Posted on 10/19/2008 5:38:53 PM PDT by pissant
Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich reacted this morning to Colin Powell's endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., arguing, "What that just did in one sound bite... is it eliminated the experience argument."
Powell, the former secretary of state, announced his long-awaited endorsement Sunday morning, explaining that he is backing Obama "because of his ability to inspire, because of the inclusive nature of this campaign, because he is reaching out all across America, because of who he is and his rhetorical abilities – we have to take that into account – as well as his substance – he has both style and substance – he has met the standard of being a successful president, being an exceptional president."
In all-star roundtable edition of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," former presidential adviser David Gergen categorized Powell's announcement as "the most important endorsement of the campaign so far."
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I remember it well.I also see where this nightmare will lead us if we dont do our best to defeat bambi.I also know if and when mcNutts becomes President we will have to fight him again on amnesty.My vote is for Palin and and will use mcnutts to get her to the top in 2012.
Isn’t Newt just saying that because Powell did not list experience as one of Obama’s qualifications that it takes it off the table. I guess that is the way I read it.
I wonder how many will see this as do I, namely that Obama is “The Black Candidate” whose candidacy rests solely on the color of his skin. For a lot of folks, the more the Dinosaur Media hypes this, the more convinced they are of this truth.
Even apolitical Mrs. Crusher volunteered that Obama does not even have a single new idea. His agenda was tried and failed in Soviet Russia. It was tried and failed in Albania, China, North Korea, Cuba... and it WILL fail in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and the USA. It just might take longer to fail here because we have such a repository of prosperity to burn through.
White guilt will work on some aspects of the culture, mostly among the parasite class, but attempts to parlay it will likely irritate the rest.
Sept. 2008
Colin Powell Remains Undecided (A LIE - it was well known that he decided in August)
Colin Powell, the first African-American Secretary of State, said this afternoon that electing an African-American US president would be “electrifying” for the world, but he said he still remains undecided between McCain and Obama.
Appearing today at George Washington University with four other former US Secretaries of State — Madeleine Albright, James Baker, Warren Christopher, and Henry Kissinger — Powell and the panel were asked by a student whether they thought America electing Obama president would send a more powerful image overseas than John McCain.
Baker and Albright spoke first and said they both thought it would be significant, but Baker noted he was still voting Republican. “I think electing the first African-American president would send a powerful message not just abroad but in this country as well. Having said that I have, of course, endorsed Sen. McCain,” Baker said to much laughter.
Albright followed up and got a huge round of applause from the college audience for her presidential choice. “I think it would send a huge message in terms of what America stands for and in terms of diversity and potential. And I, of course, am supporting Sen. Obama,” she said.
Then came Powell. “[T]o send that kind of a message, I think would be electrifying,” he said, “but at the same time, we have to make a judgment here ... which of the candidates blends a right measure of experience and judgment? I have been watching both of these individuals, and I know them both extremely well and I have not decided who I’m going to vote for yet.”
Powell said he wants to watch the debates, look at the party platforms, and focus on substance. “We’ve got to get off this lipstick on a pig stuff,” he said to loud applause.
When one of the moderators asked Powell whether this vote was personal to him since he was the first African-American Secretary of State, his answer sparked wild applause. “I’m an American first and foremost,” he said.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/15/1403219.aspx
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“American first” my *ss! He proved today he was BLACK FIRST and foremost!
With all due respect to Newt, that analysis doesn’t cut it. Just because Powell says so, it doesn’t make it right.
Remember: It’s not WHO’s right, but WHAT’s right.
What reasonable person would think that Palin would not do exactly what W has done: surround themselves with the best advisors they can find in the areas they need. Executives do that.
We might be better off with Mitt Romney than we are with John McCain, but given that--like it or not--John McCain is at the top of the ticket, the VP spot had to be someone who could attract both swing voters and the base. I can think of nobody would could do nearly as good a job at attracting both groups. Certainly Mitt Romney would not have.
Perhaps Mitt Romney would make a better President than would Sarah Palin, but what of it? Would it be better to lose with a McCain-Romney ticket than to win with a McCain-Palin ticket? I see no reason to believe so.
No doubt he’s looking for something, or most likely, been promised something.
I don’t understand this. I thought Newt had toughened up and was pretty squarely on our side.
If you go to Twisted Tunes Vault, Titles starting with 'P' the last song was written for Colin Powell, but I wonder if it could be rewritten for The One.
May very well help with the undeideds
Exactly
Barring some total disaster for the Obama campaign within the next couple of weeks, “winning with a McCain-Palin ticket” isn’t one of our options. Sure, I’d love it if that kooky API call “from Michelle Obama” actually turned out to be from her and could be proven so in the next few days, but that’s grasping at straws, which is what we’re reduced to at this point.
I can only hope this massive blunder and its terrible outcome teaches the GOP movers and shakers a lesson, so that they’ll start getting serious candidates lined up for 2012. Obama’s 4 year tenure is likely to be a miserable time for the country, regardless of what he does. But most of the voting public will blame him anyway, so we’ll very likely have a chance to retake the White House in 4 years.
McNamara and Powell are not men of strong character like Goldwater, Reagan, Dirksen. Powell was never a real Republican, he was an abortionist, strongly urged neighborhood organizations and always supported black issues rather than those that would help all citizens.
Finally, Powell said he did not like Bush's choices for the Supreme Court. Oh yea, but he's a Republican. LOL
Palin fired up the base and brought in the $$$$$$$$
No way Romney would have done that especially the evangelicals
Talk about navel gazing... and Newt, keep your navel to yourself. Geez.
What blunder are you talking about? McCain has made dozens of major ones. Nominating Sarah Palin was IMHO one of the few things McCain has really done right; even if you didn't want to go that far, I can't see how you could regard her nomination as a bigger mistake than McCain's decision to vote for the Largest Bank Robbery In The History Of The World instead of voting Nay and naming the people who tried to load it with pork. Had he done that, he'd be poised for a landslide win.
I still think he'll pull it off. I don't think Hillary wants to openly side with McCain, but I think she will if she has to. She wants to be the queen of a powerful nation, not the ruler over a wasteland.
Ah, no, Newt. Obama is no more experienced today than he was before Powell’s endorsement. And Sarah Palin’s experience still compares favorably to Obama’s.
You’d think a brilliant Republican spokesman such as yourself could have come up with this rather obvious response.
HUH?
PDS?
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