Jimmy Carter is crazy

I've actually thought this for years, but it is always nice to be reminded. Jimmy Carter said yesterday that opposition to President Obama is based on racism, which may come as quite a surprise to the millions of people who oppose Obama's policies because they further hike the deficit, or will ultimately make health care worse for those who currently have coverage. I sure was surprised to wake up this morning and discover I was a racist.

Jimmy Carter truly is a gift that keeps on giving for the right. By intimating that everyone who opposes Obama is a racist, he is only going to further anger people, a number of whom already believe Obama's supporters play the race card too often already.

Also, if having a protest by at most a hundred thousand people in Washington Mall (and by most accounts far fewer) saying Obama is a socialist is an indication of racism, then what the hell was having 500,000+ people in the same place calling Bush a Nazi? It is possible to have strong opinions (let's not forget just how militant some people were about the Iraq War) without those opinions being entirely based on the skin colour of the person involved. Most of the same people had equally strong opinions opposing the Clinton health care plan. They aren't racist, they are small government conservatives. And Democrats trying to paint them as racist will certainly not help Obama's drifting poll numbers...