Friday, October 24, 2008

Colin Powell Endorses OBAMA Y'all

Picture of : Elsheba Khan taken by Platon for the New Yorker

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell announced last Sunday that he will break with his party and vote for Sen. Barack Obama. To That end , Powell invoked a picture to illustrate is point,
"Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is no. That's not America. Is there something wrong with a seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing he or she could be president? Yet I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion that he is a Muslim and might have an association with terrorist. This is not the way we should be doing it in America..."
"I feel particularity strong about this because of a PICTURE I saw in a magazine. It was a photo essay about troops who were serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. And one picture at the tail end of this photo essay, was of a mother at Arlington Cemetery and she had her head on the headstone of her son's grave. And as the picture focused in, you could see the writing on the headstone, and it gave his awards-Purple Heart, Bronze Star,- showed that he dies in Iraq, gave his birth date, date of death, he was 20 years old. And then at the very top of the headstone, it didn't have a Christian cross. It didn't have a Star of David. It had a crescent and a star of the Islamic faith. And his name was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. And he was an American. He was born in New Jersey. He was fourteen years old at the time of 9/11, and he waited until he could sever his country and gave his life."


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