does carter remember that it was the whites that got obama elected? No racism here.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Carl Strock THE VIEW FROM HERE Is race behind the rage at Obama? Carl Strock can be reached at 395-3085 or by e-mail at carlstrock@dailygazette.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am not one to holler racism at every turn, and I do not sign on to former President Jimmy Carter’s declaration that “the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that’s he an African-American.” It may be so or it may not; I have no way of knowing. I do believe the intensely demonstrated animosity needs explaining, and I have been grappling with explanations myself, explanations that so far have not included race, since I have seen no compelling evidence of such a thing. But who knows what is in the hearts of our fellow citizens who sputter with rage at a president when he proposes something seemingly so benign as an extension of government health care? Who knows what is in the hearts of those who zanily insist he is not an American but was born in either Kenya or Indonesia and clandestinely insinuated himself into our nation? Or who insist he is a communist? Or even a Nazi? Could it be a deep-down repugnance for a dark-skinned man with nappy hair? In the case of Rep. Joe Wilson, who famously shouted “You lie,” we do know, despite his son’s guarantee that good old dad has “not a racist bone in his body,” that as recently as the year 2000 he voted to keep the Confederate flag flying over the South Carolina statehouse (he was on the short end of a 36-7 vote). And we know he waxed indignant when an old tan-colored lady stepped forward after the death of Sen. Strom Thurmond in 2003 to say she was Thurmond’s daughter, the product of a union between that patriarch of segregation when he was a lad of 22 and a 16-year-old Negro housemaid. .................>>>>..................>>>>..................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01100&AppName=1
Strock and Jimmy Carter both have about the same mentality when it comes to what people really want, they're both out of touch with the people IMHO.
I expected it from strock but was a bit surprised when it came from carter.
I am sure that there are people who don't like obama just for the simple fact that he is black. Those people never voted for him any way. They did not elect him into office.
So the fact remains that obama is black and got elected to the seat of the president of the united states. AND he was elected by a white majority. He beat out a white guy and a pretty white girl!
So in the scope of things, racism is a moot point to say the least.
Somebody better clue strock and carter and the liberal spin news media in on this.IMHO
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Racism will always exist.....there are a bunch of idiots around and always will be......black to white, white to black, black to latino, white to latino, latino to white, blah blah blah blah blah.......now everyone else is offended that I left them out......
we should all just shut up before congress has a hearing on the Jets failure to inform about Favre's injury.......geez.....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
If you compare Carter to Limbaugh, I will take the 85 year old senior citizen whose wisdom we can all llearn from over the loud mouth of a younger racist.
If you compare Carter to Limbaugh, I will take the 85 year old senior citizen whose wisdom we can all llearn from over the loud mouth of a younger racist.
If you compare Carter to Limbaugh, I will take the 85 year old senior citizen whose wisdom we can all llearn from over the loud mouth of a younger racist.
Carter hasn't made a sound decision in his life. Even the Obama administration is distancing themselves from his comments. Carter forgets that conservatives opposed the Clinton health care reform during the Clinton Administration. And that was the "first black president" that was white, with a heath care reform bill proposed by a woman. These people are lunatics.
HE'S A RACIST. SHE'S A RACIST. WOULDN'T YA LIKE TO BE A RACIST TOO!
Is that all you can come up with. If you are at invective only, you have run out of ways to defend your position and you have lost the debate, Cal, Sal, what ever your name is today. And there is nothing we can learn from Carter except what NOT to be and do.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
The race from race: Dems rebut Carter By: Alex Isenstadt September 16, 2009 06:07 PM EST
Jimmy Carter is 84 years old and three decades removed from the White House, but he still has the power to make Democrats run.
Away from him, that is.
From the White House to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Democrats raced to distance themselves from the former president’s claim that racism was behind Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You lie” outburst and other attacks on President Barack Obama.
“Listen, he’s the former president, and he’s entitled to his point of view,” said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). “I personally believe President Obama and his administration are focused on the issues, and I agree with that.”
“I don’t see this as a racial issue,” added Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.). “There are a lot of people upset about how we on the Democratic side can engage like we have been, and there’s a lot of anger out there. So, I don’t see it as a racial issue.”
“I didn’t agree with it,” Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) said of Carter’s remarks.
Congressional Democrats have no interest in starting a racial argument that could turn off swing district voters whose support the party will need if it plans on keeping its grip on Congress in 2010. And the current occupants of the White House made it clear Wednesday that they have no interest in bringing race back to the fore of any discussion about Obama.
“The president does not believe that criticism comes based on the color of his skin,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters in his Wednesday briefing. “We understand that people have disagreements with some of the decisions that we’ve made and some of the extraordinary actions that had to be taken by both this administration and the previous administration.”
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Carter was right about racism driving Obama’s detractors
I am writing in appreciation of Carl Strock's Sept. 13 column, and in particular his recent words on "the angry ones" who are fulminating about President Obama's efforts to provide this country with decent health care. Carl wonders whether President Jimmy Carter is accurate in his view that much of the hatred driving many of Obama's detractors is racially motivated. As a psychiatrist of many years' experience, I am convinced that Carter is right. Sigmund Freud's major contribution, in the view of many, is the idea that we are largely motivated by forces lying within us that we are unaware of, and even deny the existence of, because these forces are not acceptable to our conscious minds for various reasons. Our "unconscious" is unconscious for good reasons, and tends to show itself mainly in our dreams, when it can be dismissed as "just a crazy dream." Few people are willing to admit that they are "racist," because that would make them "bad" people, and the "angry ones" like to think that they are the "good" people in a country that's in danger of being seduced into "socialism" or worse. Racial hatred has not disappeared with Obama's election, it has just gone underground. It emerges in disguise, sometimes thinly veiled, in the hateful utterances of its proponents. Sometimes the images on placards speak more loudly, as in the witch doctor images I have seen on TV. I hasten to add that I speak for myself only, not for my profession as a whole. Psychiatry, like any other profession, consists of all kinds of folks. I also like Carl's attention to the longrunning "Schenectady Police Show," which at times makes "Hill Street Blues" look like a walk in the park, and to the more recent, but quite unbelievable "School Board Show" which might help demonstrate to the Third World how to (not) run a democracy. In a media world where hearing or reading the truth is an extremely difficult thing to determine, we need our Carl Strocks. Keep it up, Carl!
Bob, did they teach mind reading where you went to school because that would be the only way to know what people are really thinking. From talking with people who are opposed to health-care in it's present form I have found that the people are opposed to increasing the debt, changing 1/6th of our economy without even reading the bills, raising taxes when so many people are out of work and hurting small businesses, and weakening the dollar which could increase inflation and have catastrophic results.
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