First Colin Powell, Now...

[dennysp]

Source: The New Yorker

Ken Adelman is a lifelong conservative Republican. Campaigned for Goldwater, was hired by Rumsfeld at the Office of Economic Opportunity under Nixon, was assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld under Ford, served as Reagan’s director of arms control, and joined the Defense Policy Board for Rumsfeld’s second go-round at the Pentagon, in 2001. Adelman’s friendship with Rumsfeld, Cheney, and their wives goes back to the sixties, and he introduced Cheney to Paul Wolfowitz at a Washington brunch the day Reagan was sworn in.

In recent years, Adelman and his friends Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz fell out over his criticisms of the botching of the Iraq War. Still, he remains a bona-fide hawk (“not really a neo-con but a con-con”) who has never supported a Democrat for President in his life. Two weeks from now that’s going to change: Ken Adelman intends to vote for Barack Obama. He can hardly believe it himself.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008/10/not-quite-colin.html

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Alright, GOP. Since you're so great with leaks, spill some more endorsements out for Barack Obama!!

[Dammit Ann]

1. Holy shit.

This is starting to officially creep me out.

[dennysp]

2. Why, are you surprised that even some Republicans want

what's best for our country?

[EFerrari]

7. Because these aren't just "some Republicans" but career criminals.

Maybe Junior is being stingy with his pardons.

[Dammit Ann]

9. bingo.

[Orsino]

21. I'm not surprised that a career opportunist would wait until the eleventh hour...

...to almost-but-not-quite endorse the likely big winner.

I'm not sure that Edelman isn't sincere about this--there's a first time for everything--but I am highly skeptical of anything he says.

[rch35]

3. me too, its insanity nt

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I'm not really very happy to have neocons (should be felons) proclaiming support for Obama.

[AllentownJake]

6. They've probably been in a room

for a John McCain tantrum. Thad Cochran says the idea of that man with the nuclear codes scares him. I believe it scares alot of people who know him personally.

[sixmile]

12. I feel the same way

Though the University of Chicago is close to all parties involved.

[AllentownJake]

5. Must have been there for one of John's

well known tantrums.

[scheming daemons]

8. Powell opened the floodgates... I bet we average one of these a day from here on out

[WI_DEM]

10. This isnt' exactly an endorsement that rivals Powell--so doubt it will have any real

impact, but nice anyway.

[yodermon]

11. cue MIHOP 2, 1 year from now, and they will blame obama for it.

They may wait until 2010 just before the midterms.

[Overseas]

13. No thank you on Adelman. I'd reject his endorsement.

To me he's much worse of a war criminal than Powell.

[RhodaGrits]

18. This man is the worst craven neo-con. He knows they are going to lose. n/t

[AlCzervik]

14. Ack!

[PolNewf]

15. Palin scares the national security repubs n/t

[Joiwind]

16. You accepted my vote, why not his?

A vote is a vote.

[RhodaGrits]

19. His vote, yes. His endorsement should be put out with the trash. n/t

[Hope And Change]

17. "Ken Adelman intends to vote for Barack Obama. He can hardly believe it himself".LOL.K & R!

[TheKentuckian]

20. We accepted cooperation from Stalin in WWII

sometimes you have to get along to move along.

[Joe the Liberal]

22. I would have never thought that republicans like him actually want whats good for the country!

Welcome aboard, I suppose.

[Kahuna]

23. That is wild! Lieberbush won't like this.

:wow: