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Hillary Clinton for VP

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 07.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Gender Roles, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Political Power, Racial Stereotypes, Michelle Malkin, Feminism, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Vice President, Home News

Unlike Rice and Powell, Clinton and Obama want to wield the power themselves, and they make no bones about it. This is a radical shift in establishment Washington's racial/sexual dynamic.

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Senator Nunn's Last Chance

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Military Readiness Enhancement Act, Dadt, House, Colin Powell, Conversion Experience, Sam Nunn, Obama, Senate, Barack Obama Vice President, Obama Cabinet, Barack Obama, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gays in the Military, Sam Nunn VP, Obama Sam Nunn, Politics News

Sam Nunn will not be on the ticket with Obama. But if he would like to be offered the job of Secretary of State or Defense, he has to tell Obama that he supports repealing DADT -- and he has to mean it.

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Scary Thought: Is Condi Rice Our Last, Best Chance for Peace?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Cheney Iran, Iran Diplomacy, Colin Powell, War With Iran, Condoleezza Rice, Iran, War in Iran, Condi Rice, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Condi needs to either convince the president what a catastrophe attacking Iran would be. Or, failing that, break with the administration and do the noble thing by resigning while it still might make a difference.

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Energy Crisis Looming, Warn Powell, Kissinger, And Others

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger, Green News

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of 27 elder statesmen is sending an open letter to both presidential candidates and every member of Congress say...

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Exclusive: Congress Plans Historic Hearing on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: House, Senate, Congress, Military, Dadt, Colin Powell, Hearing, Afghanistan, Homophobia, Sam Nunn, Manpower Shortage, Gays, Iraq, Dan Coats, Canada, Politics News

Any serious discussion of the crisis the country faces in recruiting and retaining qualified men and women in the military will require a fresh and serious look at the odious "compromise" known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

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Nunn: Pakistan Is Our Most Dangerous Conflict

Huffington Post | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aspen Ideas Fetival, Sam Nunn Aspen, Sam Nunn, Iraq, Colin Powell, Colin Powell Aspen, Politics News

Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival last week, former Sen. Sam Nunn warned that while the world is focusing on Iraq and Afghanistan, Pakistan was the...

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McCain Needs To Throw a Hail Mary

Matt Littman | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mark Sanford, Matt Lauer, Colin Powell, Mitt Romney, Mike Bloomberg, Mccain, Obama, Tim Pawlenty, John McCain, McCain Vice President, McCain VP, Politics News

McCain is facing a losing battle, and a conventional VP pick is not going to help. He has to change the game plan, shake things up. If I'm McCain, I'd go with Mike Bloomberg or Colin Powell.

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Powell Met With McCain And Obama

Hotline | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Colin Powell 2008 Election, Colin Powell Mccain, Colin Powell, Colin Powell Obama, Politics News

Sen. Barack Obama and retired Gen. Colin Powell met privately two weeks ago in Powell's personal office in Alexandria. Peggy Cifrino, Powell's spokes...

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Poll: Powell Best VP Choice For Both Parties

Washington Post | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Powell, John McCain, Colin Powell 2008 Election, Colin Powell, Powell Obama, VP Candidates, Powell Mccain, Veep Search, Barack Obama, Politics News

Ever wonder what it would be like if the vice presidential sweepstakes was conducted like "Survivor"? Now we know -- thanks to the Massachusetts-base...

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Novak: Powell Will Endorse Obama

Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Colin Powell, Colin Powell Democrats, Colin Powell Obama, Powell Obama Endorsement, Powell Obama, Colin Powell Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Politics News

Robert Novak, in a column on "Obamacons" (Obama-backing Republicans), says he expects a high-profile defection: Neither Powell, first-term secretar...

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Colin Powell Considers Voting For Obama

Globe And Mail | Ian Bailey | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics

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Colin Powell, the former Republican secretary of state, says he is not ruling out a vote for Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic nominee for preside...

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Deadly "Diplomacy"

Norman Solomon | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Iran, Orwellian, Colin Powell, New York Times, Iraq, News Media, President Bush, Fareed Zakaria, Politics News

With 223 days left in his presidency, George W. Bush laid more flagstones along a path to war on Iran. There was the usual declaration that "all ...

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Harry Potter And The Political Class

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.31.2008 | Home

Read More: Tom Friedman, Lawrence Wilkerson, Paul Wolfowitz, Colin Powell, Charles Krauthammer, Scott Mcclellan, Mother Jones, Donald Rumsfeld, Harry Potter, Mary Matalin, David Addington, Dick Cheney, Home News

To read the memoirs and interviews pouring out of the Bush Administration, none of his people were happy. They were all wary and at variance with his policies. Yet they all stayed and carried out his orders.

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Gays, Hate, Blacks, and the Bible

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Homophobia, Curse of Ham, Colin Powell, California Supreme Court, Bible, Racism, Christianity, Interracial Marriage, John Boswell, Loving vs. Virginia, Homsexuality, Home News

The California Court has drawn on apt precedence in voting to end a ban on gay marriage. Blacks and gays have both endured centuries of hatred based on perversions of original biblical texts.

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TV Hosts, What the $#@! Are You Doing?

Jim David | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Wnbc, Political Pundits, Nightly News, Sherri Shepherd, Shepard Smith Blowjob, Colin Powell, Randi Rhodes, Shepard Smith, Pundits, Bill Oreilly, Media, Diane Sawyer, Whoopi Goldberg, Shepherd Smith Blow Job, Geraldine Ferraro, Fox News, George Stephanopoulos, Sean Hannity, Condoleezza Rice, Sue Simmons, Good Mornign America, Barbara Walters, Enough Already, Hillary Clinton, ABC News, Dancing With the Stars, Charles Gibson, 236.Com, Media News

Times are hard, and our trusted TV hosts, who should know better, are becoming unglued.

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We Don't Need No Steenking Exit Strategy

Chip Collis | Posted 05.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Powell Doctrine, Barack Obama, Senator Obama, Senator Clinton, Clinton, Colin Powell, Clinton Democratic Nomination, Clinton Exit, Clinton Primary, Clinton Indiana, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Clinton Exit Strategy, Home News

When Clinton decided to go to war with (ie, empty the kitchen sink at) Obama, she ignored the dictates of the Powell Doctrine. Now she is entangled and without an exit strategy. I humbly offer one.

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Guernica: April 26, 1937

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Shah Reza Pahlavi, Pablo Picasso, Colin Powell, Herman Goering, Bush Administration, Mohammed Mossedegh, Politics News

Pablo Picasso's masterpiece inside the United Nations building was displayed there to give people the chance to think before plunging into war with all of its attendant ills.

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An African-American Grand Old Party

Lonnee Hamilton | Posted 04.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Colin Powell, Barack Obama, Senator McCain, Senator Clinton, Clinton, Mccain, Black Voters, Condoleeza Rice v.P, Superdelegates, Black, Democrats, African-Americans, Nomination, Home News

If Hillary steals the nomination, there will be race division within the Democratic party. If McCain chooses Rice or Powell as VP, he would be masterfully positioning the Republican party as moving beyond its racist past.

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Obama Triangulates and Won't Go Where Other Great Americans Will on Hamas

Steve Clemons | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Thomas Pickering, Hu Jintao, Tony Blair, Birch Bayh, Felix Rohatyn, Brent Scowcroft, Joseph Duffey, Carla Hills, Robert Jervis, Frank Wisner, Saudi Arabia, Anatol Lieven, Anwar Ibrahim, Rita Hauser, Timothy Wirth, Morton Halperin, Lincoln Chafee, John McLaughlin, Colin Powell, Fatah, Hamas, John Malott, Stephen Bosworth, Joseph Wilson, Barack Obama, Richard Vague, Lawrence Wilkerson, Steven Clemons, Theodore Sorensen, Stephen Solarz, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Christine Todd Whitman, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Henry Siegman, Amo Houghton, Joschka Fischer, Gary Hart, Philip Gordon, Larry Pressler, William Van Den Heuvel, Robert Malley, Paul Volcker, Robert Hutchings, Leon Fuerth, Christopher Patten, Paul Pillar, Vladimir Putin, G. John Ikenberry, Lawrence Korb, Harriet Babbitt, King Abdulla, Daniel Levy, Nancy Kassebaum Baker, William Nitze, Richard Samuels, John Sheehan, Palestine, Theodore Roosevelt IV, Chuck Hagel, Schlomo Ben-Ami, Eric Shinseki, William Odom, Zbigniew Brzezinski, John S. Wolf, Diana Villers Negroponte, Javier Solana, James Dobbins, Robert Hunter, Dimitri Simes, Politics News

Obama, in my view, has tarnished his foreign policy credentials here. If he can't embrace what great Americans have been able to do -- and what Sen. Chuck Hagel has suggested be done with Hamas -- then what use is his new vision?

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Secretarial Consensus

Terence Smith | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warren Christopher, James Baker, Former Secretaries of State Madeline Albright, Iran, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, Guantanamo Bay, Politics News

Bipartisan consensus is what emerged last week at the University of Georgia, where I moderated the 16th Conference of Former Secretaries of State, produced by the Southern Center for International Studies.

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Former Secretaries Of State: Close Guantanamo

Atlanta Journal-Constitution | AARON GOULD SHEININ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, Guantanamo Bay, Madeleine Albright, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

Five former U.S. secretaries of State said Thursday the next president should move quickly to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Tha...

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When "Oops" Isn't Enough

Mary Lyon | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Preemptive War, Troop Casualties, White House, Scott Ritter, War on Terror, Colin Powell, Impeachment, Hans Blix, Andrew Sullivan, George W. Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Aggression, Democratic Party, Chickenhawks, War Widows, Al Qaeda, American Enterprise Institute, Jeffrey Goldberg, Slate.com, Fred Kaplan, Lying About War, Iraq War, Republican Party, Suppressing Dissent, Slate, Slate Why Did We Get It Wrong, Politics News

Will there be any consequences imposed upon the deliberate deceivers? Will there be any lessons taught, not just to the warmongers themselves, but for the benefit of all future pampered war-pushers?

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Colin Powell's Day of Infamy, Unacknowledged Five Years Later

David Fiderer | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, Wmd, Colin Powell, Hans Blix, Tim Russert, Iraq War, Five Years in Iraq, Five Years Iraq, Iraq War Five Years Later, Iraq Five Years Later, Iraq War Five Year Anniversary, Iraq Five Years, Iraq Five Years of War, Politics News

Powell pushed for war and put everyone on notice that he was acting in bad faith, with a reckless disregard for the truth. Let's not forget.

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Why We Said No: Three Diplomats' Duty

John Brady Kiesling | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Colin Powell, Terrorism, Diplomats, Ann Wright, Afghanistan, Iraq, Karen Hughes, Diplomacy, Brady Kiesling, Resignation, Public Diplomacy, John Brown, Politics News

Five years ago this month, three of us left the US Foreign Service in opposition to the war on Iraq. We were not pacifists. We were professional, non-partisan diplomats.

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Five Costly Years in Iraq

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Steven Cambone, George Bush, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Elliot Abrams, Iraq Occupation, Dick Cheney, Politics News

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441 did not authorize the United States to invade and occupy Iraq. The U.S. sent its armed forces into Ir...

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