Quid pro quo
On Oct 20, 11:05 am, "Keith In Tampa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Obama: Powell Will Have Role In My Administration Monday, October 20, 2008 > 8:30 AM > > http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Powell_obama_advisor/2008/10/20/14... > > Colin Powell will have a role as a top presidential adviser in an Obama > administration, the Democratic White House hopeful said Monday. > > "He will have a role as one of my advisers," Barack Obama said on NBC's > "Today" in an interview aired Monday, a day after Powell, a four-star > general and President Bush's former secretary of state, endorsed him. > > "Whether he wants to take a formal role, whether that's a good fit for him, > is something we'd have to discuss," Obama said. > > Being a top presidential adviser, especially on foreign policy, would be > familiar ground to Powell on a subject that's relatively new to the freshman > Illinois senator. Obama has struggled to establish his foreign policy > credentials against GOP candidate John McCain, a decorated military veteran, > former prisoner of war and ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services > Committee. > > In the NBC interview, Obama said Powell did not give him a heads up heads-up > before he crossed party lines and endorsed the Democratic presidential > candidate on the network's "Meet the Press" a day earlier. > > In that interview, Powell called Obama a "transformational figure" in the > nation's history and expressed disappointment in some of McCain's campaign > tactics. But, Powell said, he didn't plan to hit the campaign trail with > Obama before the Nov. 4 election. > > "I won't lie to you, I would love to have him at any stop," Obama said with > a grin Monday. "Obviously, if he wants to show up he's got an open > invitation." > > Powell's endorsement came just hours after Obama's campaign disclosed that > it raised $150 million in September _ obliterating the old record of $66 > million it had set only one month earlier. > > He expressed disappointment in the negative tone of McCain's campaign, his > choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a running mate and their decision to > focus in the closing weeks of the contest on Obama's ties to 1960s-era > radical William Ayers, saying "it goes too far." > > At a boisterous rally Sunday, Obama said McCain was "out of ideas and almost > out of time." > > He and his aides appear so confident of his prospects that apart from a > brief stop in Madison, Wis., next Thursday, Obama currently has no plans > during the next 10 days to return to Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New Hampshire > or any other state that voted for John Kerry in 2004. > > Instead, he intends to spend two days this week in Florida, where early > voting begins on Monday, and travel to Virginia, Iowa, Ohio, Colorado, New > Mexico and possibly Nevada and Indiana. Those states hold 97 electoral votes > combined, and Bush won all in 2004. > > Obama also may stop in West Virginia, where his campaign recently bought > statewide television advertising in a late attempt to put the state's five > electoral votes into serious contention. > > (c) 2008 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be > published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
