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In reply to the discussion: Jimmy Carter is a more decent human being that any ReTHUG [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)Unless you consider FREEP and similar sites authoritative on Carter's qualities, don't waste your time.
ETA: While I hesitate to guess about why conservatives do things, Carter has spoken out a lot about racism from the right toward President Obama. I think that may be the reason they are going out of their way to smear Carter with the racist label.
Then again, they have a whole campaign of attempting to tear down Democratic Presidents and other Democratic politicians who have popular with America, while attempting to rehab racists like Barry States Rights Dog Whistle Goldwater and Eisenhower and batshit Joe McCarthy. Just about every time I turn around, one winger or another is making the rounds publicizing some new history revision book or another. Democrats? Not so much. We need to wake up. Wish I'd majored in history--or even just knew a lot of it.