“(AHN) - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday that he will not attend the Democratic National Convention as claimed by Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard editor.

‘I do not have time to waste on Bill Kristol’s musings,’ Powell told ABC. ‘I am not going to the convention. I have made this clear.’

Kristol said in a Fox report earlier in the day that Powell was planning to endorse Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) on the third night of the convention, the day Democrats speak about the theme “Securing America’s Future.” He added that Powell is scheduled to give a speech explaining his support for Obama.” — Kris Alingod/AHN News Writer

Colin Powell was a voice of moderation and reason in the Bush Administration. He was frequently at odds with Dick Cheney and the rest of the neocons, who had an ill-fated pipe dream of invading Iraq and turning the Muslim country into a bastion of democracy.

“In July 2007 Powell revealed that he spent two and a half hours trying to persuade George W. Bush not to invade Iraq but that he did not prevail.” — Quotation from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell)

Powell was deeply opposed to the invasion and occupation of Iraq, but instead of doing the honorable thing and resigning he went before the United Nations to present his “dog and pony” show in favor of attacking Iraq.

Colin Powell: The Speech that led to WAR (1/8)

Powell’s speech before the UN was such an egregious betrayal of everything that he stood for, that it forever mars an otherwise sterling political and military career.

Sen. Barack Obama’s early claim to fame was that he was against the Iraq war from the start. His vehement opposition to the Iraq war is the main reason why he is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

Under no circumstances should Obama accept Powell’s endorsement, it would be a betrayal of everything he stands for.

Powell’s timidity and cowardice at a critical juncture in history has forever stained his legacy, and if Obama accepts his endorsement it will compromise his moral legitimacy.

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2. Former aide: Powell WMD speech ‘lowest point in my life’ — A former top aide to Colin Powell says his involvement in the former secretary of state’s presentation to the United Nations on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was “the lowest point” in his life.

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It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons (Hillary and Bill) are still determined to see Barack Obama fail.

Devious Clinton surrogates are busy leaking “strategy” to McCain and his supporters. For example — Hillary’s former aide Howard Wolfson fanned the divisive flames last Monday on ABC News, arguing that Hillary would have beaten Obama in Iowa and become the nominee if John Edwards’s love child scandal had come out last year — an assertion contradicted by a University of Iowa survey showing that far more Edwards supporters had Obama as their second choice.

Also, the week before last Hillary Clinton told a gathering of supporters that she’s looking for a “strategy” for her delegates to have their voices heard and “respected” at the Democratic National Convention — and did not rule out the possibility of having her name placed into nomination at the convention alongside Sen. Barack Obama’s.

In a noble gesture, and to appease the insatiable Clintons, Obama has acquiesced citing “party unity,” essentially ceding half of the upcoming Democratic convention to Bill, Hillary, cohorts and many angry “white women,“….some so angry that they have become delusional enough to contemplate voting for John McCain — a moderate man by nature, but with one foot stuck in a predatory nativist “snake-pit,” the far-right of the Republican party, to whom McCain must throw “rat-bones” before and after the November elections, if he is elected.

Time Magazine reports that while in public Clinton is doing everything she’s been asked to help Obama, behind the scenes she secretly wishes Obama should lose.

Old man McCain must be rolling in his bed over and over, salivating at the thought of Hillary ruining it all for Obama, and he has actually been cashing in — implementing the Clinton “tid-bits” (that were never used in the Democratic primary) in his ads(eg. the Paris Hilton Ad), and his incessant townhall declarations — that Obama “is not ready lead.”

An anonymous “smear” publication appeared last Tuesday in the Daily Mail, a notorious British tabloid, falsely professing that Obama has been exchanging e-mails, phone calls and text messages with George Clooney the actor, who has supposedly been advising Obama on everything from body language to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. George Clooney promptly denied the allegations, but not before the malicious email had spread worldwide like a virus, and was quickly picked up by the Drudge Report and television networks ranging from Fox News to NBC. The overall result served to bolster Republican candidate John McCain’s dubious contention that his rival Obama is a vapid “celebrity.” This conforms with McCain’s most recent juvenile and subliminal sexual fear-Mongering attacks on Obama. — [READ MORE]

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The “Clinton Strategy” has been sold to John McCain, in the hope that he wins this fall for a one term presidency, followed by a Clinton presidency in 2012. [ Remember what Clinton said during the Democratic primaries: "I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002." ]

Central to the negative tactics which the Clintons barely used, for fear of a backlash (even though they were urged to do so repeatedly by Mark Penn, Hillary’s egotistical “chief-strategist,“) was to target Obama’s “lack of American roots” — insinuations that his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are “exotic and un-American.”

According to Penn, Obama’s basic American values and culture are at best limited, and America will not elect a president during a time of war who is not at his center “fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values” “….That Obama told the people of New Hampshire that he has a Kansas accent because his mother was from there, is nonsense and a cover-up,” — because his mother lived in many different states….added Penn.

Joshua Glenn of “The Atlantic” approached a number of current and former Clinton staffers and outside consultants and asked them to share memos, e-mails, meeting minutes, diaries — anything that would offer a contemporaneous account. Almost all gleefully acquiesced. Glenn says: “The result demonstrates that paranoid dysfunction breeds the impulse to hoard. Everything from major strategic plans to bitchy staff e-mail feuds was handed over.” (Much of it is posted online at http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200808u/clinton-memos). Mr. Glenn also sums up the Clinton mess blow by blow here — The Front-Runner’s Fall.

The Clintons will not accept that they lost to Obama due to poor strategy, racism, toxic dis-organization worsened by a clash of personalities — feuding and bickering all the way to defeat. “Experts generally agree that Clinton’s campaign was not prepared for a lengthy fight; it had an insufficient delegate operation; it squandered vast sums of money; and the candidate herself evinced a paralyzing schizophrenia,” says Glenn.

Ma Clinton ran a deeply flawed campaign — run haphazardly by a “Junta” of discombobulated advisors and an uncontrollable Bill Clinton — who stuck his foot into his big mouth too often.

That they have not accepted the fact that the Obama machine beat them fair and square, and by the rules in place, is testimony to the arrogance and the selfish sense of entitlement of the Clintons.

And now, their last shot is to mess up Obama’s up-coming Denver convention, amidst calls to GOD from the far-right lunatics, for a heavy downpour to ruin Barack Obama’s outdoor nomination-acceptance speech at Invesco Field (Capacity 75,000), at Mile High, in Denver, scheduled to be held later this month.

By speaking on two consecutive days, Hillary on Tuesday and Bill on Wednesday, these two intend to dominate the convention, and will try their best to make it a “Clinton convention.”

Maureen Dowd of The New York Times sums up the Democratic dysfunction most eloquently: “Hillary’s orchestrating a play within the play in Denver. Just as Hamlet used the device to show that his stepfather murdered his father, Hillary will try to show the Democrats they chose the wrong savior.” “Hillary Clinton feels no guilt about encouraging her supporters to mess up Barack Obama’s big moment, thus undermining his odds of beating John McCain.” “You can almost hear her mind whirring: She’s amazed at how easy it was to snatch Denver away from the Obama saps.” “Like taking candy from a baby, except Bean pole Guy doesn’t eat candy.” “In just a couple of weeks, Bill and Hill were able to drag No Drama Obama into a swamp of Clinton drama.”

“Now they’ve made Barry’s convention all about them — their dissatisfaction and revisionism and barely disguised desire to see him fail. Whatever insincere words of support the Clintons muster, their primal scream gets louder: He can’t win! He can’t close the deal! We told you so! Yes she can!” …[ Read More >> ]

…and E.J Dionne of the Washington Post adds: ‘Clinton must know that she could have won the Democratic nomination with a more coherent strategy. And her own campaigning for Obama suggests she understands that the actual nominee should not have to inherit her campaign’s circular firing squads. Much depends upon whether she can now persuade her followers to grant Obama’s nomination a legitimacy that her own campaign worked so hard to deny him.’ — [ Read More >> ]

That’s how selfish and devious these two are — Bill and Hillary!

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1. A right-wing ‘GOD Goon’ prays for torrential at the DNC convention
What a colossal waste of GOD’s time!

2. 1. GOP: Here’s to Hillary’s big party! — Nothing would delight Republicans more than for the Clintons to upstage Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention….Writes Walter Shapiro

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