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Pennsylvania Primary Prediction

April 21, 2008

I typically don’t do this but I am going to go out on a limb this time.  I’ve been reviewing various polls and looking at the trending data I predict that Senator Clinton will win Pennsylvania by 10-12%.  Her internal polling shows her ahead by 13% points and I hope that is true.

Pennsylvania, it is your turn to give Clinton a decisive win and to tell the nation that we don’t want this primary to end and that we aren’t all happy with Obama!

What is your opinion?

Posted by Jason Rowsey | Filed Under Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Polls, election | 3 Comments 

Former President Carter: Senile or Just Annoying?

April 21, 2008

I’ve been watching and reading the news reports of former President Jimmy Carter gallivanting through the middle east playing peace maker.  It makes me wonder if he has not heard of the long established unwritten rule of former presidents making these types of trips only when asked to do so in an official role.

I think that it is fairly easy and accurate to say that as a president, Carter had a very poor record and will probably be seen as one of the most ineffective in our nation’s history.  That being said, he has probably gained more notoriety and respect from his role of former president than in anytime during his one-term presidency.  His work through Habitat for Humanity and the Carter Center have been admirable.

But he is putting that all at risk now.  With the release of his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Carter was criticized for a allegedly anti-Israeli tone in this manuscript.  After having moved past that controversy, Carter is now playing peace-maker at the request of nobody meeting with the terror group Hamas and one of it’s major benefactors, Syria.

My question…has he completely lost it or is he just trying to stick his finger in the eye of the American government?  He has no business meeting with these groups on any capacity.  He can claim that he does not represent the government, which he does not, but his status in the world elevates his meetings to a quasi-official meeting.  It tells us something very interesting about Carter when he own government has to denounce his trip.

Why can’t Carter just stick to building houses for the poor and leave the country of Israel alone?  If all of the work by former administrations to achieve peace, most notably that of President Clinton, failed, why does he think he might succeed when he has the backing of no one?

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