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While he said he had not decided whom to support, he said he was impressed by Mr. Obama’s ability to “learn quickly.”
“With Senator Obama, he didn’t have a lot of experience running a presidential campaign, did he?” Mr. Powell said. “But he seems to know how to organize a task, and he seems to know how to apply resources to a problem at hand.”
Mr. Obama said that he had not spoken to Mr. Powell recently, but that he valued his remarks.
“He’s somebody whose counsel I value,” Mr. Obama told the Chicago television stations WGN and CLTV, “and I’m grateful for his recognition that we can have differences of opinion — or be part of different political parties — but that we can still acknowledge the service we are rendering to the country.”
