The media is making a big deal about Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama… but I wasn’t surprised… not one bit. I am sure this is something Obama was saving for the best possible moment, and with polls tightening Barack saw that the time was right to roll this out.
But will it matter? I say no. Powell is no Republican, he was never on board with Iraq. Powell “says” the endorsement is not about race… but I don’t believe it. Rush says it all here:
So I fire up the Drudge page, and I see Colin Powell has endorsed the Most Merciful Barack Obama. And then I see some of the things that Powell said. He said it wasn’t about race, and he said he would have difficulty with any more Republican Supreme Court appointments. So I’m making notes of this and out of the blue comes an e-mail from Jonathan Martin at The Politico. “Hey, Rush, you got anything to say about this?” I wrote him and said, “Jonathan, look, I’m here in Green Bay with the Colts and the Packers, I don’t have a lot of time.” I just fired off a couple little thoughts, couple little paragraphs.
I said, “Secretary Powell says this endorsement’s not about race. Okay, fine. What I’m doing now Jonathan is researching Powell’s past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal white candidates that he has endorsed. I’ll let you know what I come up with.” Then the next paragraph I sent to Jonathan Martin of the Politico said, “As for Powell’s statement of concern that he would have difficulty with two more Republican Supreme Court nominees, I was unaware that he had dislike for John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, and Antonin Scalia. I guess he also regrets Ronald Reagan making him a four-star general. I guess he also regrets George Bush making him secretary of state. I guess he also regrets George H. W. Bush naming him chairman of the Joint Chiefs. I guess he’s also upset that a Republican appointed his son to head the FCC. Yeah, let’s hear it for transformational figures,” because Powell had said Obama’s a transformational figure, and yet Colin Powell is who he is and is a household name because of Republicans.
This endorsement says more about Powell than it does about Obama… and what it says about Powell is not good.
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