There He Goes Again

 The hapless Jimmy Carter is at it again. He recently said in  an interview with state-run media that the opposition to President Barack Obama's healthcare fiasco is racially motivated. Take a look:

I have no doubt that some of the opposition to President Obama is racially motivated. I have no doubt that a lot of it is. But I know that the vast majority of it is not. It is motivated by the fact that millions of people oppose the president's policies, not because of the color of his skin, but because his policies are ill-advised, out of step with America, and doomed to failure.

Like most card-carrying Leftists, President Carter misses this point. Worse than that, the man who is generally regarded as among the worst of the 44 presidents has inflamed the racial patterns that Barack Obama was supposed to heal. This is another one of Jimmy Carter's ham-handed attempts to make himself relevant and rehabilitate his reputation. This from a man whose view of the world was recently endorsed by Osama bin Laden.

What the ex-president has tried to do is to turn the perp into the victim. President Obama's first eight months has included an $800 billion stimulus package which barely moved the needle on the economy, nationalization of the auto industry, continuing huge bailouts of big banks, a record deficit, a healthcare bill bogged down in partisan bickering, and a stalemate in Afghanistan with guys that don't even wear shoes. There's a long way to go in his term, but right now he's challenging Pres. Carter's record for ineptitude. 

So his answer to Mr. Obama's failures so far is to blame white people. The same white people, by the way, who savaged Mr. Carter when he bumbled through the White House. 

The real reason behind the Obama criticism isn't the color of his skin. It's the fact that he is academic, urban professional disconnected from the rest of America. Barack Obama has little contact with middle America. He has little understanding of middle America. And, frankly,  in his speeches on healthcare and his fly-by appearances at town hall meetings, he's shown he has little respect for middle America.

But a failed ex-president and one-term Southern governor from four decades ago has decided to play the race card in hope of rehabilitating his own reputation and making himself relevant. Sorry, Jimmy, it's going to work about as well as gas rationing and turning off the lights on the White House Christmas tree did.

The last Southern governor who so blatantly played the race card was George Wallace. The only difference between George Wallace and Jimmy Carter is that George Wallace had a better tan.

Just thought you might like to know.