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Hints of a Colin Powell or Condi Rice Endorsement for Obama

July 21, 2008 05:00 PM ET | Paul Bedard | Permanent Link | Print

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Article perpetuates racial alliances

Why is the article centered around two black-Americans endorsing Barack? It would have been great to get some other republicans who could be on the edge of uni-partisianship. The insinuation from the article is going to be "two black-american politicians blur the party-lines because of race" rather than the fact that alot of Republicans are looking for change and perhaps will be voting for Barack.

"Tainted endorsement'?

Chalk your comments on the 'motivations' of Powell or Rice to your inability to reason, my good man..

How figure you, that this purported action be seen as "an act of racial allegiance"?

What of your disasterous two-term president, selected, to take over this country with his lack of experience on any stage? Selected because of his last name?

Inability to reason, and idiocy, I dare say!

Sad White America

All you racist crackers need to go straight to hell.

Looking for a Hero

I would love to see Colin Powell run. I'm from the old school and feel in my heart our leader needs to have served our country. This has not always been the case when it comes to our presidents, but it should be a requirement. I want to feel the security of knowing the one who rules would give his life if need be to save his own.

running mate for Obama

I hope it will be Colin Powell, for running mate.

who is going to be Obama's running mate (for vice president)

Racial allegiance

I guess all whites or conservatives who vote for McCain can also be accused of racial allegiance more than anything else. Right? You insult the intelligence of the voters and are quite obvious in your prejudice. If Rice or Powell vote for Obama, perhaps it is because he is the better candidate. We had eight disastrous years of Bush and where did that lead us...to a nation with millions of foreclosed homes, millions of lost jobs, huge deficits, an ill-conceived and unplanned war that costs us not only in thousands of lost lives but billions of dollars a month, 50 million people without health insurance. The financial state of the union, thanks to Bush and the Republican Congress, is a mess, thanks to Bush we have the mortgage crisis, unstable stock market and I could go on but we all get the pictture. Now, you want us to deal with McCain, a Bush duplicate! McCain is thinking of putting Phil "Foreclosure Phil, Gramm as his Treasury Secretary! Gramm who is known in Washington as the lead perp of this whole subprime debacle. Thanks to Gramm and Lugar we can't stop this mess for God only knows how long. Next time think before you talk and know what you are going to talk about first.

e.szabo taylor's unadulterated truth

Has someone been watching too much of Bill "loofah" O'Reilly lately?

running mates for Obama

Those two has beens, Rice and Powell? What a sad, backward idea.

Colen Powell????

Daydreaming scenerio?

Obama's Achille's heel? Lack of experience in military and world politics.

Team him with a vice-president who is, combined, the world's most experienced military and world politics expert??????? Also very much so a person who understands chain of command, and ABILITY to lead, should it be necessary????

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