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YouTube: Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama on Meet the Press. ⇒

   19 October 2008, early evening

He has some nice things to say about Obama, and some not so nice things to say about his own party. His informal remarks after the official announcement are good too.

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  1. This almost makes me respect him again. It is amazing that no other major American political figure (that I know of) has really articulated what he did here – no, Obama isn’t a muslim, but why should it make a difference if he was?

    Although I guess he has nothing to lose now, so maybe it isn’t that impressive.

    by Mahi on October 19 2008, 6:41 pm   #

  2. It’s still disappointing Obama himself can’t make a bigger deal out of this, but there seems to be so much not-so closet racism down South that I guess it’d just get turned into some Republican attack ad. Ennis from Sepia Mutiny was saying he doesn’t go door-to-door to campaign for Obama because it’d probably do more harm than good, what with him being a brown dude.

    by ramanan on October 20 2008, 9:51 am   #

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