Jimmy Carter: Barack Obama has faced ‘bitter,’ ‘unprecedented’ opposition
Charlotte, N.C. — Former President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday said President Barack Obama averted an economic crisis, ended an “ill-conceived war in Iraq,” and passed his health care overhaul in the face of “bitter” and “unprecedented partisan opposition.”
The four-minute video endorsement from Carter, who will turn 88 next month, was well received within the cramped confines of Time Warner Cable Arena. President Bill Clinton on Wednesday will formally nominate Obama for a second term — in person.
Carter’s grandson, state Sen. Jason Carter, D-Decatur, is a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, but was not in the hall this evening.
Said the elder Carter:
”In just four short years, [Obama] has worked to avert economic calamity, brought a dignified end to the ill-conceived war in Iraq, and signed into law historic health care reform – a dream that was already decades overdue when I called for it at this convention 36 years ago.
“And he’s done it all in the face of bitter, unyielding, in fact unprecedented partisan opposition.
“Overseas, President Obama has restored the reputation of the United States within the world community. Dialogue and collaboration are once again possible, with the return of a spirit of trust and good will to our foreign policy.”
President Bill Clinton, who will formally nominate Obama on Wednesday in person, is likely to emphasize a Democratic connection to the middle class. But Carter did as well:
”From President Obama’s first day in office, I’ve watched him – as I know you have – face these tough decisions and always put the interest of middle class Americans above other who, with a larger wallet, have an ever louder voice. I’ve admired him for that.
“Because President Obama sits behind that desk, every day people from Plains, Ga., to Pittsburgh have someone who’s on their side – thinking about them, working to give them an equal chance in life.”
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Peanut Butter
September 4th, 2012
11:03 pm
@ Hiram I was born in the USA born in the USA
@ Rabbit 70% of the Chevys sold in this country are made in China, Mexico, or Canada…. Whats wrong with this picture??? 3 Billion cell phones were sold in America last yr but not one was made here????? The only brand of car racing in NASCAR that is made in America is the Toyota Camry WHATS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?????? Gas Prices are up 50% and we borrow billions from China just to give them 400 billion in foreign aid WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE????? I know what is wrong and it is BARACK OBAMA
cc
September 4th, 2012
11:06 pm
Whatarewebecoming @ 10:57 pm:
“calling Our First Lady..”moochelle”. Wow! Is that I probably work with you, serve on committees with you…why not wear your sheet all the time?”
I assume you think that calling her ‘Moochelle’ is racist? If so, you’re an idiot and it would be fruitless to explain it to you.
hiram
September 4th, 2012
11:08 pm
@ whatarewe…
New poll:
td = 0
cc= 0
td + cc = 0
margin of error + or – 0
Peanut Butter
September 4th, 2012
11:14 pm
@ honested GREAT call KIA in Chappaqudick For the Obama lovers are you better off today than 4 yrs ago???? I know he inherited the bad economy but everyday firemen inherit fires but they do not pour gas on them……………..
DIE HARD DEMOCRAT
September 4th, 2012
11:15 pm
RE-ELECT PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!!!! THATS ALL I HAVE TO SAY!!!! 2012 FOWARD!!!!
newt schmoot
September 4th, 2012
11:16 pm
President Carter is and always was a good, decent man – plus exceedingly smart and hardworking. Washington’s establishment hated this Christian man from Plains who lived his faith in his whole life – even in the White House. The big money people tarred and feathered and ran him out of town, so they could get back to business as usual. No Georgia resident should speak ill of this good man.
I am, however, wondering how on earth he will accept the fact that today the Democratic Party literally took God out of their platform, with the approval of President Obama. They have shockingly endorsed homosexuality, illegal immigration, removed God, etc. of developing a totally hedonistic, amoral, atheistic political party. This shuns the millions of people who believe in God, be they Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or any other religion. This also disses all the black churches and their members, upon whom the President depends heavily for voter turnout. They are almost forcing people of faith of all races and religions to vote Republican!
It appears the Democrats are deliberately making a stark choice between the two parties – morality or amorality – believing that there are more people in our nation who choose amorality. I am stunned.
cc
September 4th, 2012
11:18 pm
All you dims can stick a fork in the Kenyan; he’s done.
Peanut Butter
September 4th, 2012
11:22 pm
@ newt schmoot Jimmy a good and decent man??? WOW you are giving him alot of credit. He was is and always will be a MORON
Peanut Butter
September 4th, 2012
11:24 pm
maybe Jimmy can sell enough Peanut Butter to China to get the economy back on track
cc
September 4th, 2012
11:27 pm
newt schmoot @ 11:16 pm:
People who did not know Carter were impressed with his ‘goodness’. Those who had to work in close proximity to him had an entirely different view of him. Carter has an ego unmatched by many and could be quite nasty and profane at times.
He was applauded when he reduced the number of state agencies as Governor, but the news sources generally ignored the fact that he added employees in the process.
No, I can’t buy what you say because it was my (dis)pleasure to know him.
Peanut Butter
September 4th, 2012
11:31 pm
Taxes going UP Gas prices going UP Are we better off than we were 4 yrs ago?????? Are WE ??????? WELL??????? ARE WE??????
mcballs
September 4th, 2012
11:37 pm
sorry..georgia but, i just never figured duane allman for a romney guy,
Peanut Butter
September 4th, 2012
11:38 pm
I guess I need to pull out my sheet since all the dems want to make this a racist election.. God bless Herman Cain the true black American that was knocked out by the Obama hate/divide and conquer machine… Does Target have a sale on sheets??????
Truth
September 4th, 2012
11:42 pm
I hope and pray that WHEN Obama is re-elected, that all of you retarded Republicans will climb the highest structure nearest you, be it a tree, your house, a tall building… and JUMP! Republicans are the scum of the earth. And for all of you coward racist, and sissy KKK members, you, too, are the scum of the earth. Get ready to jump and rid the world of your worthlessness!
td
September 4th, 2012
11:48 pm
Truth
September 4th, 2012
11:42 pm
Class act.
Peanut Butter
September 4th, 2012
11:51 pm
@ Truth Well it wont be our houses because they are all being foreclosed on thanks to the President or is that Bushes fault also?????? I have you a sheet if you want to change your vote maybe it will fit you I will cut the eyeholes out just for you
Peanut Butter
September 4th, 2012
11:53 pm
@ td do you need a sheet also?????? Maybe we can fix the OBAMA economy if we buy enough sheets…
rwoods
September 4th, 2012
11:53 pm
President Carter is a man of faith and I love him. May God continue to bless him with an even longer and good life. Every word he said is true. And I would also say that he was one of our better Presidents.
Peanut Butter
September 4th, 2012
11:56 pm
I am going to buy stock in sheets since we are all racists if we dont like the idiot in the White House.. Sheets for sale get your sheets here…..
td
September 4th, 2012
11:57 pm
Peanut Butter
September 4th, 2012
11:53 pm
@ td do you need a sheet also?????? Maybe we can fix the OBAMA economy if we buy enough sheets…
I think I might have to make mine a red sheet since it better fits the image these race baiters have of me.
Peanut Butter
September 4th, 2012
11:57 pm
@ rwoods You need to quit drinking
td
September 4th, 2012
11:59 pm
rwoods
September 4th, 2012
11:53 pm
“President Carter is a man of faith”
And that faith has brought him back to believing that abortion is an abomination on this nation and should be outlawed. Probably the only thing I agree with him on.
Peanut Butter
September 5th, 2012
12:02 am
Jimmy thinks he is JC always has and always will……… To bad Walgreens was not open 24 hrs 80 yrs ago to spare us of this moron
Truth
September 5th, 2012
12:06 am
Scumbag Republicans. We hava a black President, and will for 4 more years! AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Get ready to jump! He caused the housing market to fail? Are you that stupid, or is your mom also your sister?
Truth
September 5th, 2012
12:08 am
Quit being the cowards that ALL Republicans are, and just say you don’t like him because he’s black. C’mon, it’s not the tuff to say. You’re able to hide behind your sissy sheets. The KKK sucks, as do Republicans. I’m a white guy, and even i can see right thru your non-thinking, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Sissy Hannity, Neal the Retart Bortz, Ronald Reagan was a retartd selves!
Peanut Butter
September 5th, 2012
12:11 am
Truth There yall go again race baiting To be honest your mom is going to have my baby. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Damm i wish she would not keep me up all night But dont worry your President will take your money away to help us raise your sister…
Peanut Butter
September 5th, 2012
12:13 am
once again I supported the real black American Herman Cain……. NOOOOOOBAMA
Peanut Butter
September 5th, 2012
12:14 am
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBAMA
gm
September 5th, 2012
12:18 am
No matter what, angry white misinformed male there are still more people of color and more women then you who are going to vote for Obama, so get over it.
Truth
September 5th, 2012
12:19 am
Republicans stand ZERO chance in November… Thank GOD! 4 more years of the best President than ANY Republican President EVER! Did i mention Reagan was a retard, and both Bush’s were equally stupid?
gm
September 5th, 2012
12:22 am
Davis, Cain, West, wake up”””””””” rep good old boy party will never, never, never, elect, vote for blacks, latinos, women as President, Gov, state Sen”” so please take off the black face and stop buck dancing”””””””
Joseph Wilson
September 5th, 2012
1:30 am
I am still proud that Jimmy Carter was the first person I voted for President, back when I was a student at the University of Georgia. The world is a better place for his short term as President and his devotion to making it a better place to live.
double
September 5th, 2012
1:57 am
North GA,ocean front property for sale in Gilmer co.Just off YOU-CON road.No restrictive covenants.Call TD BR 549
Edmund Ruffin
September 5th, 2012
7:07 am
Who gives a rip what Jimmy Carter thinks? He and obummer…………..what great success stories…….NOT.
honested
September 5th, 2012
8:11 am
I guess the glide path for re-electing the President is set.
Especially when all the other side can come up with is clint eastwood and eddie munster.
cc
September 5th, 2012
8:23 am
Truth @ 12:08 am:
“just say you don’t like him because he’s black”
I don’t like his white half any better.
gm @ 12:22 am:
Have you always been a racist?
Dirty Dawg
September 5th, 2012
10:57 am
Hey td, Jimmy’s position on abortion – aka, a woman’s right to choose – hasn’t changed. He still believes that it should be rare, but legal.
Mild Mannered Moderate
September 5th, 2012
12:24 pm
@cc You are so smart.
much smarter than td…why can’t he be more like you? I am confused…what did gm say that was racist? Was it the blackface comment?
What do you think of Michelle obama’s speech?
Both sides are bad. Both sides.
Buford T. Justice
September 5th, 2012
1:11 pm
Here’s how Dems are playing nice:
South Carolina’s the State reports:
S.C. Democratic Chairman Dick Harpootlian, never a loss for a quick quip, tossed a few stinging one-liners at the Wednesday delegation breakfast.
On Gov. Nikki Haley participating in daily news briefings in a basement studio at the NASCAR Hall of Fame: “She was down in the bunker a la Eva Braun.”
Braun, along with her lover Adolf Hitler, committed suicide in a bunker as World War II was coming to an end.
The comparisons of Nazis and Hitler to the Republicans seems to be an emerging theme from this Democratic convention. Yesterday, a top Democratic delegate from Kansas compared Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan to Hitler. The day before, a Democratic delegate from California compared Ryan to Nazi Joseph Goebbels.
Mild Mannered Moderate
September 5th, 2012
2:15 pm
@buford – I know right? Republicans are not Nazis! Everyone knows that fascism is a leftist doctrine. “Freedom from religion” is fascism. It says right in the constitution that the government can’t stop religion from being practiced. And I heard on fox the other day that the nazis advocated free health care just like Obama did. I also heard from my uncle in an email that his old veteran buddy sent him that bush’s daddy was a Nazi sympathizer; Its crazy.
They say Henry ford sent money to Hitler on his birthday in 1944….i mean…really? How can you send money in 1944 before the internet? And I remember the brownshirt comments my uncle made in another email he sent me about those kids chanting Obama songs being brownshirts!
Both sides are bad! Why can’t both sides be moderates like us? Both sides have policies that kill people. Both sides tell lies. Both sides have leaders that don’t tell the truth. Only we, we few in the moderate middle care about the truth enough to fact heck and show how both sides are weakqually bad!
I am sad for America. :-S
Carol
September 5th, 2012
3:49 pm
td
All Carter needs to do now is to define middle class? I bet his definition does not match the definition of most Americans.
+++++++
I bet his definition is a lot closer than Mitt Romney’s.
hat
September 5th, 2012
4:32 pm
@MMM
exactly what I was thinking, but on this blog personally, I have seen much more spewage from the left than the right.
Jean
September 5th, 2012
5:54 pm
Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama have a lot in common. Both were major failures as President. Both hold politically correct views about Iran that threaten American and world interests. Both were catastrophic for America’s economy.Both have been widely known to play loose with direct truthfulness.
Peanut Butter
September 5th, 2012
7:23 pm
I still have plenty of sheets for sale according to the Obama supporters we all wear them so get yours now while I still have some in stock.. LOL LOL LOL LOL