God forbid the President should antagonize the right, you know.

This capitualtion, of course, will now make them act much friendlier to us.

Keep it going. Republicans will shortly find themselves on the wrong end of the stick in fundraising from corporations who won't want themselves associated with racism.

Obama has to say this; but Bill Cosby nailed it this morning on MSNBC on Andrea Mitchell's show.

this is harsh, but we'll see what he really thinks when some retarded hick with a gun takes a shot at him

Being critical of the president's policies is one thing. I am all for disagreement over policies. However, calling the president a liar in a setting like Wilson did is about more than a disagreement over policies. Carter is right about that. Racists don't think they are racists just like drug addicts don't think they are addicts. People have a hard time diagnosing their most serious flaws. Lets make a redneck joke out of this one: You might be a racist redneck if your political hero is Strom Thurmond and you shout out in an address to Congress by the first non-white president in US history "you lie". And you aren't playing the race card if you call him out for it like Carter did. You are just astute.

It's a fact that the media and blogospere is talking about this to try and stir up division. I've watched tennis for years and Serena Williams wasn't even angry before be exploded. It all was so contrived, that it was ridiculous.

GEORGE CARLIN: I’d like to talk about some things that bring us together, things that point out our similarities instead of our differences, because that’s all you ever hear about in this country, is our differences. That’s all the media and the politicians are ever talking about, the things that separate us, things that make us different from one another. That’s the way the ruling class operates in any society. They try to divide the rest of the people. They keep the lower and the middle classes fighting with each other, so that they, the rich, can run off with all the [bleep] money. Fairly simple thing, happens to work. You know, anything different, that’s what they’re going to talk about. Race, religion, ethnic and national background, jobs, income, education, social status, sexuality. Anything you can do, keep us fighting with each other, so that they can keep going to the bank.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgps85scy1g

How dare Obama even consider the fervent hatred towards him to be a result of racism? What a complete lack of political decorum and bipartisanship on Obama's part to even begin to entertain the notion. The only people who throw around the word 'racist' are those that can't come up with a better way to argue with their opponents.

Besides, anyone who's paying attention knows that the only racism is his hatret towards us whites. He hates whitey, and that's why he, or his potical jack-booted goons like Carter, are playing the race card like the desperate racists that they are.

All Gibbs said was the the 'President doesn't believe...'

Doesn't sund like a rebuke. As the right would say; Its called Freedom of Speech. President Carter has the right to express himself just like Joe Wilson.

Carter is only saying "YOU LIE" to those who claim it isn't(also)about race.

Carter is exactly right, and Gibb's denial is simply pro-forma and to be expected. The president can't say it, and if he did, it would backfire. It's not his style anyway to bitterly decry racism leveled against him, even when its fairly obvious.

But that said, and politics aside, Carter was right to denounce this. Sometimes it is important to point just on the principal of the matter. (And ignoring the bobblehead MSM's usual defense mechanisms -- any rebuke supposedly only "emboldens" them, etc. Carter's rebuke is a "gift" and will "rally" the bigots. Whatever. Thank god MLK didn't listen to that kind of crap.)

The whole thing is just kind of sad. A minority of bigots/kooks/haters who don't represent the views of many, but just like to bang on a big drum and make noise. These people really make me ashamed of this country sometimes. So vitriolic, so bigoted, so stupid and mean. They are a STAIN on the fabric of the nation.