Racism and Government Opposition

Jimmy Carter, a man I greatly admire, has stuck his foot in the poop:

"I think people who are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African American.

"It's a racist attitude, and my hope is and my expectation is that in the future both Democratic leaders and Republican leaders will take the initiative in condemning that kind of unprecedented attack on the president of the United States..."

The personal attack he is describing is:

"When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler..."

Now I don't think Obama is an animal or a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, but I do think that Mr. Carter has missed the mark. Many people of his age, and many professional politicians, are quick to blame racism. I understand that for them racism still exists. But many other people, mostly younger people, I suppose, have grown up learning that we do not judge by the color of skin but by the content of character. This is the great lesson of Martin Luther King.

I do oppose Obama, and although I don't think he is the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, I am really unhappy with his approach to government and its similarity National Socialist Workers Party and other totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. Government takeovers, abortions, the thugs at ACORN all point to discredited governments in history, and I don't want to see America make the same mistakes.

Opposition to the Government is not racist because the head of state is of a different race than someone who might oppose him. That thinking is also a failed and discredited world view from the past. Let us judge by the content of character and the results, not the skin color, Mr. Carter.