Jimmy Carter Racist?

[Rita]

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Just looks to me like somebody has a need to whine.

Guess we could start a SoWal "whine line" ....:roll:

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[GoodWitch58]

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Just looks to me like somebody has a need to whine.

Guess we could start a SoWal "whine line" ....:roll:

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good idea

 

[Smiling JOe]

I don't think Carter or Wilson are racist, but none of us knows for certain what is in another persons heart.

This is the second time that it has been brought up that we don't know whether or not someone else is a racist, and I can see how that may be true for people whom we don't really know, such as politicians in Wa(r)shignton, but I know whether or not many people are racists. Many people wear their hearts on their sleeves.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Please read my other posts. The thread is meant to show the huge disparity between the way conservative are treated by the press and the way liberals are treated by the press. It appears that only conservatives seem to be labeled racist for comments and actions that don't appear racist ("you lie") whereas libs get a free pass when they make comments that could just as easily be twisted by the press ("black boy").
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What's new with the way the press treats things? Many wise people have stated terrible things about the press since the press first began.

Here are a few good ones:

?Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization?

George Bernard Shaw

?Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge?

Erwin Knoll



?It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.?

Jerry Seinfeld


?I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.?

Charles Baudelaire

?The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.?

Anne Sullivan

 

[poppy]

Please read my other posts. The thread is meant to show the huge disparity between the way conservative are treated by the press and the way liberals are treated by the press. It appears that only conservatives seem to be labeled racist for comments and actions that don't appear racist ("you lie") whereas libs get a free pass when they make comments that could just as easily be twisted by the press ("black boy").

There is no need to post a reference to something that was taped and can be found very easily on the internet.

Again, I don't think he is racist, a pathetic past president, but not a racist.

I believe you, I can find no reason to doubt you but Jimmy Carter was a poor choice to make your point. He may not be everyone's favorite President but racism is not in his DNA. Maybe a former Dixiecrat would have been more believable.

 

[idlewind]

I believe you, I can find no reason to doubt you but Jimmy Carter was a poor choice to make your point. He may not be everyone's favorite President but racism is not in his DNA. Maybe a former Dixiecrat would have been more believable.

After reading through this thread it is obvious that some do not want to address the point so they make wild accusations and divert attention.
Jimmy Carter is no racist. He stood tall in Georgia against the old guard segregationists like Maddox. By most accounts he was a good governor. I supported him for President in 1976 because of his record as governor. He is the only Democrat to date I have ever supported for President and as I was too young to vote in 1976, I have never voted for one.
He was a terrible President, in over his head. He left 20% interest rates, 14% inflation and hostages in Iran. Reagan fixed the problems at a high cost-runaway deficits.
I believe the point Fisher was trying to make is that had a Conservative with the same impeccable record as Mr. Carter made the same reference-calling a Black man a "black boy" that conservative would have been castigated by the media regardless of the years of service or the clean record. I think Fisher has a valid point.
Good people can make slips and mistakes. Cater made one and got a pass as he deserved. Hopefully we can come to a place one day where a good man who is a conservative can get the same treatment.

 

[fisher]

After reading through this thread it is obvious that some do not want to address the point so they make wild accusations and divert attention.
Jimmy Carter is no racist. He stood tall in Georgia against the old guard segregationists like Maddox. By most accounts he was a good governor. I supported him for President in 1976 because of his record as governor. He is the only Democrat to date I have ever supported for President and as I was too young to vote in 1976, I have never voted for one.
He was a terrible President, in over his head. He left 20% interest rates, 14% inflation and hostages in Iran. Reagan fixed the problems at a high cost-runaway deficits.
I believe the point Fisher was trying to make is that had a Conservative with the same impeccable record as Mr. Carter made the same reference-calling a Black man a "black boy" that conservative would have been castigated by the media regardless of the years of service or the clean record. I think Fisher has a valid point.
Good people can make slips and mistakes. Cater made one and got a pass as he deserved. Hopefully we can come to a place one day where a good man who is a conservative can get the same treatment.

Amen. and thanks.

 

[fisher]

I will choose not to spend precious time arguing, bickering over petty sh** like this. fisher, go have a drink and relax. Go out and do something funn. Not sure where you live but if it is in SoWal get out from behind that computer and go enjoy what God gave you. Life is is too short to waste time FINDING things to ARGUE about. Geez. Seriously. Geez.

KD--thanks for the advice. BUT, life is actually really good for me. I use the net from time to time for entertainment. This is no different. I like the occasional debate on this forum. I take everything said on these forums with a grain of salt and hold no grudges against anyone. I get a chuckle everytime I sit down and read some of the posts.

As for relaxing and doing something funn, if you will look at my user data, I average roughly one post every two days. So, I'm not really spending that much time on this site. I have too many other great outside interests to spend too much time on the internet.

On the other hand, it appears that you average about 8 or so posts per day. So why are you saying I should get out from behind the computer and have some funn???

I don't want to offend anyone else that really likes to sit on this forum and chat a bunch. To each his own and I'm glad you enjoy it. But, to KD I just needed to say that I do not spend my life behind the computer. To the contrary, I spend most of my life when not working in the great outdoors with friends and family.

Have a nice day.

 

[Bob]

KD--thanks for the advice. BUT, life is actually really good for me. I use the net from time to time for entertainment. This is no different. I like the occasional debate on this forum. I take everything said on these forums with a grain of salt and hold no grudges against anyone. I get a chuckle everytime I sit down and read some of the posts.

As for relaxing and doing something funn, if you will look at my user data, I average roughly one post every two days. So, I'm not really spending that much time on this site. I have too many other great outside interests to spend too much time on the internet.

On the other hand, it appears that you average about 8 or so posts per day. So why are you saying I should get out from behind the computer and have some funn???

I don't want to offend anyone else that really likes to sit on this forum and chat a bunch. To each his own and I'm glad you enjoy it. But, to KD I just needed to say that I do not spend my life behind the computer. To the contrary, I spend most of my life when not working in the great outdoors with friends and family.

Have a nice day.

KD, you've been told to have a nice day. use the dead bolt tonight.

 

[LuciferSam]

KD, you've been told to have a nice day. use the dead bolt tonight.