Hints of a Colin Powell or Condi Rice Endorsement for Obama
There's huge buzz again in Sen. Barack Obama's camp that former Secretary of State Colin Powell is readying an endorsement of the Democrat running for president against the retired general's old pal, Sen. John McCain. It started last week as the first-term senator was preparing for his so-far-successful overseas trip this week. Insiders suggested that Powell would either endorse Obama or appear with him before the trip began, but it didn't happen, leading some to say that Powell is interested to see how Obama handles himself on the world stage. Allies to McCain, meanwhile, say that Powell isn't a lost cause. Talk of a post-trip endorsement heated up again today after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice teased CNN's Wolf Blitzer on her upcoming endorsement. On Late Edition yesterday, Rice said that she has decided whom to vote for but declined to indicate her choice. Many Republicans took that as suggesting she's going to back Obama, who has been very critical of the Bush-Rice foreign policy. But some administration officials said that Rice was simply refusing to get involved in the presidential race and will most likely back McCain.
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Obama Earned Support
About this time a year ago, Michelle Obama was complaining about the lack of support for Obama in the Black community (Hillary had the support of almost sixty percent of African-American registered Democrats).
After a year of debates and campaigning, Obama is now said to have the support of eighty percent of Black voters.
Powells support, along with many others has been earned on policy and not race.
Powell Endorsement...
Why can't Powell simply be endorsing Obama because he has taken a look at both candidate's view and and simply believes that Obama is the better candidate for this country? Powell went on to explain quite extensively as to why he is endorsing Obama. This a highly intelligent and informed man...to suggest that he is endorsing simply along racial lines is so incredibly insulting. It suggests that he is incappable of making an informed decision. I guess only whites can make informed decisions. Some people are so insulting and they don't even have the commen sense to realize they are being such. Why is it that anybody Black who happens to be voting for Obama is doing so "ONLY BECAUSE HE IS BLACK?" Never mind that most Blacks are Democrats anyways...let's just throw that fact out of the equation. The obvious and simple trueth is that Obama is a unquestionably smarter and much more open minded canidate who has managed to cross racial, gender, social, economic as well as generational lines and his views are much more inclusive of the general, middle income population than McCain's. He is a qualified canidate who happens to be Black. Let's not forget that he has a white mother...but whites again totally overlook this fact. If Obama were ALL white there wouldn't be any question as to who is the better canidate. The man's creditials and intelligence FAR OUTWEIGH McCain's and it's so obvious. (Compare college education for nstance. McCain graduated at the BOTTOM of his class and crashed several military jets and was basically a failure in our country's military but such was ovelooked becaue he was wealthy and happend to get captured. Obama on the otherhand graduated at the top of his class from two of our country's show-white ivy league institutions of higher learning) But, because he is not all white...some people are not able to see past color. Wake up people. And another thing: Palin is an absolute joke! The women is clearly not qualified to be VP of anything let alone the USA. Again, if race were differnt...and Palin were BLACK. She would be considered what she is. A total idiot. After watching the interview of Michelle Obama and comparing such to any interview of Palin...I saw such a stark contrast in intelligence between the two. Not notice that Michelle is clearly superior in intelligence and class is due to either pure blindness or blatant prejudice.
Condi's endorsement will look as though racial
Condi should just keep silent and vote obama so as to avoid the whole scenario appearing as racially motivated. Better still if she goes public it may not very much interfere with the outcome since her vote will only count on the ballot. No significant sway.
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