Cheney made him soiled goods by forcing him to front the “case for war” to the UN, and then threw him on the garbage heap. Now Colin Powell gets his revenge on the governing clique that always hated him.
Not that Obama particularly needs the boost right now, and not that McCain is the same as CheneyBush, but it still tastes pretty sweet. Powell was a company man who was deliberately betrayed, but he never lost credibility among the Repub base or mainstream US, so his floor-crossing endorsement is big news. Even more so given that usually he’s reluctant to speak out at all, thanks to his deeply ingrained good-soldier approach to politics (the same one that led him to ruin by dutifully presenting garbage intelligence with those satellite photos of Saddam’s “weapon factories” ahem).
I remember at a party in ’99 or so, gleefully predicting that the 2004 US Presidential race would be between Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell. I was, of course, completely wrong but it has been nice to see them both in play in 2008, with all that confrontational identity content (race, gender) well in the mix. I kinda imagine that the USA right now feels like it’s getting healthy for the first time in years.
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I think Michelle Obama will make an awesome president’s partner (geez, can’t they come up with a better title than 1st lady)… I can’t wait ’til her kids are big and she runs for president herself:-)