Obama gets another endorsement

[brahtw8]

As predicted.

Now watch the extreme right wing attack Powell as a traitor and a racist.

That didn't take long:

From Politico:

Limbaugh: Where are the inexperienced, white liberals Powell has endorsed?

Rush Limbaugh said Colin Powell's decision to get behind Barack Obama appeared to be very much tied to Obama's status as the first African-American with a chance to become president.

"Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race," Limbaugh wrote in an email. "OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I'll let you know what I come up with."

As for Powell's statement of concern this morning about the sort of Supreme Court justices a President McCain might appoint, Limbaugh wrote: "I was also unaware of his dislike for John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia. I guess he also regrets Reagan and Bush making him a four-star [General] and Secretary of State and appointing his son to head the FCC. Yes, let's hear it for transformational figures."

Compare that to Newt Gingrich's reaction:

"What that just did in one sound bite -- and I assume that sound bite will end up in an ad -- is it eliminated the experience factor," said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Republican, on ABC's "This Week." "How are you going to say the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the former National Security Adviser, former Secretary of State was taken in?

 

[nsxotic911]

Racist. Just kidding. I think Powell should be able to endorse whoever he wants and I respect that.

What I am dissapointed in though is that he bashed Gov Palin without having even talked to her or met her. He just listened to the drive-bys.

 

[Tom239]

What I am dissapointed in though is that he bashed Gov Palin without having even talked to her or met her.

McCain admitted he didn't know her well when he picked her. Word is he'd spent less than three hours with her.

He just listened to the drive-bys.

And you know that... how?

 

[nsxotic911]

McCain admitted he didn't know her well when he picked her. Word is he'd spent less than three hours with her.

And you know that... how?

Unless McCain lied, and Powell didn't correct him, he didn't meet with Palin nor McCain for that matter. I think it's monumentally arrogant to criticize your party's Presidential nomination choice of VP without doing your personal analysis.

How else did he make his assesment of Palin? By McCain staff.... yes it's the drive-by's and maybe the Obama campaign.

To be clear, I respect his decision to endorse Obama. I think it's wrong for him to criticize McCain over Palin, and also quasi-link him to Obama smears.

 

[brahtw8]

Unless McCain lied, and Powell didn't correct him, he didn't meet with Palin nor McCain for that matter. I think it's monumentally arrogant to criticize your party's Presidential nomination choice of VP without doing your personal analysis.

How else did he make his assesment of Palin? By McCain staff.... yes it's the drive-by's and maybe the Obama campaign.

To be clear, I respect his decision to endorse Obama. I think it's wrong for him to criticize McCain over Palin, and also quasi-link him to Obama smears.

I don't know what you mean by 'drive-bys'. If I had to guess, I would guess you are referring to her ABC and CBS interviews and the attempt by some to claim she was unfairly treated by Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, etc.

As I see it, Powell's condemnation of Palin and the negative campaigning she has done is not at all related to those interviews. She has unashamedly made inflammatory statements at a variety of political events. You can ignore the allegedly unfair interviews, and still conclude she is unfit and a poor choice (and a negative campaigner) based solely on her own words at political events and the debate. She has absolutely participated in a variety of Obama smears, and unapologetically so.

Perhaps he also has an issue with her abuse of power and her outright lies to the press that the report concluded she did nothing illegal or unethical. If she wanted to split hairs over the content of that bipartisan report, she could have said "nothing illegal". But to say "nothing unethical" is an unequivocal lie. The report absolutely concluded that she abused her power and thereby violated Alaskan ethics laws.

 

[da3dalus]

There was only one Economist that predicted what is now going on and that is Peter Schiff.

Are you kidding me?

 

[sahtt]

Are you kidding me?

Yeah I was wondering the same thing. I'm sort of used to people ragging on economists, it's similar to lawyers except people just consider them incompetent instead of unethical. Of course the average person probably knows less about economics than they do about law so I don't take them too seriously.

The economist Peter s certainly isn't the only one. I alone would make #2 (although economist isn't my current profession a doc is still a doc even if he isn't practicing) and there are a slew of others. John Mauldin and many others (da3dalus probably reads some of them) have not only been predicting this, but outlying almost exactly what would happen since about 2003/2004, when we completely diverged from the housing start/construction/rent vs ownership/income vs housing expenses/etc. means. Lots of diversions from the mean on this one and look at em' all go right back down!

 

[zahntech]

Are you kidding me?

He is the only one who predicted it right down to the penny...It's erie actually.