Former Secretaries of State say first black president would send message to world

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Three former US secretaries of state said Monday that Americans would send a huge, powerful and electrifying message to the world if they elect Barack Obama as their first black president.

Offering foreign policy advice for the next president at a panel in Washington, Republicans James Baker and Colin Powell and Democrat Madeleine Albright all agreed the election of Obama, a Democrat, would be positive.

"I think electing the first African American president would send a powerful message not just abroad, but within this country as well," James Baker, who served President George H.W. Bush in the 1990s, told the audience.

Madeleine Albright, who served under President Bill Clinton, said: "I think it would send a huge message in terms of what America stands for and in terms of diversity and potential. And I of course am supporting Senator Obama."

"I think that there's no question it would send that kind of messge. I think it would be electrifying," said Colin Powell, who served under President George W. Bush during his first term.


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[Oregone]

1. Message: "We are finally miserable and desperate enough to elect a black man to save us"

"But, damn you, we still like lipstick, cutting brush and cowboy hats!"

[madrchsod]

2. when obama is elected we will hear the world`s sigh of relief

if not we are doomed to be a second world nation

[rosesaylavee]

3. I think sending Baker and Powell to federal prison

would send an even more powerful lesson to the world. Baker's and Powell's opinions mean less than spit to me.

Damn them for what they have done to this country.

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4. Their comments are interesting to me because of the way wingers, today, jumped on Biden's statement

. . . that electing a black president would be "transformative"


Monday, September 15, 2008

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, campaigning in North Carolina where black votes could help swing the state to the Democrats, said Sunday that electing a black person to the White House would be transformative.

Biden said the policies of running mate Barack Obama make his presidency even more urgent and declared this to be the most important election that any living person has seen in their lifetime. But he particularly singled out the meaning of electing someone who is black.

"That will be a transformative event in American politics and internationally," Biden said. "That all by itself will be significant."

http://www.reflector.com/news/state/biden-electing-black-president-is-transformative-131884.html

[jimshoes]

6. No kidding, that creep Baker is in no small way responsible for

the simian in chief we have squatting in the White House right now.

[mascarax]

5. Hey, Colin: Endorse Obama

It's one good thing you can do.
Stand up.