Colin Powell to endorse Obama

[jessejames12345]

His ideas, intellect, and character maybe? Shouldn't all candidates be judged based on that?

I've seen a lot of nonsense on the internet directed toward both candidates. Still, the sheer volume of ungrounded hatred directed at Obama is second to none.

many mindful folk refer to hatred as the ..umm... "child" ...of fear. So maybe there are many scared of the change Obama ?might? bring. Be that good , or bad.

[flyingimam]

to me this is a good sign:

a marijuana supporter is a fox news supporter, maybe thats what we need more in this country to actually change something legal about weed!!!

sorry for it being off-topic, but i find it quite interesting, as i was thinking till this moment that such thin is kinda impossible!!

to me its like having a beer drinkin/bacon luvin muslim!!! lol

(im not making a joke of u, its just funny and interesting and really eye opening to me)

[Psycho4Bud]

His ideas, intellect, and character maybe? Shouldn't all candidates be judged based on that?

They should be and that's why I can't back Obama.

Ideas:
-I don't like his plan for universal health care
-He has proven that he has no concept of military strategy
---But yet this is the man that wants to put us into Darfur
-He's not really for drilling for oil here in the states
-Raising taxes such as capital gains isn't going to help the economy

Intellect:
-Smart man, no problem there
-Multitude of "present" votes in state legislature instead of a commitment vote
-144 days of Senate and a pretty speech doesn't equate to being qualified for being the President

Character:
-Rev. Wright
-The Trinity Church
-Tony Rezko
-William Ayers
-Brother living on a dollar a day
-When in a bind, play the race card
-The same platform that he used to beat Clinton now seems to be a thing of the past....decietful

I agree that these are things that ALL voters should look at.

Have a good one!:s4:

[daihashi]

They should be and that's why I can't back Obama.

Ideas:
-I don't like his plan for universal health care
-He has proven that he has no concept of military strategy
---But yet this is the man that wants to put us into Darfur
-He's not really for drilling for oil here in the states
-Raising taxes such as capital gains isn't going to help the economy

Intellect:
-Smart man, no problem there
-Multitude of "present" votes in state legislature instead of a commitment vote
-144 days of Senate and a pretty speech doesn't equate to being qualified for being the President

Character:
-Rev. Wright
-The Trinity Church
-Tony Rezko
-William Ayers
-Brother living on a dollar a day
-When in a bind, play the race card
-The same platform that he used to beat Clinton now seems to be a thing of the past....decietful

I agree that these are things that ALL voters should look at.

Have a good one!:s4:

You know Mrs. Clinton is eating this up. With the support she still gets today despite Obama being the Presidential candidate is amazing. I'm sure it would be in her best interest if good ole' Barry ate the dirt on this one. It would just about seal the deal on her getting nominated as the democratic presidential candidate in 2012.

[khronik]

They should be and that's why I can't back Obama.

Ideas:
-I don't like his plan for universal health care
-He has proven that he has no concept of military strategy
---But yet this is the man that wants to put us into Darfur
-He's not really for drilling for oil here in the states
-Raising taxes such as capital gains isn't going to help the economy

- Technically, his plan isn't for universal health care. He's taken a lot of flak from Democrats for this. And something tells me you're not a fan of universal health care.
- He's running for President, not general, and besides, he has the best understanding of the political climates in other countries of any of the candidates. And I don't understand why you think he has no concept of military strategy anyway.
- The problem in Darfur is lawlessness, so it's pretty hard to make things worse like we did in Iraq. And besides, the UN is already involved there.
- Opening up more areas to drilling isn't as simple as it seems. For one, there are plenty of good drilling sites in the US already that aren't being used, even though there's nothing stopping the oil companies. Plus, oil won't last forever. We need to gradually transition away from oil and if we use it up as fast as we can there will be a pretty devastating crash. Slowly opening up new drilling sites as need warrants it is the prudent thing to do. And still, Obama has said he WOULD be open to allowing drilling in new places provided certain safeguards are in place.
- I always hear that lowering capital gains tax raises revenue, but that's only for the very short term, as investors sell off all their investments due to low taxes. I don't see how taxing capital gains like you'd tax other income is such a bad thing.

Intellect:
-Smart man, no problem there
-Multitude of "present" votes in state legislature instead of a commitment vote
-144 days of Senate and a pretty speech doesn't equate to being qualified for being the President

- At least we agree on something. For that matter, I really liked McCain in 2000, but he's changed his stance on so much since then.
- Obama had 129 present votes out of his 4000+ votes in the state senate. There is nothing unusual about this for Illinois state senators.
- Yeah, I admit his tenure in the senate was short, though I'm not seeing where you get 144 days, unless you're only counting the days the senate was in session or something. Still, he has more experience than Abraham Lincoln did when he ran for president.

Character:
-Rev. Wright
-The Trinity Church
-Tony Rezko
-William Ayers

- Rev. Wright isn't the demon he seems to be when you watch his entire sermons in context. Anyway, the Obama family didn't exactly go to every Sunday sermon.
- It is really easy to find things the Trinity Church did and said, then take them grossly out of context to make Obama seem like a Black Panther or something. Please don't do this, ok?
- Tony Rezko was really involved in Chicago politics. He donated to a bunch of campaigns and held fundraisers for candidates. Once the corruption charges came up, Obama dropped him and donated his money to charity. Obama isn't suspected of wrongdoing in any of the investigations surrounding Rezko.
- Barack served on a board with William Ayers. So what? It's not like they were best buddies, or Ayers is still in the Weather Underground. As a politician, you associate with so many people, you can't possibly vet every person you come across.

-Brother living on a dollar a day
-When in a bind, play the race card
-The same platform that he used to beat Clinton now seems to be a thing of the past....decietful

- I'm sure the dollar-a-day figure is BEFORE anyone found out he's Obama's half-brother. He's done several paid interviews since then, so you can be pretty certain this isn't true anymore.
- Although his supporters have tried to play the race card, it doesn't help Barack any. If anything, it alienates him from white voters, who are the ones he needs to win.
- What in particular did he abandon after he beat Clinton, other than the pledge to use public financing? (I admit this last one was an underhanded thing to do, but he is a politician trying to win after all)

[Psycho4Bud]

- Technically, his plan isn't for universal health care. He's taken a lot of flak from Democrats for this. And something tells me you're not a fan of universal health care.
- He's running for President, not general, and besides, he has the best understanding of the political climates in other countries of any of the candidates. And I don't understand why you think he has no concept of military strategy anyway.
- Opening up more areas to drilling isn't as simple as it seems. For one, there are plenty of good drilling sites in the US already that aren't being used, even though there's nothing stopping the oil companies. Plus, oil won't last forever. We need to gradually transition away from oil and if we use it up as fast as we can there will be a pretty devastating crash. Slowly opening up new drilling sites as need warrants it is the prudent thing to do. And still, Obama has said he WOULD be open to allowing drilling in new places provided certain safeguards are in place.
- I always hear that lowering capital gains tax raises revenue, but that's only for the very short term, as investors sell off all their investments due to low taxes. I don't see how taxing capital gains like you'd tax other income is such a bad thing.

-Before the government decides to put millions into a health care system thats broke lets find out why it is. I used to work for a hospital system and I saw ALOT of waste. I just can't justify giving these people government dollars so they can play business as usual.
-A commander-in-chief is the commander of a nation's military forces, I personally don't think that we've had a President for YEARS that has been qualified for that position. Before a person should be able to send troops I feel that they should have a grasp on what goes on in the lines. This world is at a state where we need someone that knows about these things today, not training by trial and error like we've seen. Bush and Rumsfeld should send red flags for the election of future candidates.
-I agree that alternatives to oil should be explored; that should have been done already considering what we went through in the late "70"s. Untill then if there is as much as a drop of oil here in the states I say let's get the middle eastern oil monkey off our back.
-Right now capital gains on long term investments is 15% and I believe 28% on short term. In order to get the lower tax rate the investment has to be held for longer than one year. I can't see how this would create more of a sell off. This is just one example of his tax plan. I'm also not for windfall taxes, while the government taxes the cost of this will find it's way to us, Joe consumer.

- At least we agree on something. For that matter, I really liked McCain in 2000, but he's changed his stance on so much since then.
- Obama had 129 present votes out of his 4000+ votes in the state senate. There is nothing unusual about this for Illinois state senators.
- Yeah, I admit his tenure in the senate was short, though I'm not seeing where you get 144 days, unless you're only counting the days the senate was in session or something. Still, he has more experience than Abraham Lincoln did when he ran for president.

-Don't they all. Makes me wonder what their definition of change really is. Maybe the option to change their looks to please the polls?
-If your there I would think it should either be a yes vote or a no vote. If this is the common I think they'd better look harder at their candidates. That's why they're elected, to make the hard decisions.
-The way I understood it, 144 days was the time period from which he was in Senate until he decided to run for President. As for Lincoln, that was a much simpler time.

- Rev. Wright isn't the demon he seems to be when you watch his entire sermons in context. Anyway, the Obama family didn't exactly go to every Sunday sermon.
- It is really easy to find things the Trinity Church did and said, then take them grossly out of context to make Obama seem like a Black Panther or something. Please don't do this, ok?
- Tony Rezko was really involved in Chicago politics. He donated to a bunch of campaigns and held fundraisers for candidates. Once the corruption charges came up, Obama dropped him and donated his money to charity. Obama isn't suspected of wrongdoing in any of the investigations surrounding Rezko.
- Barack served on a board with William Ayers. So what? It's not like they were best buddies, or Ayers is still in the Weather Underground. As a politician, you associate with so many people, you can't possibly vet every person you come across.

-As for Rev. Wright I'll never be soled on the point that he's not that bad. This man preached hate from a place that should be preaching love. I've personally had a friend that I thought was the shit untill one day we saw a white woman with a black child. I won't go into our conversation but he's no longer a friend. He had MANY good points but in the end he was a racist, something I don't deal with very well.
-Tony Rezko was well known and people that dealt with him knew what he was about. Tony also helped out Obama with his land deal. While promoting change he was making deals like all the rest.
-If I were in politics and a person that was related to terrorist bombings here in the states I'd treat him like the plague. His statement in "01" should have been enough to run off Obama but it didn't. You can't vet everyone granted but this dudes past was well known in the Chicago circle of politics.

- I'm sure the dollar-a-day figure is BEFORE anyone found out he's Obama's half-brother. He's done several paid interviews since then, so you can be pretty certain this isn't true anymore.
- Although his supporters have tried to play the race card, it doesn't help Barack any. If anything, it alienates him from white voters, who are the ones he needs to win.
- What in particular did he abandon after he beat Clinton, other than the pledge to use public financing? (I admit this last one was an underhanded thing to do, but he is a politician trying to win after all)

-Glad to hear that for his sake BUT Obama knew about his circumstances before that. I wouldn't let a brother go down that road on his own if I could help it.
-"I don't look like the Presidents on our currency"....That was his statement. The GOP knows that just a mention of his color would bring nothing but suicide to their election hopes. So far, he's played it with McCain and depending on the point of view, with B. Clinton.
-Yeah, public financing is one. Then there is his vote on FISA, his change of stance on troop withdrawl, possible drilling for oil; you have to agree that some primary issues have been modified for the general election.

I'm getting the impression that you feel I'm a republican....I'm not. I've voted for both sides of the aisle and have also voted for the independent. In general, I think that 99.9% of all politicians are self-indulgent assholes.

Have a good one!:s4:

[RobPA]

The story it says that it is a hunch. And FOX news is by far much better than any of the other primary news organizations. People think FOX is biased, CNN and ABC are absolutely in love with Obama.

Wow, I agree with this COMPLETELY. Theres nothing like the No Spin Zone and Hannity and that other guy (hahaha). CNN, ABC, NBC are all in love with Obama. For unbiased news reporting I watch Fox news and will continue to do so.

[dragonrider]

Is Bill Kristol ever right about ANYTHING? He pulls this kind of crap out of his ass every day and none of it ever pans out. How is he even still in the business?