The Colin Powell endorsement: Triumph of hope over reality
Gravitas.
The media’s in a tizzy over Colin Powell’s Meet the Press endorsement of Barack Obama this morning.
It’s not a surprise to anyone who’s paid attention to his pro-Obama murmurings over the last four months.
How will people outside the Beltway bubble respond?
Yawn.
Here’s the vid:
Powell’s embrace of Barack Obama is a triumph of hope over reality. He told Tom Brokaw that Obama’s “steadiness” and “not jumping in and changing every day” convinced him that The One was ready to lead.
Hello?
Guess Powell relied on Obama’s website after he purged his surge criticism from it.
Powell then goes on to pooh-pooh Obama’s longtime “limited relationship” with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers as an “issue that is not central” to the campaign — just as evidence of the closeness of these two very chummy “neighbors” mounts.
Judgment, schmudgment, eh, Secretary Powell?
Finally, we arrive at the real reason Powell is endorsing Obama: The party, he complains, has become too “narrow” for his tastes. Pro-abortion Powell can’t stand the thought of two more Republican Supreme Court appointments. He thinks Sarah Palin is too conservative. He shares the Obama view of our base as racist and non-inclusive — but has nothing to say about the rabid pack of America-damning preachers who helped make Obama the “transformational” figure Powell has placed his faith in.
Powell also makes reference to all the Obama-is-a-Muslim rumors, blaming the Republican Party for all that. Never mind the Democrat Hillary backers like Bob Kerrey and on down to her grass-roots supporters who indulged themselves and trafficked in those very rumors Powell smears conservatives for spreading.
The orgy of Obamedia attention Powell will receive the next 24 hours is disproportionate to its importance.
The press only loves maverick Republicans when they jump in bed with Democrats.
Just ask John McCain.
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One last note: I see in comments that many believe Powell supports Obama because he is black. Powell has said electing a black president would be “electrifying.” He is a staunch supporter of government racial preferences.
It’s a mistake, though, to attribute Powell’s endorsement primarily to some kind of race loyalty.
It’s Obama’s social liberalism, not his skin color, that attracts Powell most.
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I wonder how many of the 20 something age group actually know who Colin Powell is or what his role in the govt has been for the past 2 decades.
Can’t wait to see the (Cheeri)O spin his endorsement.
Since I don’t have a dog in this hunt professionally I’ll say this:
Not only does Powell think the tent is too small, he probably thinks it’s time for a black person to become President, no matter what the consequences to the country may be…. yes, I’m throwing that out there…… up anyone’s snoot if they see it as RACCCCCIIIIISSSST.
Colin Powell is BLACK, did anyone think he WOULDN’T support Obama????
This country is doomed…
I am sure Powell has a strong desire to support an African American candidate. Since Powell was a moderate it is not that surprising that he would endorse Obama.
The media wil portray this as a major defection from the Republican party, when the truth is that Powell got off that ship some time ago.
I am sure Powell has a strong desire to support an African American candidate. Since Powell was a moderate it is not that surprising that he would endorse Obama.
The media wil portray this as a major defection from the Republican party, when the truth is that Powell got off that ship some time ago.
On October 18th, 2008 at 8:11 pm, mistressjustice said:
What happens if Powell goes on MTP tomorrow and endorses Obama?
The extreme rightwing(Foxnews) will throw him under the bus. They’ve already mocked his recent hiphop dancing as a hint at a possible endorsement for Obama.
Liberals have tended to be easier on Powell, than the likes of Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice IMHO. I think Powell really does regret how and why the invasion of Iraq happened. In the black(democratic) community, based on my experience, he’s always been held in higher esteem than folks like Clarence Thomas and Alan Keyes. I’m not saying that some fringe losers haven’t called him a “house nigger” or “tom”. Generally speaking, I think Powell has received across the board “respect”.
If he endorses McCain:
Nothing changes. A few far left blogs will boringly insult him, but such an endorsement will be so consistent with his past record, nothing will change in the polls, or the media cycle. McCain and Palin will spend the next 5 days name dropping him in speeches.
If he endorses Obama:
Hold on to your seats. It will dominated the news cycle for a couple of days. The Left will prop him up as a disgruntled elephant who was so turned off by the Bush years, that he now supports Obama.(like Hagel, or Buckley). They will also use him to give credence to Obama’s foreign policy and Commander-in-Chief bonafides. He may pick up a point or two from independents.(I doubt it). He may lose a point or two from “certain” whites who may think that this was race based decision, and that’s it’s time to choose sides.(I’m paranoid, but I fear this). As an Obama supporter, I’d just as well have Powell not endorse anybody right now. Obama is in a position of great strength right now, and I don’t want any new “developments” to change the speed or direction.
I’m shocked!
Powell has never been comfortable in the Republican Party and has always been a closet liberal . . . the bottom line is, “Black trumps Party”.
This was really a no-brainer. You could’ve read Powell’s tea leaves two years ago on this. The real question is does America really know what’s at stake in this election; Getting back at Bush via Obama or being saddled with non-returnable mega social programs for the rest of this country’s life. I also think Obama’s presidency will have social effects on the black community (i.e. self-esteem and self-motivation) that are quite the reverse what libs assume (you know that adage about appreciating things best that you earn yourself)/ I regret only now McCain’s wisened up to us the “S”ocialism word. Maybe too damn late. I for one hope there are are ways to nullify the effects of a Obaman/lib presidency.
James Greenidge
Queens New York
A Thompson man forced to vote McCain to keep a socialist monster in his cage.
Reasons to vote Obama:
I want to be part of history!
I don’t want to feel like a bigot.
President McCain wrecked the economy!
Sh*t! There goes the black vote.
Seriously, this may have a silver lining. It just underscores the theme that Blacks sre the real racists in this election.
Is this the same person that was accused of being a puppet and being a house ni——r stuck on a plantation?
Do they mean that Colin Powell?
So now he matters to them?
No big surprise. Shouldn’t matter, as I don’t think endorsements are important. Most of the Obamabots won’t know who this dude is anyway.
Only those who haven’t been paying attention.
But I think the more appropriate question for Powell is whether he would be backing a candidate with the same Marxist policies, nefarious associations and lack of experience if said candidate were white.
And I think we all know the answer to that.
Time for the attack army! Any more silly pictures of him? Did he ever meet Ayers?
I utterly respect him and his choice to pick Obama is a massive blow to the McCain campaign, despite MM trying ever so hard to play it down….
Colin Powell was probably one of the most under-performing and underwhelming secretary’s of state in a long time.
I doubt anyone, except the hyperventilating left wing media really cares.
If ordinary people can’t even name the vice president of the united states, do you seriously expect them to remember who Colin Powell was?
There’s a reason “hope” was one of the evils contained in Pandora’s box, and it isn’t good.
Hope is a deceiver: it keeps mankind stagnant and inert, waiting for the things that may come, rather than taking responsibility for one’s own fortune through hard work and self-determination.
Given the huge government Obama and Pelosi and Reid have planned for our futures, should the catastrophe of a BHO victory occur, I guess hope is a very appropriate theme for the BHO campaign as self-determination will have ended.
Powell’s funniest line was Palin wasn’t ready to be prez, while the truth is she’s much more qualified than Obama.
The Presidential Tyranny of Obama, these coming years, will hit all hard, and tragically. None will be spared, none will thrive.
But of those hurt the most, it will be urban blacks (and hispanics to an extent). Among them there is no real sense of community, they will fight each other most viciously, the murder rate — already high — will skyrocket as groups fight for dominance.
Yeh, McCain did have Powell on his short list for SECDEN didnt he. Woe-is-me… what’s he gonna do now for a backup plan.
Considering how Powell spoke, acted and led during the first Gulf War…his endorsement of ObamAcorn clearly is about race.
Back then, and a few times since, he has been very clear when talking about learning the “lessons of Vietnam”. Considering he endorses someone who wants to cut and run from Iraq, someone who is friends with another who committed acts of domestic terrorism to force a cut and run from Vietnam, there is nothing left other than race.
Nothing is more frustrating to a soldier than a supposed leader who only stands behind the soldier when it’s convenient.
I guess Powell now has no problem with cutting and running.
Not sure about the Powell endorsement of Sen Obama. On some level it has it’s importance and may move people one way, or the other. Does it have any impact greater than any other celebrity endorsement? Maybe, maybe not. I remain unswayed. My interest (curiosity) is the process and logic Gen Powell laid out.
Certainly, an equally and compelling process and logical case can be made for Sen McCain. The gist of it all was more about feelings. They’re all good, we all have them, but it is the issues that ultimately matter most.
Have you considered purchasing a bunker?
How does the Left “prop up” the Iraq war’s biggest cheerleader and remain credible in their anti-war stance?
In fact, if it weren’t for Powell making the war palatable to the American populace via his tv appearances, I doubt there’d ever have been a US invasion into Saddam HUSSEIN’s Iraq!
What’s even more laughable is that Obama already has his cabinet picked out and his transition team is having meetings.
His campaign is telling the media that it’s already over.
It’s a typical strategy to keep the Republicans and Independents from even showing up at the booths with the “myth of inevitability”.
It ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings. And I don’t hear any singing just yet.
To understand Gen. Powell and his opinion of how the world stage should be played , read John Bolton’s book” Surrender is Not an Option”. Mr Bolton does, IMHO, a very even handed telling of his experience with an admitted RINO in deed and thought.
I guess Powell would like everyone to get on the, “Kill your parents” bandwagon brought to you by Ayers. Powell is just another useless tool. He was hedging his bets anyway. Only a piker would endorse this late in the game.
Didn’t Powell come up through the ranks because of ROTC opportunities; the same group of people the Ayers-Obama types tried to nail bomb in the 60’s?
Talk about forgetting where you come from.
Even if Obama wins, Palin will still have more experience in the next four years than he will, when she kicks his a$$ mano-a-mana.
If Obama were smart, he would nominate/include her in his administration. That way he could place her into a no-win death-spiral job that would fully marginalize her.
(It must suck to get your butt kicked by a geriatric and a PTA mom)
I’m not sure Powell was ever a republican…was he? He always came across as somewhat of a leftie to me, although he was careful to stay out of political rhetoric while he was in the military. This doesn’t surprise me.
Powell has long been a lib and might as well be a Democrat,the same as Arnold.I believe race also has it’s place in his decision.It’s funny that those who talk of wanting a colorless society,sure do bring color up a lot.
We need to face facts. This is the last nail in the coffin. I know most folks here do not like McCain but he was the only Republican who had a shot this year. He was game but the financial crisis (and his answer to it) doomed him.
Obama is the result of Bush. Wheb Bush started talking about “compassionate conservatism” we all should have raised alarm bells. His unseriousness after going into Iraq, his tone deafness, his manifest unseriousness has lead us here.
We as conservatives need to rethink a lot.
What Powell could mean is that he knows Obama is as allied to the muslim religion he learned as a child, as the christian religion he learned as an adult. That means Obama’s religion — in BOTH cases — is that of a opportunist. Religion as a political club. Join to be part of the mob, in other words.
When Obama told Joe the Plumber Obama was going to make Joe share his wealth, Obama meant it. Obama will have run most powerful armed mob in history. He will have no compunctions against using that power to spread what Obama — as tyrant dictatorial President — views as “his” to spread.
Powell wants to be in that mob.
Do you suppose anyone on the left will mention the mobile biological trailers like they have previously?
…or his appearance at the UN?
I assume that was sarcasm. Most blacks and even most Americans in general don’t have a clue who Colin Powell is.
Sausage, you cop a fool’s attitude. Tell me, are you smart enough to answer your own question that you asked me?
He showed his true colors during “CIA-Leak” trial by keeping quiet knowing the truth who the real leaker – just to hurt the Bushies.
In my opinion, I think the general perception is that Powell was “used” to gain support for the war. He’s never received as much venom as folks like Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld. He retired soon after the war got going. Since he retired, he’s hardly been a strong voice in favor the Bush, or republicans in general. I doubt if this endorsement will cause more people to vote for Obama, but it will serve as yet another indictment on the Bush years, and his policies.
When you stop and look at Powell’s public record and think about it a little bit, it’s clear that all the criticism that the cocktail conservative crowd has leveled at Palin would apply much more easily to Colin Powell. What a mediocrity.
Interesting that Powell doesn’t see that many of the people supporting Obama are the same kinds of people Powell fought against in the Gulf war, etc. You know, radicals bent on destroying a country. Rather ironic.
Lifelong Commie fighter endorses communism … Nope it’s all about race.
Powell’s character, sitting silent while he knew the truth about the Novak-Armitage affair all along.
When you decide to go to war, there are no do-overs. No vote-overs. War decisions are final. The one who led the charge at the UN SC, made the case for WMDs, tally ho, get Saddam — And then said oops, sorry my mistake, Bush lied. Nope, Bush lied, Powell lied.
I wonder what the backlash for the anti-war Obama-nuts will be?
I can only hope that Obama gets torn down in shame. We need right wing thugs to rip Obama down; destroy him.
Yep.
Oh, don’t worry. NOBODY will listen to Powell.
After all, he’s the guy that came to the U.N. and proved with pictures that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction. We all know what a joke that was. So what kind of credibility can he have now ?
Did some of you liberals ever stop to consider that what the press/media build up, they just as easily and readily tear down?
Mind you, a BHO victory will not take place, because he is too liberal and stand-offish, but if it should, rest assured an Obama administration will eventually be given a full comeuppance from the press for everything from Ayers to Wright to Franklin Raines.
An Obama presidency will be contentious, shocking and revealing.
The perception would be incredibly foolish and ignorant then considering the intelligence he saw during the first Gulf War, and before any action was taken in Iraq this time.
Powell would have been aware of just about any scrap on intelligence involving the ME considering the positions he was in. Ignoring that and endorsing ObamAcorn tells me his choice is opportunist.
Off topic…but, did anyone see FOX News about one half hour ago? They showed a video of an ACORN rally where everyone was dressed in red with acorn emblem on their shirts. The woman at the podium was saying they needed to get out there and get Obama elected! She said that we need Obama! ACORN needs Obama! Yeah, right, this is a non-partisan organization that we the taxpayers are funding. How do we stop this freight train of corruption if most of the media won’t report it?
At least Hillary had the sand to tear into Obama. It was her handler who told her to back off. Who cares if Obama is black that’s no excuse to turn him into mince meat during a debate; something McCain failed to do. I respect Hillary more than I ever have for at least cutting into Obama.
This white man guilt crap is going to end soon.
Yep, add him to the pile of retired generals that the left trots out against “Bush’s War”.
McCain-Palin still win with over 300 electoral votes.
Bradley Wilder effect.
Broken glass.
…since we all know Blacks can’t be racist, I guess I must be the racist for thinking that Powell has endorsed Marxist Barry Hussein Obama simply because he is about half Black?
Not news to me.
In fact right now I am waiting for the other shoe to drop. You can guess whose endorsement it is…
Anyway, on to the real news: Hatred and hatemongering is still the practice of liberal Democrats.
Two men came to the GOP headquarters where I volunteer. They requested yard signs and other McCain/Palin campaign materials, remarking on the dearth of the same in their neighborhood. They gave an address in the south of town, so the volunteer incharge of signs happily gave them a stack of materials.
As soon as the men came out of the office, they dumped the materials they got into the trash bin at the back of the building. A McCain supporter who saw the men throwing the signs away yelled at them. They ran to their car and sped away. Luckily someone was able to note their license plate number. A police report had been made. I hope those men get hauled to court.
These are the Obama supporters. Apparently they wanted people to see them trashing the signs! You can bet they will flourish and become more arrogant in an Obama regime.
At one time I had great respect for Powell. However that was before he entered the State Department.
Powell should have followed General McArthur and Just Fade Away.
Laugh it up now MJ the fight is just getting started. Expect sacrifice now.
Full agreement, as if Powell would jump at the chance to support a ticket headed by Clarence Thomas and vice-presidential nominee Thomas Sowell. The only surprise to me was that he waited so long to give his endorsement. I actually thought he had already done so. Next stop I guess is Condi Clueless (H/T to Debbie Schlussel) who is also a race preference, Israelis-are-just-like-Southern-Bigots, jive turkey.
Powell says that Obama will be a “transformative” figure. No doubt about that. But transform to what is the question. Many of us who are not on the Ayers’ plantation have our concerns.
I pray that all those who are despairing of the republicans winning will STILL GET OUT THERE AND VOTE!! They want us to give up and stay home. That would be just plain stupid.
The evidence turned out to be fugezi. Tell me how often did you hear Powell speaking out as a strong voice for the Iraq invasion and Bush in general, after his retirement.
Please… spare me. You can go two ways with that, either you claim it was racial preferences that got him to where he was and that he was clueless and “used” by the Neo-Cons or you can face reality.
Colin Powel was a 4-star General and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In the US Military it doesnt get anymore powerful than that. (for anyone out there please correct me if I am mistaken) His fingerprint is on EVERY strategic plan that the US has in its arsenal. US strategy is based on chess moves DECADES IN ADVANCE.
The Iraq strategy is just ONE PHASE (chess move) of the US global strategic initiative (chess game) that is in play. The military objectives we are accomplishing today (tactics), is tailoring the United States power 30, 50, 100 years in the future (strategy). (And dont be nieve, EVERY country has a similar process)
Colin Powell was not used…. he was one of the players.
Powell said long ago that he got where he was due to affirmative action. Does this mean he likes the idea of an empty-suit affirmative action president? I guess it does. I wonder what MLK would have thought, since he wanted people to be “judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin”.
Huh?
The only thing Obama is going to do if elected is to put the most radically left people in his cabinet and have his loony left congress tow the line. Resulting in laws that cause irreversible damage to the country. Only thing that will fix this is after two years of complete disaster, there will be another Gingrich-type Republican revolution that will displace the Democrat majority in both the house and senate.
If he offered something to Palin, she would tell him to go f… himself. Maybe not in that word because she is a true Christian. But something to that effect.
As I have said before, McCain never got me jazzed up, but I would have went to the polls anyway, likely after having a couple toddy’s.
When he picked Palin, I started to warm up.
After getting to know Palin, and seeing how viciously the left and the drive-by media attacked her and her family, I figured out which ticket I would vote for.
I would now crawl through a mile of broken glass to vote for the McCain/Palin ticket.
Yes.
Powell has never been that strong a friend to conservatives but has always been a patriot, I wonder how he will feel if Obama wins and promptly surrenders in Iraq? I also wonder how the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs will feel participating in an administration with a strong undercurrent of William Ayers (terrorist) undercutting patriots in the room?
In the past the former general conversed freely with the likes of mainstream authors like Al Santoli, will he speak with Ayers?
Well, I voted yesterday by mail, but of course since this is the one-party state of Washington I have probably already voted several times (and will continue to do so long after I have left this earthly plain.)
Anyway, this time I voted for Palin-McCain. Here’s wishing that Barack O’Dewey is heading for a big surprise. But not getting my hopes up or taking bets either.
That’s your opinion, and maybe you’re right. Based on my experiences, that doesn’t seem to be the perception amongst democrats who respect him. Perception is what matters in situations like this.
To a certain degree, Bush was probably used to. Probably due to the family legacy preferences that put him in power.
Is there anybody out there who thinks the timing on this wasn’t planned by the Obama Campaign? This is probably only the beginning of the October stampede of “conservatives” for Obama designed to put the last nails in John McCain’s coffin. When we come out the otherside of this mess (assuming we survive) conservatives had better remember who was with us and who was with “them” when “push came to shove”.
I would too, but I already know who this radical lefty loony state is going to vote for — I’m in CA.
Still voting McCain/Palin.
You can’t be serious!! As stated before, most people don’t even know who the heck Powell is! Now, if he were to get endorsements from Puffy Combs, or Oprah, or…oh never mind.
I just had a spit on the computer screen moment.
Did Powell also say he’s still a Republican?
Please…in what way?
PS: Elections Matter! We’re about to find out how much.
The only thing I can think is how we’re going to look back and think Bill Clinton wasn’t a really bad President after Obama gets done with us!
I know he didn’t speak out, but was that based on other intelligence he saw?
He, like many others throughout the world believed the intelligence we had at the time and advocated for action.
As for him not speaking out, Powell’s philosophy in going to war is to do so with overwhelming force. It’s likely he had a strong difference of opinion over the strategy.
I still think Powell is ignoring every principle he had as a military man in favor of an opportunity.
Correction required:
The only thing the radically left Congress need to do is get Obama elected and have him tow the party’s agenda line
What cabinet position has Powell been promised for his endorsement?
I sure hope it is not Sec of State, he was a disaster at that one before.
Maybe he could be the newly created Sec. of Blackness.
You and the media and anyone else who is outside the process have no clue how it really works (or even me for that matter)…. LOL
Is this because of Obama’s race? LOL
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…now he just wants to be a playa’.
The MoveOn/Powell endorsement?
I don’t like communists. Obama is a bad choice. So what I get a tax cut.
I’ve lost all respect for Powell.
Listening to him blame McCain for ‘terrorist’ and ‘muslim’ name calling is absurd and dishonest.
History will tell your story Colin Powell, and now it has a blemish the size of Chicago politics.
Obama hates everything you stood for, Mr. Secretary.
If you have to LIE to switch sides, it doesn’t say much about YOU.
Maybe Powell is not the man nor the leader I thought he was…just another follower.
You’re probably right. Maybe somebody on the inside will write a book some day.
Right now, perception is all that matters, and the Bush administration has lost on this point. McCain could feel the effects.
Powell left the Republican party a LONG time ago. This isn’t even news.
I think you have it wrong, MM.
Let’s see: Lifelong military man endorses anti-military punk instead of former military man who served and sacrificed for his country?
Naaaah. Couldn’t have anything to do with race.
Powell, who took an oath to defend his country against its enemies, endorses man whose beliefs run counter to that oath?
Just a trivial detail, right?
Powell uses insane “reasoning” (”Oooh! Osama Obama has been called a Muslim!”) to justify his choice?
Nothin’ racial there, right?
There is only one possible reason for Powell to have made this endorsement once all the lame excuses and justifications have been cast aside: Powell is black, and so is Obama.
Take it to the Man, bro.
Powell is the dude who accepted the botched WMD intelligence from Germany. Whatever. It’s probably good he endorsed Obama.
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Oh Gawd.:)
For a life-long military man like Powell to endorse Obama is absolutely pathetic (and he knows it), especially when the opponent is McCain. Can you say – Oprah in drag.
That’s what happens when democrats only think of people like Powell as tokens. They don’t believe they have the ability to be a player, therefore they were used and can be forgiven.
Powell is BLACK, why is any one surprised at this, didn’t you notice???
Or do you think because he used the system to become wealthy that he is going to like whitey?
There is WHITE guilt, there is only black hate.
“Obama“… “change“…. riiiiight.
It was no surprise, but what he said was a total SHOCKER. ALL BS.
What would you do if it was you, Powell, that was so un-American like attacked just as the left did to Petreus?
Have you no integrity?
Powell, I am talking to you.
Oh my God… is that photo of Powell gettin jiggy with the Pee Diddler a real photo, or is that doctored?
I agree with Michelle, Powell has served his country most honorably and deserves better than name-calling and wild leaps of conclusion. Anyone who reads this blog regularly could not make a case for me being anything but a staunch conservative but I respect his decision the same way I would want mine respected. I do question his wisdom but time will have the last word on that.
That’s disgusting using the Republican imprint like that. The least they could do and still be honest is rename themselves RINO’s for ObamAcorn.
Strange mistressjustice is mostly right this morning. I’ll slay her dragon of the left some other day.
I actually don’t think Powell is/was thought of as a token. I think it has more to do with the fact that Powell left the adminsitration, and wasn’t a strong voice for it or the war during retirement. I know you explained your take on this issue earlier.
Big deal…so a Republican endorses Obama.
And let’s not forget…Hillary did get close to 18 million votes in the country, and Obama hasn’t been able to convince most of them to go with him.
I happen to know someone that handled Powell’s security a few years ago.
The only thing my friend would say about Powell was that he was a “raging rooster”.
Only replace the word rooster with the four-letter synonym.
Please delete my profile from this blog.
Thank you, in advance.