Hi recallone,
That clip was very interesting. Colin Powel has been disgruntled some time back when he was in office about the way that the Iraq thing has been going, being forced to give statements to the UN based on cartoon drawings, having to live with the concsience of a tremendous loss of American life and the hanging of a dictator no worse than Adi Amin Dada and knowing whilst all this has been happening has known that Osama Bin Laden is still alive and well, probably drinking coffee in some chic restaurant near to his familys' house (I can't prove that). Then he stepped down. He couldn't take dirty politics any more.
Why is he backing Obama? He made it quite clear. He thinks that the right has steadily been getting further right,even, one could say, too right. What would that mean if McCain got in? As he said, it isn't McCain who is the rightist here, it's the 'others'. He knows that McCain will be eaten up by these people if he were elected, and so would Palin, however he considered her to be more extreme right.
He considered Obama more open and more capable to deal with an economic crisis.
The US has not yet balanced the books, which it was meant to do in September, if I am correct. That could well be the legacy for Obama to deal with. When he takes office and he looks in the books he will see........ nothing. The coffers will be empty. It could well be that is why being more friendly to the public is going to be important, and the date that that Powell gave is so exact.
Posse on the 21, look at the state of the nation on the 22.
I thnk Powell knows, and Biden knows. That is why in the space of 24 hours the two have come out with the statements they have.
We know that the markets are being kept up artificially with government money (or taxpayers) for political reasons, but after the new taking of office, that will stop.
I could be forgiven if I'm wrong. But it's a pretty fair possibility.
Best regards,
Steve
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Originally Posted by recallone
As much as I try to distance myself from the political puppet-show that is our government, I listened to one of the related videos from that same interview HERE where Powell has some very spot-on things to say about the two candidates.
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