Really -- it is implicit in his recent comments about opposition to President Obama.

Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that he believes race is at the core of much of the opposition to President Obama.

"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American," Carter told NBC in an interview.

Well, let's consider the matter. Jimmy Carter has in recent years demonstrated animosity towards Israel. Time and again he has sided with terrorists and their allies against Israel, which is America's ally. He even came close to Holocaust denial by leaving the Holocaust out of his book on the conflict between Arabs and Israel, despite the fact that the existence of Israel is intimately bound up with that seminal event of the twentieth century AND many Arab leaders in the 1930s and 1940s were actively in favor of Hitler and his persecution of the Jews. He holds the Jewish state to a standard that he is unwilling to impose upon the Palestinians. If that does not constitute an intensely demonstrated animosity towards Jews, I don't know what is -- and it is certainly better supported by the evidence than is his claim about Obama opponents.