Colin Powell On “Meet The Press” This Sunday
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, McCain, Media
Must see TV on Sunday morning, as NBC and Powell’s camp are giving hints that he’s set to endorse.
The former Secretary of State under President Bush, who has been coy about who he will support this November, will appear on NBC’s Meet the Press this weekend, the network has announced.Rumors have long swirled that Powell, the first African-American Secretary of State, is leaning toward backing Obama.
NBC is staying mum on what Powell will say: “[He] will break his recent silence and share his views on a variety of important issues,” the network said.
A source close to Powell wouldn’t say if an endorsement would come Sunday.
“Stay tuned,” the source said.
But who? Could he actually back McCain?
Either way, if Powell does endorse…he could be the October surprise.
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October 17th, 2008 at 11:40 am
On Christianne Amanpur’s PBS special with five former Secretaries of Sate, Powell gave a telling eye roll to a McCain quote. I don’t recall the exact quote he was asked to comment on, but the response was a clear eye roll and a comment that went something like, “That candidate will have to answer for his own remarks.” The audience and panel laughed. I thought it was incredibly telling, and not something one would do to a candidate one was about to endorse. No way.
October 17th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I hope he endorses Obama, because I’ve got a real problem with this guy.
I am glad that he finally backpedaled from his performance at the U.N. But in my mind, he is still the primary salesman and enabler of the occupation in Iraq. Without his credibility thrown in support of the war, I doubt we would have gone in. If he stood up and made a strong statement against the occupation based on the Powell Doctrine, I am certain that the American people would not have supported the Iraq war. Instead, he was a good soldier, and publicly supported a disastrous policy that he did not believe in.
He was against the first gulf war and sold the Bush/Cheney view of the Iraq war to the American people and the world. Wrong on both counts. Great general, but very bad political decision maker. I count his endorsement as a negative.