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American hero Colin Powell is expected to endorse Barack Obama shortly. His endorsement will be a repudiation of Bush(ElDouche)'s conduct of two wars, Afghanistan and Iraq, AND the final nail in McSame and Sancho Panza's run.
This news should dominate the news cycle for a few days. :)
Good, if that's the case. I had hoped so.
http://washingtonindependent.com/127...-endorse-obama
So let me get this straight. He dances a hip-hop so that means he's going to endorse Obama ?
I will not be surprised if he does mind you ;but my bet is he won't . He declined an invitation to the DNC and he has already donated the max allowed to the McCain campaign..
On a related note: the largest number of Nobel Laureates to ever endorse a political candidate for office, have encouraged the American public to vote Obama on November 4th.
All 2008 US Nobel Laureates in Science Endorse Obama! - Scientists & Engineers for America Action Fund
Yeah ,and Arafat and Jimmy Carter brought peace to the Middle East .
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Originally Posted by NeedKarma
Funny you should mention that
https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/curren...re-269446.html
"I was then and still am an unabashed defender of the welfare state, which I regard as the most decent social arrangement yet devised."
Yea, so?
If Powell does endorse Obama, SO WHAT? That won't make him a better candidate.
The Nobel prize thing is a bad joke, a la Gore.
Yea, it's a bad sign when intellectuals support a candidate - can't have that kind of vetting in America, got to dumb it down a little.
Yes, the Nobel Peace Prize is now vetting the socialists that they agree with.
Have you noticed that "intellectuals" can do some of the DUMBEST things??Quote:
Originally Posted by NeedKarma
Do you worship at some intellectual altar? Phd's only prove that someone had enough reading comprehension to retain enough facts to pass a test. It has NO bearing on ability to reason.
Speaking of the Nobel Peace Prize, at one time I admired the people that won it now I look at it as no more than the prize in a box of Cracker Jacks.
For that reason alone, I betcha don't have a Ph.D. and certainly wouldn't want one. (Do you have any idea of the work that goes into getting a Ph.D.? )Quote:
Originally Posted by Galveston1
Obama was in Fayetteville, NC today. Last week I had called a bunch of Fayetteville ladies to encourage them to vote for Obama. Most had happily voted for him in the primary and planned to vote for him in the general election. I hope they showed up at the rally and mentioned that their new friend Wondergirl had called from Chicagoland.
Colin Powell finally redeemed himself in my eyes when he came out for Obama.
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All I have are Cracker Jack Prizes. I've been saving them. It's hard not to open them. I'm giving them as gifts for Christmas this year since Goldman Sachs stole all my money and invested it in China and India.
As for Colin Powell, I don't blame him a bit. Bush, Cheney and Rummy are cold blooded. Let's hope he is right. I have always respected him. I hope he is right.
While Powell was serving honorably in Vietnam and his friend John McCain was being beaten in a Hanoi cell . Obama ally William Ayes was bombing the Pentagon and attempting to kill soldiers at Fort Dix New Jersey.
Colin Powell is a “Strategic Limited Partner” at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, one of the best performing venture capital firms in history, having sponsored Google, and Apple, among others. Kleiner has made huge pushes into 'clean technology' over the past 3-4 years. They have even raised an all clean-tech fund. Al Gore is also a special partner. An Obama victory would put Kleiner in a strong commercial position.
Allies in what?? Even McCain called Ayers a "washed-up terrorist" and Obama an honorable man. Why can't you let go of it too?Quote:
Originally Posted by tomder55
McCain is inconsistent. If Ayers was a " washed up terrorist" then it would not be an issue. Yet McCain does make Ayers and issue.
When OBL comes here and becomes a teacher I'm sure you'll give him a pass also .
GOP talking points and robocalls - the sheep follow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wondergirl
LOL! The sad thing you truly believe this.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomder55
Just the guy we want for POTUS.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomder55
You are saying that to me?? Surely you jest.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomder55
Charles Krauthammer hits the nail squarely on the head...
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Charles Krauthammer: Why I'm voting for McCain
12:00 PM CDT on Friday, October 24, 2008
Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.
I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every stripe – neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and socialist/atheist (Christopher Hitchens) – yelling "Stop!" I shall have no part of this motley crew. I will go down with the McCain ship. I'd rather lose an election than lose my bearings.
First, I'll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory. The "erratic" temperament issue, for example. As if Mr. McCain's risky and unsuccessful – but in no way irrational – attempt to tactically maneuver his way through the economic tsunami that came crashing down a month ago renders him unfit for office. This man has demonstrated the most admirable equanimity and courage in the face of unimaginable pressures as a prisoner of war, and he has steadily navigated innumerable challenges and setbacks, not the least of which was the collapse of his campaign just a year ago.
Nor will I countenance the "dirty campaign" pretense. The double standard here is stunning. Mr. Obama ran a scurrilous Spanish-language ad falsely associating Mr. McCain with anti-Hispanic slurs. Another ad falsely claimed Mr. McCain supports "cutting Social Security benefits in half." And for months, Democrats insisted that Mr. McCain sought 100 years of war in Iraq.
Mr. McCain's critics are offended that he raised the issue of William Ayers. What's astonishing is that Mr. Obama was himself not offended by William Ayers.
Moreover, the most remarkable of all tactical choices of this election season is the attack that never was. Out of extreme (and unnecessary) conscientiousness, Mr. McCain refused to raise the legitimate issue of Mr. Obama's most egregious association – with the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Dirty campaigning, indeed.
The case for Mr. McCain is straightforward. The financial crisis has made us forget, or just blindly deny, how dangerous the world out there is. We have a generations-long struggle with Islamic jihadism. An apocalyptic soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. A nuclear-armed Pakistan in danger of fragmentation. A rising Russia pushing the limits of revanchism. Plus the sure-to-come Falklands-like surprise popping out of nowhere.
Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who's been cramming on these issues for the last year, who's never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of "a world that stands as one"), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as "the tragedy of 9/11," a term more appropriate for a bus accident?
Or do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most serious foreign policy thinker in the U.S. Senate? A man who not only has the best instincts but has the honor and the courage to, yes, put country first, as when he carried the lonely fight for the surge that turned Iraq from catastrophic defeat into achievable strategic victory?
Today's economic crisis, like every other in our history, will in time pass. But the barbarians will still be at the gates. Whom do you want on the parapet? I'm for the guy who can tell the lion from the lamb.
Absolutely NOT McCain. Not by a long shot.Quote:
Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.
Powell et al are just protecting their place at the D.C. cocktail circuit.
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