Angry right wing protests towards Barack Obama are racist, says Carter

By Anne Davies, Washington Correspondent in St Paul, Minnesota
Updated November 9 2012 - 3:55am, first published September 16 2009 - 11:27pm
Barack Obama
Barack Obama

THE former US president Jimmy Carter believes racism is behind the anger being directing towards Barack Obama, the nation's first black president, and that it was ''abominable''.