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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21pubed.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&sq=Franci%20Havemeister&st=nyt&scp=1]]>Bill GnadeFri, 24 Oct 2008 04:34:13 +0000http://www.nhinsider.com/bill-gnade/2008/10/21/colin-powell-a-very-strange-endorsement.html#comments13961:1856847:comment/2184677
How are things over at headquarters?

Your comment made me chuckle. Thanks. I needed a laugh. Bravery! Good one.

And thanks for conceding the point.

BG]]>pinkoFri, 24 Oct 2008 00:05:07 +0000http://www.nhinsider.com/bill-gnade/2008/10/21/colin-powell-a-very-strange-endorsement.html#comments13961:1856847:comment/2184231Dave JarvisWed, 22 Oct 2008 19:34:35 +0000http://www.nhinsider.com/bill-gnade/2008/10/21/colin-powell-a-very-strange-endorsement.html#comments13961:1856847:comment/2179367
Whoring is a very strong word...but exactly.]]>Richard BarnesWed, 22 Oct 2008 13:22:08 +0000http://www.nhinsider.com/bill-gnade/2008/10/21/colin-powell-a-very-strange-endorsement.html#comments13961:1856847:comment/2178251
The question one has to ask is motive... what motive does Colin have to make such an endorsement? A job with the new administration maybe? I'd say that's a safe bet. He's whoring himself to Obama in hopes of landing a job.]]>Dave JarvisTue, 21 Oct 2008 22:32:16 +0000http://www.nhinsider.com/bill-gnade/2008/10/21/colin-powell-a-very-strange-endorsement.html#comments13961:1856847:comment/2176577
I thought you did a great job. Good points are always better redundant.]]>Bill GnadeTue, 21 Oct 2008 17:56:55 +0000http://www.nhinsider.com/bill-gnade/2008/10/21/colin-powell-a-very-strange-endorsement.html#comments13961:1856847:comment/2175849
Thank you for the comment. I note that the "Front Page" is back up; scrolling down, I spot that you have posted something very similar to what I've written here. I dragged over to NHInsider this piece from my "home" blog; I should have been a little more circumspect before posting it here. Oh, well. Redundancy is not always a bad thing.

Peace,

BG]]>Dave JarvisTue, 21 Oct 2008 15:23:14 +0000http://www.nhinsider.com/bill-gnade/2008/10/21/colin-powell-a-very-strange-endorsement.html#comments13961:1856847:comment/2175365
Seems like a lot of us are getting the same feeling about this whole thing. Don't forget Bill that Powell sat on this endorsement for over a year now until just before the general elections. If Obama were to win, the Powell endorsement would be fresh in our memories.
Colin Powell may have just shown us a bit more of his decision making strategy than we have seen in the past. Perhaps he just likes to be on the winning side, and he considers the real problem of the Iraq War that it dragged him down with it.]]>nhnativeSun, 19 Oct 2008 20:38:12 +0000http://www.nhinsider.com/bill-gnade/2008/10/18/sununus-got-fight.html#comments13961:1856847:comment/2165778Bill GnadeMon, 06 Oct 2008 15:58:08 +0000http://www.nhinsider.com/bill-gnade/2008/10/5/just-for-fun.html#comments13961:1856847:comment/2105993
Thanks for the comment. I think what you raise merits further exploration:

Who was it that said Barack Obama was not legitimately black? That's right, more than a few Democrats.

Who opined that an Obama presidency would essentially create the lie that America was no longer racist? That's right, a black Democratic congressman, the same congressman, along with Jesse Jackson, expressed concern that the white guilt industry might lose its force with a President Obama.

Who insinuated that Barack Obama was a drug dealer? That's right, Jeanne Shaheen's husband.

I think the list can be rather readily and compellingly expanded.

Not long ago I made the following comments in an email to a liberal friend:

"I don't know if you saw the FACT SHEET constantly updated beneath the CNN video of the convention. Did you know that the first African-Americans seated as delegates at a Democratic convention were seated in 1936? The first time the Democrats put forward an African-American's name during a convention roll call was in 1968. The allegedly racist Republican party, however, set the first African-American delegates at their convention in 1868, nearly 70 years before the Democrats; that year the Republicans made Frederick Douglass the first black man ever to put be forward at a convention. 68 years separate the parties' understanding of one act of inclusion; 100 years separate them from a second act. 100 years!

"So what history is teaching me, as I pay closer attention, is that the Democratic Party is really the party with a gross legacy of racism. Somehow, somewhere, the DNC seized the historical narrative and revised it, which is, in my opinion, their habit. Shelby Steele, and several other black intellectuals of a more conservative bent, have spotted the white guilt-syndrome that is at play in too many political machinations, and they've described it as harmful and disingenuous."

In fact, the historical record, should one search for it beneath the layers of propaganda sprayed over it by Democratic ideologues, shows that the Republican Party is in fact the party that is not racist.

Peace,

BG]]>