Black conservatives conflicted on Obama campaign

NewsBot · Jun 14, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Black conservative talk show host Armstrong Williams has never voted for a Democrat for president. That could change this year with Barack Obama as the Democratic Party's nominee....

By FREDERIC J. FROMMER

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Old Salt · Jun 14, 2008

Politics should be color blind. Voting for a candidate just because of the color of his or her skin will not get the best qualified person in office.

Likewise, retired Gen. Colin Powell, who became the country's first black secretary of state under President George W. Bush, said both candidates are qualified and that he will not necessarily vote for the Republican.

"I will vote for the individual I think that brings the best set of tools to the problems of 21st-century America and the 21st-century world regardless of party, regardless of anything else other than the most qualified candidate," Powell said Thursday in Vancouver in comments reported by The Globe and Mail in Toronto.
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I certainly hope so. Not voting for the best qualified would be just so much BS.

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