Let me get this straight, you were holding off confirmation for this, but you post anything a Clinton supporter whispers in your ear without verification/confirmation?

Two words: Editorial Standards.

(CNN) — Former President Jimmy Carter all but said Wednesday he plans to cast his superdelegate vote for Barack Obama.

Speaking with a Nigerian paper while in Abuja, Carter noted several reasons why he might be leaning toward the Illinois senator.

"Don’t forget that Obama won in my state of Georgia," Carter said. "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 superdelegate, I would not disclose who I am rooting for but I leave you to make that guess," Carter added.

Responding to the comments, Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson said Thursday, "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 presidential choice."

Wolfson also acknowledged "people will be interested in the choice that he makes."

Carter's remarks are the latest from the former president that suggest he is backing Obama over rival Hillary Clinton, although he has made no official endorsement. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal in January, Carter said Obama's campaign has been extraordinary and titillating for me and my family."

He also said then that Obama "will be almost automatically a healing factor in the animosity now that exists, that relates to our country and its government."

Obviously since Jimmy Carter wasn't reelected, any opinion he might harbor that isn't pro-Hillary isn't significant.

"Let me get this straight, you were holding off confirmation for this, but you post anything a Clinton supporter whispers in your ear without verification/confirmation?"

Well put.

GOP slug Mark Halperin quotes "anonymous Clinton staffers" defaming Bill Richardson and you post a big old headline.

Jimmy Carter has shown this nation how a President would hopefully behave once he leaves office, by continuing to be a leader among men, and helping so many less fortunate. What a decent man. His thoughts speak volumes for Senator Obama also.

As a therapist, I can read between the lines very well!

This is good news for.... Where is idiotic?

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I Predict:

Tomorrow's thread from Greg Sargent:

A Well Placed High Level Clinton Source Told me that Jimmy Carter has never told them that he believed that Senator Obama can win the presidency.

Don't look now, but...at 4.5% vs. 14.9%, Al Gore is catching up to Hills in terms of estimated chances to win the nomination, per Intrade.

Hmm. Maybe all the insinuations and "tirades" are aimed in the wrong direction.

More seriously...Hills has her hubby doing three and four speeches a day. Didn't he have a heart attack a couple years ago? Is she trying to get him to blow a gasket again for no good reason?

How long do you think it will be before a Hill supporter says the former president doesn't matter? 3, 2, 1 ...

President Jimmy Carter is my favorite living President. I've read a couple of his books (one signed), and seen him speak in Austin, Tx.

President Jimmy Carter is a good man that is often maligned by the press. Such a shame. It was the Iran/Contra dealings of Reagan which killed what should've been a second term.

It bugs me when people trumpet Reagan, but dis Carter. I'd take Carter over Reagan any day.

Well I knew when Reagan and the rest of those criminals got away with Iran/Contra we were in for it. I knew it.

See, they have taken lessons from every one of their defeats. They learned from Vietnam to control the press and to not under any circumstances let the draft be instituted again. They know that's what happened with Vietnam.

They learned from Nixon - obviously - shredding company trucks show up at the Veep's residence regularly. All those erased emails - what a surprise.

They learn.

We need to start learning from our defeats and the first lesson is that Clinton and her campaign staff represent the old way of running for office and the old Democratic coalition and all they do is lose elections. Time to break down the Southern Strategy Chinese Wall and the way we do that is turnout in places like Texas and Georgia. IT's the only way! We've tried the other way and lost over and over.

President Jimmy Carter is my favorite living President. I've read a couple of his books (one signed), and seen him speak in Austin, Tx.

I know this sounds extreme, but I've begun to believe the man is a Bodhisattva.

I really have profound respect for him.

I'm not particularly surprised, though certainly very pleased, that this apparently is his sentiment. Still, I actually think he'd play a more valuable role if he put on his peacemaker hat -- without endorsing -- and made the point emphatically that Democrats cannot tolerate other Democrats whose primary election strategies hurt the party's chances in the general election. He can even draw comparisons between what Hillary's doing and what Ted Kennedy did in 1980 (though I must admit I was a Kennedy supporter).

Oh, wait, he's against Hillary?

Never mind. He's old, and from a red boutique caucus state, so he doesn't matter.

There's no Volvo-driving, latte-siping, or white-wine drinking to be found in this endorsement!

The worst POTUS since Herbert Hoover and much like GW Bush. A tanking economy, Iran hostages, 15% ARR mortgages, 15% per annum inflation, WIN buttons (Wip Inflation Now), Billy Beer, gas lines, Olympic boycott, and the ugliest kids ever. Jimmy Peanut Carter, LOSER!

That's "WHIP Inflation Now." The "Win" buttons were devised during the Jerrod Ford Admin., probably by Don Rumsfelt.

That bit on Carter from The Onion is hilarious and spot-on. Peace in the middle east, slowing down on the highway and turning down the thermostat to save energy, switching to solar power, and building houses for the homeless - what a bunch of goofy ideas he had over a quarter century ago.

It's a good thing we traded all that in on almost 30 years of reckless greed, or legions of middle eastern terrorists wouldn't be swimming in oil money now.