The only reason why Duberstein is supporting Obama is because Biden is white. Right? Wasn't that how the reasoning went with Colin Powell's endorsement?

Palin..."not qualified, could become adequate, McDonald's does three interviews"....How many more will jump ship before Tuesday? This is a mandate on McCain's judgement.

That must have hurt.

The McDonalds crack had to sting a bit, although there is one commonality between the Republican platform this time around and the output of the Golden Arches: both are serving up reconstituted... well, anyway.

Reagan was a Hollywood elitist.

Come quick! An old white man is endorsing Obama! It must be racist...somehow.

but Americans are so unused to giving themselves permission to think outside the accepted framework (i.e. voting for a socialist terrorist dark-skinned person), we'll still probably have a close election...

...a gigantic cracking sound will be heard in South Dakota and Mount Rushmore will endorse him.

Clearly, Duberstein is only endorsing Obama because he is black.

"Well, let's put it this way -- I think Colin Powell's decision is in fact the good housekeeping seal of approval on Barack Obama."

Powell has been a shameless shill for the military-Industrial-Elite from as far back as 1968, when most of his time was spent pretending to the world that the My Lai massacre never actually occurred. That of course was long before the invention of Photoshop so the grizzly photos of the event made it hard for him to successfully erase the incident from historical record.

Taking his ill-deserved reputation for honesty and decency all the way to the United Nations in order to seal the pave the way for the greatest war-crime of the twenty-first century, Powell did his master's bidding like a true soldier (knowing full-well that his testimony was essentially a load of horse-shit).

The inescapable truth is that Colin Powell remains one of the most complicit and culpable players in the blood-drenched, criminal invasion of sovereign Iraq.

How utterly amazing that this duplicitous character still retains any semblance of dignity and credibility at all.

If he had any self awareness at all, he'd spend the rest of his life in self-imposed exile from the society that he so betrayed.

Once she attains the Oval Office. American Gulag here we come.

While NBC perhaps added a little insult, there wasn't a previous injury. "Literally" does not mean "even more so" or "to make matters worse." It means the event actually happened as described with hyperbole or exaggeration. Your English 1A teacher is rolling in her grave.

golly, fella, weren't you proper eddicated? this is amurrica congratulating itself on having one reasonable candidate fer prez, instead of the usual difficult choice between 'bad' and 'also bad'. sing, dance, prance, shout hosannah!

but don't lift the scab of actual american history, nobody likes someone who looks in the review mirror, cause the view is so often different from the john wayne story.

powell is a great american, says so everywhere you read. he backs obama, just as he backed every prez at the right moment. you don't get to be a washington general without flexibility and timing.

as for mylai, it almost didn't happen, it was a mistake, those rice farmers threatened amurrican freedom, and powell was visiting his sainted grandma when his overexuberant 1st looie publicized american war policy in a way not necessarily to american advantage. so do be quiet, there was only a few hundred of them, and calley did have his library card taken for a coupla years.

one thing though: the powell endorsement is valuable, not as a moral quality, but as a coldly pragmatic sign that the windvanes believe it's time to be a democrat.

I remember an "Arlo and Janis" comic with a conversation between Arlo and his young son Gene after Gene's soccer (or something) game...

Panel 1

Gene: "He was heading toward the goal and we literally killed him!"

Panel 2

Arlo: "Do you know what 'literally' means?"

Panel 3

Gene: "No."

Panel 4

Arlo: "Good."

it is interesting to me that so many republicans are changing sides. And maybe it's because the illuminati own the media but i haven't heard anything about any Democrats flipping sides. The really conservative people want to say Obama isn't really bi-partisan but with people like this supporting him do you think it will force him to be a little more bi-partisan if he wasn't anyway? I think it will be interesting what that Republican supporters say in a few years. I think it will either be really good or really bad.

A couple quick points.

1. First, we need to know if Ken is still a Republican, and whether he voted for Bush or Kerry in 2004. If he is a Republican, and believes its platform is superior across the board to the Democrats, he needs to make an argument as to why Obama's persona trumps all of that. I don't see it here.

2. The Powell *stamp* would mean more to me if Powell himself put meat on the bones of his endorsement. He says, for example, that Obama is *exciting.* Does Powell think that with a little more *excitement,* he could have persuaded the French and Russians to join his use of force authorization motion in 2002/2003? Powell also says the party has moved too far right, even though his patrons, Reagen, Bush, and Bush, were all even or further right than McCain, and opposed abortion. Simply incorporting by reference the Powell endorsement says very little.

3. Three interviews before working at McDonalds? Let's compare McDonalds to the Supreme Court instead of the vice presidency. How many *interviews* would Ken have us believe Ronald Reagen conducted of Robert Bork in 1987. Or Anthony Kennedy. Reagen was barely compenent by that time, as is well known. Or compare this to Bush II. He knew Harriet Myers pretty well; she was a flop. He picked Roberts and Alito sight unseen; they have been well regarded.

In addition, I suggest Ken take a look at the story of Seabiscuit. Charles Howard picked Tom Smith as his trainer on the spot, and it was an unconvetional hire. Smith, in turn, spotted Red Pollard with the horse in Detroit and summarily hired him. "The horse just picked his jockey," Smith said upon seeing the two together. Point being: you can make successful hires with or without the McDonalds policy. And furthermore, McDonalds does not conduct three interviews. Ken is being silly.

4. And speaking of Ken's state of mind, if you are going to diss McCain, why not address him directly? Why dance around and attack Palin instead? Buck up, man. If you have something to say to McCain, say it.