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Is it possible that once again, there are highly germane factors that Powell has missed?
politicker.com - 10/20/2008
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Gordon Campbell's cartoon from Sunday featuring Colin Powell
as a modern-day Benedict Arnold, with a twist: (click...
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thinkprogress.org - 10/20/2008
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A new cartoon by syndicated cartoonist Gordon Campbell
hits Gen. Colin Powell for endorsing Sen. Barack Obama...
(D-IL) . The cartoon shows a picture of Revolutionary War general Bendict Arnold — who infamously committed one of U.S. ...
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Cartoonist depicts Colin Powell as Benedict Arnold in ...
usatoday.com - 10/20/2008
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"He will have a role as one of
my advisers," Barack Obama said on NBC's Today in...
an interview aired Monday, a day after Powell, a four-star general and President Bush's former secretary of state, endorsed him. "Whether he wants to take a formal role, ...
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Obama: Powell could have a role in administration
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Colin Powell’s Establishment Endorsement
GayPatriot —
... He was, in Claudia Rosett’s words, “short on specifics.” He couldn’t flesh out why two more conservative justices on the Supreme Court would be a bad thing for the country. Nor name Republican officials spreading lies about the Democratic nominee. He basically did little more than articulate the conventional wisdom. ...
Obama's October Hat Trick Surprise
Gates of Vienna —
... Our intervention after September 11th, when Powell went to the UN to state the case for entry into Iraq, was a weak one also. Even then, as Claudia Rossett pointed out, he knew about the overwhelming corruption of the oil deals being made by Saddam with China and France. He could have used that leverage in making his case for war, but by then Powell was under the spell of the State Department and so he kept quiet. ...
The General’s Blind Spots
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Questioning Powell’s judgment and global perception.
By Claudia Rosett - (NRO)
Colin Powell is the current darling of the media, for crossing party lines on Meet the Press to endorse Barack Obama for “ability to inspire …steadiness…intellectual curiosity…depth of knowledge…intellectual vigor…a definitive way of doing business…reaching out all across America…exceptional,” and numerous other virtues, too many to list here. In sum, Powell embraced Obama as a “transformational figure.”
But ...
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