Jimmy Carter: “Each year, we set aside a special day of celebration to thank this Nation's mothers for the role they play in our lives.”

Carter says the animosity directed at the president over health care, the big bailouts, is being driven because Mr. Obama is a black man.

This is a very wise and very courageous thing for President Obama to do. And in my opinion, is long overdue.

But, when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States of America as an animal, or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have…

I say to you, quite frankly, that the time for racial discrimination is over.