Read more Jimmy Carter stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1033/jimmy-carter.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:00:05 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71348/obamas-nobel-is-the-not-george-w-bush-award.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Nobel Peace Prize President Obama won today is nothing more or less than the “fourth Nobel Prize for Not Being George W. Bush,” writes Michael Grunwald. The other beneficiaries of the NPNBGWB were Jimmy Carter in 2002, for criticizing the Iraq war buildup; Mohamed ElBaradei of the IAEA in...http://www.newser.com/story/71348/obamas-nobel-is-the-not-george-w-bush-award.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 09 Oct 2009 15:44:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71334/carter-likes-nobel-pick-taliban-not-so-much.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNot everybody thinks Barack Obama's Nobel prize is a weird choice. Jimmy Carter, who won it himself in 2002, calls it a "bold statement of international support for his vision and commitment." More reaction: Taliban spokesman: "He has done nothing for peace in Afghanistan. We condemn this year's peace prize...http://www.newser.com/story/71334/carter-likes-nobel-pick-taliban-not-so-much.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 09 Oct 2009 9:32:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70168/mondale-obama-enemies-show-racist-edge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJimmy Carter isn't the only grand old man of the Democratic Party to see racism in the opposition to Barack Obama's agenda. Walter Mondale, Carter's VP and the subject of a new documentary, said last night that "Having lived through those years, when civil rights was such a bitter issue,...http://www.newser.com/story/70168/mondale-obama-enemies-show-racist-edge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 24 Sep 2009 5:34:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69847/sorry-jimmy-race-aint-the-only-card-in-the-deck.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJimmy Carter and other Obama defenders playing the race card must remember that it’s just one in a deck that’s driving the I’ve-had-it-up-to-here rhetoric of Joe Wilson and Glenn Beck, Frank Rich writes in the New York Times . “There is a national conversation we must have right now—the one...http://www.newser.com/story/69847/sorry-jimmy-race-aint-the-only-card-in-the-deck.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 20 Sep 2009 10:31:53 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69790/gop-riding-a-wave-of-racism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRacism is alive and well in today's America and the Republican Party is feeding off it, Bob Herbert writes in the New York Times . Nobody should need Jimmy Carter—who wasn't above pandering to racists himself in his 1976 presidential campaign—to point out the racist undertones behind many of...http://www.newser.com/story/69790/gop-riding-a-wave-of-racism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 19 Sep 2009 7:20:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69727/some-obama-critics-actually-are-racists.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJimmy Carter was right when he said racism fuels some of President Obama's critics, Eugene Robinson writes for the Washington Post . Carter may have overstated it—plenty of naysayers have legit policy concerns over issues such as health reform—but "the most vitriolic attacks" reject Obama's "legitimacy as president," Robinson...http://www.newser.com/story/69727/some-obama-critics-actually-are-racists.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 18 Sep 2009 9:06:10 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69576/obama-disagrees-with-carter-on-racism-charge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSorry, Jimmy Carter: The White House doesn't think hostility toward President Obama is motivated by race, the Washington Post reports. “The president does not believe that the criticism comes based on the color of his skin,” said Robert Gibbs. Carter started a firestorm by asserting just that—the fervent anti-Obama...http://www.newser.com/story/69576/obama-disagrees-with-carter-on-racism-charge.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 16 Sep 2009 14:59:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69556/wilsons-son-to-carter-dads-no-racist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRep. Joe Wilson’s “you lie!” shout wasn’t “based on racism,” whatever Jimmy Carter might say, argues Wilson’s son. “There is not a racist bone in my dad's body,” says Alan Wilson, himself a candidate for attorney general in South Carolina, reports the Daily News . “He doesn't even laugh at distasteful...http://www.newser.com/story/69556/wilsons-son-to-carter-dads-no-racist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 16 Sep 2009 13:03:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69501/carter-wilsons-heckling-of-obama-based-on-racism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFormer President Jimmy Carter says Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's speech last week was an act "based on racism." Carter says Wilson's comment was part of an "inherent feeling" of some that a black man should not be president. In responding to a question at a town-hall meeting...http://www.newser.com/story/69501/carter-wilsons-heckling-of-obama-based-on-racism.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 15 Sep 2009 20:33:32 CDT