Additional Comments: 

While, I'm not amused with either political party, due to massive failures and moral lapses that created the current recession turned depression, as a black person, I expect, Obama, the nation's first black President, will be treated exactly the same as former Commanders-in-Chief, all of whom have been white.

Once again, as a person of color, I do not expect him to be treated any differently and when he is and negatively so, it is not something I find particularly kind or tasteful.

Jimmy Carter

Updated 11:01 a.m. 9/16/09 - In remarks decried by Republicans, former president Jimmy Carter told NBC's Brian Williams in an interview Tuesday that he believes race is at the core of much of the opposition to President Obama.

"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American," Carter said. "I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way, and I've seen the rest of the country that shared the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African Americans"

Continued Carter, who is famously from Georgia: "And that racism inclination still exists. And I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of the belief among many white people, not just in the South but around the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It's an abominable circumstance, and it grieves me and concerns me very deeply."...

"I think it's based on racism," Carter said of the tone of the opposition, in response to an audience question. "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president."...

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