This morning, former secretary of state, General Colin Powell has endorsed Barack Obama. He is the highest profile Republican, so far, to endorse Obama.
He commented:
He has both style and substance. I think he is a transformational figure...
"Obama displayed a steadiness. Showed intellectual vigor. He has a definitive way of doing business that will do us well...
We need a generational change. Obama has captured the feelings of the young people of America.
He also commented that he didn't like the way the McCain campaign had decided to go negative, had permitted, without correction, accusations that Obama is a Muslim.
He also stated that he didn't think Sarah Palin was ready to be president and didn't like the likely supreme court appointments McCain would make.
View the video of Powell making the announcement to Tom Brokaw, on meet the press. Here
After the Meet the Press interview, Powell told reporters,
“I think that Senator Obama brings a fresh set of eyes, fresh set of ideas to the table. I think that Senator McCain, as gifted as he is, is essentially going to execute the Republican agenda, the orthodoxy of the Republican agenda with a new face and a maverick approach to it, and he’d be quite good at it, but I think we need more than that.”
“We have two wars. We have economic problems. We have health problems. We have education problems. We have infrastructure problems. We have problems around the world with out allies.”
“And so those are the problems the American people want to hear about, not about Mr. Ayers, not about who is a Muslim and who is not a Muslim.”
Powell stated that he is still a Republican.
The communications director for the RNC commented that having Powell's endorsement does not give Obama the Foreign policy experience.
Will Obama appoint him as Secretary of State and give him a chance to redeem his errors under the Bush administration? Do we want Powell in that job?
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