Jimmy Carter for Dean

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Carter is not any better as an ex-President than he was as a President.  Sure Democrats like him but I think most other Americans view him as a left-wing dupe of foreign dictators.  His performances trashing America on his visits to despotic regimes abroad has been shameful.  I think any quasi-endorsement by Carter would hurt Dean in the general election, particularly in the South.  They feel betrayed by one of their own who pretended to be a moderate and turned out to be a left-wing defeatist.

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$2,200,000,000,000

Not a particularly large national debt given the size of our economy.  Of course the idea of tax cuts and large deficits was to constrain wasteful social spending - 'Starve the Beast'.  I'm not sure if it has worked but at least we haven't had any other horrible initiatives like the New Deal or Great Society.  In fact the latter has been rolled back just a little.  

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Yes, 2,200,000,000,000 is alot of money.  National debt just passed seven billion last month.

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Seven trillion.  Not bad in an 11.25 trillion economy.