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I am so tired of seeing the Democrats using race as an issue. It is a simple case of the top of the tickets experience...experience...experience. Quit with the blame on Obama's race. Really.

well if its such a fact post some proof. I've seen Mrs. Powell speak about her husbands hate mail a number of times and she didn't seem to depressed to me. she seemed concerned.

Tuesday, October 31th 1995, 4:11AM

WASHINGTON Colin Powell's backers are fuming about reports that his wife has been on anti-depressants for a decade and they're suggesting political enemies planted the story.

Alma Powell, 57, suffers from depression and has been treated for a chemical imbalance since being diagnosed more than 10 years ago, the latest issue of Newsweek says.

"That's exactly the kind of nonsense" that threatens to keep Powell from running, his cousin Bruce Llewellyn said angrily.

I am so tired of seeing the Republicans using sexism as an issue. It is a simple case of the entire tickets experience...experience...experience. Quit using Palin's being a woman as a crutch and thinking she should be treated differently than any other candidate. Really.

WASHINGTON Colin Powell's backers are fuming about reports that his wife has been on anti-depressants for a decade and they're suggesting political enemies planted the story.

Alma Powell, 57, suffers from depression and has been treated for a chemical imbalance since being diagnosed more than 10 years ago, the latest issue of Newsweek says.

"That's exactly the kind of nonsense" that threatens to keep Powell from running, his cousin Bruce Llewellyn said angrily.


http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1995/10/31/1995-10-31_powell_s_camp_hits_wife_stor.html

And while I don't want to see Obama win, I am not happy about the fact that his assassination prospects are high.

Send me $5000.00 and I'll give you the results you want. If you give me the zip codes of republican states I can make your results look worth it.

I don't see how you can claim that the very same polls were accurate when they showed Obama in the lead, are now somehow inaccurate when they don't show the results you want.

CNN and HotlineFD Tracking are tied, USA Today/Gallup is +10, Rasmussen +1, and Gallup +5.

I don't see how you can claim that the very same polls were accurate when they showed Obama in the lead, are now somehow inaccurate when they don't show the results you want.

CNN and HotlineFD Tracking are tied, USA Today/Gallup is +10, Rasmussen +1, and Gallup +5.

I can't help it if you work with a bunch of asshats. If Barack was white and named Fred Smitih he still wouldn't have any more experience than he does as Barack Obama, and I still wouldn't be voting for him.

If someone with a name like Nicolas Sarkozy can be President of France, I don't see why someone with the name Barack Obama, even Barack Hussein Obama, can't be President of the United States.

What's stopping Obama is experience and a few other things that have come out making people question his ethics. Had Obama already had a couple of terms in the Senate under his belt people would have had an actual record to evaluate. Absent that, they have to evaluate him on the little bit that is out there.

In 1998 in the Illinois Senate, Obama cosponsored an ethics overhaul that bars elected officials from using their campaign funds for personal use and and was called the the first major overhaul of Illinois campaign and ethics laws in 25 years. It also bans fundraisers in the state Capitol during legislative sessions. Obama’s Republican cosponsor Kirk Dillard even appeared in an Obama ad last summer describing Obama’s skills working with members of both parties to get legislation passed.

In Washington, Obama was instrumental in helping to craft the 2007 ethics reform law that ended gifts and meals from lobbyists, cut off subsidized jet travel for members of Congress, required lobbyists to disclose contributions they “bundle” to candidates, and put the brakes on other, similar common practices.

In addition, we already noted in a recent article Obama’s efforts with Republican senators to help detect and secure weapons of mass destruction and to destroy conventional weapons stockpiles around the world, and to create a publicly searchable database on federal spending.

Personally I don't think this should have stood in the way of Powell running for office, and knowing of his wife's treatment would not have influenced me in voting for him. In fact, I did know about it at the time.

I'm simply stating that this was a reason Powell chose not to run.

And if you are implying in some way that I'm a racist, I don't appreciate that. FWIW, I have several black step-siblings and a biracial half-sister who would disagree.

What makes Obama unqualified?

What qualifications does McCain have? Military experience isn't a prerequisite;

Bush was voted in twice, has no military experience.

McCain is the one that got you into the blunder in Iraq (which will never be won despite your best wishes;

There is no shortage of people within the military and outside the military that say McCain is ill-tempered and shouldn't be President. Fellow POW:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KjsEs46C70

Having bi-racial relatives doesn't mean you can't be racist, bigotted, or prejudiced. Plenty of men are married to women and have children with them yet believe women are not their equals.

Oh yes he does. He was a fighter pilot in the National Guard.

if that counts as military experience then I'm George Patton, Stone Wall Jackson, Dwight Eisenhower and Robert E. Lee rolled into one.

Remember when Obama used to shop at Target, instead of being one ?

No federal legislative nor state government experience at the executive level. These are the two primary entrees into the office of President.

Four years in the House of Representatives and 21 years in the Senate.

Oh yes he does. He was a fighter pilot in the National Guard.

I was never in favor of the Iraq war, but there are plenty of Democrats who voted for it including Edwards, Clinton and Obama's VP pick, Joe Biden. Obama was not in the Senate during that time, so his pronoucements of being "against the Iraq war" have no teeth. He can't prove his position.

Tell me, how was McCain any more responsible for us being in Iraq than Joe Biden, since they BOTH voted for the war?

However, if you ask any of the other 500 plus Vietnam era POWs who are still living, they won't agree with you -- or with Phil Butler -- and that counts quite a few who I know don't like McCain.

Oh Lord, so now you're calling me a bigot without any proof of such. That's pretty low. Do not do it again -- it's so against the rules!

You don't know if I am either, but if I told you that I'm not racist because I have bi-racial people in my family, it wouldn't make a difference.

you are kidding here right? have you seen the transcripts of his record? the guy should have been court marshalled for the amount of time he would have been AWOL if his dad wasn't who he was.