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The candidate, the general, the Blunts, and that Wasserman lady

By: Mark Kilmer (Diary)  |  October 18th, 2008 at 08:10 AM  | 

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ImageFor Sunday, October 19, 2008

FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace will talk to John McCain.

This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos will host “all-star panel analyzes final weeks of election ’08.” I’ll let you know if he finds any guests.

Meet the Press (NBC): Moderator Tom Brokaw talks to Colin Powell.

Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer talks to Dem Rep Deb Wasserman-Schultz and Dem Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia, as well as Republicans Rob Portman and Governor Matt Blunt of Missouri.

Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer will talk to House Republican whip Roy Blunt of Missouri and Dem Senator Clair McCaskill of Missouri. And Wolf then talks to his usual cast of thousands.

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This buzz, if it matters, is whether or not General Powell will use his MTP appearance to finally endorse Democrat Barack Obama. I wonder also if he might endorse former Navy pilot and P.O.W. John McCain. Either way, if he goes either way, it will be interesting to hear what went through his mind as he decided. If he does not endorse, then… why is a guest on MTP in this valuable time leading up to the election?

John McCain gets FNS to himself, which ought to give us a hint of the tone for the last two weeks. Interesting, more people watch this show on its re-air on FOX News Channel in the afternoon than catch its morning air on the FOX broadcast network.

Missouri gets a spotlight, with father Roy Blunt on LE and son (Governor) Matt on FTN. Portman (FTN) has been a brilliant spokesman for McCain on financial/economic matters, and I’d hope we’d see more of him these final two weeks.

McCaskill and that Wasserman lady (FTN) are almost unwatchable, but… yeah, I know the drill.

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  • kowalski

    I already gave my speculative capsule summary of why Powell won’t endorse either candidate here.

    Now the question of “Why have him on MTP then?”

    Well, it’s already a fait accompli that the buzz and speculation has made MTP a must-watch program this weekend for both sides, all my handicapping (and everyone else’s) notwithstanding. No matter what he ultimately says, at this point everyone is going to be watching already, just because of the buzz. So Powell is really at complete liberty to say whatever he wants and ironically enough all the buzz has given him the freedom — he’s not to “wasting” the time on MTP — because his words are going to be important no matter what he says. So they’re going to get the ratings no matter what at this point.

    My probablisitics work out this way:

    No Endorsement: 60%
    McCain Endorsement: 25%
    Obama Endorsement: 15%

    Let’s see what happens!

  • Commodore

    Powell may be brave in combat, but when it comes to his image and career, he is a coward (just read War and Decision, he and Armitage never went out on a limb, just criticized others and positioned themselves to look good whichever way events played out).

    If he endorsed McCain he would be seen as a traitor to the black race, and Powell most certainly cares about his credibility with the black community, far more than he does about his credibility with the military community.

    It’s going to be either an Obama endorsement or none at all. Waiting till it looks like Obama will win to endorse him would be a pretty typical cowardly Powell move.

  • crazy

    and how we must all come together in crafting realistic and achievable foreign policy in cooperation with our allies. He will say he can and will support either man in setting and carrying out that foreign policy but it can not succeed unless democrats and republicans come together in a return to realism, stability, greater foreign aid, international collaboration, blah, blah, blah…

  • c17wife

    on the campaign trail.

    See this article for the whining-

    “A friend and ex-aide said that Gen Powell was extremely “upset” by the “vitriol, bile and prejudice” aimed at Mr Obama on the campaign trail.
    “We’ve talked about this and I know it really bothers him and I’d expect him to talk about it,” Col Lawrence Wilkerson, his former chief of staff, told The Telegraph.”

    I’ve not read anything that has left me this angry in a while. I think Commodore is right, endorsing Obama would be the final cowardly act of Colin Powell. Bookending his cowardly act in 1991 when advised against taking Saddam out the first time. One has to wonder if Colin Powell should have at least part of the blood of those 3,000 killed on 9/11 on his hands. I certainly think he should.

    I only hope that Powell’s son has forewarned McCain and that the campaign has a powerful ad ready to go showing the American people that McCain has literally 100′s of former ambassadors and generals supporting him.

    I have some really nasty thoughts running through my head right now. Thoughts I never dreamed I would have in my lifetime.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3221631/Colin-Powell-to-support-Barack-Obama.html

    • PaRep

      .

  • Illinicon

    Whatever he says on Meet the Press will be what he feels is the best for him personally, which rules out a McCain endorsement as that isnt good for his buisness now-College Lecturer. He will either endorse Obama, endorse no one and dump on Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld, or endorse Obama and dump on Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld. My guess is number 2 as all those anti-war freeks at his lectures will get off his back and he gets to keep his shiny Bi-partisan appeal label in tact. If he endorses Obama it wont have the effect the left thinks it will, because it is going to come off as a black guy endorsing a black. As do you really think if both of them were white he would endorse Obama?

    • c17wife

      Your last question is exactly what I was thinking.

      I hope you are right and he doesn’t endorse. Or that if he does endorse, the Joe Plumbers of America see it for what it is. Overt support for nothing but affirmative action. Color over qualification.

  • welfaremom

    Or if he does, maybe Obama can hand-craft his speeches and policy a la George W. and Cheney. Anyway, he does what he is told, a good Uncle Tom. Not a free-thinking, nuanced intellect like Obama.

    He didn’t believe in the presentation he gave to the UN concerning Iraq’s WMDs, but went along with all of the intelligence manipulation wrought by the Bush Administration. What credibility does this man have anymore? I don’t think anyone on the left cares about this man’s endorsement! It would just stoke the fires of you hot-tempered maniacs about the coming black-radical conspiracy, which is absolutely impossible to achieve in America.

    Iraq’s insurgents are now exporting their tactics to Afghanistan. The fact that Afghanistan was not stabilized and this is even a possibility marks the foreign-policy buffoonery that would continue under McCain. And McCain’s “we are all Georgians now” crap undercuts the strategic importance of working with Russia to contain their nukes and fight alongside us against Islamic extremists. His whole “League of Democracies” would invite the worst in other countries (China), who hold all of our debt thanks to you Republicans anyway.

    Who cares about Powell, and with God’s help we will be saying the same about McCain after Nov. 4th.

    Thanks for your tax dollars! I’m going to sit on my couch for 40-working hours next week then buy Air Jordan’s and Louis Vuitton bags for myself when I’m not sitting.

    • bs

      Take a hike, idiot.

      • Mark_Kilmer

        after I posted the parent note, so I didn’t see the welfare mom’s comment until now. My next step was to check up on welfaremom then, for the sanctity and sanity of this site, to deactivate welfaremom.

        Sixteen hours on Redstate.com had welfaremom.

        • wiseprince

          Will endorse Obama and the media will make a big deal about it. 95% of blacks will support Obama. The bigger story would be to find the 5% of Black American’s who are not supporting Obama. I suspect Rice will also support Obama although Bush may be able to keep her from endorsing. The fact that she hasn’t endorsed McCain already speaks volumes of where she stands.

          If Rice were willing to endorse McCain (assuming what I think is true is wrong) then it would be a good way to blunt the news bounce from the Powell endorsement

          • zebrapants

            How would removing saddam in 1991 have prevented the 9/11 attacks?

          • bs

            and not critical. Hope you didn’t take it that way…

  • Swamp_Yankee

    starts in ten minutes

  • QueenOfCups

    And Alec Baldwin is right – she does look way hotter than Tina!

    • QueenOfCups

      I thought that was all over the news.

      • Doc_Holliday

        Powell was not angered when the left called him a liar, war monger, and their favorite epithet an “Uncle Tom”, something they use for all Republican African-Americans.

        If the left thinks a Powell endorsement will help them, then they are as clueless as well, as clueless as they are.

        the hard left hates Powell, Republicans realize what a bust he was and a fair weather friend.

        What has Powell actually done to distinguish himself since Vietnam? I mean, I respect his service, but much of his success was gained the same way Obama gained his.

        • Swamp_Yankee

          Need to get video. I thought she just did the intro. But MAy Poehler did a rap song about her that was fall down funny and Sarah was raising the roof.

          • QueenOfCups

            How was the audience?

  • ILLINOIS_CONSERV

    when I got to the part where WM said BHO was a “free-thinking, nuanced intellect” (still chuckling). The truth is he took his marching orders (like all good dems) from “The Masta” Richie Daley when he was in Chicago. WM sees BHO the way she wishes he was..not as the same ol Chicago politician/liar he is. Sorry Sister.

    • JSobieski

      it would be the one of the lead 2-3 stories on Monday.

      • Swamp_Yankee

        hysterical. crowd really warmed to her. “All the mavericks in the house throw your hands in the aur”

        • kowalski

          Powell endorsed Obama. Unbelievable.

          • PaRep

            Colon Bowel is a WEASEL inside the beltway Blue Blood R who HATES Sarah Palin, Last desperate Gasp of a Failing Campaign that knows they’re toast

            Who do you think resonates more with the Independents & “UNDECIDEDS” Colon Bowel or Joe the Plumber ?????????????/

  • SRT

    A poll back in February asked voters what person or institution would most influence their votes. It turns out that the most influential endorsement would be one from Colin Powell. So whatever you think of Colin Powell, his is the most meaningful endorsement either candidate could receive. His strong endorsement will dominate political coverage today and tomorrow. McCain did not need this.