Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama for president
“I would have difficulty with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court, but that’s what we’d be looking at in a McCain administration,” Powell said.
Powell chaired the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s top military post, during the first Gulf war under President George H.W. Bush. As secretary of state, he helped make the case before the United Nations for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, launched in March 2003.
Powell said the nation’s economic crisis provided a “final exam” of sorts for both candidates, suggested McCain had failed the test.
“I found that he was a little unsure as to how to deal with the economic problems that we were having,” Powell said. “Almost every day there was a different approach to the problem and that concerned me, sensing that he doesn’t have a complete grasp of the economic problems that we had.”
In contrast, Powell said Obama “displayed a steadiness, an intellectual curiosity, a depth of knowledge and an approach to looking at problems ... . I think that he has a, a definitive way of doing business that would serve us well.”
Moles adopt? Please explain—I’m not Greek.