Jimmy Carter Endorses Obama (without endorsing)

[datopbanana]

President Carter told THISDAYONLINE...

"We are very interested in the primaries. Don’t forget that Obama won in my state of Georgia. My town which is home to 625 people is for Obama, my children and their spouses are pro- Obama.
My grandchildren are also pro- Obama. As a Super Delegate, I would not disclose who I am rooting for but I leave you to make that guess?"

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=107611

[Hugabear]

1. Get ready for the Jimmy Carter trashing...

I can already feel it building up...

[usregimechange]

26. He is dead to me and his opinion doesn't count.

:sarcasm:

[Sean Stuart]

37. I hate it when people beat me to sarcasm. Hehe.

And yea, Jimmy-thrashing is about to break into the Greatest Page in 10, 9, 8

[Texas Hill Country]

39. Carter was a terrible president... he is much better at charity work...

Jimmy needs to stay out of politics.

[anonymous171]

2. Jimmy Cartter will soon become the worst president EVAR.

And that BC was the one who repaired the party after all of Carters mistakes. Just wait for it.

[aldeeman]

14. Wasn't Jimmy Carter's approval rating so bad Bush can't even catch up?

I believe it was well in the low 20's at its lowest point. Is that true?

[anonymous171]

18. I think it was 34% at the end.

Bush is at 19%. :rofl:

[tokenlib]

38. Bush deserved it for Iraq--Carter didn't for Iran n/t

[Texas Hill Country]

40. yes, yes he did.

[Cha]

3. What a sweetheart..of course, he's for

Obama..Carter always goes for the best ones.

[writes3000]

4. Did he really say this?

It almost seems like a joke.

[FrenchieCat]

5. President Carter is sooo cute!

[Blondiegrrl]

6. Another Judas!

:smoke:

[anonymous171]

7. kick

:kick:

[MonkeyFunk]

8. Nobody else seems to be reporting this

except the unknown website you linked to.

[joshcryer]

10. OMG STOP TRASHING PRESIDENT CARTER

DISPICIBLE!

[thewiseguy]

11. your sarcasm fails again

[joshcryer]

27. My sarcasm is .01% of the sarcasm directed at anything about Hillary.

Really. :)

[anigbrowl]

25. It's a legit Nigerian news website as far as I know

Wouldn't be surprised if this hits Reuters within 24 hours. Did some cross-checking on Google News, and Carter is in Africa right now. http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL02863025.html So that part checks out at least. As does Carter's quoted estimate of the population of his hometown. If it's a fake story, it's a good one.

[SunsetDreams]

32. Thanks for checking that out, I was trying to verify that too

So at least we know he is there, and his hometown population checks out.

There is a website that I ran across a few weeks ago, that had the superdelegates, and their opinions, whether they had endorsed or not. Under Jimmy Carter was a similiar statement here, minus the bit about winning Georgia and his hometown reference, it also said one of his family members was not behind Obama. Looks like that is not the case now.

Does anyone know of other Super Delegate sites, besides Demconwatch? It seems like I found the link from their site, that went to a completely different one.

[MonkeyFunk]

34. I've been using this one:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Superdelegate_Transparency_Project

[SunsetDreams]

36. Thank you :)

I haven't seen that one before. I'll have to check it out:hi:

[bigbrother05]

9. Thank you Jimmy Carter

and welcome to DU

[BlueIdaho]

12. Dust off those right wing talking points kids!

We can always depend on HRC supporters digging up all those disgusting right wing talking points to support her eminence.

[anonymous171]

19. They may end up accidently complimenting Raygun in the process.

Won't that be a conundrum?

[Forkboy]

13. Carter is the best man to be president in my lifetime.

And one of the very few people in politics I respect and admire.

[OzarkDem]

15. He's entitled to his opinion

:shrug:

[thewiseguy]

17. Carter's opinion = 1 superdelegate

[TAWS]

24. Jimmy Carter = THE party elder

If he goes for Obama, then that will have a lot of sway with other superdelegates.

[polichick]

16. Jimmy Carter is one of few public people whose opinion about a candidate matters to me...

In my view he is a man of wisdom and understanding, who was way before his time ~ someone who told us back in the 70s that we needed to free ourselves of our addiction to oil, not only to save the earth but to protect the country from dangers growing in the Middle East.

[Diane R]

20. Ahhh, I knew we could count on Jimmy to back the right candidate. Can't wait for official endorseme

[msallied]

21. Ah yeah, the Carter Doctrine

I agree with it. IT's just a shame that neocons now look to Carter as the basis for their current disastrous foreign policy.

[babylonsister]

22. Did you just say Carter is being blamed for the neocons' downfall? Why

would that be?

[msallied]

28. Not their downfall, exactly.

I have heard many Neocons use (or twist, rather) Jimmy Carter's stance on Middle Eastern oil as the basis for our current Middle Eastern policy. To wit, we "democratize" the Middle East as a way of making it a stable part of the world from which to draw oil. Iraq was, of course never about WMDs. It was giving us easier access to Middle Eastern oil.

So much for that...

But in my experience with talking with and debating neocons, they often like to say that what they are doing now is all due to the "Carter Doctrine."

[housewolf]

23. I hereby nominate this post for

BEST WARM FUZZY SMILE OF THE DAY!

:pals: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :pals:

:yourock:

[mathewsleep]

29. carter is probama.

[usregimechange]

30. Yeah baby!

[DesEtoiles]

31. Then Hillary called him a Judas.

[TexanDem]

33. Jimmy Carter is my hero! This is great news!

[maspethboy]

35. non-endorsement endorsements are common in DU

Every day we see 3 to 5 "John Doe endorsed X candidate even though I know I'm full of it" threads.

[Neshanic]

41. Oh that cutie pie. He's so coy. That was the charm of his presidency.