Carter Hints Backing Of Obama Over Clinton

Former President, A Superdelegate, Implies That He Will Support Illinois Senator

(AP)  Former President Carter wouldn't quite say it, but he left little doubt this week about who he'd like to see in the White House next year.

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.

[katg21]

Obama should reject Carter''s support.

[jedi08]

ening for Obama. Its all over Billary

[ksh1022]

Carter didn''t have any political sense when he was president and apparently he still doesn''t.

[dgwooster]

"The fact that so many Obama supporters have judged him to be "Black" because of the color of his skin seems incredibly racist and naive,..."
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You seem to know an awful lot about what someone else has gone through. As for me, I''ll leave it up to Obama to decide whether he''s black or not since he''s the one that''s had to live the life he has..

[neverkoolaid]

The fact that so many Obama supporters have judged him to be "Black" because of the color of his skin seems incredibly racist and naive,...

Obama is not legally under Federal law considered an African American and will never be the first "African American" president.

Read the research and why the media has silenced it:

http://kennethelamb.blogspot.com/
2008/02/barak-obama-questions-about-ethnic.html

[kansas1946]

It is well known that Carter supports terrorist organisations such as the PLO and Hamas. It is no wonder he would support Obama. Both enable terrorism and Both (in Fact) are terrorists. The really big question why these people seem to be getting a free pass. Probably in the future there will be some epiphany about these two and to save face politician will act according to what is politically expedient. Sad but true; business as usual.


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Posted by anappleadae at 12:10 PM : Apr 04, 2008
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This has got to be the silliest post of the day.

[kansas1946]

Perish the thought of having this guy either.

In college, Obama explains to a girl why he was reading Joseph Conrad''''s 1902 classic, "Heart of Darkness": "I read the book to help me understand just what it is that makes white people so afraid. Their demons. The way ideas get twisted around. I helps me understand how people learn to hate."

By contrast, Malcolm X''''s autobiography "spoke" to Obama. One line in particular "stayed with me," he says. "He spoke of a wish he''''d once had, the wish that the white blood that ran through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged."

Forget Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- Wright is Booker T. Washington compared to this guy.
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Posted by mudrose at 11:18 AM : Apr 04, 2008
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I am sorry, but I am entirely missing the point here. You are apparently trying to paint Obama with a negative brush with this post, but I don''t see anything negative in anything he said? Did I miss something?

Posted by taddles "Carter has been a very successful international broker of peace and is recognized by the world community as such. Your exceptionally foolish and uninformed comments leave little doubt as to the poor quality of your questionable education."
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Some of us read "Jimmy Carter''s Legacy of Failure," December 2006; some of us read his colleagues'' criticisms of his books; some of us read the analysis of Carter''s attempts to broker Israel/Palestinian treaties that failed miserably; some of us read analysis of Carter''s "truce mongering" with North Korea and the utter failure of those provisions; some of us lived through the ''79 hostage fiasco when our President declared the White House hostage; and those who have done these things would tend to question your ever insulting someone else''s education. It is possible people like Chris Suellentrop, the late Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Steven F. Hayward, "The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry,"
"Jimmy Carter''s Jewish Problem," Jason Maoz, senior editor at Jewish Press, attorney Alan Dershowitz, friend and colleague Dr. Kenneth W. Stein, well-known Middle East scholar, and until recently a fellow of Emory University''s Carter Center, all suggest you need to do some more "research" before biting anappleadae.

[hook1950]

Wow, Jimmy Carter''s going to get one right. Goes to show, it''s never too late.

[betty521]

I''ll give credit to Carter for standing with the voters of his state. Certainly not like Kennedy and Kerry of Massachusetts. Massachusetts voted overwhelmingly for Clinton. They don''t care about their own voters. Richardson did this as well. Why do we have elected officials if they don''t represent the voters of their own state?