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Should Powell Endore Obama?
Bonnie Erbe 7/3/2008
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Will Gen. Colin Powell endorse Sen. Barack Obama? It's the question rippling through Washington's chattering class conversations. These conversations were sparked by the National Journal's report that the two met privately on June 18 in Powell's Alexandria, Va. office and talked for about an hour.

The McCain campaign privately and through surrogates insists no such endorsement is pending. In fact GOP sources predict when and if Gen. Powell makes an endorsement, his support will go to Sen. McCain, as the two are close allies. Whether that's true or not, it's more important to look at why Gen. Powell would consider a revolt against his own party.

The reasons for Sen. Obama's desire for a Powell endorsement are clear: Powell's support would boost Obama's perceived competence in foreign affairs and military matters. A Powell endorsement might persuade some more liberal Republicans to desert the party along with Powell.

Powell's reasons for meeting with Obama are an entirely different matter. Remember that Gen. Powell supported the Bush Iraq invasion, clearly against his own better judgment. He carried tainted water, while refusing to drink out of the same contaminated tap. Gen. Powell should have instead resigned over his obvious disagreement with the President. He took the coward's route and stayed to curry favor with
the GOP's far right. That strategy backfired on him.

For Powell's efforts, he was rewarded with a boot -- booted out of the Secretary of State position in the second Bush Administration. It was pretty clear even Gen. Powell was having a hard time believing his own argument as he beseeched the United Nations in February, 2003 to support a UN resolution sanctioning the U.S. invasion. He tried to make the case Saddam Hussein was in control of large caches of hidden weapons of mass destruction. The White House has a transcription of his entire presentation on its website:

"POWELL: What you will see is an accumulation of facts and disturbing patterns of behavior. The facts on Iraqis' behavior--Iraq's behavior demonstrate that Saddam Hussein and his regime have made no effort--no effort--to disarm as required by the international community. Indeed, the facts and Iraq's behavior show that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction."

The doubt in Powell's own voice was palpable. That day he went from trustworthy hero, to partisan hack. I remember Gen. Powell standing in front of a satellite picture with a pointer, explaining that what looked like a trailer was actually a cache of WMD (weapons of mass destruction.) It could have been a trailer full of DVDs.

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Powell Doctrine Promises To Return
By RJ Matson - The New York Observer * Posted 12/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
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Posted By: Bill Visper  on Thursday, July 03, 2008

No, but you should use a spell checker...

Posted By: Cowgirl Up! - Texas  on Thursday, July 10, 2008

In a word - NO.



Powell is person of integrity who has a heck of a lot of sense and wisdom.

Obama is a person of questionable integrity (Rezcko - what really happened with the hous deal?  Rev. Wright - did he sit there for 20 years because he believed or because he is a poor judge of character; Ayers - 'nuff said; positions changed for political gain: campaign finance, Iraq, Second amendment, abortion, death sentence, Jerusalem's borders, meeting with foreign leaders, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Palestinian elections, intelligence surveillance....  and no apparent wisdom.



Why should Powell endorse Obama?  Because he is black?  What if EVERY white person in this country voted for McCain and not one voted for Obama?  Would that be racist?  In the eyes of the liberals, it would.  Powell supporting Obama due to skin color? That is racist.  Almost as racist as the primary in the Carolinas where 90% of blacks voted for Obama - without knowing a single policy position other than ' "free healthcare" '  now that is not only racist, but ignorant.  

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