Conservative Ken Adelman Switched to Obama
Oct 21st, 2008 | By truthproduct | Category: Featured, politics, social issues
You’ve got to take his judgement with a grain of salt because this is the same guy who Said Iraq would be a “cakewalk” http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1996-200 …
By Ken Adelman
Wednesday, February 13, 2002; Page A27
Voxxlisa has a great point: http://digg.com/users/voxlisa999
· Hey, Adelman was WRONG, he is not EVIL nor anti-American. If former neo-cons want to join us that is cool. That is the way Barack would want it. Besides, Adelman was the only one of the Iraq War Architects in that famous Vanity Fair story- which was supposed to come out after the 2006 elections- who didn’t attack the writer as a ‘liar” when a summary of it was posted on their website before the elections. All the others tried to make folks think they were taken out of context so as not to affect the elections. He emailed the reporter and backed him up. Although he was BFF with Cheney. Rummy and actually introducted Wolfie to them- he fell out with them a while ago. And he has obviously come to his senses. We can forgive.
Mustard911 said: http://digg.com/users/Mustard911
Is he Black or Jewish too?
Listen to this it’s about Race issue in this political campaign.
Blacks are supporting Obama because of his color yet, White people socially aren’t allowed to vote on Race. The Media has influenced them enough to support Obama too, even though he has zero policies and has background in corruption.
http://reasonradionetwork.com/_archive/PS_20081020 …
My response:
If Colin Powel & Adelman were supporting Obama only because of race wouldn’t have have voted for that jerkoff, Alan Keyes (who is very conservative and was actually running on the GOP ticket). They’re were also times that they could have voted for Jesse Jackson and Sharpton. They didn’t because they are all terrible, terrible one dimesional candidates.
I am black I have NEVER (until now) voted for a black candidate. Frankly, there haven’t been enough credible ones. We don’t all vote for each other. Most blacks for example, would not vote for Alan Keyes and they’d be split on Colin Powel. Its really about social issues. I won’t lie.. many ignorant fools (white or black) will vote for a candidate based sole one race or gender, but I just don’t think its rational to put Colin Powel and Adelman in that group.
http://digg.com/political_opinion/Conservative_Republican_Ken_Adelman_supports_Barack_Obama
Adelman and I exchanged e-mails today about his decision. He asked rhetorically,
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.