Well, good for them for rejecting Carter’s racist claim that whites who criticize a black president only do so because they’re racist. Yet another example that the left can’t look beyond Obama’s race. It appears to be their focus, just as it was during the election when Carter called Obama a “black boy.” But good for Obama for rejecting the racism of his own party:

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs reiterated at his press briefing this afternoon that President Obama disagrees with former President Carter’s assertion that Joe Wilson’s “you lie” outburst and other animosity directed at the president is grounded in racism.
“The president does not believe that — that the criticism comes based on the color of his skin,” Gibbs said.

It’s smart of the president to distance himself from this kind of divisive rhetoric. I feel bad for him that the left constantly brings up his race as the reason for opposition. It’s as if he isn’t equal with the other presidents like Clinton because they were opposed for substance while Obama’s opposed because he’s black. Do these race-baiters really think Obama wouldn’t face criticism if he were white?
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I hope the Obama administration’s remarks extends to Maxine Waters’ racist remarks:

“What I’m looking for is the very people who carry the signs who are referring to the policies in very, very strange ways like ‘Obamacare’ and ‘Barry Obamacare with Kennedy,'” she said. “What I’ve been interested in is hearing from those people that everybody’s referring to — everybody on the Mall, in the rally.”

Obamacare is a racist term? We can’t deride the president’s power grab of the health care industry because he’s black? Isn’t that racist?
The left uses the president’s race as a weapon, I hope the president will continue to reject this type of exploitation and race-baiting.
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