"Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced Sunday that he will be voting for Sen. Barack Obama. 'He has both style and substance. I think he is a transformational figure,' Powell said on NBC's Meet the Press." (HuffPo)
During the Republican convention, I recall, Powell's name had been leaked as a leading contender for McCain's vice presidential pick. The buzz is that, while most endorsements don't mean squat, this one may well be influential. Newt Gingrich, of all people, says that Powell's comments pretty much put the end to the "experience gap" issue that has been the dilemma of many undecided voters. And what is perhaps even more telling about Powell's statement on Meet the Press, often not reported in the soundbites, was his criticism of the bankruptcy of the Republican party.
Michael Tomasky: "We are seeing, from (happily, at least for the time being) the majority of the country, much of what is good and decent about America in this election. But we are also seeing in smaller proportion what is chilling. The people in those videos have no proof to back up their beliefs, because of course no such proof exists. They just feel it, and that's enough. But that isn't what's most disturbing. There will always be such people in all societies. What's most disturbing is that McCain and Palin are egging them on." (Guardian.UK)
Shaun Carney: "Every political contest is a question of relativities — as in, which candidate do I dislike least? — and when John McCain and Barack Obama went mano a mano for the first time in the presidential debate on Saturday morning our time, it gradually became clear that American voters will face a genuine dilemma on November 4. Both candidates are a substantial risk and a further sign that the political system of the world's most powerful nation is not functioning very well." (age.com.au)
Why Obama should release his righteous rage: "Obama has often said that he is running because of what Dr. King called 'the fierce urgency of now.' He needs to show that fierceness and that urgency. When we think of King, we usually think of him as resolute and dignified. But King was also filled with a prophetic anger, especially in the later years of his life. As a leader fighting for fundamental change in this country, Obama has to be willing to show us that kind of righteous anger. I don't know about you, but when I think about what George Bush has done to this country -- and what John McCain wants to keep doing -- I consider outrage the only rational and legitimate response. The last seven-plus years demand more than a beaming smile." — Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post)
CBS hired gun 'body language expert' doubted Hilary Clinton's sincerity when she threw her weight behind Obama at the convention the other night. Language Log's expert begs to differ, and has the analysis to back it up.
"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years."
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