I sometimes wonder if you guys can really master your own English languge.
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Transcript of Former President Jimmy Carter's Remarks on Racism at an Emory University Townhall Meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009
Question: Do you still believe that racism is an issue that President Obama is facing in passing bills in Congress?
President Carter: Yes, I do. Let me answer this question very carefully.
I think it is completely legitimate, and to be expected, to have tough, sometimes even unfair debates about major issues that face our country. Health care is one. I think it is within the bounds of political propriety, for instance, for opponents of President Obama's proposal to raise the false claim that there are death squads, and that everybody that is over 65 years old is going to be deprived of medical care, to let them die early. Those are the kinds of claims that have been made against them. That's okay.
But when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the President of the United States of America as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they waved signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kinds of things are beyond the bounds of the way Presidents have ever been accepted, even with people who disagree.
And I think people that are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African-American. It's a racist attitude, and my hope is, and my expectation is, that in the future both Democratic leaders and Republican leaders will take the initiative in condemning that kind of unprecedented attack on the President of the United States.
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If you do not believe it, see it here, in full, live:
If one googles, many sources claim that he gave parts of that comment in direct reply to questions about what he think about that you-Lie-Incident. That way they want to construct a situation that Carter is claimed to have said Wilson is a racist.
But get it in your heads, guys: that simple did not happen.
But the propaganda effort is directed against one of your most favourite hate-figures, Carter. And that is the only reason why you applaud it. If there is anything you want to point out as questionable in Carter's else remarkably reasonable and sensible remarks, then that he says that bullying an opponent in a debate by putting things into his mouth and claiming lies about him like him wanting to establish death squads, is "okay". It is not, and it is no practicing of free speech, but practicing free lying. It is perverting free speech by turning it into a tool of destroying speech alltogether. Because you cannot have a reasonable debate wioth soembody who thinks it is legitimate for him to lie and to bully if it helps him to win over his opponent. That simply is shabby behavior and a level of hostility that turns the debate not into something constructive, but into destruction. Talking to such a person is pointless, simply.
Which this forum often has given evidence of, too. I can sing an endless song about having been misquoted, quoted ouzt of cointext, things put in my mouth, and that way making claims about what I should have said and meant that as a matter of fact I never have said.
This status of things into which political culture in the US and it's media has degenerated over the recent years, is the reason why the US society is so very much and very fanatically polarised.
I googled many pages and blogs and newspaper on this issue, and I found that almost all of them made wrong links between what was asked, what Carter did adress, and what he actually said. It was scaring becasue it shows that the media, despite the vital critical role it should play in a democratic order, is totally and completely failing it's responsibility. And this is utmost worrying.