Jimmy Carter, the man who puts his arms around the world’s more ruthless murderers, tyrants, and terrorists, yesterday said that race was the underlying reason for the Joe Wilson outburst and the strong resistance to the president’s proposals. Two things: this shows just how out of his mind and how rabidly Leftist that Jimmy Carter is. Fidel Castro felt so comfortable with Jimmy Carter’s ideology that he allowed the ex-president to give an unscripted, uncensored speech in totalitarian communist Cuba. Carter is a communist and/or a communist sympathizer, so of course he has no idea as to why so many Americans are up in arms about Obama’s “socialist” policies. Second thing: race is not the reason that so many people oppose the president, if racism were the reason then the two thirds white majority of this country would not have voted for a biracial president by such margins. That is exhibit A. Exhibit B is that Americans are not protesting against his color, nor his accent, nor anything having to do with race, heritage, etc. People are protesting against his policies. The only thing that even borders on racism are the claims that he is a Muslim, but even that claim is backed up by evidence on paper that shows that Barack Obama (under the last name of his stepfather, Soetoro), as a child, was enrolled in school as a Muslim.

One can assume that it is racism but, again, they would be wrong. Personally, I do not think he is a Muslim (I don’t care if he is), but I do believe that he, like Carter, sympathizes and empathizes with even the most extremist elements of the Muslim world.

Carter goes on to say that there is 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.” Again, he distorts reality. Americans who oppose the president, by and large, do not think he is incompetent but rather that he is smart… too smart. Let me remind you that it was a white president, George W. Bush, who was constantly accused of being unqualified by the Left for eight years.

What Jimmy Carter’s comments go to show is that in moments of desperation, Democrats will reach into their political playbook and pull out the race card. How many times already have we seen this move pulled so far this year? We saw it play out with the Gates arrest incident, when the president said that the police “acted stupidly” in arresting his friend Professor Gates, before even knowing the facts of the case. We saw it when Glenn Beck stated an opinion firmly grounded in fact and backed up by the president’s own words and actions (undistorted, in full context), that Barack Obama is racist, in terms of his policies on social justice. I do not believe that the president is a “racist” (in that he hates people of some color or ethnicity) but I do believe that the president does have ideas of racial reparations and racial social justice, which are, by definition, racist (or racially based). Obama said it:

Yet despite his own words, despite written evidence in his books, Glenn Beck was demonized for his poor choice of words. Then we have the case where the charges against the New Black Panther Party members who intimidated voters were dropped by Obama’s Justice Department. Now we have Carter, standard-bearer of the Democratic Party, accusing Americans who oppose Obama of being racist.

I find it humorous that when liberals criticize conservatives and libertarians, they distort the truth, flat-out lie, and misrepresent individual activists or protesters, but when conservatives criticize liberals, all we have to do is play the video, show the transcript, or point to the very words that the Democratic Party leadership say in order to make our arguments. I understand why the Democrats play the race card to defend their president’s policies, especially when these policies cannot be defended on their own “merits.” What I do not understand, for the life of me, is why the Democrats, when in a hole, think that it is a good idea to play the Peanut Card? At least they got his name right when I checked Wikipedia earlier this morning:

-AG