Gingrich fires back at Carter’s ’subtlety of racism’ charge
In an interview to air on Piers Morgan’s show tonight, Jimmy Carter suggests Newt Gingrich is engaging in “that subtlety of racism” when he talks about food stamps and “welfare mommas”:
Over the phone a few minutes ago, Gingrich gave me this response to Carter’s words:
It’s sad to watch people on the left who have no solutions for the problems of poverty and who automatically start talking about racism the minute a conservative starts talking about how to solve poverty. Carter tried The Atlanta Project*, it didn’t work. You would think he’d have a little happiness that someone was trying to solve poverty.
Gingrich sounded cautiously optimistic about his chances in South Carolina but did not commit to a particular share of the vote or ranking he thinks he needs to hit. (”I hope to come in first.”) If he does well there and in Florida on Jan. 31, Super Tuesday on March 6 — with Georgia as a major prize — will be a huge day in the campaign. Texas, too, “depending on where Governor [Rick] Perry is.” If Perry is out of the race by then, as many observers now expect, Gingrich expects to do well in Texas relative to Mitt Romney.
As for Georgia: Gingrich cited his friendships in the state, including his supporter in the governor’s mansion, and volunteers, many of whom are working for him in South Carolina at the moment. His campaign themes here are unlikely to differ from those elsewhere:
Jobs and economic growth will be number one. National security and American strength, number two; American exceptionalism, number three; and balancing the budget, number four.
—
*I have never heard of The Atlanta Project. Fwiw, this evaluation is not exactly boastful (”TAP doesn’t claim to have all the answers, or the solution for eliminating urban decay”) and it’s probably not a good sign that the link to the TAP page at the Carter Center doesn’t work and the most recent document about TAP on the Carter Center’s site is from 1999. If someone has more recent or complete information about TAP, post it below.
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I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
January 18th, 2012
7:19 pm
First!
carlosgvv
January 18th, 2012
7:20 pm
Newt has proved, many times over, that he will say anything to get elected. So, of course, he is engaging in subtle and not so subtle racism. Newt is a smart guy and he knows how many white votes he needs and how many black votes he doesn’t need to win the primary. When he gets into a primary where he actually needs substantial black support, he will say whatever he thinks will win him votes.
Bart Abel
January 18th, 2012
7:21 pm
Gingrich: It’s sad to watch people on the left who have no solutions for the problems of poverty and who automatically start talking about racism the minute a conservative starts talking about how to solve poverty.
Excuse me, but what exactly are Gingrich’s solutions for poverty? Eliminate child labor laws, fire the adults, and replace them with children?
Now THAT is sad.
short memories
January 18th, 2012
7:22 pm
Carter was the worst president in a long time. He was also our worst governor and George Busbee had to come in behind him and clean his mess up – in the midst of a horrible national economy of Jimmy Carter’s. I would think Carter would be embarassed to show his face, much less jump in with crackpot remarks. He was a complete and miserable failure and virtually every state acknowledged that after his pathetic one term.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
January 18th, 2012
7:24 pm
Dhimmi Karter is a bozo’s bozo. When he’s not pimping the elction of some foreign mass murderer, he’s playing the race card. This make’s him a two trick bozo.
Anything that comes from his mouth should be considered nonsense, nonsense that doesn’t even need to be fact checked. Which is why most dummycrats admire him.
saywhat?
January 18th, 2012
7:27 pm
I will believe Gingrich is innocent of using “subtlety of racism” when in a speech in front of Wall Streeters he states that the children of the rich white people who robbed us blind by causing the economic meltdown need to clean toilets at public schools. Until then, not so much.
Jimmy Carter second worst president ever behind current one
January 18th, 2012
7:28 pm
Typical liberal response. Scream racism. Can’t even talk about food stamps without being a racist. Good grief liberals are effing pathetic. Why is JC even listend to anymore. Didn’t he go senile in 78?
David Green
January 18th, 2012
7:29 pm
Well Kyle it seems that as a voter I have a choice to either vote for a food stamp president or for someone who wants to be a corporate welfare president who “calls the kettle black” in order to get votes. Personally I don’t care for either one but Obama seems to be the lesser of two evils. At least he is a dedicated family man who hasn’t been caught cheating on his wife as you know who.
carlosgvv
January 18th, 2012
7:30 pm
short memories – 7:22
And yet, he is absolutely correct in his assesment of Gingrich.
Chuck Finley
January 18th, 2012
7:32 pm
Really Bart? That is about as ignorant a comment as I have ever read on here. And THAT’S saying something!!
David Green
January 18th, 2012
7:32 pm
Besides Kyle it really is hard to take seriously the family values of a serial adulterer but then again that is a conservative family value isn’t it.
saywhat?
January 18th, 2012
7:35 pm
Jimmy Carter blah blah blah
Typical conservative response. Scream like a stuck pig when your racism is exposed. Can’t even talk about food stamps like a racist without being called on it.. Good grief conservatives are effing pathetic. Why is JC even listened to anymore? Perhaps because he has more character, intelligence, humanity and dignity in his little finger than Gingrich has in his whole corrupt bloated body and fat misshapen head?
Mishap
January 18th, 2012
7:37 pm
So every time he switches from fixing the poor by having their kids work as janitors to talking about black teenage unemployment, he isn’t trying to draw a connection? Or when he talks about food stamp president and then says he’ll go to the NAACP to tell them to demand paychecks, he’s not implying blacks utilize food stamps? Why not address poor rural white Americans? Do the poor only live in inner city neighborhoods?
The dude is absolutely pulling the race card out…albeit in weakly coded form. BTW, I’m not black…I just someone that can’t stand this type of political code and the bigoted cheers from the SC audience. No wonder they battle it out w/ Mississippi to be last in education.
Carter was in the last week of his presidency when I was born so I can’t comment on his presidential acumen but is he lying to say Newt’s playing the race card he knows that goes so well in the south?
Bart Abel
January 18th, 2012
7:39 pm
Really Bart? That is about as ignorant a comment as I have ever read on here.
Don’t kill the messenger Finley. Here’s a direct quote from Gingrich’s mouth in the South Carolina debate: “You could take one janitor and hire 30-some kids to work in the school for the price of one janitor,…
Sorry buddy, but not liking the facts, doesn’t change them.
Carter loves Obama
January 18th, 2012
7:45 pm
Carter thinks Obama is doing a great job, just like he did.
Rafe Hollister
January 18th, 2012
7:46 pm
Being lectured on racism by Jimma Carter is a joke. The man ran as a segragationist when he ran for Gov of this state. Either he is a liar for masking his beliefs, or he really felt he was better than one segment of society.
Barney Strickland
January 18th, 2012
7:46 pm
Gosh, Kyle !! Sure gotta lot of Newt haters in Ralphie McGills old paper !! Oh, well what can you do ? I enjoy your column and that Mr. Bookman is OK also !! Out here in Cobb, we’re gonna vote for Newt anyway !! All that race code stuff obscures the original criticism…. what has Carter/Obama done about poverty ?There, I’ve made up my mind…. like so many others in this paper…. Newt 2012 !!
short memories
January 18th, 2012
7:48 pm
Gingrich brought Clinton kicking and screaming to welfare reform. The 3rd time Clinton signed it. Gingrich in congress and Clinton as President balanced the budget. Do I think either one of them are saints – no I don’t. Today one could argue that Carter and/or Obama are good men. They also are economic idiots. We need economic help now. Obama may replace Carter as the worst president in modern history if he keeps up his pace.
bob
January 18th, 2012
7:49 pm
“During the nasty 1970 Democratic primary for governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter’s campaign mass produced photos of his opponent, Carl Sanders, with the black members of the Atlanta Hawks”
“Also that fall, Carter’s home church, the Plains Baptist Church, voted to ban blacks from joining. Carter did not quit in protest, knowing it would undermine his “Southern Strategy” in the election. Weakly, he said he would attempt to change the policy from the inside.”
Jimmy sure does forget his and his democrat party past.
A dad
January 18th, 2012
7:53 pm
I agree that Carter was our worst president of the modern era, well, Obama might end up giving his a run for his money. Gas crisis, inflation, Carter mismanaged it all. I wasn’t in Georgia when he was governor, but looking at the post re Carter showing pictures of Sanders with the Hawks, well, I guess he’d know a racist when he sees one. And Newt’s from Georgia too. What’s wrong with folks round these parts?
Road Scholar
January 18th, 2012
7:53 pm
Carter did a lot for Habitat for Humanity. Newt wouldn’t know which end of a hammer to use. Newt’s solution for the economy includes Tiffany”s! I wonder if they employ children in their rest rooms?
Jack
January 18th, 2012
7:53 pm
Carter needs to tend to his peanut crop. No one really cares what he thinks.
Michael H. Smith
January 18th, 2012
7:55 pm
Only one small problem with this Jimmy Carter liberal implicit line of bigoted thinking, if you can call it a linear rational thought process.
It is White people receive the majority of the government assistance in this country.
So the stereotypical assumed norm of so-called RAAAACISM is erroneous.
Bart Abel
January 18th, 2012
7:55 pm
Obama may replace Carter as the worst president in modern history
Actually, George W Bush was the worst president in modern history. It should be noted that the Bush administration consulted with Gingrich throughout his term. Essentially, Gingrich wants to continue and build upon Bush’s tax cuts for the rich/corporate welfare/deregulation policies that got us into this mess in the first place.
It’s also worth remembering that Gingrich was a cheerleader for the Iraq war and he wants to applied his failed judgment to Iran and other foreign policy issues.
I don’t know why anybody thinks that we need Bush 2.0, but apparently, some do.
short memories
January 18th, 2012
7:56 pm
re: Road Scholar
Carter needs to stick with habitat for humanity. Hell I bet even Rosalyn thinks he was bad
Jimmy62
January 18th, 2012
7:57 pm
I can’t quite figure this out. Are the liberals here actually arguing that it’s a good thing that more and more people are on food stamps, and that Obama should be applauded for it? And that not wanting a third of the population on food stamps is racist?
short memories
January 18th, 2012
7:58 pm
Tell the six million who lost their jobs under Obama that they are better off with him in office. Obama’s best vote was when he was in the Senate and he voted against an increase in the national debt ceiling
bob
January 18th, 2012
8:00 pm
Bart, are you against kids having part time jobs ? I didn’t think that was a problem and when Newt said his 13 year old did I believe him. What age is acceptable for kids to start learning resposibility Bart, or is that govs job now ?
Michael H. Smith
January 18th, 2012
8:00 pm
I think liberals want everyone dependent of government Jimmy62. That is the ultimate goal of all Marxist is to have the State control everything and everyone from cradle to grave.
Bart Abel
January 18th, 2012
8:01 pm
No Jimmy62. We’re arguing the Gingrich couldn’t care less about those in poverty and the middle class. He talks about eliminating food stamps so that he can get the racist vote and a mandate to eliminate the safety net, not to empower anybody, but to lower taxes for the rich while increasing welfare for the rich.
Jimmy62
January 18th, 2012
8:08 pm
So the fact that more white people are on food stamps than black still makes him racist? And who said anything about eliminating the safety net? An economic safety net is fine, but when near half the country is using it, it’s not a safety net, it’s a mass entitlement/income redistribution scheme. I’m not sure how that empowers anyone. Nor am I sure how being against that is racist. The only racism I can see here is you guys who manage to insert race in to every argument, which is why we will never be able to have an honest discussion about poverty in this country.
Bart Abel
January 18th, 2012
8:09 pm
What age is acceptable for kids to start learning responsibility
Are you seriously asking me this question? Do you seriously want to have the same debate about child labor laws that our country had a century ago? Do you seriously need to be educated on why child labor laws were put into place in the first place?
If you want kids to learn responsibility, send them to school year round, send them to school all day, and make them study. If making kids clean toilets in public bathrooms is your idea of teaching responsibility, then please, don’t have kids.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
Bart Abel
January 18th, 2012
8:11 pm
So the fact that more white people are on food stamps than black still makes him racist?
Take it up with Gingrich: “And so I’m prepared, if the NAACP invites me, I’ll go to their convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.”
BigDawg
January 18th, 2012
8:15 pm
We so need better education so that so many of the ignorant people will understand politics and the economy. Give me something! Oh wait, I can’t get any relief because I work and pay my bills on time. Socialism and Europe, Nobama Hussein is ready to join your European Union!
Bart Abel
January 18th, 2012
8:18 pm
Nobama Hussein is ready to join your European Union!
Actually, Europe is ground zero for austerity. It’s the Republicans who seek to import Europe’s bad ideas, not Dems.
Her they come in their clean white suits and they're coming to take him away...
January 18th, 2012
8:19 pm
“Jimmah…come on back now…we’ve got good meds for you. The American people made it VERY CLEAR in 1980, exactly what they thought about you AND your policies! What did you win? 2 states? Now, come on Jimmah…time for bed. Look on the bright side, Jimmah…you’re now the SECOND worst President ever!”
All I'm Saying Is....
January 18th, 2012
8:24 pm
Amen to Mishap as he speaketh the truth on this blog.
Beth Merkleson
January 18th, 2012
8:24 pm
It’s not that more black people are on food stamps, it’s that only black food stamp recipients need a fat white d00d to lecture them. ‘Splaining everything to darker folk is the White Man’s Burden and Newt is heroically shouldering the load.
Newt's Soon to be 3rd Mistress & Soon to be Fourth Wife
January 18th, 2012
8:24 pm
Newt, you are irrelevant and have no shot at Romney……go ahead and cheat on your wife again so you can divorce her and met yet another mistress….then talk about how you apologized to God so all is good.
Rafe Hollister
January 18th, 2012
8:25 pm
Bart Abel
I know you know this, but just a reminder the former Bush Tax Cuts were for every tax payer, not just the wealthy. 85% of the money went to the middle class and poor. And since he extended these cuts, they are now known as the Obama Tax Cuts. If he did not want them extended, he could have vetoed the bill, the GOP does not have the votes to override a veto.
Michael H. Smith
January 18th, 2012
8:26 pm
So the fact that more white people are on food stamps than black still makes him racist?
Of course not, it just means the liberal lairs need to get their facts straight before someone catches them race baiting and playing the race card.
Here they come in their clean white suits and they're coming to take him away...
January 18th, 2012
8:26 pm
Coming from who is now the SECOND worst President ever. The American people made it very clear in 1980, exactly what they thought of Jimmy Carter AND his policies—what did he win? 2 states? He was a sorry Governor, AND a sorry President.
Once again...
January 18th, 2012
8:28 pm
Jimmy Carter, the Village Idiot.
Michael H. Smith
January 18th, 2012
8:30 pm
Good night to all, including America’s food stamp President.
Bart Abel
January 18th, 2012
8:35 pm
Rafe,
Here’s the Tax Policy Center talking about the effects of the Bush tax cuts if made permanent: “…the tax cuts would be regressive, raising after-tax income by a greater percentage for high-income households than for all others…Several other commonly used measures of the distributional effects also suggest that the benefits of making the tax cuts permanent would be tilted toward high-income households in general and toward households in the top 1 percent of the income distribution in particular.”
As I’m sure you know, Obama’s concession to extend the Bush tax cuts was ransom for ratifying START (which Republicans supported until they found they could demand a ransom), passing a budget, and passing payroll tax cuts. As much as you’d like it to be so, paying the GOP’s ransom does not convert the Bush tax cuts into the Obama tax cuts.
Newt's Soon to be 3rd Mistress & Soon to be Fourth Wife
January 18th, 2012
8:38 pm
Why don’t these liberals understand that we Republicans are not racist….we just prefer that latinos mow our yards and African Americans should prepare our meals at restaurants and clean our homes….thats not racist….it is just wanting to put Americans to work
@@
January 18th, 2012
8:38 pm
I’m not sitting through a commercial just to hear what Jimmy Carter has to say.
Carter’s nut was cracked long ago.
I dare say (not so subtly)…that Jimmy wants to take ownership of African Americans.
Weird!
So, Mr Carter
January 18th, 2012
8:41 pm
Why don’t you challenge the ol Newtie to a real debate? He could give you facts, and you could drool, and uh…and uh….and um..and drool ..and um and uh.
td
January 18th, 2012
8:44 pm
Looks like Jimmy is starting the Obama campaign playbook a little early. Race this race that and racist around every corner. Obama can not win without getting minorities, single women, youth and the poor frothing at the mouths thinking the Republican nominee will hang them from the nearest tree.
Get ready conservatives for the dirtiest campaign in since Andrew Jackson.
BTW: Was it not Jimmy that also claimed Bill Clinton of the same thing 4 years ago during the SC primary?
td
January 18th, 2012
8:47 pm
Bart Abel
January 18th, 2012
8:35 pm
You do understand that the current tax cuts were extended under a Democratic house, Filibuster proof Senate and signed by Obama?
Are not they now the Obama tax cuts?
Rafe Hollister
January 18th, 2012
8:47 pm
We have been about 3 years without a budget passing (I thought). Must have missed the budget passing, I guess. I thought Oblamers budget was defeated something like 98-2.
How you guys defend this man who does nothing but blame others for his failures. He signs a bill into law and immediately turns around and says the mean ole Republicans made me sign it. Saw where he blamed Nixon for something the other day, maybe it was for his lack of transparancy, just following Trixie Dicks advice.
Rafe Hollister
January 18th, 2012
8:49 pm
Bart
Previous comment directed to you, getting late for us old folks.
Vinny
January 18th, 2012
8:50 pm
Jimmy Carter is a senile old coot that and was a miserable failure as Potus. Who gives a rat’s ass what he thinks?
Miss Daisy Cook
January 18th, 2012
8:53 pm
When is Jimmy Carter just gonna go away. He was a bumbling failure as a president, who was an embarassment to Georgia. He is a senile, intrusive clown as a former president.
Reminder for Jimmy
January 18th, 2012
8:54 pm
Reagan/Bush 489 Electoral Votes
Carter/Mondale 49 Electoral Votes
Jimmy, get back to your hammer.
Karl Marx
January 18th, 2012
8:55 pm
Actually I think John Wilkes Booth received a vision of Jimmy Carter just before he died when he ask that his hands be raised to his face then he muttered “Useless. Useless”. Sounds like a perfect description of Carter to me.
Newt's Soon to be 3rd Mistress & Soon to be Fourth Wife
January 18th, 2012
8:56 pm
Could someone please get me a nice latino or African American to fetch me a glass of sweet tea and a fifth mistress
Bart Abel
January 18th, 2012
9:02 pm
How you guys defend this man who does nothing but blame others for his failures…
I’m the one blaming others here. I watched what happened, I watched how it happened, and I reported the truth. The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy were extended because Republicans refused an up-or-down vote on any legislation until they got their way. Full stop.
JKL2
January 18th, 2012
9:03 pm
carlosgvv- When he gets into a primary where he actually needs substantial black support, he will say whatever he thinks will win him votes.
obama says,”What?”
@@
January 18th, 2012
9:03 pm
Looks like Newt was right. An article from 1995 says TAP was a major FLOP.
Carter’s original vision of an army of 100,000 volunteers linking the ”two Atlantas” – black city, white suburbs – failed to materialize, according to Giles, a Carter Center fellow and senior adviser for evaluation of the project.
Giles’ assessment found low participation in the program among inner-city residents; neighborhood initiatives that were more event-oriented than aimed at long-range solutions; and an overall fuzzy perception of what The Atlanta Project is, even among its key players.
The main criticism of The Atlanta Project is that it is big on health fairs, forums and field trips but hasn’t addressed the systemic problems that keep people impoverished.
td
January 18th, 2012
9:05 pm
Bart Abel
January 18th, 2012
9:02 pm
How you guys defend this man who does nothing but blame others for his failures…
I’m the one blaming others here. I watched what happened, I watched how it happened, and I reported the truth. The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy were extended because Republicans refused an up-or-down vote on any legislation until they got their way. Full stop.
That is not the total truth. It was a lame duck session before the Republicans took over the house in Jan and the Dems had total control of both houses with 59 votes in the Senate.
BTW: This is how politics get done. It is called compromise. Obama agreed to the bill, signed the bill so it is now his tax cuts.
The Stench of Racism, The Foul Odor of Hypocrisy and The Putrid Air of Lies
January 18th, 2012
9:11 pm
Newt says, “It’s sad to watch people on the left who have no solutions for the problems of poverty and who automatically start talking about racism the minute a conservative starts talking about how to solve poverty.”
I say – there’s a SPECIAL PLACE IN H*LL FOR NEWT GINGRICH.
Rafe Hollister
January 18th, 2012
9:12 pm
td
well said and thanks for the backup!
ragnar danneskjold
January 18th, 2012
9:17 pm
Certainly the former president is acquainted with the subtlety of racism. From the Washington Examiner:
“Carter, in the early 1960s, supported legislation in the Georgia State Senate, which would have effectively eviscerated the Civil Rights Act, and would have prevented the desegregation of public schools there as well as open housing.”
“In 1966, during the contested gubernatorial election in Georgia, Carter had a choice as a state senator. He could support the Republican, Bo Calloway. He could support the moderate Democrat, Ellis Arnall. Or he could stand with Lester Maddox, one of the repugnant leaders of segregation in the South. Carter chose the stand with Maddox, in order to protect his political future.”
“During the nasty 1970 Democratic primary for governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter’s campaign mass produced photos of his opponent, Carl Sanders, with the black members of the Atlanta Hawks. Sanders was the real progressive in the campaign.”
“Even as late as 1976, Carter, while campaigning in the South, praised Senators John Stennis and Jim Eastland, two longtime Southern Democrats who were supporters of “Massive Resistance,” the attempt by some whites in the South to oppose racial integration. For the record, President Lyndon Johnson had also supported Massive Resistance early in his Congress in Texas.”
“When reporters caught up with Stennis to ask him his position on racial desegregation he replied, “I’m against it. Always have been and always will be.””
“Also that fall, Carter’s home church, the Plains Baptist Church, voted to ban blacks from joining. Carter did not quit in protest, knowing it would undermine his “Southern Strategy” in the election. Weakly, he said he would attempt to change the policy from the inside.”
washingtonexaminer.com/node/163876
ragnar danneskjold
January 18th, 2012
9:24 pm
For all of his screwups, President Carter had three legitimate accomplishments in his not-quite-brief-enough administration.
(1) Abolition of Interstate Commerce Commission, which set the rates interstate trucks and trains could charge for transporting good.
(2) Abolition of the Civil Aeronautics Board, which set the fares airlines could charge passengers in interstate travel.
(3) Effective abolition of the Glass-Steagall proffered Reg Q, which told banks how much they could pay on interest-bearing accounts.
For now I see no Obama initiative up to par with those few acts of small genius. Thus Carter is no longer the worst president since Buchanan.
GaVet
January 18th, 2012
9:30 pm
Here is an early report from the Carter Center on TAP, which was supposed to be a HUGE project and a lot of effort was applied:
http://www.cartercenter.org/news/documents/doc184.html
Newt's Soon to be 3rd Mistress & Soon to be Fourth Wife
January 18th, 2012
9:33 pm
We Republicans are misunderstood….Romney didn’t mean to make millions while closing down the companies Bain acquired….Santorum was right when he blamed Liberal Boston for the child sex abuse scandal in the Catholic church….eventhough it happened all around the world….it is still due to the liberal city of Boston……and since I married my third mistress….then God forgave my adultry
John
January 18th, 2012
9:33 pm
@ Bart. You are a complete moron who thinks he knows it all. Get a life you loser and keep drinking your Obama cool aid. Idiot!
Newt's Soon to be 3rd Mistress & Soon to be Fourth Wife
January 18th, 2012
9:37 pm
John, maybe you could be Newt’s next mistress…you bologna pony smoker
uppity
January 18th, 2012
9:47 pm
And, Newt Gingrich is an intelligent person with a big, fat mouth. It was his undoing before, and it is now.
Dusty
January 18th, 2012
10:02 pm
President Carter is not a bad man. I think he tries to do the right thing.
I also believe that he has an ego that leads him to believe everything he does is successful. Unfortunately, that is not true.
Gingrich probably understands the elderly ego of President Carter. He mildly reminds the world that he, Gingrich, is not a racist to mention poverty. Nor even to mention that teenagers learn a lot by working.
Thus goes the recruiting of Democrats to speak against Republicans. Will President Clinton join the “maddening crowd”? I doubt it. He’s smart politically. I haven’t heard Hillary either. Maybe they are too smart to join the Lee Atwater smudge brand of politics. The Dems used it for eight years with Bush. They still try and fail.
But like President Carter should remember, it is sometimes better to keep quiet and MYOB.
Liberals Are Lying Racist Hypocrites
January 18th, 2012
10:05 pm
Jimmy Carter is a RACIST!!! He is also a stupid old senile fool and should thank god Obama took over his spot as the Worst President Ever
Ward
January 18th, 2012
10:10 pm
Carter is a senile old leftie who still hasn’t come to grips with Reagan kicking his sorry butt out of the White House. And racism is the last refuge of desperate scoundrels bereft of ideas.
waterstim
January 18th, 2012
10:13 pm
Sick of this jive-ass country we live in, with Jimmy C and BarryHussein. Ph_ck these morons. Time to clean up the mess.
jconservative
January 18th, 2012
10:29 pm
Worse president?
Based just on their ability to handle the nations money they come up this way:
Reagan doubled the national debt
George W doubled the national debt
The Stench of Racism, The Foul Odor of Hypocrisy and The Putrid Air of Lies
January 18th, 2012
11:01 pm
@I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin…
January 18th, 2012
7:24 pm
Dhimmi Karter is a bozo’s bozo. When he’s not pimping the elction of some foreign mass murderer, he’s playing the race card. This make’s him a two trick bozo.
******************************************************************************************
Your racist hatred and evilness is short lived.
What you do to others is already done to you.
Psalms 37:1-40 Of David.
1 Do not show yourself heated up because of the EVILDOERS.
Do not be envious of those doing unrighteousness.
2 For like grass they will speedily wither,
And like green new grass they will fade away.
3 Trust in Jehovah and do good;
Reside in the earth, and deal with faithfulness.
4 Also take exquisite delight in Jehovah,
And he will give you the requests of your heart.
5 Roll upon Jehovah your way,
And rely upon him, and he himself will act.
6 And he will certainly bring forth your righteousness as the light itself,
And your justice as the midday.
7 Keep silent before Jehovah
And wait longingly for him.
Do not show yourself heated up at anyone making his way successful,
At the man carrying out [his] ideas.
8 Let anger alone and leave rage;
Do not show yourself heated up only to do evil.
9 FOR EVILDOERS THEMSELVES WILL BE CUT OFF,
But those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth.
Hillbilly D
January 18th, 2012
11:02 pm
Evidently Carter has forgotten his run for Governor. Some of us remember it, though.
http://onlineathens.com/stories/021906/opinion_20060219098.shtml
Foghorn Leghorn
January 18th, 2012
11:04 pm
I says republicans ain’t racist atall. They hate all po’ people, regahdless of colo’, I says.
td
January 18th, 2012
11:41 pm
I see the race pimps are out in force tonight spewing their vile rhetoric about how the poor black man is being held down by the racist white man.
To all my conservative friends and moderate white people on this blog and in your day to day travels for the next 11 months: Get use to being called a racist. If you speak up and say anything these race pimps and Obama supporters perceive as negative towards Obama then you will be called a racist. The closer to the election the more often it is going to happen and the more intense there efforts will be to shut your point of view down.
GodHatesTrash, Superstar
January 19th, 2012
6:34 am
If someone were to lobotomize Newt, how would we know?
GodHatesTrash, Superstar
January 19th, 2012
6:35 am
Let’s face it – the whole GOP campaign is just a contest to see who gets to lead the lynch mob.
MiltonMan
January 19th, 2012
6:45 am
Good God will peanut boy ever go away??? We have the “wonderful” Departments of Energy & Education because of this legume grower.
Ship him off to only about a handful of areas where people think well of this guy: North Korea, Lebanon and Syria.
MiltonMan
January 19th, 2012
6:50 am
Seems the lazy media has all but forgotten that slick Jimmy had campaign volunteers handing out photos of Jimmy’s opponent celebrating a basketball victory with a couple of black players when running for election in Georgia.
Skip
January 19th, 2012
7:38 am
Now I get it,Newt cant be a race baiter accuse Carter was a bad president.
Bob
January 19th, 2012
7:44 am
Bart, how is sending kids to school year round teaching any more responsibility than going 9 months, that would be punishment and kids could not get summer jobs. We do have child labor laws and children are allowed to work.
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
7:46 am
The Peanut Farmer is one of Georgia’s biggest embarassments but I gave up long ago on him “gettting it” and keeping his mouth shut.
Bob
January 19th, 2012
7:46 am
Jimmy had no problem going to church that banned blacks. He could have dropped out but chose to stay and hear bigotry from the pulpit. Jimmy, meet Barry Obama.
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
7:47 am
MiltonMan – you overlooked Jimmmmmies biggest contribution to our downfall – CRA, which is not the whole cause of today’s problems but certainly the root.
HDB
January 19th, 2012
7:57 am
Words mean things……..and the problem with Republicans is that they DON’T realize that!! The persistent ostracizing of minorities by the right makes it evident that they don’t desire an equal playing field for everyone….just the maintaining of POWER that the majority has had for over 200 years!! For as much as they marginalize those on the left for a racist past…..at least those on the left have CHANGED….but those on the right have NOT!! Many fail to remember that it was CONSERVATIVES that practiced racist ideology….and now the GOP is the home of CONSERVATIVES…..and the racist tint has yet to change!!
HDB
January 19th, 2012
7:59 am
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
7:47 am
The CRA was the legal attempt to eliminate REDLINING by the banks; the economic downfall was created by the repeal of Glass-Stegall…..a REPUBLICAN plan pushed forwaqrd by Phil Gramm (R-TX)!! Why do conservatives keep pushing forth that persistent lie, I can never understand!!
man behind the curtain
January 19th, 2012
8:07 am
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
7:46 am
The Peanut Farmer is one of Georgia’s biggest embarassments
No, Johnny, that distinction would go to the many and various posters on this blog.
Mike
January 19th, 2012
8:08 am
I see the usual folks are out in full force with the race card stuff. Mr Carter has done a lot for humanity since being president which more than can be said for Newt, Kyle and ole Mitt put together. Newt is right to pander to those folks of South Carolina who are still caught up racial politics. Stop blaming black folks for your problems people. Try looking at the one in the mirror for the cause but it is always easier to blame someone else.
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
8:12 am
HDB – the problem with you and your Leftie buddies is as Ronald Reagan stated – you know so much that is not true.
Clinton put CRA on steroids and with Janet’s help forced banks to make loans they otherwise would not. Republicnas want Glass-Stegal repealed but Clinton agreed only after receiving pressure from the Southern Christian Leadership Confrerence, Lowery’s group. I won’t go as far to say it was a conspiracy, but the two certainly did fit well together. After that, the greed set in and we have today’s housing market which no doubt it and energy prices are the two biggest reasons the economy has not quickly recovered. BTW – Barry is trying to give large mortgage reductions to the same people who should have never had the loan in the first place. And, we certainly see at the moment how sincere he is on energy indenpendence.
If you want overwhelming suppport in denying CRA try Jay’s blog, most there believe as you.
Road Scholar
January 19th, 2012
8:12 am
For all those who have stated how President Carter is so stupid, he was elected President of the United States. If you are so smart, why haven’t you been elected to the Presidency?! How about dog catcher? Why do all you leaders hide behind your keyboards?
Oh and I am really impressed by all the white folks who know exactly what each black person has to go through in life…it’s so easy for you to make an ass of yourselves. Your mothers and family must be very proud!
Statick
January 19th, 2012
8:13 am
The only poverty problem Gingrich is really trying to abolish is his own and he adeptly solves this by using racial code speech to the prejudiced hayseeds in SC. He gives them funny and they give him money.
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
8:18 am
Well, the Left is out steam already on this thread. They pulled the race card. Why is it criticizing Carter equals racist? Why is it criticizing CRA equals racist?
GT
January 19th, 2012
8:20 am
Newt’s a bigot pure and simple. Carter probably pulled in 10,000 votes for NG last night calling him out. It is people like Newt that have held the south back and his kind of thinking has caused a huge amount of this poverty. He doesn’t care, he and his cronies on WSB are proud of what we are, like the Grand Ole Opera of politics blasting hatred and ignorance, it pays the bill, this is the kind of employment they are talking about. Lets see how many national businesses want to come south, or have wanted to come south because of this thought process. Romney would have never made 200 million dollars living in the south, it would have been like trying to farm on a rock.
HDB
January 19th, 2012
8:24 am
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
8:12 am
The CRA only stated that banks had to grant loans in the communities that they SERVED; it DID NOT change the credit requirements! The BANKS did that on their own!! If you noticed, many banks PULLED their branches out of predominately black neighborhoods so that they WOULDN’T have to follow the letter of the law! It was when many people protested the banks that the banks changed course!! You may not have noticed this…but many did!! The CRA attempted to level the playing field with the banks and consumers…….
If you’re going to BLAME an entity…blame the BANKS!!
saywhat?
January 19th, 2012
8:27 am
For all you people saying how “smart” Gingrich is, remember, Gingrich has been described (accurately I might add) as what a stupid person thinks a smart person looks like.
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
8:31 am
GT – back to the books for you. The South has been a magnet for business for many years, so you are all wet on your 8:20 post.
HDB
January 19th, 2012
8:36 am
One basic question trhat no one has addressed: When has Newt EVER been subtle….about ANYTHING (racism included)??
Statick
January 19th, 2012
8:38 am
It’s funny how Right-wingers love to pull the Lefty Card. We Moderates love to criticize Gingrinch, too. He’s a loud-mouth idiot who attracts loud-mouth idiots.
td
January 19th, 2012
8:40 am
HDB
January 19th, 2012
7:57 am
Words get twisted around by sensitive people to mean what they want them to mean. If one walks through live only seeing color then all words will be seen through that lens.
Actions and measurables are the real indicators of ones worth. Look at not what someone says but instead on what they do and accomplish to find out the true meaning of their words.
MiltonMan
January 19th, 2012
8:40 am
“For all those who have stated how President Carter is so stupid, he was elected President of the United States. If you are so smart, why haven’t you been elected to the Presidency?! How about dog catcher? Why do all you leaders hide behind your keyboards?”
…and this guy uses the screen name Road Scholar??? Road Kill would be more appropriate.
td
January 19th, 2012
8:43 am
HDB
January 19th, 2012
8:24 am
So banks get all the fault and Government is blameless?
JDW
January 19th, 2012
8:45 am
@JohnnyReb…”The South has been a magnet for business for many years”
Guess that explains why the Georgia unemployment rate has exceed the National Average for 52+ months in a row with no end in sight and why Atlanta’s ecnomy recently ranked 189 out of 200 worldwide right down there with Richmond (No. 191), Madrid (195) and Athens (200).
Sounds like someone is firmly committed to the past…
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
8:47 am
“If you’re going to BLAME an entity…blame the BANKS!!”
I suspect HDB you have not seen the sunshine on this issue for a very long time.
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
8:51 am
Statick – so, you are a moderate. I believe that is the group responsible for putting Barry into office. Go to jail, directly to jail.
JDW – your 8:45 is another example of a Leftie knowing so much that is not true. For example, where have the last few auto manufacturing plants been located? Clue – it’s not North of the Mason Dixon.
td
January 19th, 2012
8:51 am
JDW
January 19th, 2012
8:45 am
If you would take off you partisan spin machine mentality for one minute then you would know the real reason why the metro Atlanta area is not doing very well right now. When you build one of the fastest growing economies in the world almost solely on the backs of the construction industry then you have a recession and the housing market is still in a depressed state then your economy is going to be at the bottom. Add to that fact the increase of over 1 million people then you can lead in business moving in a record levels and still have an overall bad economy.
Don Abernethy
January 19th, 2012
8:57 am
Seems every Republican in the race has baggage. Newt has his divorces,Romney has his Mormanism,Paul has his isolationism, and on it goes. Obama has his socialism. Is there anyone a christian can be proud to vote for? Surely we can find a suitable candidate in 350 million people.
JF McNamara
January 19th, 2012
8:57 am
A rare grain of truth from Carter. First, admitting that politicians understand this dynamic, then going further to say that the Republicans are using it.
Gingrich and Santorum have already gone to the playbook. It is what it is.
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
8:59 am
To add to td’s excellent post @ 8:51, but he may not agree because someone is bound to state my comment is racist.
Another reason the Atlanta region economy is not recovering quickly is the so-called disadvantaged that have flocked to Atlanta. Two words – Detroit, and Katrina.
JDW
January 19th, 2012
9:02 am
@TD…”When you build one of the fastest growing economies in the world almost solely on the backs of the construction industry”
and there in lies the point…which as usual escapes you.
This economy was built on the backs of the construction industry which was driven and was dependent on companies and people moving here. The entire industry was poorly regulated…see bank failures, miserable zoning, traffic congestion etc…
Now over the last 10 years we have allowed ourselves to fall further behind the curve and the benefits of the region no longer outweigh the negatives. Surprise, surprise sufficient numbers of people and companies are not moving here, and folks like you just didn’t see it coming.
You are looking at the results not the reasons.
the red herring
January 19th, 2012
9:03 am
in the 7th grade i cleaned and washed dishes in the lunchroom for free lunches and i got to keep my lunch money for myself–a wonderful lesson—i am white and came from low-middle class folks– i learned the value of an education and i also learned a wonderful work ethic from them. while not a huge fan of newt –i never heard him say black kids go clean toilets– he said underprivileged kids need a chance at some learning a work ethic—that is common sense not racism. racism goes both ways and has for the past 25 years—it’s time to move past it and see people (and promotions) for what they are worth and not their color. no doubt gingrich would make a far better president that either carter or obama.
JDW
January 19th, 2012
9:08 am
@Johnny Reb…”For example, where have the last few auto manufacturing plants been located? Clue – it’s not North of the Mason Dixon”
Irrelevant, we are not attracting enough companies and people to support the economy…for example where is the preponderance of fast growing new companies with high paying jobs…hint not here.
td
January 19th, 2012
9:12 am
JDW
January 19th, 2012
9:02 am
Your numbers are a little off. The worst thing that ever happened to the Atlanta metro area was winning the Olympics. The change over in the economy happened the day after the announcement in 1990. The Democrats and the Republicans are to blame because it does not matter the county (Cobb, Fulton, Dekalb, Gwinn, Clayton) they all started changing their zoning laws to have very dense housing. I railed for years in Cobb county to not allow 2, 3, 4 or more houses on a acre lot.
Greg
January 19th, 2012
9:14 am
The problem with Newt is that he does use race in subtle ways to make his point. Talking about food stamps and then using the NAACP draws the line and we all know it. Any person with a brain can see it.
I am sure it turns off Liberal Whites and Some Moderate Whites who are not racist and condemn this nonsense as well. It must, because these are the people who voted Obama into office.
It most certainly must turn off Middle Class blacks who have never taken a food stamp in their life, but are also being lectured by Newt about the importance of working to get ahead in life..while they see Republicans doing everything in their power to prevent them as well as all other Middle Class Americans from doing just that..Getting Ahead.
Keep up the good work Newt!!
JDW
January 19th, 2012
9:15 am
Take a look at the VC stats…in Q3 the ENTIRE Southeast generated 3.41% of all deals…the REGION (GA,AL,TN, SC, NC, FL) was outperformed by the NY Metro and LA Metro areas with San Diego, DC, and Boston right on it’s heels…cities are outperforming the entire region….
Not exactly a rousing endorsement now is it…
williebkind
January 19th, 2012
9:15 am
The environmentalist are pushing for Obama to stop the pipeline, farmers in NY are going under but have huge amounts of gas/oil on their land that they cannot get due to EPA regulations. Now you whacko liberals want to blame the conservatives for a bad economy. When will the democrats take back their party and kick the wacho progressive liberals out. There is no utopia and it does not matter how many books you read or group studies you present. Obama’s election was a historical event after that Obama is zero.
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
9:16 am
JDW – you switched horses in the middle of the stream. We have more than enough people, but many have no, that would be zero, skills. There are very few new companies Nationawide opening that offer large numbers of employment. That will improve immediately upon Obama’s defeat, similar to unemployment going up immediately upon his election.
clyde
January 19th, 2012
9:16 am
I think Jimmy has slipped a cog here.
JDW
January 19th, 2012
9:18 am
@TD I fail to see how creating more sprawl in the Metro area that is already the largest sprawl helps solve the problem.
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
9:18 am
Can’t the Left put forth any debate of substance without using race? Race, discrimination, et al. I’m tired of hearing about it. If any race has been discriminated against since LBJ’s big plan, it has been white men. Quit using race as an excuse.
JDW
January 19th, 2012
9:20 am
@JohnnyReb..”We have more than enough people, but many have no, that would be zero, skills. ”
That would be a reflection of our negligence over the last 10 years…our skill pool was once sufficient but we did not continue to invest and grow it thus falling behind the curve.
td
January 19th, 2012
9:21 am
JDW
January 19th, 2012
9:08 am
The solution then is to make it not so attractive to stay here. Immigration reform was a good first step. Now we need to pass the drug testing for government benefits. After that then we need to change the laws to make people pick up trash to get FS, unemployment or welfare. We need to place co-pays and premium payments on Medicaid. When you make the parasites responsible for there actions and have to pay their own way then they are not going to want to stay and will look for a more inviting place to live. The results will be more jobs for the producers, less taxes for the producers to pay and better schools.
JDW
January 19th, 2012
9:22 am
@JohnnyReb…”you switched horses in the middle of the stream.”
How so, the issue is this area is not attracting sufficent quantities of people and companies to support the economy…where was the switch?
Statick
January 19th, 2012
9:23 am
@ JohnnyReb
If I am party of the responsible party, then I’ll own up to it. You Righties, however, generate the candidates who cause the problems, then you don’t own up to it, blame everyone else and then turn around and nominate the same type of candidate. It’s no wonder Strom Thurmond kept getting elected time and time again, even after they had to prop him up at the podium half-dead with Alzheimer’s.
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
9:24 am
JDW – you are correct on insufficient productive companies, but we don’t need more people. We have too many now. What we need are the ones we have to learn skills.
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
9:25 am
Statick – we will just have to agree to disagree. From my viewpoint, it’s the left – Progressives – who cause the problems.
Greg
January 19th, 2012
9:25 am
WillieBkind and JohnnyReb…
I find it funny that you feel that its Obama’s fault that the economy and unemployment is so high.
Again…facts are facts. The housing and banking mess caused this economy to tank. Housing went, banks went belly up, people stopped spending on non descressionary items and making home improvements because many lost that home.
Or economy stinks becasue government before Obama…(both Libs and Repubs) let it get that way.
Fallout always comes after the storm. This is where we are now. Has Obama done a great job..I’d call him 50%. However, given the fact that Government has been broken for years and will never be great..this is what we all can look forward too in the future.
No matter what party has control of the USA.
All this Libs stink and Repubs are devilish is nonsense and I think we all know it….
JDW
January 19th, 2012
9:25 am
@TD,,,”The solution then is to make it not so attractive to stay here.”
I see if we can just get rid of those damnable undesirables everything would be ok. Of course then you have to pick your own crops (how did that work our for you), do your own yard work, pay housing prices reflective of true labor costs, serve your own food, wash your own dishes ect…
td
January 19th, 2012
9:27 am
Greg
January 19th, 2012
9:14 am
“I am sure it turns off Liberal Whites and Some Moderate Whites who are not racist and condemn this nonsense as well”
Talk about using subtle points. The underlying message in the above is that all conservatives and most moderates are racist.
“It must, because these are the people who voted Obama into office.”
Only racist voted against Obama.
See how it works. Anyone can read anything they want to into someones words as long as they put the right lenses in to see.
#occupy my desk...
January 19th, 2012
9:29 am
Carter needs to go into a home. He says that about even the most benign conservatives. Any aversion to Obama’s policy is racism in his opinion. Unfortunately, he is not alone in this.
Dee
January 19th, 2012
9:29 am
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
9:18 am
Can’t the Left put forth any debate of substance without using race? Race, discrimination, et al. I’m tired of hearing about it. If any race has been discriminated against since LBJ’s big plan, it has been white men. Quit using race as an excuse.
Wow. Now this is a classic case of the chickens coming home to roost. The main group who has historically generated and perpetuated racism in this country against minorities and women are now not liking the feeling of discrimination when it comes back on them and are now whining about being the victim. What poetic irony.
JDW
January 19th, 2012
9:29 am
@JohnnyReb…”What we need are the ones we have to learn skills.”
We are not going to teach adults to be engineers, sales people, software coders etc… at this point in their life, we must attract them to the area. Jobs for the lower skill levels will have to be created as the economy transforms and demand for services they can deliver improves.
td
January 19th, 2012
9:30 am
JDW
January 19th, 2012
9:25 am
@TD,,,”The solution then is to make it not so attractive to stay here.”
I see if we can just get rid of those damnable undesirables everything would be ok. Of course then you have to pick your own crops (how did that work our for you), do your own yard work, pay housing prices reflective of true labor costs, serve your own food, wash your own dishes ect
No because even if the state implemented the all the measures only a 1/3 to half of the parasites would leave. There would be plenty people left that made bad choices in life to do the labor intensive work.
Don't Tread
January 19th, 2012
9:33 am
Anyone remember “stagflation”, 16% mortgages (if you could get one), Navy ships that couldn’t leave port due to lack of fuel, and military salaries so low they qualified for welfare? That’s Carter’s, um, “legacy”. He sides with America’s enemies most of the time anyway.
Whatever comes out of his mouth isn’t good for anything except maybe fertilizer.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:34 am
Looks like the left wing media is unloading on Gingrich. I’ve never seen the American media so communistic as it is now.
Where was the left wing media when Obama’s racist pastor was around?
Where was the left wing media during the Resko trial?
Where was the left wing media during gun gate?
Where was the left wing media during the Sylandra fiasco?
clyde
January 19th, 2012
9:35 am
Greg— The only difference I can see between the parties is that Republicans have a tendency not to spend us into oblivion quite a rapidly as the Democrats.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:35 am
HDB
Oh average, how long did it take you to earn your Black Panther membership?
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:36 am
Jimmy Carter is about as relevant as Piers Morgan. Both are failed talking heads.
td
January 19th, 2012
9:36 am
Greg
January 19th, 2012
9:25 am
WillieBkind and JohnnyReb…
“I find it funny that you feel that its Obama’s fault that the economy and unemployment is so high.”
The actual recession was not Obama’s fault alone. (It was both Democrats and Republicans fault for the laws they have implemented for the past 20 years). Obama does get some blame because he was part of Congress. Obama does get the blame for the recession lingering on this long and for the high unemployment rates due to his policies since coming into office.
JDW
January 19th, 2012
9:36 am
@TD…”No because even if the state implemented the all the measures only a 1/3 to half of the parasites would leave.”
I think you very clearly make President Carter’s point.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:38 am
For all the talk from libs about how dumb Palin is.
THIS takes the cake. Face it left wingers, this idiot is the face of liberalism and it’s stupidity.
Biden’s oops moment in SF: “Giants on their way to Super Bowl”
http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/01/18/bidens-oops-moment-in-sf-giants-on-their-way-to-super-bowl/
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:40 am
Jimmy Carter hates Jews. How he has the balls to say Newt is a racist is hilarious.
Jimmy Carter: Embarrassment to GA since 1976.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:40 am
“Obama does get the blame for the recession lingering on this long and for the high unemployment rates due to his policies since coming into office.”
Obama blames everyone else for his idiotic policies.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:41 am
Ever notice that when Carter is around the other former presidents the other presidents never want to be anywhere near him when the cameras are on?
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
9:43 am
Dee @ 9:29 – I spent 28 years at Delta Air Lines with about half of it in management. There was not one case where a qualified minority was held back to put a white man into the job. There were numerous cases where better qualifed white men were put aside to put in a minority man or any race female. If that’s not discrimination, what is?
Dee
January 19th, 2012
9:43 am
Hmmm…I wonder what dirt Newt’s ex-wife # 2 is going to drop on him on ABC tonight…
td
January 19th, 2012
9:44 am
JDW
January 19th, 2012
9:36 am
@TD…”No because even if the state implemented the all the measures only a 1/3 to half of the parasites would leave.”
I think you very clearly make President Carter’s point.
I think you made my point to Greg @ 9:27. There is no where in any of my post that even attempts to make race a part of my argument. You see it through your colored lenses you are obviously wearing. A parasite is a person that has chosen to not get an education, that has chosen to not have a good work ethic, a person that depends of government for their subsistence because of the decisions they have made and will not take responsibility for their own actions. It does not matter if the person is white, black, Asian or Hispanic. I do not discriminate because they are all parasites.
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
9:45 am
It’s off to work for a little while. Thanks for the debate.
Dee
January 19th, 2012
9:46 am
Dee @ 9:29 – I spent 28 years at Delta Air Lines with about half of it in management. There was not one case where a qualified minority was held back to put a white man into the job. There were numerous cases where better qualifed white men were put aside to put in a minority man or any race female. If that’s not discrimination, what is?
Question is, what made them better qualified?
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:53 am
“Hmmm…I wonder what dirt Newt’s ex-wife # 2 is going to drop on him on ABC tonight…”
What’s funny is left wingers were all up in arms when people came after Clinton before he was elected in 92. “What happens in his bedroom is his biz” they claimed. Now, the same idiots who were appalled are now cheering.
What a bunch of hypocritical morons.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:54 am
“Question is, what made them better qualified?”
Experience. Education. You know, things that make someone more qualified to do a job.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:56 am
Dee
There are many cases where minorities with less education etc are hired over more qualified white people. In fact, just look at the guy who is in the White House right now. He never released his grades, has no leadership qualities, never dealt with a payroll in his life, never had any executive experience etc….
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
9:57 am
“Racism”…..the most overused, pointless word in today’s society. GROW UP!
Dee
January 19th, 2012
9:57 am
Question is, what made them better qualified?”
Experience. Education. You know, things that make someone more qualified to do a job.
In this country just being “white” is qualification enough. I’ll bet those minorities who they hired had the same education and could do the job just as well or they wouldn’t have applied for the job in the first place.
Statick
January 19th, 2012
9:59 am
There are many cases where minorities with less education etc are hired over more qualified white people. In fact, just look at the guy who is in the White House right now. He never released his grades, has no leadership qualities, never dealt with a payroll in his life, never had any executive experience etc….
Ah, gotta love those fall-back conservative talking points…
MiltonMan
January 19th, 2012
10:00 am
George Bush – an average student at Yale; blasted by the libs as stupid.
Obama – don’t know his academic record; libs blasting those who want his transcripts released.
Typical lib logic.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:03 am
“In this country just being “white” is qualification enough. I’ll bet those minorities who they hired had the same education and could do the job just as well or they wouldn’t have applied for the job in the first place.”
Dee, if you believe that then I have some swamp land to sell you in south Florida. From reading your comments, it’s you who is racist. Everything you write is “whitey this and whitey that.”
You’ll bet what? Anyone who comes on a blog and writes “I’ll bet you” isn’t all there in the head.
They wouldn’t apply in the first place? You know this how?
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:03 am
“Ah, gotta love those fall-back conservative talking points…”
Guess you don’t live in the real world.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:04 am
“George Bush – an average student at Yale; blasted by the libs as stupid.”
Yep, and after the election, John F Kerry’s grades were released which showed him as a D-F student.
Same with Owl Gore.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:05 am
Dee
Why do you hate white people?
HDB
January 19th, 2012
10:06 am
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:35 am
“HDB
Oh average, how long did it take you to earn your Black Panther membership?”
Never had one…..I was able to see more of the nation and through EXPERIENCE and WORK — see what mentality affects the nation….and conservatism isn’t ALWAYS correct!!
JohnnyReb
January 19th, 2012
9:43 am
“Dee @ 9:29 – I spent 28 years at Delta Air Lines with about half of it in management. There was not one case where a qualified minority was held back to put a white man into the job.”
REALLY?? I remember the days that Delta wouldn’t HIRE a qualified minority for a position OTHER than the ramp…and I know of persons there NOW that haven’t been advanced…and they ARE qualified minorities!! Don’t think it doesn’t happen….because it DOES!!
Dee
January 19th, 2012
10:06 am
“…it’s you who is racist.”
Ha. Playing the reverse-racism card. Typical.
And I’m not racist. I’m prejudiced. Learn the difference.
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
10:07 am
Dee….thanks for proving that racism still exists! Great job…..@! hahaha
Halftrack
January 19th, 2012
10:07 am
I think most Americans are tired of having the Race Card and the ole slavery mentality thrown at us. It has been almost 2 generations since “segregation” was declared unconstitutional. It has been a lot longer since the “slavery” days. Most people of all races now have an equal opportunity to get an education and build some character. Many want to say they are still drowning; yet they are in a shallow amount of water and all they have to do is to stand up and be saved from drowning. Jobs and earning money in early life teaches responsibility and gives dignity to the wage earner. This is the American way of values, respect and life.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:09 am
“Ha. Playing the reverse-racism card. Typical.
There is no such thing as reverse-racism, bigot.
“And I’m not racist. I’m prejudiced. Learn the difference.”
No, you’re a racist and a bigot.
HDB
January 19th, 2012
10:09 am
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
9:54 am
“Question is, what made them better qualified?”
Experience. Education. You know, things that make someone more qualified to do a job”.
OK…if that’s the case, why are there people at Delta with MASTERS degrees working the ramp when they applied for positions in Marketing? Why are there people with MBA’s working on the ramp when they applied for positions in IT??
IT DOES HAPPEN, folks…..and those people of color are overlooked by management!!
Statick
January 19th, 2012
10:09 am
Somehere: Guess you don’t live in the real world.
Man, the irony is thick up in here today.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:09 am
“I think most Americans are tired of having the Race Card and the ole slavery mentality thrown at us.”
If dems didn’t have that card to play they’d never win elections.
Dee
January 19th, 2012
10:10 am
No, you’re a racist and a bigot.
If I am, then that means you’re contagious.
gm
January 19th, 2012
10:10 am
Ok put Carters work against Newt work in Georgia, let see how many homes have Carter built for the poor Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter and Habitat for Humanity all colors.
Now what has Newt done for Georgia? but take millions from the government, he do not want to go down this road with Carter, its not even close.
Hey black conseratives are you proud of your party now? this shows what regard these people have for you, this people only care about their white bigots base on the extreme right, who is on the plantation now?
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:11 am
“OK…if that’s the case, why are there people at Delta with MASTERS degrees working the ramp when they applied for positions in Marketing? ”
White people with their MBA’s work at Starbucks serving coffee. In case you didn’t know, the economy is in the tank.
“Why are there people with MBA’s working on the ramp when they applied for positions in IT??”
Um……because there aren’t any positions to fill? Geez dude, do you understand how the job market works?
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:11 am
“If I am, then that means you’re contagious.”
Comeback fail, Dee. Try again and try harder.
Dee
January 19th, 2012
10:12 am
Dee….thanks for proving that racism still exists! Great job…..@! hahaha
You’re welcome. Now, can I come over your house and burn a fiery cross? Or keep your kids from attending the best schools?
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:12 am
“Man, the irony is thick up in here today.”
As thick as Joe Biden’s hair plugs?
Dee
January 19th, 2012
10:12 am
Comeback fail, Dee. Try again and try harder.
You know I’m under your skin, bigot.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:12 am
“Now, can I come over your house and burn a fiery cross? ‘
Someone get Dee a fainting couch.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:13 am
“You know I’m under your skin, bigot.”
Try again, troglodyte.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:14 am
Dee
When you wake up every morning, how often do you plot to beat up white people?
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:14 am
“Or keep your kids from attending the best schools?”
HAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!!!!!!!! Dee, you should quit the Black Panthers and join a comedy club! THAT was funny!
HDB
January 19th, 2012
10:15 am
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:09 am
Before you classify me as a bigot or racist, I’m far from that…..but I AM a realist!! Racism still exists in the US…..and the biggest form of racism is to insist that it doesn’t exist!! Note the key word that Halftrack(10:07 am) stated: MOST!! Why isn’t it ALL?? Reason…power, race, and reality!! Those who have been ABLE to progress have done so; there are segments of scoiety that have YET to progress….and they have been persistently denigrated as “parasites”, “leeches”…whatever negative connotation conservatives deem adequate for a description!!
Statick
January 19th, 2012
10:18 am
@ Somewhere over there
Dee really got going. You mad, fella? LOL
JDW
January 19th, 2012
10:18 am
@TD…”There is no where in any of my post that even attempts to make race a part of my argument.”
And again you clearly make the point…if you bothered to actually watch the clip prior to engaging your mouth (keyboard) you would know the whole point is to promote a racist bent without actually mentioning race. Something you do quite clearly…
“The solution then is to make it not so attractive to stay here.”…who? Why THEM of course.
“When you make the parasites responsible for there actions and have to pay their own way”…parasites=”those people”
“The results will be more jobs for the producers, less taxes for the producers to pay and better schools.” …Producers=”Us People”
See that’s why it’s subtle, you can do it and then say with an apparently straight face…”who me?”
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
10:20 am
Crybabies!!!
HDB
January 19th, 2012
10:21 am
JDW
January 19th, 2012
10:18 am
GREAT POINT!! Subtle to some is OBVIOUS to others!!
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
10:23 am
Dee is SO typical……I love it!
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:24 am
“Dee really got going. You mad, fella?”
Nope, I’m laughing at her and at you.
Dee
January 19th, 2012
10:25 am
Dee is SO typical……I love it!
What’s your point? That I’m just like you?
JDW
January 19th, 2012
10:25 am
@MiltonMan…”Obama – don’t know his academic record; libs blasting those who want his transcripts released.”
FYI he graduated magna cum laude and led the Harvard Law Review. Magna cum laude at Harvard puts you, at a minimum in the top 20%. Sort of negates the need to pore over individual class transcripts now doesn’t it.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:25 am
“Before you classify me as a bigot or racist, I’m far from that…..but I AM a realist!!”
HDB, you and Dee are the only ones saying things like “white people get jobs over blacks blah blah blah” yet you don’t have any proof to back your claims up with. You stated that there are black people working at Delta with MBA’s who are bag tossers and I told you that there are white people with MBA’s serving coffee at Starbucks.
Instead of debating that you come back with nonsense.
Statick
January 19th, 2012
10:26 am
“Dee really got going. You mad, fella?”
Nope, I’m laughing at her and at you.
I really don’t think you’re laughing at all. It seems more akin to seething anger.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:27 am
“FYI he graduated magna cum laude and led the Harvard Law Review. ”
So he shouldn’t have any problem releasing his grades. BTW, Obama is a millionaire just like Mitt Romney is.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:28 am
“I really don’t think you’re laughing at all. It seems more akin to seething anger.’
And you can prove this, how?
Jefferson
January 19th, 2012
10:29 am
Anyone Georgian over 45 knows what Pres Carter is saying, whether they will say it out loud or just whisper and wink to their buddies.
Statick
January 19th, 2012
10:29 am
“I really don’t think you’re laughing at all. It seems more akin to seething anger.’
And you can prove this, how?
Just don’t hurt any innocent people, okay?
gm
January 19th, 2012
10:29 am
Come on, look at Newt character compared to Carters””
The only people that are shocked at the Rep racist views are Black Rep conservatives, these people actually thought this party had moved to the 21st century concerning race, people on the left knew who these people were, their past speaks volume for who they are.
Carter never called Newt a racist he said he was saying racist things to attract the extreme right, which is true.
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:31 am
“Just don’t hurt any innocent people, okay?”
Whatever you say, liar.
HDB
January 19th, 2012
10:35 am
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
10:25 am
“HDB, you and Dee are the only ones saying things like “white people get jobs over blacks blah blah blah” yet you don’t have any proof to back your claims up with. You stated that there are black people working at Delta with MBA’s who are bag tossers and I told you that there are white people with MBA’s serving coffee at Starbucks.”
I’m stating what I’ve said from PERSONAL EXPERIENCE and KNOWLEDGE!! I have friends at Delta who fit the category I’ve stated…..
You can NOT marginalize someone’s experience although it’s different from your own!! Just because YOU personally haven’t experienced such doesn’t mean that someone else HASN’T…..and I HAVE!!
Realistically, it IS better than it was…but the pockets of racism STILL exist in this nation!! As I satted before, another form of racism is to persist in the idea that racism DOESN’T exist…when it DOES!!
JDW
January 19th, 2012
10:36 am
@Somewhere…”So he shouldn’t have any problem releasing his grades. BTW, Obama is a millionaire just like Mitt Romney is.”
Point is why should he…it’s just the Republican’s et. al. using a “get a rock” strategy…just try to overwhelm someone with inane requests to distract from the issue at hand. The way to defeat the strategy is to just say no.
So Obama has a net worth of more than a million…how do we know…he released his tax returns.
Statick
January 19th, 2012
10:41 am
Whatever you say, liar.
Wow. Name-calling. Yep, a clear sign you’re upset. Just keep your violent thoughts on this blog and not on your gun, alright, bud?
td
January 19th, 2012
10:46 am
JDW
January 19th, 2012
10:18 am
So I guess you just did not read the part of my statement about who the parasites are? Like I said before when you wear colored lenses then you can see racism from every word a person says.
Why do you not just go ahead and admit the truth: Anything a white person says that I do not like or agree with proves he/she is a racist? Is this not what you are really thinking?
rep party of satan
January 19th, 2012
10:49 am
Habitat has opened up unprecedented opportunities for me to cross the chasm that separates those of us who are free, safe, financially secure, well fed and housed, and influential enough to shape our own destiny from our neighbors who enjoy few, if any, of these advantages of life.”
―Jimmy Carter
Is there any doubt the Rep party is the party of satan
Chief Wahoo
January 19th, 2012
10:51 am
“Why do you not just go ahead and admit the truth: Anything a white person says that I do not like or agree with proves he/she is a racist?”
Still true after all these years. White man still speak with forked tongue.
JDW
January 19th, 2012
10:53 am
TD…”Is this not what you are really thinking?”
Nope, but I am obviously unable to educate someone with your special needs…see how it works, I didn’t actually call you dumb as a rock.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
January 19th, 2012
10:58 am
Bart Abel: Eliminate child labor laws, fire the adults, and replace them with children? Now THAT is sad.
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It’s also a lie to ascribe those beliefs to Gingrich, a lie being a statement one knows is false when they make it.
Bart Abel: Liar.
UGA 1999
January 19th, 2012
11:05 am
Dee….trust me brotha/sista we are NOTHING alike!!
Somewhere over there
January 19th, 2012
11:06 am
There’s a new thread upstairs, libs. Try to keep up.
independent thinker
January 19th, 2012
11:58 pm
Newt is the master of Nixon and Reagan’s winning strategy of appealing to the biases of white southern voters. Ever since Johnson and the Democrats passed the civil rights act , this has bee a key GOP strategy to win National elections. Newt knows all the code words to win that vote.
Odis
January 20th, 2012
2:13 pm
I have no doubt that Newt Gingrich is a racist.
Middle Class
January 22nd, 2012
1:03 pm
Taxes have to be raised, the question is who will pay? Here in Georgia in Governor Deal clearly favors the wealthy. Last year he proposed private jet owners/Gulfstream/General Dynamics be entitled to a new sales tax exemption for parts in repairs, in the meantime, to make up the difference of the revenue lost, he suggested adding a new sales on labor for the repair of automobiles. It seems in this bad economy people, the lower classes are having to hang onto their old vehicles, longer. So, here you have it, Deal’s idea of how to broaden the tax base: robbing from the poor, to give it to the rich.
Look for more of the same this year. He says his work is still not done.