Washington abuzz at Obama, Powell talks

Keeping to his words that he would go across the political divide and even include Republicans in his government in February 2009, Democratic presidential candidate Barrack Obama had a one-to-one meeting with Colin Powell, the former secretary of ...

It's the question rippling through Washington's chattering class conversations. These conversations were sparked by the National Journal's report that the two met privately on June 18 in Powell's Alexandria, Va., office and talked for about an hour. ...

Obama has long talked about reaching across the political divide and including Republicans in his future government. What stronger signal of bipartisanship could there be than an endorsement by a former member of the Bush Administration? Washington ...