Jimmy Carter: “Having good schools, good transportation systems, and good jobs, and not having a disruptive society also helps…”

An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.

Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.

I recognize that Israel is a wonderful democracy with freedom of speech and equality of treatment under the law between Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis.

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