Now Mondale Plays the Race Card
Former Vice President Walter Mondale joined his old boss Jimmy Carter Wednesday, arguing that some of the opposition to President Obama's agenda is fueled by racial animus.
Asked at an event in Washington whether he agreed with former President Carter that racism was behind some criticism of Obama, Mondale took a long pause before answering: "Yeah."
"I don't like saying it," Mondale continued. "Having lived through those years, when civil rights was such a bitter issue, and when we argued those things for years ... I know that some of that must still be around."
"I don't want to pick a person, say, he's a racist, but I do think the way they're piling on Obama, the harshness, you kind of feel it," he said. "I think I see an edge in them that's a little bit different and a little harsher than I've seen in other times."
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mike
I have to wonder how Mr. Carter, Mr. Cosby,or Mr. Mondale know anything about RACISM except what they saw on T.V. Did any of them live or go to school with minorities. I think not. Mr. Cosby even said that his own people don't respect each other. Mr. Carter, Do you employ Minorities in positions of authority in your peanut farm or plant, Mr. Mondale your claim to being a civil rights fighter started when? You guys don't know the first thing about RACISM, of course you might have learned it from the far left media.
diverdown
I see all the liberal lemmings on this thread are following the same tired old playbook and dealing the race card off the bottom of the deck. They are all like the loser in a schoolyard fight, resorting to cheap backshots as they dust themselves off and try to stanch the bleeding. Be the winner of the fight, pity them and ignore them. Name calling is all they have left. Need a tissue, liberals?
katt
At this point all you can do is laugh it is so absurd.
jackphat
Agree LOL. I guess we'll all get to see the olds dregs of the Demo party now. Will be good for a chuckle.
Loyal72
Please see "Obama Fan"! See what I mean when I keep repeating that when the going gets rough, "THE DEMS EAT THEIR OWN"? And if "OLD TIME DEMOCRAT=NEW RACIST REPUBLICAN", why does his ravings sound so dam much like the "OLD TIME DEMOCRAT"? They've been yelling "racist for at least 40 years!
Loyal72
Mondale is as inconsequential Carter! Does anyone CARE what either of them thinks? And Mondale knows better. He just still ticked over losing his presidential bid, and cannot for the life of himself, how BO won!!!!! HMMMM. What do you suppose BOTHERS him about that?
Loyal72
Oops! Meant to say "can't figure out" how BO won!
BOSMAN
Another OBAMA SHILL saying something bizarre to take the focus of Obama for a day. IT DOESN'T WORK FOR ME ANYMORE!!!
Obama Fan
it never did. I love when one of you loonies pretend like you ever supported him. You hated him when you saw him regardless of his policies. You really hate him now as POTUS. Embracing your inner racist is the first step.
Obama Fan
OLD TIME DEMOCRATS=NEW RACIST REBUPLICANS
Hey but at least your honest .
BOSMAN
YOU'RE RIGHT! I never supported him then and SURE AS HELL don't support him now. Nothings changed. I'm STILL right! by the way, If you DON'T THINK these outbursts from the OLD TIME democrats aren't CHOREOGRAPHED by the Obama administration, you're the loon!
TruthSpeaker
Democrat politics as usual. When you don't have a point to make, hurl around slander and namecalling. This "racism" bs is getting old from the party of Bull Connor, Lester Maddox and the KKK.
Obama Fan
Not when its true.
Sharon
Rev Wright, Van Jones, Bill Ayers, ACORN...Obama said judge him by the company he keeps...well, we are.
Don DeVille
He was a moron back in the 70's and still is.
Joey
Is he still alive?
The Lord
how come every one but the fox crowd is wrong?
bobbieann
And why is everyone in the BO administration right but his critics are wrong? When you blasted George W. Bush all the time, it was "patriotic dissent". Well, I'm a patriot, too. Get over it.
Obama Fan
That's a special kind of crazy.
Sharon
Crazy because we do not agree with his policies? That makes no sense, but I have come to expect that from you libs.
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"I don't want to pick a person, say, he's a racist, but I do think the way they're piling on Obama, the harshness, you kind of feel it," he said. "I think I see an edge in them that's a little bit different and a little harsher than I've seen in other times."
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Maybe that harshness you are seeing and feeling, Fritz, is due to the harshness we are seeing and feeling this country sprint into socialism. And that should not be confused or suggested to be racism.
Obama Fan
Naw it's racism plain and simple just like you morons.
Sharon
Sure, just like Rev Wright and Obama not hearing his hateful message. Yeah, Right!! Moron!
Shamballa
You sound like a parrot. He could be purple and people would oppose his agenda. Get a clue Obamabot.
Paul P.
Major Tom says racism has been exposed! I wonder if he is reffering to the White kid being beat up by Black kids on the school bus in Belleville ILL. By God Major, maybe you're onto something there!
n4cer
I think the President, Rahm and Axelrod are racist for suggesting that a Black Man is not qualified to run as New York's governor.
Obama Fan
Not racism they are against IDIOTS which is why they are so hated here.
Carolina Blues Billy-Bob
Bottom of the barrel politics.... they've exhausted any viable ammo.... opponents to their socialist agenda need only to argue the facts - the liberal democrats are desperate - playing the race card and threatening a nuclear option....
BOB from the old school
I am so old I can recall a generation when we (everyone in the US) all were so comfortable with our racial and ethnic heritage that we could convers and yes even joke about the minutia of our specific backgrounds. I recall Sammy davis Jr doing a sun tan lotion commercial in the late 60's and it was a tremendous hit as no one cast any racial or ethnic dispersions on him or the producers or the company. How far have we come that we now lower ourselves to the illiterate and idiotic level of politicians?
Obama Fan
Your statement is the definition of racially insensitive. In what universe do you think someone would be comfortable degrading himself like that in public? Unfortunately if there is enough money on the table people will do anything. Truly sad for him and for you.
The Lord
you think he liked it or was trying to make money?...Davis was strapping on a watch his father gave him, it slipped to the floor next to a soldier's bed. The man, Jennings, crushed the watch with his army boot. Without missing a beat, he looked at Sammy and said, "Don't worry boy, you can always steal another one."
Major Tom
Since when is exposing racism "playing the race card?"
Sharon
Since when is descent racism?
ohiochili
when it is not about racism, silly.
Jan in VA
Another Dem playing the race care. It's not the color of his skin, it is his policies, it is him turning the country into a socialist state.
Texasgl
Some of the worst Racists in the world are not white.It does make me laugh to see these Loser's Carter and Mondale call on the race card...
MikeC
Sure, there are racists out there of all colors. Most people, regardless of what Carter and Mondale say, are good-willed. As for harshness against Obama, Mondale must've been in a coma since 2001 if he thinks it's worse now than in other times. Maybe he should ask George Bush.
ohiochili
george bush was hated by the left because he was white. that statement makes just about as much sense as the race baiters today.