Colin Powell is not going to Denver for Barack Obama after all! Sad.
According to a new report, the former Bush staffer told ABC News in a telephone interview: “I do not have time to waste on Bill Kristol’s musings. I am not going to the convention. I have made this clear.”
ABC said Powell ended the conversation without entertaining any more questions about whether he might endorse Barack.
It wouldn’t have been TOO far fetched to see Powell step up to the plate for the B-rock star.
Powell was one of the highest-ranking African-American public officials ever in US history, and he has been complimentary about Obama’s bid to become the nation’s first black president.
To counter a key line of attack by Obama’s critics, Powell told ABC in April, “He didn’t have a lot of experience in running a presidential campaign, did he? But he seems to know how to organize the task.”
And in February, Powell hinted that he may reject his party and vote against the Republican nominee: “I will vote for the candidate I think can do the best job in America — whether that candidate is a Republican or Democrat or an independent.”
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