Jimmy Carter: “My budget and economic policies have that as their primary goal.”

I don't agree with that at all.

Our great nation now teeters on the brink of a widening abyss. Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.

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

That our country for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned basic principles of human rights.