It will be interesting to see what if any difference it makes, but Powell's comments on the negativity of McCain's campaign and GOP's turn to the right is spot on.
Colin Powell endorses Obama
Latest
**Refresh your Web browser for the latest**
Our site cache is turned on and refreshing is the best way to get the latest information.
Report your road condition, click here to read more.
Read the Toledo Blade story on local Blog sites, including this one.
About McCaskey
User login
Search SwampBubbles
Latest Poll
SwampBubbles RSS
Press Release or News Tip
- Have a press release or news tip?
- Send it to news@swampbubbles.com
- or by fax: 1 (425) 675-8169
SwampBubbles Comments
-
Joe the Plumber: War Correspondent?
-
Joe the Plumber: War Correspondent?
-
Joe the Plumber: War Correspondent?
-
What message does funding carenet but not police send?
-
Why I defend Jon Stainbrook
-
Toledo's Crumbling Streets
-
Why I defend Jon Stainbrook
-
What message does funding carenet but not police send?
-
Launch of CartyCost.com
-
Toledo's Crumbling Streets
-
Why I defend Jon Stainbrook
-
What message does funding carenet but not police send?
-
What message does funding carenet but not police send?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/19/colin.powell/index.html
Powell's endorsement certainly does not hurt Obama, and might bring him a few undecideds and centrist Republicans. Powell is one of the few Bush Cabinet members who still retains a significant amount of credibility (Gates - and to a lesser extent, the post-warhawk Rice - I would also include in this short list).
This might signal a trend among moderate Republicans to position themselves for an Obama victory, or it might just be Colin being Colin. We'll have to wait and see what Powell's true motivations are: understanding this political enigma has been a source of much punditry the last 15 years, and Powell defies simple analysis.
http://historymike.blogspot.com/
son of a .....well, thank goodness Colin Powell is voting for MY GUY!!
YAY!!!
who said that they are not, not voting for Obama because of his race, that they would vote for Colin Powell in a heartbeat, will you now step forward and support Obama with Powell's endorsement?
Barack Hussein Obama is no Colin Powell.
Barack Hussein Obama is no Colin Powell.
I guess that was worth saying twice.
Are you saying that you decide who you're going to vote for based on the endorsements they receive, purnhrt?
I highly doubt that anyone committed to voting for McCain will change their mind because a black guy endorsed a black guy.
Now, I'm excited that a esteemed general whom served our country and has credibility coming out of his wazoo has endorsed Obama for reasons other than color.
And I would have voted for Powell for the exact same reasons as I would have voted for Ron Paul.
why people keep looking at skin color for experience or credibility is beyond me.
are having a little poopshit over a comment that had nothing to do with you.
Exactly HOW is it racial if I compare Powell's political experience to the boy wonder's inexperience ?
It is like asking Robin to defend Gotham City because he got Batman's endorsement.
why even bother?
good luck with your issues....
your posts, sir from Florida. I wish you would do the same to mine.
Although I have only commented once or twice, I come here to intelligently debate political issues, not be brought down by your constant negativity.
Please move along...
umm hmmmmmm
Comments on Swampbubbles about Colin Powell:
"He's one of few men I'd ask to shake hands with!"
Graphics Guy
"He struck me as a very intelligent and level-headed man"
LibsCanBlowMe
"Give me...Gen Powell...who's judgement, service and personal honor I greatly admire."
SeldonCrisis
"Colin Powell supports Obama"
Pink Slip
Pink Slip
A "threat to our political system"
officials supporting McCain is bad. Former officials supporting Obama is good. Makes no sense.
The guy who made the diplomatic case to go to war to the world's nations endorsed the guy who said we didn't use enough diplomacy to prevent the war.
Secy Powell has every right to endorse whomever he chooses but it did make me chuckle.
MikeyA
it just goes to expose the hypocracy of the election. I had the same chuckle because the Ds labeled Powell many bad names for the stuff he did or did not do and now he is the savior or a sage. The same thing with Palin being inexperienced but Obama being experienced. McCain is also not immune, he says he will be responsible for money but then, with Obama lead the way with the 700 billion bailout. I must have crossed some threshold because it is so easy to see through the political spin.
Former officials supporting Obama is good.
When did I say that?
Pink Slip
A "threat to our political system"
I'm quite certain in hindsight Colin Powell feels he in large measure was 'setup' by phoney intelligence when he held aloft that vial of white power ('anthrax') prior to the U.N. Security Council vote in Feb. of 2003 to go to war in Iraq.
I also would venture to guess most if not all of the disgruntled Bush administration members who left and then wrote books about how badly their former bosses screwed up are now Obama supporters.
Call it seeing the light of day.
they were the ones who caused the problems? Seems to me that Obama could be 4 more years of Bush. Of course you won't think of this or you will dismiss it because it is not part of your hackish mind set, but something out there for everyone else to ponder.
BTW PinkSlip I don't see your name at all in the post above. Very interesting that I make a statement and you think it is about you. That says more about your mindset than anything.
Hey Chris, I was just playing the percentages (as Burnsy would say, "it's what good managers do to win ball games"). You do make a lot of statements about me. You're practically obsessed with what I have to say.
Pink Slip
A "threat to our political system"
"What if they were the ones who caused the problems?"
Is that really what you think? Seriously? Well, I suppose a GOP talking-head holdout would think that way.
Meanwhile, many Republcans, including those who resigned the administration in disgust and anger during the Bush years, have left for greener pastures and a place where at least there may be some hope that what took place the last eight years might never be repeated.
I am sure that people who read the thread can figure out who is being obsessed and who is not. I think you proved the point quite well and you did not even need your back peddling clarification.
McCaskey say what ever you want, but I am just trying to highlight the hypocrisy of those who fawn over a Bush official helping or endorsing Obama but then use then say a Bush official helping McCain is evil. I think I made the point quite well.
Either a) Powell endorsed Obama because he's black or
b) This proves McCain is not Bush because Powell did not endorse McCain or
c) Powell is disgruntled and wants to hurt his former Party
d) Powell is hoping for an appointment in an Obama administration
e) Powell really does admire Obama
f) all or none of the above
It could very well change the minds of those who felt Powell was important, it could also make them stop and re-think their previous stance on Powell. Personally, if he was that naive to then claim to have been "misled" on the war on Iraq given the access to information that he had? I never thought he was all that and a bag of chips...I spent hours watching his testimony to the UN and if he did not know what he was saying was certain? He was pretty darn convincing.
I would have admired him more had he taken personal responsibility for what he stated if he later changed his position on it. It was pretty much expected that he was going to endorse Obama, at least it was if you've followed the political junkie type press the past few weeks.
The funny thing is had Powell endorsed McCain? We all know the Obama campaign would have pointed to that as proof that their whole McBush theme was correct. Politics is a game, the problem is not many see it for what it really is and instead get emotionally invested it in from the sidelines.
too bad there is not a boxed game for it, one that can be played at home :)
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2008...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With or without a formal title, Colin Powell will have Barack Obama's ear if the Democratic presidential candidate wins the White House in the Nov. 4 election, the candidate said Monday.
"He will have a role as one of my advisers," Barack Obama said on NBC's "Today" in an interview aired Monday, a day after Powell, a four-star general and President Bush's former secretary of state, endorsed him.
"Whether he wants to take a formal role, whether that's a good fit for him, is something we'd have to discuss," Obama said.
g) Powell thinks that Palin is horribly under qualified to be next in line for the presidency
h) Powell thinks that McCain is a much worse chose as President and has acted completely erratic during the current economic crises.
I'm not a Powell fan by any stretch. To be a good American, he had to be a "bad solider" and he wasn't. He followed orders and let Bush trash his reputation in the process.
Does his endorsement matter? Not to Lisa or Chris or Pink or myself. We've all made up out minds months ago and we've been battling ever since.
Powell will matter to some moderates and military types. It should play well in Northern Virginia and help solidify that state.
I’m sure the wing nuts talking heads will be chatting up “a” to day… Anyone know a bookie I could be a C note on Limbaugh?
now you know I am voting for Obama because he is a black guy. :=)
Darn it...I forgot! lol
"...adding that it has "moved more to the right than I would like to see it."
I, on the other hand, think the Republican Party has moved too far to the left by nominating McCain. McCain has a history of "reaching across the aisle" which is why I think he is a RINO who has been in bed with Democrats so often that he has caught a case of Liberalism.
who has been in bed with Democrats so often that he has caught a case of Liberalism.
Had to take a double take. Thought you said
Liebermanism. So there you have it... A liberal in Joe Lieberman endorses the conservative John McCain. A conservative in Colin Powell endorses the "socialist" Barack Obama.
Go Figure!
- Just the KAT, thinking out loud again.
response:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1008/Limbaugh_Where_are_the...
I still can't get over Limbaugh's comparing Bill Ayres to Timothy McVeigh and then you agree with the analogy. Unbelievable!
I know, but I still like you purnhrt :)
I don't know how to do the real smiley face. But consider a smiley face being at the end of this post. :=)
Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama because
a) Obama is a transformational figure. (Transformation -change in nature, form or character)
b) because Obama is reaching out all across America
c)Obama has met a standard of being a successful and exceptional president
d)he was disappointed in the “over the top” negative tone of the GOP campaign
e)he was disappointed in McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as vice president nominee
f)he questions the judgement of McCain
g)he thinks that it is inappropriate to connect Obama to anti terrorist feelings
h)he is against the insinuations by some Republicans that Obama is a Muslim
i)he knows that there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim in America and to insinuate that there is sends the wrong message to Muslim children
j)we are all Americans and, whether male or female, black or white, Muslim or Christian, gay or straight, Democrat or Republican the bottom line is that we are all Americans
Did I get it right LisaRenee, at least what Colin Powell said, not what you have interpreted?
BTW I don't think that Colin Powell is looking for your admiration.
you are nit picking or picking with nits, which ever scenario suits your linguistic aptitude. :=)