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While Powell's endorsement was a big event, your local endorsement was as note worthy. I remain puzzled as to your personal view or the N & R position. It is truly unfortunate that investigative reporting and research was lost or lacking once again for this newspaper. How does a journalist pose as a knowledgeable and credible source when there is lack of inquiry and honesty? If you are personally at opposition, so be it and so state, but please do not portray this has a benevolent act of a leader or something that was thoughtful and deserves much respect.

Mr. powell is no doubt a great American. Great man, however he is a RHINO, and he made the remark, months ago, it would be great to have a black president. Wonder what wrong with having a American president?
Duck, Joe the Plummer, I can tell you the last time he had a bowel movement. The LIBERAL media has checked him from top to bottom. Yet the same LIBERAL press can tell you squat about Bill Ayers. That should let you know that the LIBERAL press is in the tank for any LIBERAL. Must be they like terrorist that blow up America!
Hear a LIBERAL say to day Palin was unfit to be vice president, she only had a degree in journalism. Does not say much for news people

First Andy Griffith endorses Beverly Perdue and now Colin Powell endorses BHO.

That made me think of this R. L. Burnside song.

Colin Powell and Tiger Woods are so busy trying to make a dollar, they do nothing to help the poor and the people down on their luck. It takes no courage to support Obama after the election is over. He waited for the best deal and he got one from Obama. There is nothing here to be proud of.

I received this e-mail today. It was written by Christian Musician Scott Williams who is a black man. Please read and give this message thoughtful consideration. Eli Jones

"Why I Can't Vote For Obama"

Dear Friends, A few months ago I was asked for my perspective on Obama, I sent out an email with a few points. With the election just around the corner I decided to complete my perspective. Those of you on my e-list have seen some of this before but it's worth repeating...

First I must say whoever wins the election will have my prayer support. Obama needs to be commended for his accomplishments but I need to explain why I will not be voting for him.

Many of my friends process their identity through their blackness. I process my identity through Christ. Being a Christian (a Christ follower) means He leads I follow. I can't dictate the terms He does because He is the leader.

I can't vote black because I am black; I have to vote Christian because that's who I am. Christian first, black second. Neither should anyone from the other ethnic groups vote because of ethnicity. 200 years from now I won't be asked if I was black or white. I will be asked if I knew Jesus and accepted Him as Lord and Savior.

In an election there are many issues to consider but when a society gets abortion, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning to name a few, wrong economic concerns will soon not matter.

We need to follow Martin Luther King's words, don't judge someone by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I don't know Obama so all I can go off is his voting record. His voting record earned him the title of the most liberal senator in the US Senate in 2007.

NATIONAL JOURNAL: Obama: Most Liberal Senator in 2007 (01/31/2008)

To beat Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton as the most liberal senator, takes some doing. Obama accomplished this feat in 2 short years. I wonder what would happen to America if he had four years to work with.

There is a reason Planned Parenthood gives him a 100 % rating. There is a reason the homosexual community supports him. There is a reason Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Castro, Hamas etc. love him. There is a reason he said he would nominate liberal judges to the Supreme Court. There is a reason he voted against the infanticide bill. There is a reason he voted No on the constitutional ban of same-sex marriage.. There is a reason he voted No on banning partial birth abortion. There is a reason he voted No on confirming Justices Roberts and Alito. These two judges are conservatives and they have since overturned partial birth abortion. The same practice Obama wanted to continue.

Let's take a look at the practice he wanted to continue

The 5 Step Partial Birth Abortion procedures:

A. Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's leg with forceps. (Remember this is a live baby)
B. The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal.
C. The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head.
D. The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole.
E. The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child's brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.

God help him. There is a reason Obama opposed the parental notification law.

Think about this: You can't give a kid an aspirin without parental notification but that same kid can have an abortion without parental notification. This is insane.

There is a reason he went to Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years.

Obama tells us he has good judgment but he sat under Jeremiah Wright teaching for 20 years. Now he is condemning Wright's sermons. I wonder why now?

Obama said Jeremiah Wright led him to the Lord and discipled him. A disciple is one in training. Jesus told us in Matthew 28:19 - 20 "Go and make disciples of all nations." This means reproduce yourself. Teach people to think like you, walk like you; talk like you believe what you believe etc. The question I have is what did Jeremiah Wright teach him?

Would you support a White President who went to a church which has tenets that said they have a ...

1. Commitment to the White Community
2. Commitment to the White Family
3. Adherence to the White Work Ethic
4. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community.
5. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
6. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
7. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.

Would you support a President who went to a church like that?

Just change the word from white to black and you have the tenets of Obama's former church. If President Bush was a member of a church like this, he would be called a racist. Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton would have been marching outside.

This kind of church is a racist church. Obama did not wake up after 20 years and just discovered he went to a racist church. The church can't be about race. Jesus did not come for any particular race. He came for the whole world..

A church can't have a value system based on race. The churches value system has to be based on biblical mandate. It does not matter if itʼs a white church or a black church it's still wrong. Anyone from either race that attends a church like this would never get my vote.

Obama's former Pastor Jeremiah Wright is a disciple of liberal theologian James Cone, author of the 1970 book A Black Theology of Liberation. Cone once wrote: "Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him.

Cone is the man Obama's mentor looks up to. Does Obama believe this?

So what does all this mean for the nation?

In the past when the Lord brought someone with the beliefs of Obama to lead a nation it meant one thing - judgment.

Read 1 Samuel 8 when Israel asked for a king. First God says in 1 Samuel 1:9 "Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do."

Then God says

1 Samuel 1:18 " When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day." 19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. "No!" they said. "We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles." 21 When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD. 22 The LORD answered, "Listen to them and give them a king."

Here is what we know for sure.

God is not schizophrenic

He would not tell one person to vote for Obama and one to vote for McCain. As the scripture says, a city divided against itself cannot stand, so obviously many people are not hearing from God.

Maybe I am the one not hearing but I know God does not change and Obama contradicts many things I read in scripture so I doubt it.

For all my friends who are voting for Obama can you really look God in the face and say; Father based on your word, I am voting for Obama even though I know he will continue the genocidal practice of partial birth abortion. He might have to nominate three or four Supreme Court justices, and I am sure he will be nominating liberal judges who will be making laws that are against you. I also know he will continue to push for homosexual rights, even though you destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for this. I know I can look the other way because of the economy.

I could not see Jesus agreeing with many of Obama's positions. Finally I have two questions for all my liberal friends.

Since we know someone's value system has to be placed on the nation,

1. Whose value system should be placed on the nation.

2. Who should determine that this is the right value system for the nation?

Scottie Williams

I doubt I'm not the first person to suggest this, but wouldn't it be cool if President Obama found a place in his administration for McCain? I could see secretary of Defense or State. McCain could add experience and gravitas on the world stage, and it would be the ultimate message that we're all in this together. I'm not a student of U.S. politics, and I don't know whether a winner has ever offered a loser a significant job.

Colin Powell looked at Obama and saw someone who looks like him. That was all he, like so many other mindless blacks needed!

I can see why he had problems with Republicans. Reagan mad him a four-star general. Bush 41 made him Chairman of the Joint Chiefs by jumping him over a significant number of more senior candidates. Bush 43 made him Secretary of State. What awful treatment he recieved from the racist Republicans.

The war in Iraq. If he had, like Schwartzkopf who actually ran the first Gulf War wanted to do, gone on to Baghdad and gotten rid of Saddam then there likely would have been no Iraq war. But he was too concerned with what the media, and our European "Allies" would have said. So, Saddam went to slaughter hundreds of thousands of his own people over the next 10 years, and we eneded up in an unpopular war that may well never had been necessary.

Powell never had the guts to run for president. He was constituted for the "rough and tumbel" of political campaigns. He would rather have been "appointed" president, as he was appointed to all of his posts. I wonder how he felt when the buffoon, Biden, announced that within the first six months of an Obama presidency there would be a major international crisis to teat them, and that we would need to be patient with because it might SEEM as if they were handling it properly! At first I thought this was an SNL skit, then I remembered they only mocked Republicans, not incompetent, inept Demo-Rats!

I can no longer find the N&R rules of conduct regarding abusive content on the blogs, has it been removed? Has the policy been discontinued?

THE LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE said:

Those evil Democrats want to take the beloved Rush Limbaugh off the air.....well according to one of Nurse Ratched's prize patients, W.J. Ellis.

(Ellis, I picture you as the Mr. Mancini character, neocon as the old man who stays there voluntarily, and Dan as "Billy" the stuttering virgin character.)

As Ulysses Everette McGill said in the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou, "You guys are dumber than a bag o'hammers!"

Posted on October 23, 2008 9:36 AM

THE LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE said:

Ellis,
AGAIN, you are getting more bizarre each day. Sheesh!

If you've quit taking your meds, you need to consult with your doctor. If you are not on meds, then you need to make that phone call today!

Posted on October 23, 2008 9:30 AM

THE LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE said:

ABSOLUTE DUMBEST POST FOR TODAY:

"Yeah, Danny- makes you wonder why the left has tried so hard to destroy those radical liberal documents."

Ellis, you are growing more bizarre each day--have you quit reading or just gone blind?

W.J. Ellis, today's winner of the "Head in the Sand Gang" trophy!

Posted on October 23, 2008 9:17 AM

THE LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE said:

Best quote from the ignorant today:

"As a voter and resident of this state, I am disgraced at how Bev Perdue would not debate the other two candidates in the governor’s race."

YOU ARE DISGRACED?? With your grammatical skills, and limited vocabulary, you should be disgraced! My guess is you were homeschooled in Wasilla, Alaska!

Posted on October 23, 2008 9:40 AM

Powell's endorsement of Obama is all about race. Does anyone with half a brain think that Powell waited until all the Ayers, Wright and Rezco heat came about, then analyzed Obama's gaffe to Joe the Plumber( where he revealed his real socialist intent) and finally said to himself, "Now there is presidential material?" Baloney. And, other than race, he is certainly not transformational when you look at all the Clinton democrat mutts hanging around him.
Powell was a messiah of sorts himself once. When he made a name politically as a White House fellow from the Army, he was annointed like Obama, except it was by Republican politicians. Best that I can remember, he was then given plum politically dependent assignments the field Army, the pentagon and other federal agencies, where he kept seats warm for a minimal time, didn't accomplish very much, and didn't screw up. He was ultimately pulled past scores of more competent generals , by his Republican political mentors, to be made Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.Today's four stars, CINCs, and even three stars make him look like what he is, just a politically motivated staffer. I don't know many who thought a lot of him then, and I certainly don't now.
Powell's endorsement was made for Powell's ego, and for race. Like so many liberals, he put himself and race above the best interest of the nation. He turned around and screwed the party that made him a four star, CJCS, and Secretary of State. And he screwed the guy who went to bat for his son to be named Chair of the FCC.What a paragon of loyalty. No, just a typical turncoat liberal. Pathetic and contemptible.
U.S.Army Retired

Endorsements (from anybody--not just Powell) don't help me very much. Endorsements seem like an additional layer of politics. They don't clarify anything for me--they muddy the water further. Is that just me?

Despite Tony Mo's insistence otherwise, I do sense that Powell made this choice sincerely and after much reflection.
A black man endorsing another black man is not automatically racially driven -- just as I would suspect Tony's support of McCain is not driven by McCain's whiteness.