General Colin Powell Endorses Obama

Today General Colin Powell announced his endorsement for Barack Obama.  Hmm, one has gotta wonder what role General Colin Powell will play in President Obama’s administration?

The former secretary of state for President Bush said the next individual to serve as president of the United States will have to reach out to the world community, and he believes Obama has both style and substance to be successful.

“I think he is a transformational figure, he is a new generation coming into, onto the world stage and the American stage, and for that reason I’ll be voting for Senator Barack Obama,” Powell, who also served as President George H.W. Bush’s Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Obama’s campaign announced that Obama called Powell after the endorsement and said he looked forward to taking advantage of his advice over the next two weeks and possibly over the next four years. 

“I am beyond honored and deeply humbled to have the support of Gen. Colin Powell,” Obama said in remarks at a rally in Fayetteville, N.C. “Gen. Powell has defended this nation bravely, and he has embodied our highest ideals through his long and distinguished public service. … And he knows, as we do, that this is a moment where we all need to come together as one nation — young and old, rich and poor, black and white, Republican and Democrat.”

Powell said with two weeks left until the election, he will not campaign for the Democratic presidential candidate.

Speaking with reporters after his appearance on NBC, Powell said that part of the reason he is supporting Obama is because he did not like the negative tone of John McCain’s campaign, which has noted the links between Obama and domestic terrorist William Ayers. 

“It troubled me. We have two wars. We have economic problems, we have health problems. … Those are the problems the American people want to hear about, not about Mr. Ayers, not about who’s a Muslim and not a Muslim. Those kind of images going out on Al Jazeera are killing us around the world,” he said.  

Gallup: Obama Over McCain By 10

If you’re a supporter of Obama, then you are probably pretty happy right about now.  If you’re a supporter of McCain, then you’re outlook has got to be pretty bleak.

PRINCETON, NJ — Voter preferences in the presidential race continue to be generally auspicious for Barack Obama’s election prospects only three weeks ahead of the eve of Election Day. Obama leads McCain by 10 percentage points, 51% to 41%, among all registered voters, according to Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Oct. 10-12.

The percentage of registered voters favoring Obama has been 50%, 51%, or 52% in each Gallup Poll Daily tracking report since Oct. 4. Support for McCain has been a steady 41% to 43% across the same time period. Thus, although the gap between the two candidates has varied from seven to 11 points in recent days, voter preferences have, in fact, been quite stable. (To view the complete trend since March 7, 2008, click here.)

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Howard Dean Insults Republican Party By Calling Them “White Party”, Again!

Once again Howard Dean, leader of the Democratic Party, has shoved yet another foot in his mouth. Dean referred to the Republican Party as the “White” Party, again.

“If you look at folks of color, even women, they’re more successful in the Democratic Party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the Republican Party,” Dean said, chuckling, “because we just give more opportunity to folks who are hard-working people who are immigrants and come from members of minority groups.”

The GOP jumped on the comments. “Howard Dean’s comments on race and gender today are disappointing and wrong,” said Republican National Committee chairman Mike Duncan in a statement. “His efforts to divide Americans are an insult to all our nation’s citizens and have absolutely no place in the national dialogue.”

It wasn’t the first time he’s made a similar charge. Speaking to a forum in June 2005 in San Francisco Dean said that Republicans are “a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It’s pretty much a white Christian party.”
I am waiting to see what McCain and Obama have to say…

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