Jimmy Carter speaks the truth about Wilson and Racial attacks against Obama

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Source: Associated Press

ATLANTA — Former President Jimmy Carter says Congressman Joe Wilson's outburst to President Barack Obama last week was an act "based on racism." Carter says Wilson's comment was part of an "inherent feeling" of some in this country who feel that a black man should not be president.

Carter called Wilson's comment "dastardly" and said the president should be treated with respect.

The South Carolina Republican lawmaker was formally rebuked Tuesday in a House vote divided by party lines. Wilson shouted "You lie!" during Obama's speech to Congress last Wednesday.

Carter was responding to a question submitted Tuesday night at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta.

Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hnBZu...

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Thank you, President Carter, for speaking the brutal and honest truth.

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Updating with more complete quote from the Washington Post:

"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 said. "I live in the South, and 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"

Continued Carter, who is famously from Georgia: "And that racism inclination still exists. And I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of the 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 it grieves me and concerns me very deeply."

Read more:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/15/carter_c...

[Reno Paul]

Obama is half white as well.....I myself don't see him as a black man.....I see him as the greatest speaker since JFK.

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Thats because you have brains that work and don't own books from Hannity or Coulter