Is President Carter right?

They did say GW lied and no the Repubs did nothing about it.  The Dems did say that our soldiers were dragging women and children out of their houses in the dead of night terrorizing them and the repubs said nothing.  The repubs have seldom stood up when the Dems said something ridiculous and/or insulting.

To OP, No I do not feel this is racist in the least,  but imagine that it plays well in Peoria.

Irresponsible is right.  We talk in this country of doing away with the race issues, and yet deep disagreement with the idealogies of a President are equated to racism simply because that President is black? That logic is not only so deeply wrong, it actually creates an environment that doesn't exist and takes us several steps back in disolving the race issues in this country. 

And for those who don't remember, President Bush was booed during joint sessions and he was called a variety of names by, at the time, current members of both the House and the Senate.  There were no apologies for that.  God forbid passionate people exercise free speech, or maybe I should just say, God forbid passionate white people exercise free speech.  Yes, there are decorum rules, and Rep Wilson stepped out of bounds, I'm not advocating that (though it would make C-SPAN more interesting--have you ever seen the British parliament in session!!).  But, I think it's ridiculous that two words "you lie" have been translated into "I hate you because you are black and everyone that agrees with me on my views also hates you because your are black."  People in America, on both sides, have deep feelings about current POLICY issues, and they are making their voices known, good for them.  There are obviously bad apples on BOTH sides, and there always will be.  However, they are not the predominate ones, and simply because someone disagrees with the President, who happens to be black, doesn't make them a racists. Just as I'm sure there are some white people who do dislike Pres Obama just cause he is black, I'm sure there were some black people that disliked Pres Bush or other white presidents simply because they were white.  But by no mean does that equate to a majority of our population.  I'm thoroughly disgusted by all of this and think it's a cheap ploy to take heated eyes off the current healthcare debate and to cause discredit to anyone and everyone that disagrees with the policies and ideals of President Obama.  It is shameful, it is juvenile, and is distracting from the real issues that require debate.

Just to parse this article even further, I think you can take it a step further and say that the pertinent section is “intensely demonstrated animosity”.  I don’t have the impression that Carter’s saying that everyone who criticizes the President or disagrees with him is doing so because he’s black, only that there is a section of the population who seems outraged past the point of reason or logic. I can’t help but wonder whether, for a lot of these people, the outrage is based on their anger at seeing a person in the Oval Office whom they think is inherently incapable of holding such an office.    

If Carter’s saying that all criticism of the President is racially motivated, then that’s absurd and I disagree, but it’s not unreasonable to suggest that there’s a pretty large contingent of people in this country who can’t get their head around the idea of a black man holding the highest office in the US.