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10-19-2008, 07:14 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2000
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Colin Powell endorses Obama
On MTP, this morning, Powell strongly endorsed Obama for Prez.  Awesome!!!!!
He gave an intelligent list of reasons, too.
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10-19-2008, 07:32 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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Good.
I'm not that surprised. He has always seemed to be very intelligent and as if he had a lot of integrity. I think his role w/in the Bush Presidency was a mistake, but he thought he could make a difference and possibly have a future career there. The way he left, I felt as if he was expressing his disapproval and that he felt things were WRONG but wasn't able to proclaim that more loudly simply due to his position.
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10-19-2008, 08:25 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
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A Republican former cabinet member endorsing a Democratic Presidential candidate is pretty radical, I hope you all realize. Hurray for Colin - I've always respected him. And I don't think his role with Bush was a mistake. Even though he was muscled out by Rumsfeld and Rove, things could have been worse if he hadn't been there.
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10-19-2008, 08:44 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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Hopefully, Republicans will take notice that their party is going down the crapper.
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10-19-2008, 10:18 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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Wow, what a shocker!
I'm surprised it took this long. Most thinking Republicans aren't surprised given Powell's liberal positions on affirmative action, welfare programs and abortion, to name a few. Perhaps he's hoping for a spot in the Obama administration.
I think he ought to end the charade and re-register as a Democrat.
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10-19-2008, 11:24 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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I don't think it's too much as a surpirse. He's been pretty open about how he has been dissatisfied with the right-shift in the Republican party over the last decade or so.
Regardless, I think that any candidate should be proud of an endorsement by such a respectable man.
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10-19-2008, 12:16 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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I'm chuckling to myself because misspam and I just agreed on a political thread.
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10-19-2008, 12:27 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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Shall we go have a celebratory drink? 
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10-19-2008, 01:12 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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When Powell talked about the 20 year old soldier who died in Iraq on whose headstone was a crescent and a star, that really touched me. "What's wrong with being a Muslim?" he asked. You can be muslim and American.
I'm glad he'll be advising Obama.
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10-19-2008, 01:41 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
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I missed it on TV but I'm really glad he stood up for Muslim-Americans.  It warms the heart, especially after all the "I'm not gonna vote for Obama because he's Arab" racism going around.
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10-19-2008, 01:47 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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It is so thrilling. I wasn't sure what he would do but when he started criticizing McCain as he discussed his endorsement and it was clear he was going to endorse Obama, I smiled and clapped. I felt so good and excited. His speech was so clear and right. I really liked what he said.
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10-19-2008, 07:23 PM
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Join Date: Jul 1999
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"If you judge people,you have no time to love them"
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10-19-2008, 07:34 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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When he talked about this, I was weeping and yelling at the TV - YES, YES, YES! My kids thought I was CRAZY! I've been feeling this way since that incident with the woman who thought Obama was an Arab. And if he was???
I lurve me some Colin Powell. 
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10-19-2008, 08:18 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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I was crying too. Powell is all redeemed in my eyes
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10-19-2008, 08:37 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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This is the soldier he was talking about - iMO, this picture is beautiful
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10-19-2008, 09:49 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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Last edited by yagottaloveyacurls; 11-20-2012 at 09:55 PM.
Reason: ugh. no longer support either party.
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10-19-2008, 09:55 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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Last edited by yagottaloveyacurls; 11-20-2012 at 09:55 PM.
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10-19-2008, 09:57 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
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That is a gripping picture. What gets me is that he was two years younger than me. My birth year registers with me like 'someone born around then is young', and yet we have soldiers out there dying that are younger than that, so it's personally sobering to reflect on.
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10-20-2008, 08:45 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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That picture made me drop a tear...
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10-20-2008, 10:41 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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That picture is so heart-rending.
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