Obama rejects Carter's race baiting

President Obama has explicitly rejected former President Jimmy Carter's charge that the emotional opposition to the Administration's health care proposals are racially motivated. Race, the Chief Executive said, "is not the overriding issue here."

Instead, Mr. Obama cited a long-standing philosophical debate in America over the proper role of government.

The President should be given due credit for disavowing Carter's ad hominem attack on those on the other side of the political fence. Perhaps the former president will learn some discretion in his old age.