Jimmy Carter: “An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that…”

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

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

I fear for our democracy.

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.