With twelve days left until Election Day, President Obama scored a major endorsement from one of the country’s most influential Republicans, Colin Powell.
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Earlier today on CBS This Morning, the former Secretary of State announced that he will be voting to re-elect Obama and Biden on November 6th, just as he did in 2008.
“I voted for him in 2008 and I plan to stick with him in 2012 and I’ll be voting for he and Vice President Joe Biden next month,” said Powell.
The four-star general then went on to list the reasons why he feels the Democratic incumbent deserves a second term:
“Generally, we’ve come out of the dive and we’re starting to gain altitude.” He continued, “The unemployment rate is too high, people are still hurting in housing but I see that we’re starting to raise up. I also saw the president got us out of one war, start to get us out of a second war and did not get us into any new wars. And finally I think that the actions he has taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been very very solid. And so, I think we ought to keep on the track that we are on.”
Powell also criticized the GOP nominee Mitt Romney:
“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, Gov. 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 is that sometimes I don’t sense that he has thought through these issues as thoroughly as he should have.”
From Honey Boo Boo to General Colin Powell, Obama has scored major endorsements across the board!
SOURCE: CBS News
