Why is Obama getting "advice" from Colin Powell?

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Sunday June 10, 2007 · 6:48 PM PDT

2007/06/10 · 18:48

Very interesting and unfortunate if true tidbit from Colin Powell in his interview on Meet the Press this morning:

MR. RUSSERT: Before you go, Newsweek magazine reports that Senator Barack Obama has sought you out for your advice on foreign policy. True?

GEN. POWELL: True. I’ve met with Senator Obama twice. I’ve been around this town a long time, and I know everybody who is running for office, and I make myself available to talk about foreign policy matters and military matters with whoever wishes to chat with me.

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Sunday October 22, 2006 · 10:18 AM PDT

2006/10/22 · 10:18

This is a letter to my friends in Rhode Island about the upcoming RI Senate election. I wrote this myself: it's not a form letter or anything I copied off a web site. I don't have any kind of special agenda here, merely the hope that at the end of this letter, you'll be more likely to vote for Sheldon Whitehouse, and less likely to vote for Linc Chafee. Read More

A Democratic Contract With America?

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Tuesday March 15, 2005 · 6:53 AM PST

2005/03/15 · 06:53

The biggest "problem" that I think are perceived with the Democrats is that they don't "stand" for anything. I think that the Democrats desperately need a "Contract with America", although a lot of it will take some salesmanship and we need to make sure we put this into Democratic frames instead of Republican frames. In this diary, I'm describing what I think needs to be done, and am leaving the question of how to sell it to other people. This list is not all inclusive, just some items I think we need.

In my opinion, the primary problem facing America in the early 21st century is the oil problem. It suffuses all we do, so my thought is to create a plan that includes energy policy as a centerpiece, both as a national security and an economic security issue.

This plan is my own plan. Most of these items are stuff that the government is going to have to move on initially. Hopefully, the government can work out some public/private partnership deals and try to offload some of this onto the private sector once the plan gets moving. This plan is hardly exhaustive: it's more a list of ideas than a fix-all solution.
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Energy Policy as the Democratic Issue

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Monday March 07, 2005 · 5:53 PM PST

2005/03/07 · 17:53

Jim Kunstler has the following to say about the recent uptick in oil prices:

On Sunday, the New York Times ran a roundtable discussion (in the Book Review) between three prominent young "liberal" intellectuals (Katrina vanden Heuvel, Michael Tomasky, and Peter Beinhart) about what the Democratic Left can do to reclaim its place as a credible opposition. None of these hotshots mentioned the fact that the nation faces a defining crisis over our energy supplies. I don't think the word "oil" was even mentioned by this clueless trio. They have no idea what kind of convulsion we are heading into.
Somebody ought to bring this to the Democrat's attention. America has a problem bigger than social security, or the price of prescription drugs, or gay marriage. America is heading into a situation in which it will no longer have an economy. The Republicans at least have an excuse for their willful blindness -- they've already taken the position that the life of extreme car-dependency and everything it implies is not negotiable. They are committed to defending that position, no matter how foolish it may be.

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