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Carter hints at support for Obama (from Nigeria)
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| 4/3/08
| Ben Evans - ap
Posted on 04/03/2008 1:38:55 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - 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 news 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 remarks.
Asked about the comments, Hillary Rodham Clinton's 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."
Asked if there was concern that Carter would be regarded as particularly influential, Wolfson said Carter 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 said who they support: Carter, state Rep. Jim Marshall, and former Rep. 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.
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008dncconvention; carter; hillary; hints; obama; obamatruthfile; superdelegate; support
To: NormsRevenge
OMG THANK YOU GOD LOL!
There is a God LOL!
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posted on
04/03/2008 1:40:46 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
04/03/2008 1:40:54 PM PDT
by
The_Republican
(Ovaries of the World Unite! Rush, Laura, Ann, Greta - Time for the Ovulation!)
To: SevenofNine
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posted on
04/03/2008 1:43:34 PM PDT
by
The_Republican
(Ovaries of the World Unite! Rush, Laura, Ann, Greta - Time for the Ovulation!)
To: NormsRevenge
And I thought that the email type of Nigerian scams were bad...
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posted on
04/03/2008 1:43:56 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Rattenschadenfreude: joy at a Democrat's pain, especially Hillary's pain caused by Obama.)
To: NormsRevenge
Now, whoda thunk it?
Yes!!!! The kiss of death has finally come.
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posted on
04/03/2008 1:44:18 PM PDT
by
Bitsy
To: NormsRevenge
So, basically every living Democratic presidential candidate loser dating back to McGovern has endorsed this guy.
7
posted on
04/03/2008 1:46:08 PM PDT
by
ilgipper
To: NormsRevenge
President Carter is very straightforward. Setting aside all personal biases and inclinations, he sat down and asked himself: “Objectively, which one of the candidates hates America the most?”
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posted on
04/03/2008 1:46:21 PM PDT
by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
To: NormsRevenge
Pretty much the kiss of Death on Obama.
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posted on
04/03/2008 1:47:15 PM PDT
by
Trueblackman
(Terrorism and Liberalism never sleep and neither do I)
To: NormsRevenge
Greetings, my most good natured friend. My name is Nefi Arbawana. Most recently I was held in the employ of the National Nigerian Support for Barak Hussien Obama Committee which was dissolved by Parliamentary decree holding assets of $27 million (US)in a Swiss Bank. I seek persons of honor such as yourself to help me in recovering these assets.....
To: NormsRevenge
Carter just wants competition for worst prez.... lol!
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posted on
04/03/2008 1:50:58 PM PDT
by
El Laton Caliente
(NRA Member & www.Gunsnet.net Moderator)
To: NormsRevenge
That should seal it for McCain.
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posted on
04/03/2008 1:51:18 PM PDT
by
GnL
To: GnL
Nope, not yet. The guy needs the support of Michael Moore.
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posted on
04/03/2008 1:52:41 PM PDT
by
nikos1121
(typical white person)
To: Trueblackman
“Pretty much the kiss of Death on Obama.”
Add to that Hanoi Jane Fonda’s endorsement of Obama.
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posted on
04/03/2008 1:53:16 PM PDT
by
milford421
(U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
To: NormsRevenge
“My children and their spouses are pro-Obama. My grandchildren are also pro-Obama,”.....
Yep!....they all been “Obamatized”....Hallelujah Jimma!
To: NormsRevenge
Carter was in Nigeria for a ceremony celebrating a reduction in Guinea worm disease in West Africa.Best line of the entire article!! Guess he took a break from building houses for illegals for this momentous occasion.
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posted on
04/03/2008 1:56:59 PM PDT
by
Hoffer Rand
(Where is Galt's Gulch?)
To: nikos1121
“Nope, not yet. The guy needs the support of Michael Moore.”
... and Babs.
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posted on
04/03/2008 1:58:43 PM PDT
by
Eurale
To: Trueblackman
the kiss of Death on Obama
yup. (let’s hope)
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posted on
04/03/2008 2:00:02 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
“My children and their spouses are pro-Obama. My grandchildren are also pro-Obama,
Peanut brains all think alike.
Peanuts had brains until the great Carter plague.
Peanuts now give me indigestion.
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posted on
04/03/2008 2:04:11 PM PDT
by
AlexW
(Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
To: NormsRevenge
"My children and their spouses are pro-Obama. My grandchildren are also pro-Obama," he said at a news conference, according to the Nigerian newspaper This Day. DEAR FRIEND:
I AM JIMMY CARTER, DIRECTOR OF THE NIGERIANS FOR OBAMA SOCIETY. BECAUSE OF YOUR NOBLE PUBLIC RECORD, I AM OFFERING YOU A SHARE OF THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED ELECTION FUNDS THAT WE NEED TO GET INTO THE USA FOR OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN!
WE ARE PREPARED TO SEND YOU $FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS, OF WHICH YOU MAY KEEP 20% AS A SERVICE FEE....
To: NormsRevenge
Carter was in Nigeria for a ceremony celebrating a reduction in Guinea worm disease in West Africa. OMG!!! When I got to that line, I literally spewed a mouthful of white wine across my desk, post-it pad and Blackberry!! Thank God I wasn't swallowing at that second or I would be dead right now (and at least I was home and not at my desk at the office...)!!
Now to clean up - sheesh!
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posted on
04/03/2008 2:20:16 PM PDT
by
meowmeow
(In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
To: NormsRevenge
Carter was in Nigeria for a ceremony celebrating a reduction in Guinea worm disease in West Africa. OMG!!! When I got to that line, I literally spewed a mouthful of white wine across my desk, post-it pad and Blackberry!! Thank God I wasn't swallowing at that second or I would be dead right now (and at least I was home and not at my desk at the office...)!!
Now to clean up - sheesh!
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posted on
04/03/2008 2:20:19 PM PDT
by
meowmeow
(In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
To: NormsRevenge

Supporters of Raila Odinga (BARAK OBAMAS COUSIN!!), the leading presidential challenger, rallied in Kibera, a slum near Nairobi.(According to the NY Times, this is a "rally")

Mr. Odingas (BARAK OBAMAS FIRST COUSIN, WHO HE CAMPAIGNED IN KENYA FOR)followers tried to march from Kibera to Nairobi.

A supporter of the presidential challenger Raila Odinga (OBAMAS FIRST COUSIN, WHO HE CAMPAIGNED FOR IN KENYA IN 2006) in Kibera, a sprawling slum near the capital, Nairobi.

Odinga supporters riot in December 2007(ODINGA IS BARAK OBMAMS FIRST COUSIN, OBAMA CAMPAIGNED FOR HIM IN KENYA IN 2006)
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posted on
04/03/2008 2:21:07 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(Peace is not an option)
To: Rome2000
UPDATE
NOW APPEARS OBAMAS COMMUNIST MUSLIM COUSIN IS PM OF KENYA
(USES HIS STREET THUGS TO GAIN POWER)
Cabinet: Kibaki meets ministers
Story by NATION Team
Publication Date: 2008/04/01
Cabinet ministers have said they are ready to work with ODM leader Raila Odinga to implement the power-sharing deal signed in February, sources close to the meeting have revealed.
President Kibaki chairs a Cabinet meeting at his Harambee House office in Nairobi on Monday. Photo/PPS
In the first formal Cabinet meeting since President Kibaki and the Prime Minister-designate signed the deal to end post-election violence, the ministers also agreed on the need to speed up the resettlement of displaced families.
They also challenged the police to beef up security and crack down on those threatening the refugees who are willing to return to their farms.
However, the 15 ministers said President Kibaki should not share executive authority with any other office. The President can consult on who should be in government but the final say on who should occupy which position should be left to him, sources privy to the talks said.
Determine size
Sources said the ministers wanted the President to determine the size and structure of the Cabinet and insisted that he should not be dictated to.
The team said it was ready to work with Mr Odinga, the Prime Minister-designate, but claimed that he was a man under siege.
According to the sources, the ministers said Mr Odinga was a different man when he consulted with the President but often appeared to be a changed person after consulting his party.
However, Mr Odingas spokesman, Mr Salim Lone, said in an interview with the Nation that the party was ready to meet the Government coalition to resolve the impasse over the Cabinet.
He said ODM had a clear perspective on what the accord signed between President Kibaki and Mr Odinga entailed.
The accord was signed on February 28, to end post-election violence in which over 1,200 people were killed after a dispute over the presidential election results.
The deal also provided for sharing of power between the Presidents party, PNU and ODM.
And while addressing the Africa economic ministers conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Monday, Mr Benjamin Mkapa said the power- sharing deal signed by President Kibaki and Mr Odinga provided the framework for peace.
The former Tanzanian president was a member of the team of eminent Africans that negotiated the deal.
I dont think there is a Cabinet crisis since they are already agreed on the framework, said Mr Mkapa.
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posted on
04/03/2008 2:22:07 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(Peace is not an option)
To: Rome2000
More brutal and gory details of the man Obama unequivocally supports. Obama is so busted. This is more than bad judgment, this is scary. A Jacksonian who has done yeoman's work in substantiating Odinga's nefarious Arab ties and his hand in the ongoing violence that has all of Kenya in its barbaric clutches. Inconceivable horror. Gang raping little girls and boys as many as ten times. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Obama has backed Odinga unequivocally going so far as telling big media (out of TIME Magazine's Joe Klein here),
"Obama has had near-daily conversations with the U.S. Ambassador in Kenya or with opposition leader Raila Odinga. As of late this afternoon, before his rally in Rochester, N.H., Obama was trying to reach Kenyan President Kibaki."
And he still hasn't reached him I bet. More on Odinga and Obama's phone conversations here.
This is beyond bad judgment. This is just bad and this story is not going to go away no matter how desperately in love Obamedia is with the Christ child. Big media does not control information anymore. And Obama is culpable. Here I am -- an individual blogger getting all this terrible information on Odinga and the man running for POTUS is in the dark? Think about it.
Obama's bias for his fellow Luo was so blatant that a Kenya government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit as Raila's "stooge."
A Jacksonian sent me this stunning comment (with links) on his post The other source of change in Kenyan politics made by one of his readers, mobysnny:
It's not getting reported in the media that the looting and burning of businesses in Kisumu was targeted to both Kikuyus and Kenyan Indians. The economy of Kenya is controlled by these two groups because they are Entrepreneurial. But Kenyan Indians rarely get involved in Kenyan politics, they do not vote by choice, yet the Luos in Kisumu do not like them, that's why their stores were getting burnt too.
Obama's boy.
I mentioned in my other comment about Luo supporters of Odinga abroad were telling each other to contact TV stations and spread about the violence in Kenya. Here is one sent by a Luo to Jerusalem Post.
I was shocked by the lies this man decided to tell the post. That is the reason we are seeing all this stories making Odinga and his supporters look like angels even as they kill people.
Can you believe these Luos abroad were telling their supporters in Kenya that William Ruto and Raila Odinga had been arrested immediately after the election results. Which was total lies. It was meant to incite ODM supporters in Kenya mainly Luos and Kalenjin (Ruto is a Kalenjin). That's another reason we were seeing the violence getting worse.
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posted on
04/03/2008 2:22:54 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(Peace is not an option)
To: Rome2000
Obama's Militant Muslim Brother Abongo Is Luo Activist
...
In this Obama Family photo are: (bottom row, from left) half-sister Auma, her mother Kezia Obama, Obama's step-grandmother Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama and unknown; (top row, from left) unknown, Barack Obama, half-brother Abongo (Roy) Obama, and three unknowns. (
Sun Times)
Barack Obama stands behind Kezia (stepmother) in a Kenyan family shot. Included in the photo is brother Abongo "Roy" Obama who is a
Luo activist and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must "liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture."
"Abongo's new lifestyle has left him lean and clear-eyed, and at the wedding, he looked so dignified in his black African gown with white trim and matching cap that so me of our guests mistook him for my father," Obama wrote in
Dreams From My Father.
Barack Obama's cousin
Raila Odinga is
accused of ethnic cleansing and is currently battling for power in Kenya.

Barack has stated his support for Luo Opposition Leader in Kenya RaRaila Odinga (who signed a Shariah pact with Muslims and claims to be Obama's cousin) and is married to Ida Odinga. They have four children - two sons and two daughters. His oldest son, Fidel, is
named after Fidel Castro.

Malik Obama, older brother to Barack Obama, holds an undated picture of Barak, left, and himself, middle, and an unidentified friend in his shop in eastern Kenya. (Karel Prinsloo, AP)
Related... Dan Riehl has the strange new Obama ad about all of the
"Muslims rounded up" without the benefit of an attorney.
Via
Instapundit,
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posted on
04/03/2008 2:24:28 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(Peace is not an option)
To: wideawake
Obama is the most like Jimmuh. He is a better liar and a smoother phony than even Carter is.
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posted on
04/03/2008 2:25:01 PM PDT
by
Stepan12
( "We are all girlymen now." Conservative reaction to Ann Coulter's anti PC joke)
To: NormsRevenge
Jimmy Peanut-brain has about as much subtlety and sophistication as those Nigerian email scammers.
Wow, Jimmy, I can’t guess what your real motives are and I can’t guess what scam you are trying to pull now. The fact that anyone still thinks you opinion is worth more than a cup of warm urine is the only surprise left to discuss....
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posted on
04/03/2008 8:12:25 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Hillary's many 3 am phone calls will say that Bill is "ridin' dirty" with a barmaid on the DC Mall)
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