Obama: Powell will have a role in adminstration

[RobJohnson]

WASHINGTON – Colin Powell will have a role as a top presidential adviser in an Obama administration, the Democratic White House hopeful said Monday.

"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, whether that's a good fit for him, is something we'd have to discuss," Obama said.

Being a top presidential adviser, especially on foreign policy, would be familiar ground to Powell on a subject that's relatively new to the freshman Illinois senator. Obama has struggled to establish his foreign policy credentials against GOP candidate John McCain, a decorated military veteran, former prisoner of war and ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081020/ap_on_el_pr/obama#full

[Atomic Lib Smasher]

"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.

Was there ever any doubt?

[Wretched Excess]

saving that endorsement until two weeks before the election wasn't free.

[Red October]

Colin's gonna make the decisions when words fail me.  He'll kinda be like a co-president.  Like Hillary was!  

That's more like it.  

[Wretched Excess]

someone just isn't hitting the fast forward button on the DVD player and watching the climax of this movie.  he isn't going to like the ending.

[NHSparky]

Well, well, well...color me shocked.  Sorry, djones, but whether you like it or not most of the posters here had him pegged right away.  It may not necessarily have been a racial thing (and I don't believe it was the primary reason) but there was certainly some quid pro quo going on in order to get that endorsement.

[BEG]

Why would Obama want the man who "sold the war" to have a role in his administration?

[Wretched Excess]

Why would Obama want the man who "sold the war" to have a role in his administration?

what an unfair question!  you can't ask a man like barack obama questions like that!  HE'S A UNITER, DAMMITT!11!1ELEVENTY11!

[BEG]

what an unfair question!  you can't ask a man like barack obama questions like that!  HE'S A UNITER, DAMMITT!11!1ELEVENTY11!

How racist of me, I mean....both of the men are black after all.   

[Chris_]

Why would Obama want the man who "sold the war" to have a role in his administration?

...to show he can "change" anyone.  I expect him to take a stoll across the tidal basin in DC next.

[Wretched Excess]

I am just kidding.

clean that one up, dude.  fast.

[bijou]

Why would Obama want the man who "sold the war" to have a role in his administration?

You'll be mentioning his middle name next.  

[Peter3_1]

Powell and Ayres will get along so well.....Here's my question, if the endorsement is not about race, what is there in the Obama campaign that can possibly be acceptable to ANY actual Republican?

[paladin0]

Like I said in the other thread, Powell will be Obama's Sec of Defense as a reward for his endorsement.

Paladin0

[Wretched Excess]

Powell and Ayres will get along so well.....Here's my question, if the endorsement is not about race, what is there in the Obama campaign that can possibly be acceptable to ANY actual Republican?

that's just not a fair question.   after all, he has endorsed many, many white liberals for president, so his motivation is beyond question.

[miskie]

Gee, First Obama taps a six term senator, now he plans to use Powell, the man who many consider the reason that the Iraq war happened..

That's a whole lot of 'change'..    Obama seems to think that Powell will move conservatives into his column. It wont. But it will stress his relationship with his moonbat base.

[Wretched Excess]

Gee, First Obama taps a six term senator, now he plans to use Powell, the man who many consider the reason that the Iraq war happened..

That's a whole lot of 'change'..    Obama seems to think that Powell will move conservatives into his column. It wont. But it will stress his relationship with his moonbat base.

yep.  thank God he is still running against the "old washington politics" with biden, and isn't taking any advice from the authors of the "failed policies of the bush administration".  otherwise, he'd be a total hypocrite.

[Hawkgirl]

Powell= Sellout

[TheSarge]

Anyone who thinks Colin Powell is going to do anything to give Obama some kind of Military “street cred” or help him with the Military is sadly mistaken.

Powell was always more of a politician in uniform than a combat leader. (Think more like Wes Clark and less David Petraeus)

He never had a division command.

He recieved a very bad OER from his Division Commander at Ft. Carson in the 80’s.

He briefly held commands at V Corps and Forces Command but in both never served the entire tour of duty. In fact he was at Forces Command less than a year.

It took a direct order from then SecDef Cheney for him to get off his @ss and actually get Saddam out of Kuwait as opposed to playing defense in Saudi Arabia.

And here is the part that chaps my ass the MOST...He sat back as CJCS and let Clinton and his military loathing hoarde gut the Military that won the Cold War.

He let Clinton slash us from 17 to 10 Divisions. Cut down Reagan’s mighty Navy and Air Force.

He was there when the stories of soldiers having to apply for Food Stamps and Welfare were all over the MSM!

And he was the top officer in the Military at a time when MG Thomas Montgomery...ground commander in Somalia was begging for ARMOR to protect his troops in Somalia and then SecDef Les Aspin REFUSED.

Aspin said no and Powell said NOTHING.

Well we know what happened as a result of that.

I served in Somalia while friends of mine got killed and stepped up to serve on active duty again in Iraq 10 years later.

I’d follow the likes of my former brigade commander Russ Gold...his battalion commanders and Generals like David Petraeus and martin Dempsey to occupy hell.

I wouldn’t follow Colin Powell across the street for a f’n ICE CREAM CONE!