George Packer from the New Yorker magazine reports on an email he got from Ken Adelman today indicating that the neo-con is planning on voting for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.As Packer points out, this is no small thing.
Adelman was hired by Don "Rumsfeld at the Office of Economic Opportunity under Nixon, was assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld under Ford, served as Reagan’s director of arms control, and joined the Defense Policy Board for Rumsfeld’s second go-round at the Pentagon, in 2001. Adelman’s friendship with Rumsfeld, Cheney, and their wives goes back to the sixties, and he introduced Cheney to Paul Wolfowitz at a Washington brunch the day Reagan was sworn in."
Said Adleman, to Packer: "Why so, since my views align a lot more with McCain’s than with Obama’s? And since I truly dread the notion of a Democratic president, Democratic House, and hugely Democratic Senate?
"Primarily for two reasons, those of temperament and of judgment.
"When the economic crisis broke, I found John McCain bouncing all over the place. In those first few crisis days, he was impetuous, inconsistent, and imprudent; ending up just plain weird. Having worked with Ronald Reagan for seven years, and been with him in his critical three summits with Gorbachev, I’ve concluded that that’s no way a president can act under pressure.
"Second is judgment. The most important decision John McCain made in his long campaign was deciding on a running mate.
"That decision showed appalling lack of judgment. Not only is Sarah Palin not close to being acceptable in high office—I would not have hired her for even a mid-level post in the arms-control agency. But that selection contradicted McCain’s main two, and best two, themes for his campaign—Country First, and experience counts. Neither can he credibly claim, post-Palin pick."
Read the rest of the e-mail here.
On the other hand -- Adelman infamously suggested US forces would experience a "cakewalk in Iraq." So it's not like his judgment is unassailable.
Submitted by Maasanova on Tue, 2008-10-21 05:20
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Endorsements are a non-issue, since they say nothing significant about a candidate. The political preferences of certain power groups is perhaps a slightly different story, as in the case of the Rothschilds' endorsement of McCain, but do we learn anything new about Obama after hearing news of Adelman's endorsement? Of course not. Adelman's preference might say something about Adelman, but it says nothing about Obama.
That doesn't stop political opponents and the media from trying to sully the reputation and/or credibility of a candidate by association, but it's much ado about fuck all if you ask me.
All of these traitorous neocon and zionist scum bags that were given carte blanche to raise hell around the world by the outgoing Bush/Cheney Junta are now just trying to suck up to Obama so they can stay on in and around DC and sink their fangs into another administration.
Fuck 'em all.
Who's going to make soft cooing sounds next? Elliot Abams?
I only say that because it's the conclusion i came to as well. He likely made the endorsement public because he knew it would be jarring enough to garner him a couple column inches..
fuck him, he is of no consequence..
they can suck up to Obama all they want, but the zionist neocons well hang for war crimes. their days are numbered.
Here was a man of Caribbean ancestry who rose through the ranks of US society at the behest of civil rights legislation and ostensibly, his personal assets in the face of enormous odds only to become the symbol of stool pigeonry - the quintenssential decoy of the neocon mandate to conquer at will - the preemptive paradigm.
General Colin Powell commended immense credibility not only in this country but worldwide. His endorsement of the weapons of mass destruction hoax was the material factor in the procession of the illegal war against the Iraqi people, which has killed over a million and displaced millions more - destroying an ancient society for the foreseeable future. Mr. Powell is a war criminal and should make account for his crimes against humanity. Nothing he can say or do will ever bring back those innocent people he helped murder nor restore him from the depths of perdition. He is no more that a coward, whose personal position in the Bush administration proved more precious than the lives of millions.
As far as his endorsement of Obama, it is hardly courageous to certify senator who has a ten percentage lead in the polls some two weeks before the polling places open on November 4th. Where was Mr. Powell three or four months ago or a year ago when Powell's validation would have been more useful to Barack Obama?
At any rate, any position this tactical ploy of his may facilitate in an Obama administration - if the senator were to be elected - would only compromise his abililty to project American interests in the world because of the vehement distrust for general Powell around the globe. The Hague in its current formulation, the international Criminal Court, should serve him with an indictment.
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