1.0 link 103154 <![CDATA[Carl Icahn: Obama "Would Be A Terrible President"]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/22/carl-icahn-obama-would-be_n_103154.html Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said Barack Obama would be a ``terrible'' U.S. president whose election would bring higher interest rates and a loss of international confidence in the dollar.

``I don't normally get involved in politics, but this time I am,'' Icahn told an investors conference in New York last night. ``I don't think Obama really understands economics.''

The Illinois senator is the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. Obama has 1,962 delegates, according to an Associated Press tally, putting him 64...

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