Colin Powell supports Obama; Sununu, McCain Please go mental hospital

Yesterday, Colin Powell supported Barack Obama for president, explaining that he believes the incumbent has done a good job on the economy given the situation he was handed.

As a former secretary of state and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Powell also took very serious issues with the foreign policy stances of Obama’s opponent, Mitt Romney, saying that ” I’m not sure which Governor Romney we would be respect to foreign policy”:

“One day he has a certain strong view about staying in Afghanistan, but then on Monday night he agrees with the withdrawal.


Same thing in Iraq. On almost every issue that was discussed on Monday night, Governor Romney agreed with the President with some nuances. But this is quite a different set of foreign policy views than he had earlier in the campaign.

And my concern, which I have expressed previously in a public way, is that sometimes I don’t sense that he has thought through these issues as thoroughly as he should have, and he gets advice from his campaign staff that he then has to adjust to modify as he goes along.

PoWeLl: I think there’s some very, very strong neo-conservative views that are presented by the Governor that I have some trouble with. 

There are other issues as well, not just the economy and foreign policy. I’m more comfortable with President Obama and his administration when it comes to issues like what are we going to do about climate, what are we going to do about immigration? What are we going to do about education? Lots of things like that. I do not want to see the new Obama care plan thrown off the table. It has issues, you have to fix some things in that plan. But what I see when I look at that plan is 30 million of our fellow citizens will now be covered by insurance. And I think that’s good. We’re one of the few nations in the world, with our size, population and wealth, that does not have universal health care.”