Former President Jimmy Carter is all about defending President Obama these days.
Just two days after Carter told America to cut Obama some slack for failing to attend the Paris Unity March, the former president defended Obama’s parenting skills after potential GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee criticized them in an interview with People magazine.
A TMZ reporter caught Carter heading into LaGuardia Airport in New York City and asked him about Huckabee’s recent assertion that the Obamas shouldn’t allow their daughters to listen to Beyonce.
“I don’t agree with much that Mike Huckabee says,” Carter told the reporter. “I think that President Obama is doing a good job.”
Huckabee told People recently that he doesn’t think Beyonce’s song lyrics and dance moves are “suitable” for young girls like Sasha and Malia Obama.
“I don’t understand how on one hand they can be such doting parents and so careful about the intake of everything — how much broccoli they eat and where they go to school and making sure they’re kind of sheltered and shielded from so many things — and yet they don’t see anything that might not be suitable for either a preteen or a teen in some of the lyrical content and choreography of Beyonce, who has sort of a regular key to the [White House] door,” Huckabee explained.
On Monday, former President Carter said at a press conference that there is no “need for criticism” following Obama’s neglect of the Paris rally to support free speech and stand up to the individuals who perpetrated the attacks on Charlie Hebdo.
“The president sometimes can’t go where he’d prefer to go,” Carter added. “He’s just come back from vacation so I think he’s probably got a lot on his desk.”
