Don't Get it Twisted - Prominent Republicans Endorse Obama

This morning Colin Powell joined a long list of Republicans that have endorsed Democratic nominee Barack Obama for president of the United States...

It was not to long ago that America pegged and begged Colin Powell to run for President... he respectfully declined the notion... So it goes without saying that Mr. Powell is well respected on both sides of the aisle...

You might be wondering, "Rod, what's your point?" My point is that in spite of all of the negative campaigning from the McCain camp, there are many voters, Democrat and Republican that know the true measure of the man...

The following Powell quote is from the Associated Press;

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Powell said both Obama and Republican John McCain are qualified to be commander in chief. But he said Obama is better suited to handle the nation's economic problems as well as help improve its standing in the world.
"It isn't easy for me to disappoint Sen. McCain in the way that I have this morning, and I regret that," Powell, interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press," said of his longtime friend, the Arizona senator.
"But I firmly believe that at this point in America's history, we need a president that will not just continue, even with a new face and with the changes and with some maverick aspects, who will not just continue basically the policies that we have been following in recent years," Powell said.

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Ladies and Gents, Mr. Powell is not alone - the list of Republicans for Obama is long;

• Former Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee
• Fairbanks Alaska Republican mayor Jim Whitaker
• Former GOP Representative from Iowa - Jim Leach
• Virginia GOP Gov. Linwood Holton (1970 - 1974)
• Former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan
• Bill Ruckelshaus - served with both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan
• Susan Eisenhower, daughter of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Julie "Nixon" Eisenhower - daughter of former Republican President Richard M. Nixon
• Republican Representative from Maryland - Wayne Gilchrest

In addition to the above, the above, the following Republican Newspapers that backed Bush in 2004 are now backing Obama in 2008;

• The Houston Chronicle
• The Austin American Statesman
• The Denver Post
• The Chicago Sun Times
• The Kansas City Star
• The Southwest News-Herald (Ill)
• The Atlanta Journal Constitution
• The Salt Lake Tribune

As a registered Democrat and Barack Obama supporter along with the millions of other Obama supporters, I know that we cannot all be wrong... But just for safe measure we should all understand that with this much Republican support that when Barack says that he can "reach across the aisle for bi-partisan support, that he is doing more than campaigning... he is telling it like it is... When Colin Powell says that Obama is the best choice for getting us out of this financial quagmire he is telling it like it is... When I tell you that this historic race transcends the race, age and gender issues I too am telling it like it is...

So let's not get it twisted, we are at a precipice... not to elect the first African American President, or the the first female Vice President... these are forgone conclusions... We are on the precipice to get our country's economy, and foreign affairs in order...

If the recovery of our economy and the restoration and maintenance of our proper place in the world is important to you, then your vote must be cast for Barack Obama...

My name is Rod White and I support Barack Obama