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Title: Former secretary of state Colin Powell backs Obama
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reuters.com
URL Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCa ... ateFeed7/idUSTRE49I1PX20081019
Published: Oct 19, 2008
Author: staff
Post Date: 2008-10-19 11:44:19 by Ferret Mike
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Views: 3770
Comments: 125
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retired U.S. Gen. Colin Powell, a former secretary of state in the Bush administration, on Sunday endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. In an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," Powell backed Obama over fellow Republican John McCain, calling the Democratic nominee a "transformational figure" who could be an "exceptional president." Powell said he plans to vote for Obama in the November 4 election but does not intend to campaign for the Illinois senator as Obama and McCain enter the final weeks of their battle for the White House. Powell, who served in the military and government for 40 years, said he is not looking for a job in an Obama administration. However, he said, "I've always said if a president asks you to do something, you have to consider it." McCain, appearing on "Fox News Sunday," said Powell's support of Obama did not come as a surprise and said four other secretaries of state had endorsed him. In picking Obama over McCain, Powell said either "man would be a good president." Powell praised Obama's "depth of knowledge" and "steadiness," while he was critical of what he described as McCain's uncertainty over how to deal with economic crisis. Powell also voiced concern about McCain's selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate. "She is a very distinguished woman and she is to be admired," Powell said. "But ... I don't believe she is ready to be president of the United States."
Poster Comment: Thanks you Mr. Powell, you are a wise man.
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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
He's a lying sack of shit Traitor to his country, just as McBama and you are, Corn Flake Mike.
Heh, Actually he was one of the few Generals I really liked and trusted as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army, and I was disappointed to the highest degree when he joined the Bush Administration. However, he proved he was a man of character when he and Bush had a falling out and he left as his conscious dictated he should. Your bombastic rhetoric might keep you warm at night, but you go nowhere accusing this man of being a traitor, or in accusing the same of Barack Obama. You are just incapable of honoring the Constitutionally sanctioned free market of ideas and political efficacy. From my standpoint, you would only feel comfortable in a Choir Country, one where everyone towed the line and danced to your tune politically and socially. Now if you want to advance your political objectives naturally you are going to feel constipated with zero tolerance for anything else but what you believe and manners to do things. It is your resounding intolerance and the raw hatred emanating from you I find odious to the extreme. I hope you recover from this someday. And I am profoundly glad you are not Arator, and his name is not the only thing you get backwards.
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#17. To: Rotara (#1)
"He's a lying sack of shit Traitor to his country, just as McBama and you are, Corn Flake Mike."
#20. To: Ferret Mike (#17)
You are just incapable of honoring the Constitutionally sanctioned free market of ideas and political efficacy.
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