By now you’ve all heard that Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama. It came as no surprise. Powell criticized John McCain and Sarah Palin and said Obama’s the one with the temperament to lead our country. Blah, blah, blah.
I doubt Powell’s endorsement will have much effect one way or the other. What I did find interesting was that although Colin Powell said he’s still a Republican, he would have “difficulty with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court, but that’s what we’d be looking at in a McCain administration.” Read full story.
That quote makes me seriously question Powell’s sincerity. Of all the criticism of McCain/Palin coming from the right, the appointment of the next one or two Supreme Court Justices is certainly not one of them. As it is, the Democrats are going to have a fillibuster-proof majority in the Senate, so any extreme right wing nominees will never make it past the confirmation hearings.
Powell’s endorsement of Obama, based in part on the future of the Supreme Court, only cements my decision to vote for John McCain. The economy is cyclical and we will come out of the current economic situation sooner or later, but Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life.
I have three words for conservative-leaning independents out there who are still on the fence: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
I have great respect for Powell. But he is not a republican. He may have once claimed he was but to come out and say he did not believe a republican should appoint the next two justices shows that he does not hold republican values true to heart.
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Blacks endorsing Obama do not have that much of an impact on non-Blacks. Sorry to be so politically incorrect.
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Colin powell is an empty-suit. All talk but has no conviction to carry out his principles. Why is he even considered an important figure in our country is beyond me. He just happened to be a black general at the right time in the right place.
He is the one who presented Bush’s case on Iraq to the rest of the world. If he did not believe in the war ..why did he not fight it when he was in power..and had the power to make an impact.
Today, Obama’s folks blame Hillary and McCain for voting for the Iraq war .. and do not “buy” their reason as “being misled by the Administration’s faulty intelligence”.but are eager to lap up Powell’s endorsement (and his “inaction”). Talk about hypocrisy.
Perhaps there is some truth to the “house nigger” comment made by Harry Belafonte regarding Powell.. and Obama endorsement is his atonement for that sin
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Mr. Powell broke the law when he lied before the world in that now infamous Iraqi WMD presentation to the United Nations. His complicity was not on the level of Bush or Cheney or the other warmongers in the administration. Powell did try to slow down the rush to war. So we must give him that.
So if you support Bush, McCain and Cheney, then you support their criminal war, their incompetence, their stealing and so on. The magnitude of their crimes pale anything Powell did. So by your own standards my fellow conservatives (the Bush/McCain standards), Powell is a saint.
You call for a McCain victory to do what? Preserve the current carnage, chaos and the right to name Supreme Court Justices. Please. I learned that the Republican Party is a rotting corpse. That’s why I got out. I would vote for Ron Paul if he were on the ballot.
The Supreme Court is made up of 4-5 corrupt justices. You know, the pro-business, anti-civil rights, anti-small guy bloc. Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Scalia and sometimes Kennedy. Another two appointments by a radical Republican like John McCain will seal the deal for the end of reproductive rights (abortion, the pill, IUD etc.) because the current Roe. V. Wade is based on privacy rulings that came before it. Yes my ignorant Republican friends, the pill was made legal by a Supreme Court decision. Betcha didn’t know that. Of course you Republicans never have pre-marital sex, never masturbate, never have sex unless it’s for reproductive purposes, right?
Except for David Vitter (prostitutes) Larry Craig (gay bathroom sex), Mark Foley (young boy Congressional pages), Sarah Palin (husband’s business partner), Rudy Guliani (current wife on ex-wife), John McCain (current wife on ex-wife) Ted Haggard (crack cocaine for male prostitute sex) etc., etc., etc.
So stop acting all pure and prudish. Elect Barack Obama and let him appoint sensible justices.
Brad “True Conservative” Menfil.
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Sorry to rain on your parades, conservatives, but Colin Powell is the most respected figure in America, according to polling. Most Americans see him as a great military leader and hero, not just “another black” as smaller minds might put it. His endorsement will give a legitimacy to Obama for Independents and republicans who are still undecided and could be the final blow to McCain’s already withering candidacy.
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I agree with Bob V re: the respect Colin Powell has.
His endorsement will hurt McCain.
But it’s not the final blow.
The electiion is still far away.
And Obama’s peaking too early.
Even he knows that, given his telling his supporters to remember New Hampshire and what happened there.
BTW, Brad: We’re not all Republicans. And continue the carnage. Honey, you ain’t seen nothing yet, should BHO be elected. He’ll melt, thus America will suffer, when he’s confronted with all those enemies of America with whom he’ll negotiate without precondition.
We’d be in for the reprise of the Clinton serve’em-with-legal-papers approach to terrorists.
And bringing up all those names and their putative wrongdoings — BTW: Todd Palin? Please, grow up — means nothing. It’s a typical distraction by Obama supporters who can’t seem to keep their focus. The race is between Obama-Biden and McCain-Palin.
And, please, truly, try something new: “… my ignorant Republican friends”?
I’m neither Republican nor your friend.
A common mistake that Democrats, liberals and leftsists make is that anyone who does wash their brains and souls in the DLL’s politics and ideology must be a Republican.
And, Brad: “Of course you Republicans never have pre-marital sex, never masturbate, never have sex unless it’s for reproductive purposes, right?”
You’re a poster child for what’s become increasingly obvious through this election cycle: Liberals and leftists, including those who consider themselves Democrats, and many many who support Obama apparently had their intellect arrested sometime in puberty.
Otherwise, you’d assume that such beings would have enough cognitiion to recognize their level of intellectual and psychological immaturity. And then do something about it.
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Colin Powell is a very significant if not the most significant endorsement for either candidate so far. Many on the fence conservative leaning independents and Palin resistant republicans will pay attention to one of the most respected men in the country. Both Newt Gingrich and George Will agree this is a huge boost to Obama’s image.
Powell was the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of State. A person like that does not give our endorsements of this magnitude lightly. I respect that he acknowledged that both McCain and Obama would make fine presidents but Palin not being qualified made him question McCain’s decision making.
Buffet’s and Powell’s endorsements alone erases all questions of Obama’s readiness. It is a shame McCain did not choose Romney as we would have had two excellent tickets everyone could feel safe with. Oh well.
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As a rule, Obama gets out endorsements when there is a problem, and the’s not that difficult (two good examples: Richardon – on Holy Thursday – and Edwards – in spite of the rumors that were starting to spread on his holy matrimony).
There is a greater problem: http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/10/19/powell-endorses-obama-and-supporters-pee-their-pants-with-glee/
It is fairly difficult to reconcile Mr. Obama’s and Powell’s positions and actions on the Iraq war. No wonder that Mr. Powell does not want to campaign.
Sometimes I regret the fact that most Republican bloggers did not follow the Democratic primaries.
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Powell’s endorsement shows us one thing, either you are republicain or democrate america needs change, it’s time to delete the ideas of the past and come with new ones.
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Colin Powell was never a Republican. He has as much as said so. He just happened to be treated better by Republicans than by Democrats. John McCain still thinks he is his friend. But he thinks that Ted Kennedy and Harry Reid are friends, too. Rush Limbaugh was right when asked how many inexperienced white canditates he has endorsed.
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