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Colin Powell is the voice of reason as he endorses Barak Obama.

Joan you need a reality check...look out your window and see how far we've fallen as a nation. Are you serious! Really?! Please tell me your kidding..if not, your a true example of the world I live in and it saddens me. Karma my friend, Karma....

Powell does an excellent job at sharing the key reasons he, as many Americans are choosing to support Obama. It is a not a race issue.

Though McCain is trying to link Aryes to Obama as being friendly with terrorists, any one with litttle less grey matter in their head will realize that the type of terrorist that Aryes was has nothing to do with terrorism that is concerning our country at the present.

He is supporting him because he is Black

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that he will be voting for Sen. Barack Obama next month.“I think he is a transformational figure, he is a new generation coming onto the world stage, onto the American stage, and for that reason I’ll be voting for Sen. Barack Obama,” Powell said. (more…)

I spent most of this weekend at a family celebration. So it was only this evening that I got a chance to see Colin Powell's statement at the beginning of Meet the Press this morning, which you can see here ...And what struck me was that Powell's rationale for supporting Obama tracked very closely with some of the harshest critics of Sen. McCain, despite the fact that he used less cutting words to express them. There were three key points he hit. First, he questioned McCain's unsteady and erratic response to the economic crisis. He didn't use the word 'erratic' but he might as well have. McCain was "unsure", "almost everyday there was a different approach to the problem," he "didn't have a complete grasp of the economic problems." In contrast, Obama had "steadiness" amidst the crisis. Second, he questioned McCain's "judgment", particularly but it would seem not exclusively in his decision to pick Sarah Palin as his running mate, someone Powell said was unqualified to serve as president. Third, he said he was "disappointed" in McCain's sleazy campaign tactics. Yes, 'sleazy' is my word. But Powell's own words were pretty clear -- he was talking about McCain's campaign of distortion and innuendo aimed at painting Obama as a crypto-Muslim and terrorist. It "goes too far", said Powell, in something of an understatement. It's quite a blow for McCain on each point. But the most galling must be what Powell said about his judgment, his steadiness in moment's of crisis. Powell and McCain are both in their early 70s. Obama is a quarter century younger. And in so many words Powell said that compared to Obama, McCain simply lacks the seasoning, the maturity to be president.

Fine, fine, he endorsed Barack Obama. But he also made the most impassioned, on-message, and seemingly sincere case I’ve heard for why there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim! Thank you. Watch the whole thing through if you haven’t already.

Colin Powell on Meet the Press, October 19, 2008 Author: tpmtv Keywords: colin powell barack obama endorsement endorse endorses meet press brokaw john mccain president presidential mtp Added: October 19, 2008