Carter Hints Backing Of Obama Over Clinton
Former President, A Superdelegate, Implies That He Will Support Illinois Senator
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Speaking to local reporters Wednesday on a trip to Nigeria, the former Democratic president noted that Barack Obama had won his home state of Georgia and his hometown of Plains.
"My children and their spouses are pro-Obama. My grandchildren are also pro-Obama," he said at a press conference, according to the Nigerian newspaper This Day. "As a superdelegate, I would not disclose who I am rooting for, but I leave you to make that guess."
Carter's spokeswoman confirmed the comments.
Asked about Jimmy Carter indicating he would go for Obama, Hillary Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson said: "Both Senator Clinton and President Clinton have a great deal of respect for President Carter and have enjoyed their relationship with him over the years. And, obviously, he is free to make whatever decision he thinks is appropriate with regard to the presidential choice."
Asked whether there was concern that Carter would be regarded as a "super-superdelegate" in the process, Wolfson said: "He is clearly a distinguished former leader of our party and is a superdelegate. And I'm sure that people will be interested in the choice that he makes. But no, nothing beyond that."
Carter is one of 13 Georgia Democratic superdelegates - elected officials and party elders who have a vote at the national convention this August in Denver and are free to support the candidate of their choice.
Only three of those have not indicated who they support: Carter, state Rep. Jim Marshall, and former Congressman Richard Ray, who is president of the Georgia chapter of the AFL-CIO.
Among those who have committed, Obama holds a 7-3 lead.
Carter was in Nigeria for a ceremony celebrating a reduction in Guinea worm disease in West Africa.
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See all 138 CommentsYet, he cringes at mentions of his grandparents and really doesn''''t do his mother much justice either.
I don''''t normally agree with anncoulter.com but I did this week.
I believe Obama has some psychological issues in which he glorifies his father who he really didn''''t even know. And to be honest, what young man wouldn''''t. However, it is a misplaced allegiance to that absent father, vs. any time of understanding or allegiance to the typical "white people" that actually cared for him, and saw that he got the very best education.
Any first year psych major would have a hoot to deal with "Dreams of My Father".
I''''m not sure this link will work, but look up
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv
e/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=
431908&in_page_id=1770
A drunk and a bigot - what the US Presidental hopeful HASN''''T said about his father...
Of course, it wasn''''t written in the US media, they are still fluffing up Obama for whatever reason, I do not know.
Buh-Bye Hillary, Buh-Bye.
Get on your broom and go back to Arkansas, stand by your man, and bake cookies.
Obama 08
Seems like every loser possible in the Dem Party backs Obama oh my god what is this Dem REJECT lottery line up for Obama get the impression they are still mad a Billo
Posted by ARealist at 05:23 PM : Apr 03, 2008
Buzzzzzzzzzzzzz! Wrong answer. The correct answer was who is George W. Bush. Sorry, but thanks for playing and you get a home version of "Neocon Scr*ew-ups in History" to enjoy with your children.
If you are black, you have no reason to hate Hilary or Bill in the first place, they have done alot for the black communities. You can think what you want, but Obama is nothing but a cheater and a liar. Is he such a wussy that he can''t even include Michigan and Florida, they do have a right to revote, that not his decision, but theirs. I think its sick how you Obama supporters can be so hateful about Hillary. You think Obama is going to help you? Think again, this country is going is a hell hole in a minute, with him it will be sooner.
Those remembering the Carter presidency, however, think this possible endorsement may do Obama more harm than good. After all, it was under "Jimmy" that inflation hit double digits, Iran went to pieces and we became the "Great Satan", the military proved it couldn''t function in a sandstom, the country had a deep "recession", and people were eating peanuts and drinking "Billy Bob" beer!
The only bright spot out of this period was the first Star Wars movie!
SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!!
sig heil, (more of the same) McCain!!!
On a trip to nigeria.
Wow.
How do you spell nigeria?
O_I_L.
Africa can''t take care of itself
so little jimmy goes and helps.
Stay there jimmy and make some houses.
You *** sure will when it comes to the general election and those Hillary supporters turn heel and support McCain over Obama. Some of us are unified voters and committed to seeing a Democrat win at all cost but the more ugliness that transpires in this process, as well as pressure from people such as Dean, Pelosi, etc., is causing us daily to lose hope that current Clinton supporters will later support Obama. 29% and growing is a percentage that Obama can not afford to offend and expect to win in November.
I hope this doesn''t sound cynical. I think it would be wonderful if we could take pride in our politicians and in their messages. But when a politician posits himself as something he is not, people should beware. And the media should scrutinize it.
Poli boy, I''m not racist, not hateful, I just hate Obama and his clan. Thats all. Nothing important. I''m not pulling together with the Obama train, regardless. Obama should have thought about his stupidity along time ago , when he started the race card game. Hes been playing unfair for to long. Those caucuses don''t mean ***. He didn''t win the popular vote like he thinks. He won caucus states that held no primaries. Sorry they don''t count on popular vote. Its to small of a percentage of people represented in those states, what about the million others who had no voice in it? Obama I''m sure payed off those voters to win those caucuses. He don''t want Michigan and Florida to revote again because he knows he will lose. His camp are the worse, those people need put out of their misery. Hey lets go around and threaten people, "You either vote for Obama or we are going to harrass you forever. I''d hunt them down and put them out of their misery to. Lock them all up like a bunch of wild animals that they are.
Oh they did not corn nugget, get off of here, your probally one of those extreme muslims, related to Obama.
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Posted by croft777 at 06:18 PM : Apr 03, 2008
Well said! With this guy''s credentials, how in the hell can they even think he''s a viable candidate?
Posted by croft777 at 06:04 PM : Apr 03, 2008
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Your "hatred" is being displayed in racist terms.Policrypt
Call it what you will, I''ve seen more racist shiz on the Obama side of the fence then I have in my entire life.Any idiot voting for Obama knowing the people he associates himself with, need to be locked in a cage like the rest of them.
Yeah its gonna roll right over the edge for that arrrogant sb, if and when John McCain gets ahold of his sand monkey azz.
Muslim American advocates have critiqued the press coverage of the Pew study, saying it focused too much on the bad news and not enough on the good. The bad news, however, bears repeating: 26 percent of Muslims age 18 to 29 believe that suicide bombing can be justified. Thirty-eight percent of that group believe that Arabs did not carry out the 9/11 attacks. These data, combined with the rising religious conservatism of young Muslim Americans, have led some experts to argue that differences between Europe and America have been overblown, that affluence and education do not inoculate a society against radicalization. "This idea that all those who are middle class are exempted from extremism has always been false," says Geneive Abdo, author of "Mecca and Main Street." "The leadership of the extremist movements have always been highly educated Muslims."
For complete article
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/198
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is not that calling the kettle black or should i say wright?
you ride a camel to work because its cheap on gas.
You carry a picture of Wright in your wallet for safe keeping, right next to your azz.
You chant "God da*mn America" over and over in your head,till you believe in your heart its true.
You have a poster of Farrakhan on you bedroom wall that you worship and pray to every day, because farrakhan is suppose to be God.
You believe every word Obama says, because believing differently might make you aware that to believe in him was down right ridiculous.
The only words you can say are,"Yes we can" but youre not sure what you can do , or what that really means.
You hang out with the black muslims and give yourself a muslim name.
and guess what?.. OBAMA aborts children!!!
he was the only politician to DENY the "Born Alive Infants Protection Act"..
can we indict Obama of INFANTICIDE???
OBAMA THE BABY KILLER!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by croft77
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haha, John McCain? hahaha.
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Obama''s Abortion Extremism
Michael Gerson
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102197.html
Some Democrats believed that these changes had unduly diminished the role of party leaders and elected officials, weakening the Democratic tickets of George McGovern and Jimmy Carter.
In 1982, a commission chaired by former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt created superdelegates. Under the original Hunt plan, superdelegates were 30% of all delegates, but when it was finally implemented in 1984, they were 14%. The number has steadily increased, and today they are approximately 20%."
And that''s why they created superdelegates, so they could elect a loser like Carter.
And why anyone like Obama would even consider accepting an endosement from Carter, the worst president of all time, is beyond me.
Some Democrats believed that these changes had unduly diminished the role of party leaders and elected officials, "
Note that part. Aren''t the voters supposed to decide who gets elected?
Not if your Democrat.
he was the only politician to DENY the "Born Alive Infants Protection Act"..
can we indict Obama for INFANTICIDE???
OBAMA THE BABY KILLER!!!!!!!!!!!
he was the only politician to DENY the "Born Alive Infants Protection Act"..
can we indict Obama for INFANTICIDE???
OBAMA THE BABY KILLER!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by awithoff at 07:33 PM : Apr 03, 2008-----Now I know the dude''s a SICKO just like his preacher.
OBAMA will be HUMILIATED by a BABY CARRIAGE...
OBAMA was the only politician to DENY the "Born Alive Infants Protection Act"..
**********Posted by Lisabona
Lis, you are asking women to support Hillary just because she is a woman. That is exactly what women fought so hard to get past. I am a woman, grew up in the fifties and sixties, know how hard woman have struggled for equality, but I would NEVER vote for anyone based solely on gender, just as I would NEVER vote for anyone based soley on race. I just happen to like Obama better than I like Hillary. I detest Hillary''s health plan and I like Obama''s.
I disagree with Obama on some issues, but I have faith that he can lead this country and heal some of the wounds that GWB has caused here and internationally.
he was the only politician to DENY the "Born Alive Infants Protection Act"..
can we indict Obama for INFANTICIDE???
OBAMA THE BABY KILLER!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by awithoff at 07:33 PM : Apr 03, 2008
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