Greetings from Pittsboro! As some of you might know, Pat and I have made our escape from the suburban sprawl of North Atlanta and have relocated to a quirky little town in North Carolina called Pittsboro. We are about 20 miles from Chapel Hill down the infamous highway 15-501. I decided to start a blog to keep everyone up-to-date on our adventures in the "Pitt", as we fondly refer to our new haven.
Jimmy Carter was rejected overwhelmingly by the American people in 1980.
Let's look back to 1970. Running in the Democrat primary for Governor against former (moderate) Governor Carl Sanders, Jimmy employed disgusting campaign tactics:
* Carter's top campaign staffers were spotted distributing grainy photographs of Sanders arm-in-arm celebrating with two black men. Sanders was a part-owner of the Atlanta Hawks, and in the photograph he was celebrating a victory with two players who were pouring champagne over his head. Carter's leaflet was intended to depress Sanders's white vote.
* "The Carter campaign also produced a leaflet noting that Sanders had paid tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr."
* Carter criticized Sanders, a former governor, for preventing Alabama Gov. and notorious segregationist George Wallace from speaking on Georgia state property. "I don't think it was right for Governor Sanders to try to please a group of ultra-liberals, particularly those in Washington, when it means stifling communication with another state," said Carter.
* "'I have no trouble pitching for Wallace votes and black votes at the same time,' Carter told a reporter. Carter also said to another reporter, 'I can win this election without a single black vote.'"
*"The campaign paid for radio ads for a fringe black candidate, C.B. King, in an effort to siphon black votes away from Sanders."
*"Then there was the radio commercial in which Carter said he would never be the tool of any 'block' vote, slurring over the word 'block' so that it could be mistaken for 'black.'
Bernie you have gotten this info, almost word for word, from an editorial written by David Freddoso, who writes for the Washington Examiner a right wing publication. By the way this paper originally distributed its copies to white DC suburbs only.
It is amazing that the right has the ability to know what is in the mind of another person. Where is this "grainy" picture? Where do these quotes come from? Those of us on the left tend to want proof rather than innuendo.
Anything done by a Southern politician in 1970 needs to be put into context. I am not denying that Carter may have used race to some extent as a way to defeat Sanders, but a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then. To call Jimmy Carter a racist is immature and foolish in civil discourse. I was in the State Legislature when George Wallace addressed the George General Assembly and I can assure you it was a strange event. Maddox was the Lt Gov and introduced him as if he had descended from heaven. Any governor would have been in a difficult position. If you really think that there is no racism involved in the vitriolic opposition to Obama you are beyond naive. If these people are so opposed to deficits and the growth of government power they would have been out marching against GW Bush!!!! But he is WHITE.
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Jimmy Carter was rejected overwhelmingly by the American people in 1980.
Let's look back to 1970. Running in the Democrat primary for Governor against former (moderate) Governor Carl Sanders, Jimmy employed disgusting campaign tactics:
* Carter's top campaign staffers were spotted distributing grainy photographs of Sanders arm-in-arm celebrating with two black men. Sanders was a part-owner of the Atlanta Hawks, and in the photograph he was celebrating a victory with two players who were pouring champagne over his head. Carter's leaflet was intended to depress Sanders's white vote.
* "The Carter campaign also produced a leaflet noting that Sanders had paid tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr."
* Carter criticized Sanders, a former governor, for preventing Alabama Gov. and notorious segregationist George Wallace from speaking on Georgia state property. "I don't think it was right for Governor Sanders to try to please a group of ultra-liberals, particularly those in Washington, when it means stifling communication with another state," said Carter.
* "'I have no trouble pitching for Wallace votes and black votes at the same time,' Carter told a reporter. Carter also said to another reporter, 'I can win this election without a single black vote.'"
*"The campaign paid for radio ads for a fringe black candidate, C.B. King, in an effort to siphon black votes away from Sanders."
*"Then there was the radio commercial in which Carter said he would never be the tool of any 'block' vote, slurring over the word 'block' so that it could be mistaken for 'black.'
Bernie you have gotten this info, almost word for word, from an editorial written by David Freddoso, who writes for the Washington Examiner a right wing publication. By the way this paper originally distributed its copies to white DC suburbs only.
It is amazing that the right has the ability to know what is in the mind of another person. Where is this "grainy" picture? Where do these quotes come from? Those of us on the left tend to want proof rather than innuendo.
Anything done by a Southern politician in 1970 needs to be put into context. I am not denying that Carter may have used race to some extent as a way to defeat Sanders, but a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then. To call Jimmy Carter a racist is immature and foolish in civil discourse. I was in the State Legislature when George Wallace addressed the George General Assembly and I can assure you it was a strange event. Maddox was the Lt Gov and introduced him as if he had descended from heaven. Any governor would have been in a difficult position. If you really think that there is no racism involved in the vitriolic opposition to Obama you are beyond naive. If these people are so opposed to deficits and the growth of government power they would have been out marching against GW Bush!!!! But he is WHITE.
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