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Obama's Nobel Is the
'Not George W. Bush' Award

He's now the fourth recipient

Oct 9, 09 3:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Nobel Peace Prize President Obama won today is nothing more or less than the “fourth Nobel Prize for Not Being George W. Bush,” writes Michael Grunwald. The other beneficiaries of the NPNBGWB were Jimmy Carter in 2002, for criticizing the Iraq war buildup; Mohamed ElBaradei of the... More »

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climate change • Al Gore • Jimmy Carter • IAEA • Nobel Prize • Nobel Peace Prize • rhetoric • George W. Bush • Mohamed ElBaradei • President Obama • Michael Grunwald

nobel reaction

 Carter Likes Nobel Pick, 
 Taliban Not So Much   

Nicolas Sarkozy says something odd about the world's hearts

Oct 9, 09 9:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Not everybody thinks Barack Obama's Nobel prize is a weird choice. Jimmy Carter, who won it himself in 2002, calls it a "bold statement of international support for his vision and commitment." More reaction:
  • Taliban spokesman: "He has done nothing for peace in Afghanistan. We condemn
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Jimmy Carter • Nobel Prize • Nobel Peace Prize • President Obama

Mondale: Obama Enemies Show Racist 'Edge'

'I don't like saying it,'
but tone 'harsher than in other times': ex-VP

Sep 24, 09 5:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jimmy Carter isn't the only grand old man of the Democratic Party to see racism in the opposition to Barack Obama's agenda. Walter Mondale, Carter's VP and the subject of a new documentary, said last night that "Having lived through those years, when civil rights was such a bitter... More »

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Barack Obama • Jimmy Carter • racism • racist • Walter Mondale

OPINION

Sorry, Jimmy: Race Ain't the Only Card in
the Deck

Obama anger not just about skin color: Rich

Sep 20, 09 10:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jimmy Carter and other Obama defenders playing the race card must remember that it’s just one in a deck that’s driving the I’ve-had-it-up-to-here rhetoric of Joe Wilson and Glenn Beck, Frank Rich writes in the New York Times. “There is a national conversation we must have... More »

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Barack Obama • race • Jimmy Carter • Washington • anger • Glenn Beck • Republicans • Joe Wilson

OPINION

 GOP 'Riding a Wave of Racism' 

Racially charged attacks on Obama show scourge of racism is still with us

Sep 19, 09 7:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Racism is alive and well in today's America and the Republican Party is feeding off it, Bob Herbert writes in the New York Times. Nobody should need Jimmy Carter—who wasn't above pandering to racists himself in his 1976 presidential campaign—to point out the racist undertones behind many of... More »

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Barack Obama • Jimmy Carter • racism • Republican Party • racial tension • President Obama

OPINION

 Some Obama Critics 
 Actually Are Racists 

They reject his 'legitimacy as president'

Sep 18, 09 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jimmy Carter was right when he said racism fuels some of President Obama's critics, Eugene Robinson writes for the Washington Post. Carter may have overstated it—plenty of naysayers have legit policy concerns over issues such as health reform—but "the most vitriolic attacks" reject Obama's "legitimacy as... More »

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Barack Obama • Jimmy Carter • South Carolina • racism • Confederate flag • Obama administration • President Obama • Joe Wilson • You lie

(Newser) - Sorry, Jimmy Carter: The White House doesn't think hostility toward President Obama is motivated by race, the Washington Post reports. “The president does not believe that the criticism comes based on the color of his skin,” said Robert Gibbs. Carter started a firestorm by asserting just that—... More »

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race • Jimmy Carter • White House • racism • health care reform • Robert Gibbs • President Obama

Wilson's Son to Carter:
Dad's No Racist 

Slams former prez's claim 'you lie!' was 'based on racism'

Sep 16, 09 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rep. Joe Wilson’s “you lie!” shout wasn’t “based on racism,” whatever Jimmy Carter might say, argues Wilson’s son. “There is not a racist bone in my dad's body,” says Alan Wilson, himself a candidate for attorney general in South Carolina, reports... More »

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Congress • politics • Jimmy Carter • racism • President Obama • Joe Wilson • Alan Wilson

(AP) - Former President Jimmy Carter says Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's speech last week was an act "based on racism." Carter says Wilson's comment was part of an "inherent feeling" of some that a black man should not be president. In responding to a question at... More »

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Jimmy Carter • racism • health care reform • speech • town hall meeting • House Republicans • Carter Center • President Obama • Joe Wilson

OBITUARY

 Carter Confidant,
 Press Secretary 
 Powell Dead at 65 

Aide helped engineer Ga. governor's rise to the White House

Sep 14, 09 6:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former White House press secretary Jody Powell, a longtime aide who helped engineer Jimmy Carter's run to the White House, died today after apparently suffering a heart attack at his Maryland home, the Washington Post reports. He was 65. A member of the "Georgia Mafia" that stormed the capital... More »

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Jimmy Carter • White House • obituary • death • press secretary • Jody Powell • Carter administration

(Newser) - All four living former presidents will attend Ted Kennedy’s invitation-only funeral, the Boston Herald reports. President Obama will also be there, breaking off his Martha’s Vineyard vacation to deliver a eulogy. Gordon Brown also plans to attend, as will Irish PM Brian Cowen. “Sen. Kennedy is... More »

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Barack Obama • Jimmy Carter • Gordon Brown • Bill Clinton • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • George HW Bush • funeral • senator • George W. Bush • Brian Cowen • former presidents • US Senate • President Obama

analysis

 Back in the Groove, 
 Bill Comes 'Full Circle' 

Takes on role Carter played early in Clinton's presidency

Aug 5, 09 11:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - When President Clinton was still wet behind the ears, North Korea decided to ramp up its nuclear program—and Jimmy Carter headed over to sort things out. Now, things have come “full circle,” as Clinton takes on the role of diplomatic ex-president, note John Harris and Mike Allen... More »

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North Korea • diplomacy • Jimmy Carter • Bill Clinton • elder statesman • Obama administration

NY Times Video Obits Give the Departed 'The Last Word'

Non-Bush ex-president  has already made one

Jul 30, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Obituaries are a newspaper standby, but the New York Times has removed the journalistic middleman with its series of video obits, Editor & Publisher reports. After starting 2 years ago with humorist Art Buchwald’s greeting of “Hi, I’m Art Buchwald and I just died,” the Times... More »

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New York Times • Jimmy Carter • Bill Clinton • obituary • video • George HW Bush • George W. Bush • former presidents • celebrity death • Art Buchwald • video obituary

(Newser) - Facing a burdensome political agenda, decreased popularity, and widespread opposition to his key policies, President Barack Obama appears poised to become the next Jimmy Carter, Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie write in the Washington Post. Both are "smart, moralistic" presidents who inherited brutal economies, but both responded with top-heavy... More »

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Barack Obama • Jimmy Carter • Bill Clinton • spending • economy • financial crisis

 Hamas 'Foiled Carter 
 Assassination Plot' 

Source tells Haaretz militants targeted former prez

Jun 16, 09 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hamas, the Palestinian group that rules the Gaza Strip, foiled an attempt by al-Qaeda-linked militants to assassinate Jimmy Carter, a source tells Haaretz. Hoping to kill the former president as his vehicle left Gaza, militants placed a pair of bombs at a border crossing. Witnesses say that they saw Hamas... More »

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Jimmy Carter • Gaza • Hamas • bomb • assassination attempt • border crossing • al-Qaeda • Gaza blockade

(Newser) - Jimmy Carter politely disagrees with the current president’s move to block photos depicting prisoner torture in Iraq and Afghanistan from public view. “I don't agree with him,” the former president said of Barack Obama. “But I certainly don't criticize him for making that decision,” he... More »

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Bush administration • Abu Ghraib • Jimmy Carter • ACLU • Obama administration • President Obama • torture photos

OBITUARY

Co-Founder
of Habitat for Humanity Dies

Fuller and his wife dumped riches to live out Christian values

Feb 3, 09 11:28 AM CST
(AP) - Millard Fuller, the millionaire entrepreneur who gave it all away to help found the Christian house-building charity Habitat for Humanity, has died at 74. His wife Linda says her husband was complaining of chest pains, headache, and difficulty swallowing before his death early today. A global 100-house "blitz build"... More »

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Jimmy Carter • obituary • housing • charity • poverty • Habitat for Humanity • Christian values • Millard Fuller

ANALYSIS


 Obama 
 Cringes 
 at Carter 
 Comparison 

GOP sees comeback in portraying new prez as weak, inexperienced

Feb 1, 09 1:15 PM CST
(Newser) - You may get away with calling President Obama “Barry,” but don’t call him “Jimmy”—as in Carter, the Times of London reports. Anxious to characterize Obama as weak at home and inexperienced abroad, Republicans have seized on the comparison first made by Hillary Clinton supporters... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • Jimmy Carter • Guantanamo Bay • foreign policy • Republicans

GLOSSIES

 Obamas Inherit 
 Sweet Record Stash 

White House album collection contains landmarks from Zeppelin, Stones, Beatles

Jan 29, 09 1:15 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama’s new digs not only grant him access to chefs and a bowling alley, but an LP stash that includes Led Zeppelin IV and the Ramones’ Rocket to Russia, Rolling Stone reports. Banished to the basement during the Reagan years, the White House vinyl vault contains Obama favorites... More »

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Barack Obama • Rolling Stones • Jimmy Carter • Bob Dylan • Rolling Stone • Ronald Reagan • Talking Heads • Bruce Springsteen • The Carpenters • Ramones • Led Zeppelin • Sex Pistols • music review • presidential library • President Obama • Obama family • Pat Boone • John Denver

Carter: Only a Free Palestine Can Stop Israeli 'Catastrophe'

Former prez advocates a two-state solution

Jan 27, 09 9:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Israel faces "catastrophe" unless it revives the peace process and works toward the establishment of an independent Palestine, says Jimmy Carter. In an interview with the AP, the former president and Nobel laureate says the growing number of Arabs in the Holy Land means that only a two-state solution... More »

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Israel • Jimmy Carter • Palestine • peace • Palestinian statehood • two-state solution

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