Comments about ‘Powell systematically neutralized GOP endgame strategy’

Ouch.
I think this will end up being the nail in the coffin.

Colin Powell came out long ago as a RINO and is widely regarded as a weathervane, someone who looks to see which way the wind is blowing before acting.

It actually would have been shocking if he weren't supporting Obama. The 'its not about race' defense rings hollow. As the former Republican poster boy for black achievement, Powell has been under intense pressure to come out for Obama.

If you listened to what he said on Meet the Press, it was actually quite scary, especially from someone who used to advise the President on national security issues. The main reason he likes Obama, after just 2 years of getting to know him (as opposed to knowing McCain over 25 yrs) is his rhetoric! That's right - rhetoric! That's almost as bad as Biden saying Obama is articulate! And what was that about reaching out to talk to countries we have (for good reason) shunned? Does he mean without pre-conditions?

Colin Powell is a Republican embarrassment. He should just switch parties and be honest about where is political ideology truly lines up.

Thank you for your very accurate comments.

Eugene Robinson and General Powell hit the nail on the head. I am so proud of General Powell for his willingness to highlight the hypocrisy of the McCain Campaign and all those who have found new avenues (he's a muslim, he's a terrorist, he's a socialist) to mask their one obvious flaw - racial prejudice.

If Powell really believes in Senator Obama, why didn't he endorse him long before the last two weeks of the presidential campaign?

Powell is a class act. I was really hoping that he would run for president, eight years ago. Maybe there will be a spot for him in the new Obama administration.

Awesome! With Powell on board and with voter fraud, there is no way Obama can loose!

That's right; a person of any religious persuasion can be president, so long as he/she isn't a Mormon.

Robinson and Powell also miss the point about Ayers. It isn't a question of whether Obama is a terrorist. It actually is a question about judgment and honesty. "Ayers was a guy in our neighborhood" not Ayers gave me my first and only executive experience through the education grant that he obtained from the Annanberg Foundation. (Other board members actually gave the job to Obama, but Ayers as the grantholder certainly had veto power over the appointment).

Just like "I sat in a racist church for 20 years and never heard the messages against whites and America."

Stunning for a career officer to do that to another officer.

Joe 8:18 - To be fair, if you want to press the issue of Obama and Ayers, you must ask John McCain about his relationship to G. Gordon Liddy. Liddy is a convicted domestic terrorist who was jailed for his role on the Watergate break-in and who actually gave instructions on his radio show about the best way to kill a federal agent - "Shoot them in the head because they might be wearing a flack jacket." Liddy hosted fundraising activities for McCain and McCain has been on his radio show praising his patriotism. Mainstream journalists have not called McCain on this but David Letterman did the other night and made McCain squirm.

What if Obama's campaign suggested it would not be appropriate to have a recovering drug addict living in the White House? Wouldn't the mainstream media howl over the suggestion that Cindy McCain has a tainted past. Is that any different than the nonsensicle garbage that the McCain campaign is saying about McCain?

Do you believe all terrorists are bad company to keep or is it just left wing terrorists?

Republicans ought to be deeply ashamed of running a campaign based entirely on innuendo and character assassination and religious persecution. But that seems to be the Republican way. If you're a Muslim, you can't be President? What kind of America is that? Hooray for General Powell for calling it what it is.

How convenient for NBC's "Meet the Press" to have Powell on at this late date in the campaign to carefully go over all the Dumbocrat talking points. They should rename the program "Skew McCain/Palin." Is there no shame?

Dubya should yank all his medals.

My bet is, next the Dems will trot out Hillary. Oh, wait! They just did.

Robert: "If Powell really believes in Senator Obama, why didn't he endorse him long before the last two weeks of the presidential campaign?"

Timing, Robert. Timing.

get over it! The MAJORITY of people in America are more concerned with the current problems, ECONOMY,HEALTHCARE, not with AYERS! <-- he isnt a threat! You should be more concerned with our dependence and debt to CHINA!
also, the socialism in our current tax structure that supports corporations over the workers, TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS IS A COMPLETE FAILURE!

To evensteven:
You really need to look up the "no true Scotsman" logical fallacy. Your premise is that no true Republican would endorse Obama. Yet when faced with the fact that one of the most distinguished, well respected, and admired Republicans in recent history endorses Obama, you choose to redefine what it is to be "Republican." Go ahead, keep smearing Gen. Powell. Accuse him of being racist. You are revealing much more about yourself than it does about Powell.

To Robert:
If you saw the interview with Powell, you would know the answer to your question. Powell likes John McCain and wanted to give him a fair chance to earn his endorsement. McCain failed.

Of course I meant "...what the McCain cvampaign is saying about Obama."

Notice liberals don't have an equivalent to RINO? Liberals have Mormon political leaders. Jack Anderson was a Mormon ans a liberal. His religion was seen to have given Jack integrity lacking today. Jack too great risks telling the truth.

Joe have you heard about LDS leaders hanging out with Eldridge Cleaver, an fonder of the Black Panthers? What about their judgment? Ever hear, "love the sinner, not his sins?"

Stating with Limbaugh, Powell choice will be marginalized by playing the race card. Notice, when Christopher Buckley, William F. Buckley's son endorsed Obama his being white was never made an issue.

"It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?" George Will, Conservative columnist.

Is Will's race being pointed to by Rush?

We have Kathleen Parker of the National Review who wrote that Palin was unqualified to run. Her race isn't an issue.

Lights the way for others to come out of the woodwork, and endorse obama. Ken Adleman, just the latest. he said that McCain jugement is just so off the wall, he can't trust him as President. And his first 'decision' he blew it. In picking Palin, he neither put country nor experience first. Stand by. It will be an eye opening 2 weeks, with more of us middle roader conservatives, jumping off the sinking McBarbie ship of fools.

Thank you General Powell. McCain's failure to comprehend and care about the plight of struggling Americans is obvious despite his attempt to distract us with reprehensible campaign tactics.

ECR: To be fair, if you want to press the issue of Obama and Ayers, you must ask John McCain about his relationship to G. Gordon Liddy."

Liddy repented and paid the price with a jail term. Ayers has done neither.

So Powell is a liberal republican, there are conservative democrats too.

We don't have a conservative and liberal party in this country like England does, For what ever reason, people join the party they like.

When was the last time you lambasted someone for being a conservative Democrat?