has spent TONS of money trying to prevent ANYONE from revealing if he even has a long form birth certificate on file in Hawaii. The same lawyers are preventing any of his college transcripts from being revealed. It casts a huge air of uncertainty about a man who is supposed to be the leader of the US.

For those of you that don't know, the long form birth certificate in Hawaii is only given to children born in the state> Obama has yet to release that document or allow the Hawaiian state government to even reveal if that document exists. The short form or certificate of life birth that he released is a document that a child was born to a resident of Hawaii whether they were in the country or not.

Now, enough about it, we will never find out one way or another if the crazy Birthers are right. I think at this point it would cause more harm than good anyway, the time to allow such checks and arguments are long since gone.

BTW if you feel like your the victim, please explain how? Do you speak English well? Do you pronounce your words correctly? Do you dress appropriately for the setting? Do you behave in a civilized and contained manner? Are you separating yourself from other people intentionally to promote your ethnic heritage? If you answered yes to any of these, congratulations your a redneck and they get picked on and looked down upon by everyone in the country, yet no one screams racism when a comedian makes a joke about them.

As my mother always said, build a bridge and get over it. There are scholarships, affirmative action, government required hiring quotas, and numerous other programs to help minorities get ahead. I would be TICKED if I was a minority. All those programs merely suggest that minorities need help to get ahead in life, where others can get there by merit and hard work. We all know that's not true.
Obama himself started in humble beginnings. Look where he is now. WHY? He worked his butt off. Hard work and motivation get you places, stepladders just give you a better view.

This is a poorly worded question. You ask, "Does racism play a role in Obama's critics." I answered no because for me it doesn't and I dare say for the large majority of those who oppose Obama it doesn't. However, from the way you phrased the question, in a literal fashion one would have to say yes. There are always going to be people who make race an issue. That racism is on both sides of the issue. There are those on the Progressive/Democrat side who deem any criticism of their statist agenda as racist because their head cheerleader the President is black. That is one reason they found him so attractive as a candidate. There are of course some white folks I'm sure who oppose him because of his race. They are idiots, enough said about that. Perhaps your question would have been better put if you had asked if racism was a primary factor in the opposition to the President

Dan, S., thanks for your long explanation, but all of your allegations have been proven wrong and discredited by the State of Hawaii. Furthermore, today a judge declared frivolous a lawsuit alleging that Obama is not a citizen. I quote from the decision: "(Rhodes) has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations and conjecture that President Obama is ineligible to serve as president of the United States. Instead, she uses her complaint as a platform for spouting political rhetoric, such as her claims that the president is 'an illegal usurper, an unlawful pretender, [and] an unqualified imposter." Now, I firmly believe that even if you had witnessed Obama's birth, you would still doubt it, but I wanted to put the facts out there for everyone else. However, and again, since you all are a bit slow today. My point is not about citizenship. My point is that Obama is being treated differently simply because he is black. No other candidate or president has had to prove his citizenship. How do you know Romney is not Mexican, or Richardson not Guatemalan, or McCain not Panamanian? Have you seen their birth certificates?

BLW What if I stipulate, and I have no way of really knowing, that some of the birthers are racist? My question to you is, does that change the validity of those that oppose the President on the grounds that they disagree with the policies that he supports?

E Sims, granting your stipulation in no way changes the validity of those who oppose Obama.

E Sims, sorry, after reading my answer, I am unsure I was clear. So, let me explain. I believe the two are independent. So, it is absolutely possible to disagree with Obama and not be a racists. It is also possible to agree with Obama and be a racists.

BWL,
Did you read the third paragraph?

"Now, enough about it, we will never find out one way or another if the crazy Birthers are right. I think at this point it would cause more harm than good anyway, the time to allow such checks and arguments are long since gone."

I don't care, i feel we are past the stage were anything can or SHOULD be done about it. Or do I need to explain that in more detail?