Jimmy Carter (pictured) is 84 years old and three decades removed from the White House, but he still has the power to make Democrats run.
Away from him, that is.
From the White House to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Democrats raced to distance themselves from the former president’s claim that racism was behind Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You lie” outburst and other attacks on President Barack Obama.
From the Obama presidential campaign until now it’s been all about race. The left has used race so much that it isn’t working for them anymore and they are realizing that racism is becoming counter-productive.
Then along comes Jimmy Carter shouting racism.
Congressional Democrats have no interest in starting a racial argument that could turn off swing district voters whose support the party will need if it plans on keeping its grip on Congress in 2010.
And the current occupants of the White House made it clear Wednesday that they have no interest in bringing race back to the fore of any discussion about Obama.
Does anyone really listen to Jimmy Carter anymore? No, he is irrelevant.
That thud you hear is Carter being tossed under the Obama bus.
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