Is Carter correct?

[R1Geezer]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8258011.stm
Personally I think they voted him in so they can't be that racist. I reckon it's just that the honey moon is over a bit quicker than Barry would have liked and of course the Democrats are twitching!

[ludwig]

I don't think it's anything to do with racism. It's just that he's trying to push through controversial health reforms. Any other Democrat trying to do the same thing would be coming in for the same treatment.

[anotheoldgit]

Sorry Geezer

i had typed out my question, and then had to go somewhere before I had sent it, on my return I sent it and then found you had got there earlier.

Sorry once again.

[jake-the-peg]

Well Carter is just saying that there "was a feeling amoungst many that a black man shouldn't be President"

If he'd said some rather than many I think that that would be self evidently true.

Many? some? it's a debate about words really isn't it? where does some end and many begin?

But somehow it seems to have been related in reports to the heckling of Obama which is unfortunate and possibly mischievious. I rather suspect Republicans of drawing that link in order to express their outrage and denial.

But maybe I'm just cynical

[ludwig]

There's no republican conspiracy here Jake, Jimmy Carter's just an old bloke who got it wrong.

This whole health debate is stirring up a whole load more trouble than usual because (in my opinion) America just doesn't understand provision of state services on an NHS kind of scale. It's alien to their individualist culture, and way to much like communism. Consequently you get republicans getting all worked up and bringing silly words like 'Evil' and 'Tyranny' into the debate.
Nothing to do with racism.

[jno]

I see one of the anti-White House protesters called him an "Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist in chief." No racism there, I feel sure.

[ludwig]

Oh, I stand corrected then jno. One racist has said a racist thing so whole anti Obama feeling is about racism. Thanks for bringing the conclusive evidence to our attention.