…..with this crap below from the racist Carter. The Dems are just trying to demonize their opponents in order to deflect attention away from the content of their health care proposal. It won’t work.

Jimmy Carter: Wilson comments ‘based on racism’

ATLANTA – Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act “based on racism” and rooted in fears of a black president.

“I think it’s based on racism,” Carter said in response to an audience question at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta. “There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.”

The Georgia Democrat said the outburst was a part of a disturbing trend directed at the president that has included demonstrators equating Obama to Nazi leaders.

“Those kind of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate on whether we should have a national program on health care,” he said. “It’s deeper than that.”

Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, was formally rebuked Tuesday in a House vote for shouting “You lie!” during Obama’s speech to Congress last Wednesday.

The shout came after the president commented that illegal aliens would be ineligible for federal subsidies to buy health insurance. Republicans expressed their disbelief with sounds of disapproval, punctuated by Wilson’s outburst.

Yeah right! You heard it before. You will hear it again. Any opposition to Obama means you are a racist. Whatever, Obama admitted Joe was telling the truth later.

From The Hill:

Despite statements to the contrary, the Obama administration could force the American people to pay for the healthcare of millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S.

The Democrats’ bill in the House, H.R. 3200, contains gaping loopholes that will allow illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer-funded benefits. And these loopholes are no accident.

The legislation contains no verification mechanism to ensure that illegal immigrants do not apply for benefits. Republicans offered an amendment to close this loophole — it would have required verification using the existing methods that are already in place to verify eligibility for other federal benefits programs. But, when they were asked to put the language of the bill where their words were, in a party-line vote, House Democrats rejected the amendment to require verification and close this loophole.

The bill also leaves open the possibility that if one citizen family member is eligible for benefits, then the entire family — including illegal immigrants — is also eligible for the benefits.

From Legal Insurrection – The House Bill Does Cover Illegals

Technically, Obama was correct that his plan does not cover illegal aliens because Obama has no plan that has been released, only concepts. So if Obama says his plan doesn’t cover illegals, then by definition it does not cover illegals — at least until we see the language in his plan. Similarly, the Senate HELP Committee bill defines an “eligible individual” in numerous places throughout the bill to include only citizens and legal residents (including for the public option, at page 111 of the bill).

So using the two measures, the non-existent Obama bill and the draft Senate HELP Committee bill which was not a full Senate proposal, Obama was correct.

But if the standard is the full House Bill, HR3200, then it appears that Obama was incorrect. There is nothing in HR3200 that excludes illegal aliens from the various coverage provisions (with a few limited exceptions). The Congressional Research Service agrees with this assessment (full report embedded below). For example, with regard to health care exchanges, the CRS found:

H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on noncitzens—whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently—participating in the Exchange.

Since the Obama administration wanted a full House vote passing HR3200 prior to the August recess, Obama was okay with a bill that included illegal aliens.

And from Powerline.

White House Admits Wilson Was Right

Last night, as part of its now-traditional Friday night news dump, the White House put out a “clarification” of the Obama administration’s position on participation in its proposed health care plan by illegal aliens. For the first time, the White House acknowledged that it will be necessary to implement a verification system so that illegals can’t sign up for Obama’s proposed insurance exchange:

Verification will be required when purchasing health insurance on the exchange. One option is the SAVE program (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) which states currently use to make sure that undocumented immigrants don’t participate in safety-net programs for which they are ineligible.

President Obama has thus endorsed the Republican rather than the Democratic position on this issue. In the House Ways and Means Committee, the Republicans tried to amend the Democrats’ health care bill to require use of the SAVE system or a similar safeguard, but their amendment was voted down on a straight party-line vote, confirming that the Democrats did indeed intend for illegal immigrants to obtain coverage under Obamacare:

The House bill, as currently structured, does not offer clear guidelines to ensure that illegal immigrants cannot access taxpayer-funded health care benefits. Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV) introduced an amendment that would use two citizenship status verification systems, the Income and Eligibility Verification System (IEVS) and Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) programs, to establish an individual’s eligibility to obtain the bill’s proposed affordability credits or enroll in the public insurance option. Both programs are currently used to determine citizenship status and eligibility for public assistance programs. Safeguards to guarantee that only citizens can access federal health care benefits are necessary, considering that the US Census Bureau currently estimates that 9.6 million of the uninsured are not US citizens. The first Heller amendment failed on a straight party-line vote.

In effect, President Obama has now admitted that Joe Wilson was right. That doesn’t mean, of course, that any verification system will actually be included should Obamacare become law. If controversy over the issue has died down by the time legislation is actually enacted, Congressional Democrats likely will omit such safeguards from the final version of whatever bill eventually passes.

Also, the Dems repeatedly voted against a specific amendment to guarantee that illegals are not covered in the legislation. Hmm…I wonder why?

And Carter himself was a horrible president and antisemitic and thus a racist himself as evidenced by several articles posted on this site and by this:

Bin Laden recommends

In his latest message to the American people, Osama bin Laden provided a list of recommended reading. “After you read the suggested books,” Osama declared, you will know the truth, and you will be greatly shocked by the scale of concealment that has been exercised on you.” Bin Laden recommends:

1. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer. We wrote at length about the long essay that gave rise to the book when it was published in the London Review of Books and in a pseudoscholarly, heavily footnoted Kennedy School “research working paper” counterpart to the LRB essay. Mearsheimer and Walt fancy themselves the brave dissenters from a sinister pro-Israel orthodoxy. They write, for example, “Anyone who criticizes Israeli actions or says that pro-Israel groups have significant influence over U.S. Middle East policy…stands a good chance of getting labeled an anti-Semite.” These tenured faculty members of distinguished academic institutions dared to take the chance. For its sheer crudity, however, their book subjected them to the even greater chance of getting labeled charlatans. Now they can add the endorsement of Osama bin Laden to their accolades.

2. Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid, by Jimmy Carter. Steven Hayward noted that at the end of one of Carter’s freelance Middle East peace conferences a few years ago, he commented on his efforts in the Middle East: “Had I been elected to a second term, with the prestige and authority and influence and reputation I had in the region, we could have moved to a final solution.” He’s tried to make up for the second term of which he was deprived with his continuing campaign to delegitimize the state of Israel. Bin Laden’s endorsement is a fitting tribute to Carter’s efforts.

A recommendation by Bin Laden is all you need to know about how much of a p.o.s. Carter really is.