Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama

[aw00d05]

Wow I can not believe people still listen to the hipocrit drug addicted racist Rush Limbaugh. After hearing what he said he is even a bigger joke then I thought..

As far as the endorsment he even said it was PART because of the history of the candidate BUT as he has said if it was the main reason he would have endorsed him months ago since he was still black then..

I think it has more to do against mccain then for Obama, Like a lot of people he doesn't like the campaign that Mccain has run and the terrible lack of judgement in palin and the economy. You can not keep using smears like Terrorist, Un American parts of the country , baby killer.. Without turning some people off.

The point that I loved Powell made was the Arab/Muslim point, Obama isn't either but so what if he is, for the last 7 years those titles have been slurs and looked down on. The thing that upsets me is how the right is painting powell as Unamerican racists for voting for the unqualified black man..

but he has so many things about democrats that you will never hear on any news network, not even fox, he has all the inside stories that never get out...

[aw00d05]

I have great respect for Powell, and I am sure he has his reasons for supporting Obama; the man is not stupid and wouldn't vote for him just for something as surface as racial background. I remember from one of the political quizzes I took that Powell is closer to the center than many Republicans anyway, so some cross-party support shouldn't be all that surprising.

i agree with powell being very smart but race had to have a little thing to do with it. (he's just wishing it was him)

[aw00d05]

This is not directed at anyone, more just some food for thought. Please don't turn this into an attack thread. This should be a good discussion thread. I do NOT want to see this having to be closed:

It really bothers me how everything has to have a racial turn on it. Why? What's the point? What good is it going to do? The answer is none. It will only make things worse. We are at a point in American history where we may see our first African-American president. People, that is a GREAT thing. In 40 years time, we've gone from Martin Luther King Jr and Bobby Kennedy being gunned down because they tried to stop racism to our first major political party nominating an African-American for the highest office in our country. To me, that is a very, very great thing, and we should all be glad that we live in a time where we don't have as much to worry about, in terms of racially motivated crimes.

and yet people still say they overcame stuff due to race, just doesn't seem right to me to say that, due to this country being very little racist compared to every other country in the world...

[ensbergcollector]

I respect Powell a lot and from what i know, probably would have voted for him if he had decided to run for president. IMO, his endorsement is a political move for his benefit. I know he says that he has been debating who to endorse and just decided but I think it was more waiting to see that Obama was going to win before he issued his endorsement.
If he had endorsed obama and then Mccain won, his political standing would have suffered. The only way, as a republican, he could have safely endorsed Obama was if Obama wins.
I can't prove any of this, it is just my opinion.

[RenegadeLonghorn]

This has a lot to do with how the Bush administration almost ruined Powell's political career. As ensberg said, this was a political move and a good one.

[randallcards]

This has a lot to do with how the Bush administration almost ruined Powell's political career. As ensberg said, this was a political move and a good one.

a good one? do explain i gotta hear this lol

[RenegadeLonghorn]

a good one? do explain i gotta hear this lol

It may revive his political career siding with the more popular candidate and distancing himself more from the Bush administration.

I'll let Colin Powell speak to you.