I favored at that time a quick withdrawal of our troops from Vietnam, completely.
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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 buried Obama with Kennedy, those kind of things are beyond the bounds of the way presidents have ever been accepted, even with people who disagree.
But my hope is that there will be some clarification of what the United States is doing now and what they will be doing in the future.
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.





