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Clinton Calls on Powell
November 27, 2007 11:59 AM
ABC News' Eloise Harper and Teddy Davis Report: Hillary Clinton often talks about sending her husband around the world to conduct diplomacy but on Tuesday, the Senator said she would also call on Colin Powell.
"I have said I won't even wait until I'm inaugurated, but as soon as I'm elected I'm going to be asking distinguished Americans of both parties -- people like Colin Powell, for example -- and others who can represent our country well, including someone I know very well," Clinton told the predominantly black audience after receiving the endorsement of dozens of South Carolina ministers.
Contacted by ABC News' Teddy Davis, Gen. Colin Powell was tight-lipped Tuesday when asked if he is open to Clinton's invitation.
"I have not seen what she has said. I don't know the context of it," Powell told ABC News. "I have admiration for Mrs. Clinton but I have no comment."
Powell, a well known Republican who served as President George W. Bush's first Secretary of State, turned heads in political circles earlier this year when he confirmed that he has met twice with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Despite having met with Obama twice, Powell told ABC News that he is not an adviser to any presidential candidate. Rather, he said that as a former Secretary of State he makes himself available to candidates of both parties.
In addition to having met twice with Obama, Powell said that he has also met with two Republican presidential candidates: Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, whom he described as "a neighbor."
Asked if he had ruled out a pre-primary endorsement in the presidential race, Powell left the door open.
"I'm going to do, what I'm going to do," Powell told ABC News.
Clinton's mention of Powell is rare and it comes as former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was doing some defending of her own.
But at the same time the candidate was seemingly offering a bipartisan olive branch, she also touted her electability against the Republicans.
"There are some on the Republican side who are not exactly my fans," Clinton said. "I am well aware of that. I've been fighting them for years and I've been the recipient of all those incoming attacks."
"I'm still standing," Clinton declared.
One of those 1990s foes, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., who led the effort to impeach former President Bill Clinton, predicted on "Good Morning America" that Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., would win Iowa by a "surprising margin".
You can read excerpts from that interview here or watch the full video here.
The endorsement from the ministers is important for Clinton in this state, where almost half of South Carolina's Democratic primary voters are African-American.
The fight for votes in South Carolina and the rest of the primary states is expected to intensify in coming weeks. In early December, Obama will campaign with Oprah Winfrey, while the former First Lady continues to dispatch her husband to build support.
November 27, 2007 in Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (87)
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Ridiculuous: where are all the liberals who condemn any Republican for even mentioning God in a speech, but when Hitlery is ENDORSED by dozens of ministers, they fall silent?
Posted by: Cam | Nov 27, 2007 12:22:51 PM
Hillary always boasts about fighting Republicans for years. Don't we want an UNITER? She has no qualifications to be President of the United Staes. This is a big reason why she is dropping in the polls.
Posted by: GSJ Cumming, Ga. | Nov 27, 2007 12:24:31 PM
Hillary will most likely have a mental crash if she does not become president. Most people I know would never vote for the dictatorial person who can't relate to Mr. and Mrs. Regular Person. She's pulling a "Nancy Pelosi" act in already setting up a job for Bill. I don't think Hillary could win against Rudy.
Posted by: WILLA MILLER | Nov 27, 2007 12:27:03 PM
There is so much fear about Hillary Clinton! Why, because she is a woman? If America does not grow now, it will never grow and then we will be like so many former empires – they self destructed!
Posted by: BronxBoy7117 | Nov 27, 2007 12:33:01 PM
That's it Columbo. That's you're big scoop, over 33 years ago, Hillary didn't get enough continuing education requirements to keep her lawyer's license current.Whoooaaaaaaaaaaa Hold the presses, call 60 minutes!
Posted by: kara | Nov 27, 2007 12:35:22 PM
Though Condi does have good taste in designer shoes.She's especially good at shoe shopping during natural disasters. Colin Powell would be a great choice to reclaim a job he was doing a great job. That all ended when he was forced to lie for Bush,and fabricate misinformation.
Posted by: AJ | Nov 27, 2007 12:36:04 PM
so now hilary is going to start sending around the globe a former republican sec of state, please this woman will stop at nothing....
Posted by: dee | Nov 27, 2007 12:38:51 PM
be very afraid if this woman gets in the white house!!!!
nobody knows what her agenda is if elected?
they do know she is a socialist and a communist,has some sort of "arraingment" with slick"?
don't be fool'd by this woman.
Posted by: eric | Nov 27, 2007 12:42:09 PM
Boy is she desperate -- for all accounts that I have heard and read Powell is Obama's man -- as he should be -- do we really need Hillary who has Albright turning herself inside out for Hillary --- PLEASE AMERICA WE DO NOT WANT ANOTHER BUSH!!!! THAT IS WHAT HILLARY IS --
Posted by: Paulet | Nov 27, 2007 12:42:34 PM
Waaaaaaaait a second. Wasn't it Powell's lack of attention to detail that helped get us into Iraq? Hillary will apparently do anything to garner support.
Posted by: Crusader | Nov 27, 2007 12:44:24 PM
Hey, Bronx Boy. A true Hillary supporter would, no doubt, not care about facts. Read the information. The disciplinary action was in 2002, not in 1973. Does any of this matter? Probably not, but get the facts right.Oh, and if you think the only reason we "fear" Hillary is that she's a woman, you truly do need to get the facts.
Posted by: Jeff | Nov 27, 2007 12:48:46 PM
So Colin Powell was forced to lie for President Bush? I don't believe that but accepting it as true, how would that qualify him to be Sec of State again?
How can you say that a person who was coerced into lying would be a good person to do the job?
If he was forced to lie for Bush what do you think he will be forced to do for Hillary who knows nothing but lies?
I think the man has more integrity than that.
Posted by: Big Dog | Nov 27, 2007 12:48:50 PM
BronxBoy7117
It was 5 years ago. That is the date of the suspension. She was in the Senate at that time.
I don't care if her law license is suspended or not (it is probably a good thing she cannot practice law) but you should at least get the math correct.
I bet 1973 was when she passed the bar...
Posted by: Big Dog | Nov 27, 2007 12:53:16 PM
"That all ended when he was forced to lie for Bush.."
How was Powell forced"?
Posted by: RT | Nov 27, 2007 12:56:18 PM
Does anyone else see the blatant pandering by throwing Colin Powell's name out in front of a group of black ministers? And invoking his name without him ever endorsing her? What, there's no prominent black DEMOCRATS who could fill that role? What about the black secretary of state or black national security advisor from the Clinton administration. Oh yeah, they were all white.
Posted by: Mac | Nov 27, 2007 12:56:39 PM
Come on...this was a purely political stunt! Obama is beginning to catch on in Iowa. So she thought it would be wise to call on Powell, a black "Republican" who is now against Bush, in front of an all black audience. Give me a break, does she not realize how transparent she is? I guarantee that she has never spoken to Colin Powell regarding his future missions.
Posted by: Mike C | Nov 27, 2007 1:04:41 PM
I am sure Colin Powel -- who was sacrificed by the Republicans and NeoCons and who is now utterly disgusted by Bush -- would welcome the chance to serve in the capacity Hillary suggests under her leadership.
Never before in US History has a man as noble as Powell been so eviscerated by a President and his NeoCon hostage takers.
Posted by: Troy Masters | Nov 27, 2007 1:06:01 PM
Powell might be spending too much time, testifying at the International Court of Justice at the Hague. How many republicans now understand why the bushbaby administration denied the jurisdiction of a court such as this? Me thinks we can jump over that hoop, sports fans. Film at eleven...
Posted by: daddy | Nov 27, 2007 1:08:15 PM
Yeah, like Colin Powell will want to have ANYTHING to do with a Hillary Clinton presidency. Powell never liked the Clintons. I can't wait to how long it takes before he comes out and absolutely rips Hillary for, in effect, implying that there is some kind of "link" between her and Powell. Implying that he'd be happy to serve her. I get what Hillary was attempting to do here, but it will backfire hard on her when Powell comes out and takes her to task and then...endorses Barack Obama! Ouch.
Either way, you have to believe Hillary is toast. She's just not the right person at the right time to be President. Her comments on this issue are just one more reason.
Posted by: Steve Watson | Nov 27, 2007 1:09:40 PM
America deserves Hillary Clinton to be its next president!!! Maybe finally our political system will go through effective and lasting change. Too long has the power intended for individual citizens been in the hands of lying, cheating politicians and their lapdog lobbying groups. America is doomed by the ignorance of its populace as evident by this woman having any chance at all of being president.
Posted by: Emile Roberson | Nov 27, 2007 1:16:10 PM
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