Georgia Superdelegate Jimmy Carter to Vote for Barack Obama at Democratic Convention

Former President Stops Short of Officially Endorsing Obama

In truth, Jimmy Carter has never gotten along with Bill Clinton. Carter was from the landed gentry whereas Bill Clinton was white-trash, and the South has as well-defined a class system as Britain or Boston. Although both were conservative-leaning moderates from the South, the Clintons' unprincipled lust for power and self-aggrandizement runs against the grain of Carter's own character, which is exemplified by selfless public service dedicated to helping his community and the world, rather than just helping himself, like the Clintons. (The Clintons' recently released tax returns over the past 7 years reveal that while they gave $10 million to charity, it was to their OWN charity.)

Like Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter was a terrible president, but a great man. He turned himself into a great man after surrendering the presidency, and has done much to help the world in the area of promoting human rights. Ex-President Bill Clinton, in contrast, is more focused on maintaining a purchase on the levers of power when he is not out making money, frequently playing pimp for businessmen seeking deals with foreign governments.

Bill Clinton, for a handsome retainer such as a multi-million dollar donation to his charity, will fly with a businessman to meet a head of state to make introductions. In this, he takes after former President George H.W. Bush, the man who pioneered the role of Ex-President as Pimp. Bill Clinton is very close to "Poppy" Bush, the man he beat for the Presidency in 1992, so much so that Poppy feels Bill is the son he has never had, George W. being a dunce and Jeb being a humorless prig who married poorly. Ex-President George H.W. Bush has been a father figure to Bill Clinton, a bastard whose mother picked out the name of a dead traveling salesman to put on his birth certificate, and was raised by her and an abusive, alcoholic stepfather in White Trash Land. Bill has taken a shine to the multi-millionaire Poppy, who has spent his life after the Presidency eschewing the good works that characterized the post-Presidency lives of Herbert Hoover and Jimmy Carter to focus on shaking the money tree for even more loot, not content with the millions he was born to. Bill & Poppy have polished off a vaudeville act where they appear to travel the world bringing good cheer to victims of disaster, but a closer look likely would reveal that they are using the gig as an excuse for free travel and to generate a little perfume to reduce the stench from their odious behavior, predicated as it is on hard cash.