Colin Powell endorses Obama
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Elite
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10/20/2008 10:05 AM
Posted by misterearl: great post. Obama will bring respect back to this country around the world |
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misterearl
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10/20/2008 10:45 AM
No Country For Old (resentful) Men
Elite - gracias The election of McCain and Palin will earn The United States international respect equal to a 4 minute skit on SNL. That is no joke. In nine hours we went from Palin on Saturday Night - to Colin Powell on Meet The Press Sunday morning. You do the math. It is time for a measured, analytical and intelligent approach to issues McCain and Plain can always be regular guests on The Joe The Plumber Show on Fox News [Edited by - misterearl on 10-20-2008 10:47 AM] once a knick always a knick
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martin
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10/20/2008 10:50 AM
Posted by misterearl: agreed. Official sponsor of the PURE KNICKS LOVE Program
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SupremeCommander
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10/20/2008 10:55 AM
Posted by Paladin55: I just thought this post was awesome. DLeethal wrote:
Lol Rick needs a safe space
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SupremeCommander
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10/20/2008 11:02 AM
Posted by Paladin55:Posted by MS: ...but I disagree here, though not with the McCain part. Obama's platform has been "change you can believe in." He's essentially promised to act the way things *ought* to be, as opposed to the way things are. Yet, he acts in accordance with the way things are, like that is an excuse to blatantly lie. So he's attacked on some things, not on others... I don't care. He led me to believe he wouldn't engage in that behavior at all. It's not cut-and-dry to quantify and measure misdeeds, nor should someone get commended for doing what they *ought* to do; it's just what they should do. DLeethal wrote:
Lol Rick needs a safe space
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SupremeCommander
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10/20/2008 11:16 AM
Something I haven't seen mentioned in this thread yet too is that Colin Powell is one of the most widely respected black men in the white community. Undecided white moderates--hell, maybe even conservative--that are skeptical about Obama because of his skimpy resume are much, much, much more likely, IMO, to vote for Obama now
DLeethal wrote:
Lol Rick needs a safe space
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misterearl
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10/20/2008 12:30 PM
SupremeCommander - forget race.
As Powell says, "forget who is a Muslim or who is not a Muslim" Colin Powell is respected beacuse of his loyal service to country that dates back to Nam. That service cuts across racial lines in ways that many observers may not understand because of the nuanced ways that service is perceived, both both White and Black. Obama may have a skimpy resume but he has brilliantly surrounded himself with thousands of intelligent and inspired people who are less interested in dividing the nation with 1950's pre-integration antics of fear and loathing. Colin Powell makes Rush Limbaugh foam at the mouth and that's good enough for me once a knick always a knick
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Pharzeone
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10/20/2008 3:01 PM
All you need to know is that McCain allowed the RNC to hire Warren Tompkins to help him in NC. That should sum up all the character issues. Another person he blamed for almost destorying his family sanity and trying to destroy his reputation. These are people McCain said deserve a special place in hell for the type of campaign they ran. So much for not being like Bush, the man is transforming into him by the minute.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/mccain-campai-3.html ABC News has learned that Warren Tompkins, one of the strategists of then-Gov. George W. Bush's South Carolina campaign in 2000 -- which Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blamed for his family being slimed -- is now a part of the McCain-Palin campaign team, albeit in an "unofficial" role. Tompkins, a protégé of Lee Atwater, has been dispatched to North Carolina to assess the state for the McCain-Palin campaign, Southern GOP strategists tell ABC News. The McCain campaign says only that Tompkins has "no official role" with the campaign. The Raleigh News and Observer spotted Tompkins in the state "surveying North Carolina for the McCain campaign to determine what can be done to shore up the state." The news of Tompkins being brought on board the McCain campaign brings to a total of three the number of GOP operatives McCain now is using despite the fact that he once held them responsible for the ugly campaign that contributed to his South Carolina primary defeat, a campaign in which McCain's wife Cindy was attacked for her past addiction to painkillers, and the McCains' adopted Bangladeshi daughter Bridget was targeted as his illegitimate black baby. Last month, to the dismay of many McCain 2000 alumni, McCain hired another former Palmetto State opponent, Tucker Eskew. This week, as a wave of robocalls attacking Obama has been reported across the country, and some of those calls have been tied to Jeff Larson and his firm FLS-Connect, a client of Bush's in 2000, whom McCain's team back then held responsible for anti-McCain robocalls. The recipient of one of the new McCain robocalls, Minnesota Democratic County Commissioner Chris Shoff, was reported in the Huffington Post and the New York Times as having tied the call to FLS-Connect, which has been paid more than $8 million by the Republican National Committee during this election cycle. The McCain campaign has refused to comment. Eight years ago, of course, McCain was much chattier on the subject of these types of calls. "A lot of phone calls were made by people who said we should be very ashamed about her, about the color of her skin," McCain told one interviewer. "Thousands and thousands of calls from people to voters saying 'You know the McCains have a black baby.' I believe that there is a special place in hell for people like those." "You've seen it -- turn on the radio, turn on the television, and unfortunately now pick up the telephone and you'll hear a negative attack against John McCain," McCain said during a February 2000 GOP debate in South Carolina. "At a town hall meeting a mother stood up and she said, 'Senator McCain, my son was 13 last year. We had a lot of trouble of explaining things to him that went on in Washington.' She said, 'Now he's 14. He's told me not long ago, "John McCain is my hero. He's the man I want to be like." Well, last night he came into her room,' she said, 'and he had tears in his eyes because he had answered the phone and the phone call, even though he told the caller that he was 14, said, "Do you know that John McCain is a liar, and a thief and cheat?"' Well, that night I called my people together. I said, 'Take down our response ad. We're running nothing but a positive campaign from now on.' I committed to that, I promise that." In 2001, McCain said he was "very unhappy" about his family being attacked, specifically identifying "the phone calls that said, 'Do you know that Cindy McCain's a drug addict?'...Phone calls saying, 'Do you know the McCains have a black baby?'" Phone calls, he told Rolling Stone magazine that went out to the voting public of South Carolina "by the hundreds of thousands, yeah. And, you know, that's really the ugly underside of politics." In Maine, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine -- an original member of McCain's 2008 campaign kitchen cabinet who's up for re-election -- recently said the calls "don’t serve John McCain well. This kind of campaign call does not reflect the kind of leader that he is.” [Edited by - pharzeone on 10-20-2008 3:14 PM] I don't like to play bad rookies , I like to play good rookies - Mike D'Antoni
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misterearl
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10/20/2008 4:51 PM
"In Maine, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine -- an original member of McCain's 2008 campaign kitchen cabinet who's up for re-election -- recently said the calls "don’t serve John McCain well. This kind of campaign call does not reflect the kind of leader that he is"
Truth The kind of campaign McCain has run reflects EXACTLY the kind of leader that he is. The mean-spirited call to "fight" is only absorbed by his crowds and magnified by their lusty negative responses. "Terrorist!" On the other hand, have you noticed which camapign has the more attractive (beaming with pride and optimism) people in the crowd? Here is a toss up question for all Jessica Alba conoisseurs: Which camapign has the most hotties in the crowd behind the candidate? It's no contest baby. sheesh once a knick always a knick
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TMS
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10/20/2008 6:43 PM
Posted by MS: that's all very true, but u have to admit 1 of the main roles for the President is to provide an impressive figure to represent your country & not crack under the high pressure of the office... if Obama shows you he can handle that aspect of the position then it's a plus in his favor any way you look at it. After 7 years & 40K+ posts, banned by martin for calling Nalod a 'moron'. Awesome.
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TMS
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10/20/2008 6:54 PM
Posted by Elite: Sen. Palin reminds me of that ex-coworker of mine that used to make those ignorant stereotypical comments to me w/o even realizing it... she even talks like her, but i'll admit Palin's more bangable. After 7 years & 40K+ posts, banned by martin for calling Nalod a 'moron'. Awesome.
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Allanfan20
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10/20/2008 8:54 PM
Palin is about as bangable as a bundle of nails, to me.
“Whenever I’m about to do something, I think ‘Would an idiot do that?’ and if they would, I do NOT do that thing.”- Dwight Schrute
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TMS
Posts: 60684 Alba Posts: 617 Joined: 5/11/2004 Member: #674 USA |
10/20/2008 9:01 PM
hahaha... u should see my ex-coworker.
After 7 years & 40K+ posts, banned by martin for calling Nalod a 'moron'. Awesome.
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Colin Powell endorses Obama