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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Presidential candidates
While neither of the current candidates for the Presidency is exactly ideal to lead the U.S. and the West, it is evident that Obama's win would be a disaster...a simple unadulterated truth.
Just listen, watch and analyze what this self anointed Santa or Messiah is promising us all. (then start laughing at the boyscout)!
"simple unadulterated truth"
... really means "oversimplified, spun beyond recognition truthiness". After following comment sections (on this site and elsewhere), this longtime cynic is often surprised by the lack of humor with Obama supporters and the lack of sanity by Obama detractors. But what great entertainment!
A tainted endorsement
Whatever the motivations of either Powell or Rice, if either were to endorse Obama I have no doubt it would be seen and presented as an act of racial allegiance more than anything.
Would Rice endorse Obama because McCain "has been very critical of the Bush-Rice foreign policy"? I doubt it. I can't recall hearing Obama praising the Bush-Rice foreign policy.
As for Powell, he may well share Obama's opinion of the outrage that is the Iraq War; but it's the shared ethnicity that will be most obvious and most noted should he endorse Obama.
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