Pretty Weird
Talking Points Memo — ... Yesterday we had Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama. And today, via George Packer, we learn that uber-hawk Ken Adelman is going to vote for Obama. ...

Lifelong conservative Republican Ken Adelman to vote for Obama, blasts McCain and Palin
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — This one hurts. Why so, since my views align a lot more with McCain’s than with Obama’s? And since I truly dread the notion of a Democratic president, Democratic House, and hugely Democratic Senate? Primarily for two reasons, those of temperament and of judgment. When the economic crisis broke, I found John McCain bouncing all over the place. In those first few crisis days, he was impetuous, inconsistent, and imprudent; ending up just plain weird. Having worked with Ronald Reagan for seven years, and been with him in his critical three ...

First Colin Powell, Now...
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... Cheney to Paul Wolfowitz at a Washington brunch the day Reagan was sworn in. In recent years, Adelman and his friends Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz fell out over his criticisms of the botching of the Iraq War. Still, he remains a bona-fide hawk (“not really a neo-con but a con-con”) who has never supported a Democrat for President in his life. Two weeks from now that’s going to change: Ken Adelman intends to vote for Barack Obama. He can hardly believe it himself. Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008... Alright, GOP. Since you're so great with ...

Adelman? What about Ledeen?
Lawyers, Guns and Money — The prospect of a McCain presidency is too awful even for Ken "Cakewalk in Iraq" Adelman to contemplate: Primarily for two reasons, those of temperament and of judgment. When the economic crisis broke, I found John McCain bouncing all over the place. In those first few crisis days, he was impetuous, inconsistent, and imprudent; ending up just plain weird. Having worked with Ronald Reagan for seven years, and been with him in his critical three summits with Gorbachev, I’ve concluded that that’s no way a president can act under pressure. Second is ...

A neocon for Obama
Ben Smith's Blog — Ken Adelman is a seriously unlikely Obama voter, but he tells George Packer that's what he's going to do: Why so, since my views align a lot more with McCain’s than with Obama’s? And since I truly dread the notion of a Democratic president, Democratic House, and hugely Democratic Senate? Primarily for two reasons, those of temperament and of judgment. When the economic crisis broke, I found John McCain bouncing all over the place. In those first few crisis days, he was impetuous, inconsistent, and imprudent; ending up just plain weird. ...

Neconservatives for Obama
Jonathan Martin's Blog — Yesterday, Obama picked up support from the moderate part of the GOP foreign policy establishment. Today, he gets an endorsement from the more hawkish wing. Ken Adelman, a top Pentagon aide under Reagan, tells George Packer why he's supporting a Democrat for the first time in his life. Notably, Adelman cites similar reasons as Powell laid out. There are two things at work here, I believe.  First, the Bush years have left both disillusioned, especially over the Iraq war.    And, second, Powell and Adelman echo the ...

Falling Dominoes: Kenneth Adelman Defects to Obama
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Interesting Times: George Packer: Online Only: The New Yorker: Ken Adelman intends to vote for Barack Obama. He can hardly believe it himself. Adelman and I exchanged e-mails today about his decision. He asked rhetorically: ...

Obamacon Watch
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — My old friend Ken Adelman is planning to vote for Obama: Why so, since my views align a lot more with McCain’s than with Obama’s? And since I truly dread the notion of a Democratic president, Democratic House, and hugely Democratic Senate? Primarily for two reasons, those of temperament and of judgment. When the economic crisis broke, I found John McCain bouncing all over the place. In those first few crisis days, he was impetuous, inconsistent, and imprudent; ending up just plain weird. Having worked with Ronald ...

Kenneth Adelman Endorses Obama
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It's all about McCain
Newshoggers.com — ... about Barack Obama because they knew they couldn't win on policy or ideology.  What happened instead was that the election became about John McCain.  A number of conservatives have said they will vote for Obama including Chris Buckley and this weekend Colin Powell because they question John McCain's judgement.  It's now reached the point where even some of the lunatics find they can't support John McCain including lifelong conservative and friend of Cheney and Rumsfeld, Ken Adelman. ...

Ken "Cakewalk" Adelman endorses Obama
Corrente — Here. Because it’s all about judgment, don’t you know. I mean, who next after Powell and Adelman? Norman Podheretz?

Ken Adelman Backing Obama
44 — Cast of Characters Ken Adelman Backing Obama By Michael D. Shear First Colin Powell. Now Ken Adelman? Adelman is the latest Republican foreign-policy heavyweight to endorse Sen. Barack Obama, telling the New Yorker's George Packer that he intends to vote for the Democrat in two weeks. "When the economic crisis broke, I found John McCain bouncing all over the place. In those first few crisis days, he was impetuous, inconsistent, and imprudent; ending up just plain weird," Adelman wrote, according to Packer. "Having worked with Ronald Reagan for seven years, and been with him ...

It's Over: McCain Has Lost Ken Adelman
JammieWearingFool — Yes, the Ken Adelman . Can you believe it? Why, I'm ready to waive the white flag. Ken Adelman is a lifelong conservative Republican. Campaigned for Goldwater, was hired by Rumsfeld at the Office of Economic Opportunity under Nixon, was assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld under Ford, served as Reagan’s director of arms control, and joined the Defense Policy Board for Rumsfeld’s second go-round at the Pentagon, in 2001. Adelman’s friendship with Rumsfeld, Cheney, and their wives goes back to the sixties, and he introduced Cheney to Paul Wolfowitz at a Washington brunch the ...

Another Life Long Republican In The Tank
Comments from Left Field — ... Colin Powell’s endorsement of Obama has left the McCain campaign clearly reeling.  But on the heels of that endorsement comes another life long Republican endorsement.  Here is what Ken Adelman, a key player in Republican administrations from Nixon to Reagan had to say: ...

The Wrong Stuff
N/A — ... ? “Primarily for two reasons, those of temperament and of judgment.” That comment comes from Ken Adelman, Fourth Horseman to Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz, four guys who never saw a war they didn’t like. ...

Holy You Betcha, Batman! It’s the Barracuda!
The Democratic Daily — ... Flush from the rash of complimentary — if not to say gushing — reviews of Sarah Barracuda on Saturday Night Live, Wasilla’s Wonder Woman seemingly has made the decision to throw John McCain under the bus. Not that she’s alone in this assessment, if true. ...

Neocons for Obama?
Political Punch — ... Neocons for Obama? October 20, 2008 8:16 PM George Packer from the New Yorker magazine reports on an email he got from Ken Adelman today indicating that the neo-con is planning on voting for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. As Packer points out, this is no small thing. Adelman was hired by Don "Rumsfeld at the Office of Economic Opportunity under Nixon, was assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld under Ford, served as Reagan’s director of arms control, and joined the Defense Policy Board for Rumsfeld’s second go-round at the Pentagon, in 2001. Adelman’s friendship with Rumsfeld, ...

Who Knew Kenneth Adelman Is African-American?
DownWithTyranny! — ... I wonder what they'll say today when they find out that a far more conservative, doctrinaire Republican than Powell, Ken Adelman, has also endorsed Obama over McCain-- and for many of the same (actual) reasons. George Packer in the New Yorker: ...

Ken “cakewalk” Adelman endorses Barack Obama
Sister Toldjah — ... Republican Ken Adelman, one of the architects of the Iraq war who once infamously claimed that post-war Iraq would be a “cakewalk” - and who is widely hated by the far left for his “neocon” creds - endorsed Barack Obama today. His reasons are cited here. ...

Ken Adelman, conservative Republican for Obama
The Reaction — ... And now? As George Packer notes in The New Yorker, Adelman is a still a conservative -- a "con-con," not a "neo-con." As he himself puts it, his views "align a lot more with McCain's than with Obama's." Yet he says he'll be voting for Obama on November 4. Why? ...

Finally, an Obamacon -- sort of
Power Line — ... But now, two weeks before the election, E.J. Dionne finally have a colorable candidate - a reasonably well-known mainstream conservative who is not well past his sell-by date and who says he will vote for Obama. He is Kenneth Adelman, director of arms control during the Reagan administration, and until recently a long-time ally of Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and other foreign policy and defense "hawks." ...

Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush…
Upper Left — …and Obama. McCain has managed to lose career Republican operative Ken Adelman... Not only is Sarah Palin not close to being acceptable in high office—I would not have hired her for even a mid-level post in the arms-control agency. But that selection contradicted McCain’s main two, and best two, themes for his campaign—Country First, and experience counts. Neither can he credibly claim, post-Palin pick.Ouch. Welcome to the feminist left, Mr. Adelman.

War and Piece — | Main October 20, 2008 Who's next ? Condi Rice? Steve Hadley? Robert Gates? Posted by Laura at October 20, 2008 11:22 PM

Obama's foreign policy -- Carter's ends through Clinton's means?
Power Line — ... Reading that Ken Adelman, commonly considered a neo-conservative, intends to vote for Barack Obama caused to speculate about what an Obama foreign policy would look like. My thinking unfolds as follows: ...

More Republicans Jumping Ship From McCain Campaign
The Moderate Voice — ... to register a protest vote against the incarnation of the Republican party as it is evolving under a McCain candidacy managed by proteges of GOP strategist Karl Rove. Earlier on this site, TMV writer Dennis Sanders, a Republican whose thoughtful posts pointing out the pluses of McCain and defending the Arizona Senator against some of the more fiery attacks, wrote THIS MUST READ POST where he regretfully breaks with McCain and throws his support to Obama. Now, according to the New Yorker, prominent Republican Ken Adelman is also nixing McCain to ...

Ken Adelman Endorses Obama
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... The line of Republicans endorsing Barack Obama is getting longer, with defense hawk Ken Adelman, who has held senior positions with every Republican president since Ronald Reagan, joining yesterday.???? George Packer reprints an email exchange with Adelman in which he cites John McCain’s response to the financial crisis, which he describes as “impetuous, inconsistent, and imprudent; ending up just plain weird” and the selection of Sarah Palin for the vice presidency, which “showed appalling lack of judgment” and ...

October Surprise
Opinionator — The most surprising endorsement of the campaign: Ken Adelman , the man who predicted a “cakewalk” in Iraq on the op-ed page of The Washington Post in 2002, tells The New Yorker’s George Packer that he is going to vote for Barack Obama. “In recent years, Adelman and his friends Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz fell out over his criticisms of the botching of the Iraq War,” Packer writes at Interesting Times, his blog for The New Yorker. “Still, he remains a bona-fide hawk (’not really a neo-con but a con-con’) who has never supported a Democrat for President in his life. Two weeks ...

Ken Adelman, Conservative Republican for Obama
The Moderate Voice — ... And now? As George Packer notes in The New Yorker, Adelman is a still a conservative — a “con-con,” not a “neo-con.” As he himself puts it, his views “align a lot more with McCain’s than with Obama’s.” Yet he says he’ll be voting for Obama on November 4. Why? ...

Psycho McFusepants scares the crap out of me, sez neocon hawk
WTF Is It Now?!? — Yet another lifelong conservative republican will be voting for Sen. Obama. UnAmerican terrist-lover Ken Adelman explains why he's braving the wrath, emails insulting his mother, and lawn-toilet-papering by the dittospank Malkinian right: ...

The War Party Embraces Obama
Antiwar.com Original — ... some type of accommodation with the radical Islamic former rulers of the country – Obama is telling us we must pour more troops, more money, and more of our hopes into the Afghan front, which has supposedly been "neglected" by the Bushies. No wonder he's been endorsed by none other than Ken " ...

Ken Adelman grows out of office
Power Line — ... Ken Adelman's statement that he intends to vote for Barack Obama. This decision, as Adelman explains it, is not based on a high regard for Obama; the best Adelman can say about the Demcratic candidate is that he "hopes" Obama is more "open, centrist, and sensible. . .than his liberal record indicates." ...

Obamacons v.s. McClintonians
Hit & Run — ... Ken Adelman, a prominent conservative on foreign policy matters announced his support for Obama on Tuesday, telling the New Yorker that his decision was based on temperament and judgment. ...

Voting the American way
The Reaction — ... #. There are those who believe that Republicans coming out for Barack Obama is irrational. George Packer#, great writer at The New Yorker, reveals that Ken Adelman has joined Colin Powell in endorsing Obama. ...