Originally Posted By: BASAMS The Plumber
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081020/ap_on_el_pr/obama

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WASHINGTON – Colin Powell will have a role as a top presidential adviser in an Obama administration, the Democratic White House hopeful said Monday.

"He will have a role as one of my advisers," Barack Obama said on NBC's "Today" in an interview aired Monday, a day after Powell, a four-star general and President Bush's former secretary of state, endorsed him.

"Whether he wants to take a formal role, whether that's a good fit for him, is something we'd have to discuss," Obama said.



Well the endorsement is becoming a little clearer now, apparently there is a informal deal in place for an endorsement for a job.


Guess the job offer fell through: Powell airs doubts on Obama agenda
  • Colin Powell, one of President Obama's most prominent Republican supporters, expressed concern Friday that the president's ambitious blitz of costly initiatives may be enlarging the size of government and the federal debt too much.

    "I'm concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs and the additional government that will be needed to execute them," Mr. Powell said in an excerpt of an interview with CNN's John King, released by the network Friday morning.


Maybe you should have thought of that before you endorsed someone simply because of their skin color, General.