Reaching out:: Obama to host dinners honoring Powell, Biden and McCain

By GottaLaff

I'm not sure I could be this generous:

President-elect Obama will host a series of dinners the night before his inauguration honoring Ret. Gen. Colin Powell, Vice President-elect Joe Biden, and his former presidential rival, Republican Sen. John McCain, the Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Saturday.

"In these times of great challenge and great change, leadership requires rising above the same old narrow partisanship," the president-elect said in a statement released by the committee.

"Each of these distinguished Americans has spent his life in service to his country, at each and every moment placing the interests of America before issues of political party. That is precisely the spirit of common purpose we need as we begin the work ahead."

Have you ever seen a (soon-to-be) president go so out of his way to be inclusive? Or to put it another way, Obama's the anti-Bush.

Oh, and by the way: Powell is not looking for an administration job.