Hmm, another defection...

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-17-2008
Hmm, another defection...
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Tue, 10-21-2008 - 9:53am

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/20/ken_adelman_backing_obama.html








Cast of Characters
Ken Adelman Backing Obama

By Michael D. Shear
First Colin Powell. Now Ken Adelman?


Adelman is the latest Republican foreign-policy heavyweight to endorse Sen. Barack Obama, telling the New Yorker's George Packer that he intends to vote for the Democrat in two weeks.


"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," Adelman wrote, according to Packer. "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."


Adelman was a key part of George Bush's defense agency and has held senior policy positions under Presidents Reagan, Ford and even Nixon. He's a staunch conservative, though he has broken with Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld over the handling of the Iraq war.


But he told Packer that Sen. John McCain's pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate was the last straw.


"That decision showed appalling lack of judgment," he wrote in an e-mail, according to Packer. "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."


In today's Post-ABC tracking poll, Obama is winning 22 percent of conservatives. That's his best showing yet among these voters, and if the percent holds on Election Day, it would be higher than conservative support for any Democratic nominee since 1980.


Obama also wins 12 percent support among Republicans in the tracking poll -- exactly double Kerry's 2004 Election Day haul.


Posted at 7:17 PM ET on Oct 20, 2008

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. 

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 9:56am

LOL!

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-07-2008
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 10:01am

Well, now that's two who were there when things were done wrong. Then they defected and things eventually were done right.

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-17-2008
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 10:20am

Thanks!

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. 

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-20-2008
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 10:23am

Hmmm.....isn't Ken Adelman the guy who famously said that Iraq would be a "cakewalk?"

Why yes, yes he was.

Not sure that's the kind of brilliant strategic vision we WANT on Obama's side...but then again, it's nice to see that even a guy so famously wrong as that can see something obvious when it's right in front of him, LOL.


iVillage Member
Registered: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 10:51am

I'm keeping informal

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-08-2008
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 11:21am

That's my all time favorite, too!


 

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-25-2006
Tue, 10-21-2008 - 3:16pm
The only sad thing about so many conservatives supporting Obama is that it means that he's not liberal enough for me, LOL.

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