{"id":13648,"date":"2008-10-31T17:34:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T00:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/10\/31\/ken-duberstein-for-barack-obama.html"},"modified":"2008-10-31T17:34:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T00:34:32","slug":"ken_duberstein_for_barack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/31\/ken_duberstein_for_barack.html","title":{"rendered":"Ken Duberstein for Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of Ronald Reagan’s closest aides is voting for Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria this week he intends to vote for Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Duberstein said he was influenced by another prominent Reagan official – Colin Powell – in his decision.<\/p>\n

“Well let’s put it this way – I think Colin Powell’s decision is in fact the good housekeeping seal of approval on Barack Obama.”<\/p>\n

Powell served as national security advisor to Reagan during Duberstein’s tenure as chief of staff.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Duberstein was also interviewed on the subject<\/a> on MSNBC.<\/p>\n

If a man who worked so closely for Reagan, the Moses of the Conservative Revolution, is choosing Obama …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of Ronald Reagan’s closest aides is voting for Barack Obama. Former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria this week he intends to vote for Democrat Barack Obama…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130179,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/12\/the-furor-over-obama-not-attending-nancy-reagans-funeral-3.html","url_meta":{"origin":13648,"position":0},"title":"The furor over Obama not attending Nancy Reagan's funeral","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 12-Mar-16 8:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"Much fulminating reported by Fox News from various conservative sources about \"petty\" Obama \"snubbing\" the Nancy Reagan funeral (see also disappointed Bill O'Reilly at http:\/\/goo.gl\/KxNL20).Credit where credit is due, the article does note (halfway down):'Obama, though, hardly is setting a precedent by missing the funeral of a former first lady.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13659,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/31\/conservatives_for_obama.html","url_meta":{"origin":13648,"position":1},"title":"Conservatives for Obama","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 31-Oct-08 5:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"DOF summarizes some of the ship-jumping going on amongst some high-profile Republicans, who are choosing to vote for Obama. 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