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Transcript: Colin Powell on Meet the Press Endorses Barack Obama | October 19
Transcript: Colin Powell on Meet the Press Endorses Barack Obama | October 19
(Source: NBC's Meet the Press) MR. TOM BROKAW: Our issues this Sunday: He served as President George W. Bush's secretary of state and was once called the man most likely to become the nation's first African-American president. He has been courted by both the Obama and McCain presidential ...
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To be American and Muslim (It's about Time)
democracyarsenal.org — ... in his post below). Powell, yesterday, was the first politician of his stature to speak publicly, with eloquence and passion, about the tragic turn of this election – that “Muslim” has become a smear. In the process, a whole faith has been denigrated. It is has been a source of confusion and frustration for me that Democrats have failed, for the most part, to speak out on what I think is one of the defining moral questions raised by this campaign season – what it means to be “American.” It is ironic, but perhaps expected, that we had to wait for someone else to make us feel ...

Why Powell Matters
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... Anyway, Powell did us the service of telling us about a brave, courageous man – Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. I hadn't heard of him before yesterday. When I heard Powell's words, I was moved in a way I haven't been since Obama's ...

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