Methinks that Maureen Dowd opened up a can of worms that the Democrats would just as soon leave alone.
Now trundles in perhaps the worst President in modern history, Jimmy Carter, who says that whites and not just the ones in the south, are harboring resentment at a black man being the president. Carter, who once gave a speech dubbed the "Great Malaise" was responsible for more job loss and negative wage growth than any President since Herbert Hoover.
Many people fail to remember how Carter's policies in the 70's led to double digit inflation and and a stagnant economy harmed by the energy crisis. Economists term an unusual pairing of these two phenomena as StagFlation.
Carter was first and foremost a Neville Chamberlain clone in terms of his willingness to appease his adversaries. Remember how Chamberlain kept pushing away from conflict in Europe, even as Hitler's Germany pounded Spain, France and Belgium in the 30's. Carter's desire to "talk" to radical Islamists who held our hostages for more than 25% of his presidency led to no freedom for them and tons of free advertising that the US was a weak willed country who would not do what needed to be done.
"There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president," said Carter in an interview with BBC correspondent What was Carter's basis for such a statement?
Supporters of such notions point to Wilson's clerking for Strom Thurmond and his participation in the Sons of the Confederacy as proof that he and people like him harbor latent resentment to blacks because of the rights given to them by Republicans after the Civil War. Democrats decry race every chance they can to distract and divide the country and to keep alive old hatreds and fears.
In Carter's case, perhaps it is he who harbors the racism as the owner of a large peanut farm in the deep south. Perhaps his resentment runs much deeper than he lets on. After all, his great-grandfather was a private in the CSA (Confederate regular army). Senator Byrd of West Virginia was a card carrying member of the KKK. Yet... that is somehow never mentioned.
Where were the cries of racism when Black members of Congress called then President Bush 43 a liar. Jefferson's manual for the house says that you cannot call the president a liar, nor have anything read into the record that intimates the President is a Liar or that he lied. Further more, Wilson was correct that HR 3200 could allow healthcare for illegals, in that it does not explicitly exclude it, and amendments to exclude it were all voted down. Reasonable people can infer that the intent of the legislation will be to allow such expenditures.
Wilson let the moment get the better of him in that exchange, but he did the proper and honorable thing. The President did the honorable thing and accepted the apology. Democrats acted like school yard bullies and were hell bent for leather to pillory Wilson. What they did was to increase the tension and lack of willingness to work out common and effective solutions to the serious problems facing our country and what Carter and those like him have done is create additional fear and mistrust between the races. It is a sad day and one that hopefully those of us who are not racist will remember when it is time to replace the self-serving members of Congress.
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