Posted on 11/05/2008 12:08:27 PM PST by raybbr
HONG KONG (AFP) — An emotional former US secretary of state Colin Powell said Wednesday the presidential election victory of Barack Obama would go a long way toward repairing his country's painful racial divides.
"It's a historic day for the United States of America. President-elect Obama is a president for all America," Powell told journalists during a visit to Hong Kong, where he was invited to address a business school awards ceremony.
"The American people are responding with great emotion, and with great pride in our system, that we have seen this latest step in reconciliation with respect to our race relations," he said.
"We have not completely reconciled within my society, within my country. But what Mr Obama represents is the best of America."
Powell, a Republican who made history as the first black secretary of state under President George W. Bush and the first African-American to lead the US military, publicly endorsed Obama, a Democrat, late last month.
"He has run a campaign that is inclusive, and has reached black Americans, white Americans, Hispanic Americans -- every income level. He's reached across generations from young people to old people," he said.
"The fact that he's also black just has turned America on," said Powell, who then paused for a few seconds, before saying: "Very emotional."
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I could understand better the feelings of many black Americans if they had chosen more wisely.
Wait until whites are a minority in this country. Then we can have a Marion Barry type as president.
“Obama” president for Idiots
This flunky Powell let Scooter Libby take the rap for his assistant in the “exposure” of the female CIA worker. He knew from the start who exposed her and didn’t say anything. He is a lousy punk.
I think I speak for most voters on the right that it was not about race, it was about ideology! It is most assuredly time for a person of any color, male or female, to run for this high office and win....but the ideology is the bottom line. Had McCain and and Obama changed skin colors, I still would have voted for McCain. Had they changed ideologies, I'd have voted for Obama.
Colin Powell turned a blind eye to what Obama is about in exchange for race. No military scholar would sanely vote for Obama’s 25% reduction in the military in these times of trial. The list goes on and on. Powell is a traitor.
I’m opting out.
Colon Powell sux!
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