Former President Jimmy Carter drew widespread criticism Wednesday for saying in an interview that Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst last week was "based on racism" and that an "overwhelming portion" of similar demonstrations against President Obama are rooted in bigotry.

Obama's supporters have attributed racist motives to some opponents of his health care plan for weeks, but Carter is the highest-profile person so far to push that claim.

While some anti-Obama demonstrators have been seen carrying over-the-top or racially offensive signs, administration critics say Carter is flat wrong to claim that those fringe protesters make up the bulk of Obama's detractors.

"I don't see race as an issue. It's all about the policies that are coming out of the current administration," said Deneen Borelli, a black conservative who spoke at the protest rally held in Washington Saturday. Much of the condemnation of Obama's critics has come as a response to that protest, where tens of thousands demonstrated against big government and over-spending.

"I just see this as the race card being used once again to distract the American people from the core issues," Borelli said.

Adam Brandon, spokesman for protest organizer FreedomWorks, said Carter's comments were "absurd." He noted that the protest featured about a dozen black speakers.

"To say this crowd was racist is absolutely absurd when black speakers were probably the most popular speakers," he said.

Carter might know something we don't.
I've been checking to see if his family traded slaves.

I think former President Carter was correct in what he stated. Racism is alive and well in this country.

It probably is.

But do you think it's the reasoning behind the protests against the government health care " plan "???

I think Health Care Reform has provided a good "Smoke Screen" for the racists at these protests.

Yep, all them black folks who were protesting must really hate his white side.

From what I have seen of the protests, it appears to be 99% white. By stating that there were black people there just further perpetuates the "Smoke Screen" for the racists attending.

Well, fer sure.
You don't expect NBC, CBS or MSNBC to show anything that one wouldn't perceive racism. They are just so, unbiased and deliver truth in reporting.

That is your opinion and BFD on whatever pecentage may have been white. Doesn't prove racism. Not by a long shot.

based on the comments that Carter has made over the last few years

I'm starting to think he must have dementia

I am sure that every country in the world has racism and this is no secret at all . The reality is Barack Obama is a president and therefore all his programs are open to criticism and debate .
It does not matter what his back round is the fact is he is a politician and his politics is on the table for everyone to see and criticize .

Political debate is one thing but people are crossing the line and spreading hate and lies. They use the political debate as a Smoke Screen for racists.

So we should just sit back and let congress do as it pleases because we have a black president.

I still have yet to see a plan from Obama. They are all coming from congress and that's what the people are protesting not the fact that Obama's black.

It's the Dem members of congress that are making a racial issue out of this because the people are strongly against what they want to do to our country. It wouldn't matter what race the president is.

I know this will fall upon deaf ears because some only believe what the likes of Olberman and Maddow say

Point one, racism, from the majority has yet to be proven.

Point two, BHO is mulatto, a percentage white, technically labeled black because of the one drop rule.
Just because he hates his mamma, don't make him any less white.

You know people are protesting a liberal agenda. I'm guessing had Hilary Clinton won and i guaranty the same agenda would be trying to get pushed down oue throats.

Would we all be sexists then?

And what exactly do you think they want to do to our country?

Could be.
Except when Bill was in office, she came across as the one with the balls in th' family.
What with calling out China on it's Human Rights abuses. Oh, I forget, now she's BHO's b----, and has to suck it up and keep quiet.

What if McCain and Palin had won the election and were trying to pass Health Care reform?

And as far as an agenda being "pushed down throats", they are trying to do something good for the American people. People are opposing this because they have been swayed by the constant 24/7 propaganda and hate talk being spewed on radio and TV.

I don't know why I even respond to your posts. You appear to be unwilling or unable to engage in a legitimate debate and turn to hateful and disrespectful comments.

I don't have the answer for you except, the truth hurts. Nothin hateful about it.

HILLARY CLINTON, IN CHINA, DETAILS ABUSE OF WOMEN
By PATRICK E. TYLER
Published: Wednesday, September 6, 1995

Speaking more forcefully on human rights than any American dignitary has on Chinese soil, Hillary Rodham Clinton catalogued a devastating litany of abuse that has afflicted women around the world today and criticized China for seeking to limit free and open discussion of women's issues here.

"It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights," Mrs. Clinton told the Fourth World Conference on Women assembled here.

"It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls," Mrs. Clinton said, or "when women and girls are sold into slavery or prostitution for human greed.

"It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small" she continued, or "when thousands of women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war."

Ya' know, I was actually proud of her for that speach.
When I realized she was over there now, kissin' commie a$$ for a buck, I was ashamed and very sad.

Why is it the only type of folk to scream hate and racism are the Liberal Facists?

Had McCain and Palin won and were trying to pass the same legislation that'S being proposed rite now I would be just as strongly against it.
The only difference no race card to pull!