Posted on 04/21/2008 10:33:36 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
Carter strongly hints he supports Obama 4 hours ago
JERUSALEM (AFP) Former US President Jimmy Carter declined to endorse either candidate on the eve of Pennsylvania's Democratic primary but strongly hinted that he supported Illinois Senator Barak Obama.
"As a superdelegate, I think I ought to stay as flexible as I can, but I obviously observe what goes on around me," Carter told reporters in Jerusalem as he wrapped up a Middle East tour in which he drew fire from Washington and Israel for meeting with leaders of the Islamist Hamas movement.
"My little town of Plains voted for Obama, and as you know my state of Georgia voted for Obama, and all of my children, all of my grandchildren, and all of their spouses are for Obama... That's as far as I've gone."
Carter said he has already made his decision but would not announce it until at least June 3, after the last primaries have been held.
The former US president who held office from 1977 to 1981, is one of some 800 super-delegates who can choose to back either Obama or New York Senator Hillary Clinton any time before the party convention August 25-58.
But he said "it would be unlikely, to put it mildly, that the super-delegates would reverse a decision that had been made on the popular vote, the number of states, and the delegates."
Carter, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 and the architect of the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty, on Monday concluded a tour of the region that took him to Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
They are both one in the same. Obama is Jimmah’s best chance to take away the undisputed title of America’s worst President ever.
Carter is such a wimp. He can’t bring himself to say, “I support Obama,” but he essentially does it by innuendo.
Why am I not surprised? No backbone at all.
This should be a painful reminder of what Obama could be.
You beat me to it.
Darn you.
Circle of Friends and Supporters,
makes clear what type of person he is, what type of change he would bring, and just exactly what it is he is hoping for.
I think it’s pretty clear that he for Obama... I mean, if he were for Hillary it would behoove him to say so now...as there is a chancede shell drop out
The Jew-hater endorses the Muslim-lover.....shocking. Don’t ask me which one is which though.
Reason # 238 why I won’t be voting for Obama
Please, Jimmy, PLEASE endorse Obama.
Of course he does. His buddies the Palestinians are even campaigning for Obama. Take a look and listen... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g
The question is, is Hamas persuading Carter to endorse Obama, or the other way around?
Obama had better hope not. Carter’s almost as bad as Wright these days.
Of course, Hamas has already endorsed Obama, and Carter is nothing more than their agent anymore, so maybe this is a wash.
>> Why am I not surprised? No backbone at all.
Lack of backbone’s a definite possibility.
Or the cynical ba$tard is holding out for the most attractive bid.
I despise Carter, in every category. I think less of Carter than I do of the collective Clintons. And if you could look inside my soul and see how much I despise the Clintoons, you’d know that’s saying a LOT.
Jimmy Carter=Obama’s Brain.
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