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It’s interesting that an ancient history, rather indirect association with a “domestic terrorist” is painted as poor judgement, but selecting a governor with no experience on a national stage isn’t questioned by the Repubs.

Today I lose all respect I had for Colin Powell. I agree that BO will be a “transformational” character. The problem is the transformation will be disastrous.

Mr.Powell, I sincerely question your judgement,especially since you were a major contributor to the weakness of our defense intellegence. I challenge you or anyone else reading this comment and especially “Candid World” to approve this comment so that the following two simple questions can be answered:

(1) What is the name of the Physician / Nurse, who delivered Mr. Obama in Hawaii and the hospital?

(2) Why was a forged birth certificate document (short form) put on the Obama Website as a real document, when forensic document experts determined it to be false? If you dispute these facts then permit these examiners to view (long form in Hawaii) it in front of independent observers for our central florida voters, only if you believe this document to be real!

Vic, please provide us with the name of the doctor or nurse who delivered Mr. McCain in the hospital, and we will immediately start on your request. While you are at it, why not supply the name of the doctor or nurse who delivered the other 98 senators, the 438 members of the House, George Bush and Dick Cheney. For that matter, what is the name of the doctor or nurse that delivered YOU?

How is Barack Obama going to prevent jobs from leaving the country? Does he oppose NAFTA/CAFTA? Does he support putting more tarriffs on imported goods? Will he support more subsidies for American industries? About the only thing I’ve heard that he promises to do is to raise taxes on all companies making over $250,000 ( my opinion – they will be so burdened by the higher taxes that they will have to ship the jobs overseas in order to stay competitive on the global marketplace). Will somebody please explain to me how exactly he plans on creating new jobs and preserving existing ones? This is truly an open, honest question, I really want to know!

Ed note: Daniel (#9) is not the same as Daniel (#10) :)

The big socialist has been endorsed by the big wmd liar. Americas future looks scary.

Brandon, just because Powell’s decision overlaps with race doesn’t mean that it’s because of race. And it’s unsurprising that someone would change his mind about McCain over the past year. The man went from a hero to just another Republican shill, all in one summer. If I were a bit more centrist, I would have donated to keep McCain alive in 2007, but I’d probably be back to writing a site like this in 2008. McCain squandered his capital with the moderate GOP. That Powell’s regretting his donations in 2007 is no shocker.

General Powell is lookign for a job and knows that McCain is not hiring Bush retreads. For Powell not to endorse McCain, a fellow veteran and not at all Bush supporter is quite stratge. Yes he is trying to come clean after he failed to resign in protest for his strong anti-war feelings. I guess all principles are gone and on with politics.

Ames, I was pointing out that Powell said he is still a Republican and Obama goes against all our principles. He is only supporting him because he is black, because the only other time he played the other side if the fence is for another Black Democrat. Are you that blind to see that this is the only reason he is doing this? Obama has changed all his stances since the primary, so you can use that against McCain. McCain isn’t tied to anti American leaders and didn’t lie to Obama about campaign financing. Your candidate is going to outspend McCain at least 6-1 with his propaganda. Hopefully, the American people are not as gullible as you. You really think he is going to give a tax cut to 95% of the people, universal health care, and pull out of Iraq. Come On People!!!!!

When I hear the sheep of the pied piper talk about lack of experience it would be laughable if this man wasn’t so scary with his ideas for the country. What is Obama’s leadership in anything other than leadership training in ACORN? I will agree that he taught the Chicago Al Capone politics very well to ACORN’S future get out the vote leaders. Also, how does Powell know that Obama is a christian when Obama himself said he sat in Reverand Wrights church for 20 years but did not know what Wright preached. He is either lying or way to stupid to be president. I would like for Powell or any of the cult followers of Obama to answer this question- Is Obama lying about Wright or is he to stupid to understand the sermons? As for taxes, the top 5% now pay 54.4% of all income tax. This is according to the 2006 IRS report. Obama says he is going to reduce taxes on the middle class, but in a symbolic vote in the senate on March 13, 2008 he voted to reject a move to extend the Bush tax cuts for the middle class. In other words, if your married and filing jointly and earning between $55,000 and $75,000 yearly, according to the IRS if the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire, as Obama voted for, your tax liability would roughly increase by $2250 per year. Obama says he would give this same group an $1100 tax cut, thus taking $1150 more of your money and calling it a tax cut for you, the middle class. What a man of style and substance and BS.

I have it on good information that Obama fathered two black children.

Gen. Wesley Clark testified on Sept. 26, 2002 before the House Armed Services Committee, quote-”there’s no doubt that Sadaam Hussein is a threat, yes he has chemical and biological weapons,there is no question that there have been contacts between Iraq and Al-Qaida”. Clark is not exactly a Bush supporter. Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Madeline Albright, Sandy Berger, Howard Dean, Jay Rockefeller,Carl Levin, Tom Dashle,Bob Graham, Robert Byrd, Henry Waxman, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd-these are just a few of the democrats that are on record stating in speeches to the public and testimony in congress that it was a FACT that Sadaam Hussein had WMD’S. Clinton’s administration told the incoming Bush administration that Iraq had WMD’s. Germany,France,Britain,China, Russia all said Iraq had WMD’S. Why is it that none of these people are accused of perpetuating a fraud for making these statements starting in 1998, BEFORE BUSH, through 2003 DURING BUSH?

Maurice: “proberly” isn’t a word. I voted for Kerry in 2004, and I was 16 in 2000 (couldn’t vote). I’ve always considered Colin Powell to be a strategy of the Bush years. I liked him even when he said the wrong things; I just felt sorry for him, because I knew his strings were being pulled.

Honestly, I can’t believe that people are stupid enough to bring up the birth certificate crap any more. As it turns out, there was a birth announcement in the local paper contemporaneously to his birth. So, for it to be a fraud, Obama not only would have to fake his birth certificate, but also travel back in time to place a notice in the Honolulu paper. If he has those kind of super powers, there’s just no way to stop him!

To # 10, posing as my name…
Yes.. Barack Obama opposes NAFTA…
he’s more interested in providing tax breaks to companies who KEEP jobs here in America. His whole domestic policy is wrapped around benefiting the American people, and providing them money to become consumers again. During Clinton, we taxes increased with the rate of inflation, this didn’t seem like a problem then.. did it? When’s the last time you’ve seen mimimum wage increase?… huh? Clinton administration, wasn’t it?
When we start to rebuild our infratructure to provided heavy emphasis on Green technology beneficial to our environment, i.e. new roads with bike paths in mind, outdated bridges, wind-mills on land and out to sea, the opening of plants related to wind-mill technology, the power from electric sun-panels that the sun states of Arizona, New Mexico, and California can generate is astronomical, clean-coal technology, high-speed railways from city to city, light-rail following the lead from cities like Charlotte, and Phoenix, these are all jobs that YOU CANNOT OUTSOURCE!!!! Dont’ you get it!? This is a reinvestment project on a grand scale, and the labor force is simply standing idley by awaiting our next President, Barack Obama.

DE,

Do you know what Rev. Wright preached over the 35+ yrs. he served his community; or do you just know what the media fed you with continuous, very short excerpts, of his sermons? Are you aware that Wright also served his country as a United States marine; and that he was part of the medical team that tended to President Lyndon B. Johnson? Are you aware that Wright has been a professor at Chicago Theological Seminary, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and other educational institutions? And that he has received a Rockefeller Fellowship and seven honorary doctorate degrees, including from Colgate University, Valparaiso University, United Theological Seminary and Chicago Theological Seminary. Wright was named one of Ebony magazine’s top 15 preachers. He was also awarded the first Carver Medal by Simpson College in January 2008, to recognize Wright as “an outstanding individual whose life exemplifies the commitment and vision of the service of George Washington Carver.”

Am I saying that Rev. Wright’s comments were not divisive or a bleak perspective on America? No, I’m saying that he is not the monster that the media portrayed him to be. Rev. Wrights comments were a result of his personal experience as a black man in America.

I too fell into the trap that Rev. Wright did. I have been a victim of racism on a multitude of occasions. My first horrible, memorable experience was as an elementary school student chased home by grown white men with baseball bats, angry that black children were attending the same school as their white children. One man actually spit on me…a seven year old child. And I am not a product of the sixties; I am only 35yrs. old.

I too felt a deep distrust of America; I did not feel as though I was considered equal in the land of the free. I did not think that America included me; America was white and racist and would never change.

Remember the controversial comment Michelle Obama made, saying that this was the first time she was truly proud of her country? I can tell you that this is the first time I have felt that my country truly values me. I would have never thought in a million years that a black man would be considered a serious candidate for the highest position of the land.

This campaign has made me take a hard look at myself. I now understand that my perception of America was dated, and unfair. I allowed my negative experiences to blind me to the fact that our society has changed. I was a victim of the very same mentality that fueled Rev. Wright’s divisive statements.

I have been liberated, not by Barack Obama himself, but by the multitude of people, regardless of race, religion, or gender that have banded together to move America in a more positive direction. I am an American! You just don’t know what this campaign has done for me, and many more Americans like me.

I have become the voice and champion of America to many of my friends who are still lost in their memories and victim to their past negative experiences. They are just waiting for America to swallow Obama whole. Listening for the gunshot…saying that America will never let a black man be president. And I must admit that these unfounded attacks on his character, the absurd notion that he is a terrorist, non-citizen looking to single handedly destroy the fabric of America (You know…Like W. did), is trying to tear down my new found pride in my country. But I will not allow it…Yes we absolutely can! Yes we absolutely will…and we will do it together, as proud citizens of the best country on earth!

Go America, Go Obama! And thank all of you out there who have lifted this weight off my shoulders and have ignited my soul. Some out there are still clouded by prejudice, but this election has shown that THEY are the real minorities.

Jeanne,

Great Post,

The only thing I can add to your comment which you so well laid out is “WE WERE FORCE TO KNOW THEM NOW IS THE TIME FOR THEM TO TRULY KNOW US AND WHO WE ARE” COLOR IS BEAUTIFUL AND MAKES UP THE RAINBOW THAT IS WHO WE ARE PEOPLE OF COLOR. Is it not ironic when we see the rainbow and are remembered of GOD’S promise. THE TIME IS NOW………

The skin of a turncoat…from one Hussein, to another Hussein !

He never forgot and forgave President Bush’s preference for dr.Rice.
People like do not convince anybody and rather seein as despicable. Mr.Powell does not add anymore to mr.Barack Hussein Obama but reaffirm more the bad concept that many republicans had of his personality.

Way to go Jeanne indeed.

Perhaps Mulligan would like to access a book on English grammar. Spelling, puctuation and subject verb agreement go a long way towards providing meaning in written discourse.

“from which everybody services we accessed . . . and et ceteras ad infinitum.”

I think they’re both eligible; someone actually sued McCain, and the suit got tossed on standing grounds. The fact that the GOP continues to press the Obama case, when only one left-wing nut cared enough to sue McCain, indicates how worried they really are.

Maybe Bush would surround himself with good people… but Gore was, of his own merits, a good person. Why settle for secondhand talent?

Very well put. I’m reading Angler now, and it’s as good as Gellman’s earlier work. Like BG, I can never fully forgive Powell for his Day of Shame, especially since, while he was lied to on some points, he also knew some of what he was saying was BS.

However, his section about being Muslim was very good, and his endorsement can’t hurt.

Ian, you are an idiot.

To the folk who suggested I submit my blog post to various newspapers; Well, here it is…I got a half page spread in the Sun-Times.

Thanks (oh, yes…Jeanne & Pateska are the same person. Official name is Pateska Jeanne Woods). Thanks again.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1243293,CST-EDT-open27.article

p.c., i think you comment is amazingly cynical and myopic. i also believe it exhibits an embarrassingly meager degree of empathy.