Jimmy Carter Clarifies Comments On Obama And Racism

CNN's Candy Crowley interviews Former President Jimmy Carter on his 85th birthday, live from the Presidential Library that bears his name. Carter was asked (at 3:56) if he wanted to clarify his controversial comments of a few weeks earlier, when he insisted that protesters who disagree with President Obama is because "he is a black man." "I said those on the fringe element who had vituperative attacks against President Obama... as a person, that was tinged with racism," Carter stated ...

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YouTube | October 1, 2009

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