Mondale: Obama Enemies Show Racist 'Edge'

'I don't like saying it,' but tone 'harsher than in other times': ex-VP
By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff
Posted Sep 24, 2009 5:34 AM CDT
Mondale: Obama Enemies Show Racist 'Edge'
Hillary Clinton with former vice president Walter Mondale in Iowa during the presidential campaign.   (AP Photo/Brian Ray)

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 issue, I know that some of that must still be around." The 1984 presidential nominee added: "I don't like saying it."

"I don't want to pick a person, say, he's a racist, but I do think the way they're piling on Obama, the harshness, you kind of feel it," Mondale said. "I think I see an edge in them that's a little bit different and a little harsher than I've seen in other times."
(More Walter Mondale stories.)

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