Colin Powell Endorses Obama

[sunny104]

I've always admired Colin Powell.

I wish he was running for president!

Originally Posted by Accountable

Bill Bennett's radio show is trying to discount Powell's endorsement as just another black endorsing Obama just because he's black. I'm forking disgusted that even he would sink so low!

Disgusted maybe, but are you surprised? I'm not.

[qsducks]

Originally Posted by Accountable

Bill Bennett's radio show is trying to discount Powell's endorsement as just another black endorsing Obama just because he's black. I'm forking disgusted that even he would sink so low!

Are you even surprised by Bill Bennett?

[yaaarrrgg]

I can't help but notice McCain and Bennet are both white. And he is making this a racial issue?

[qsducks]

Originally Posted by yaaarrrgg

I can't help but notice McCain and Bennet are both white. And he is making this a racial issue?

Yes and I think McCain has a lot of gall since he's been friends with Powell for over 25 yrs. Smacks of desperation.

[gmc]

Don't know who bill Bennett is but this was on the link.

And he isn't even elected yet! Barack Obama says that he wants to "improve America's standing abroad," by which he means suck up to the Europeans. But in every tangible way, the policies he advocates will damage relations with allies and lead to diminished American influence. Nowhere is this more evident than with respect to trade.

How can anyone possibly think GW bush has done anything for americas standing abroad? Osama bin laden probably died laughing in saudi arabia somewhere.

Barack Obama's promise to unilaterally rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement if Canada and Mexico won't go along with his ideas on labor and the environment has not gone unnoticed in Ottawa. If Canadians are going to have a tougher time selling their goods and services south of the border, who can blame them for looking east -- across the Atlantic to Europe.

What about all the treaties bush unilaterally abrogated

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...aties-usat.htm

Bush's new foreign policy vision "has largely amounted to trashing existing agreements without any clear idea of what to put in their place," the newspaper said.

posted by accountable

What a putz. You still don't get that we're not the UK. Party politics is different here. Our "two" work as a team. Obama can run us off a cliff just as ably as McCain.

OK I'm beginning to get it with the help of your posts. Just as well really you came across as a borderline fascist to spots loony left

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...40.html?ino=25

Coincidence?

Obama: Powell will have a role in administration
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news...0081020/Obama/

[Accountable]

Originally Posted by qsducks

Yes and I think McCain has a lot of gall since he's been friends with Powell for over 25 yrs. Smacks of desperation.

McCain?? What has he said about this?

[Accountable]

Originally Posted by gmc

Don't know who bill Bennett is but this was on the link.

Bennett served as United States Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988 under Reagan. He also held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (or "Drug Czar") under George H. W. Bush. Now he's a neocon pundit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bennett

[gmc]

posted by jab

Coincidence?

Obama: Powell will have a role in administration
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news...0081020/Obama/

Well colour me cynical

Originally Posted by Accountable

Bennett served as United States Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988 under Reagan. He also held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (or "Drug Czar") under George H. W. Bush. Now he's a neocon pundit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bennett

from the wikipedia article about him.

BENNETT: Well, I don't think it is either,... But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could ... abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.

Subsequently, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, as well as civil rights groups, condemned Bennett's statements and demanded an apology. President George W. Bush said Bennett's statements were "not appropriate."[13]

Bennett responded to the criticism saying, in part:

A thought experiment about public policy, on national radio, should not have received the condemnations it has. Anyone paying attention to this debate should be offended by those who have selectively quoted me, distorted my meaning, and taken out of context the dialog I engaged in this week. Such distortions from 'leaders' of organizations and parties is a disgrace not only to the organizations and institutions they serve, but to the First Amendment.[14]

Does he wear a pointy hat and a robe?