Powell’s Endorsement Was Not About Race
By Kleinheider Posted on October 20, 2008 at 4:02 pmIt was about preserving power and influence:
His reputation took a severe hit from the flawed intelligence included in his U.N. presentation on Iraq, so Powell’s only option was to endorse the one candidate who has come to symbolize the anti-war movement, someone who wasn’t forced to consider the threat, weigh the evidence and make a responsible decision. Just as they’ve done with John Kerry, John Edwards and Joe Biden, the radical Left will eventually swallow hard and largely forgive Powell’s trespasses.
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It was about more than preserving power and influence. I bet you would have accepted his answers on Meet the Press completely if it had been for John McCain.
Yeah, it can’t possibly be that he honestly thought Obama was the better choice. For, ya know, all the reasons he actually gave us.
On PBS they said that Powell’s support to Obama’s race gave him (the latter) an important lift.
I agree about the “only option” impression. I thought Powell’s analysis was uncharacteristically weak, which made it seem like he was experiencing an out of body experience driven by necessity.
It was also as if Brokaw also perceived that to be the case as well, for he allowed Powell to go unquestioned for several minutes, seemingly lest he bring the whole argument down with a few simple, obvioius questions.
For example, Powell cited the relative strengths of Biden. Well, Biden voted against expelling Saddam from Kuwait. Brokaw should have asked Powell to reconcile that as well as Obama’s opposition to the surge.
It seemed almost as if, as a condition of Powell making the endorsement on MTP, he’d be given an uninterrupted speech. A total bastardization of the program’s format. Strange.
There was no reason Powell couldn’t have endorsed Obama a month ago when McCain was leading in the polls. But Powell did not endorse Obama then. Powell waited until the smart money said that the presidency was in the bag for Obama.
Powell’s endorsement will always be suspect as an act of opportunism, not conscience, and Powell has nobody else to blame for that.
Funny thing, Powell throws his lot in with a crowd that heretofore considered him to be an unindicted war criminal. Such strange new respect for Colin Powell who argued so forcefully for a war you opposed.
Obamatons, it’s not just a case of “swallowing hard.” Nope, you still don’t, can’t, or won’t understand that Your Personal Messiah has now turned you into the political equivalents of jailhouse b***ches who’ll grease up and roll over anytime he snaps his fingers and gives you a far-off, soulful look. You’ll accept the Powell endorsement because to do otherwise would mean expulsion from the Mind-Hive.
“But he’s so well-spoken, smooth, and smart…he wouldn’t dare lie to us, would he?”
LOL, Powell is now being tabbed as an advisor to Obama? This is the same man who once claimed Saddam was in league with AQ, then went to the UN with evidence the left roundly dismissed as fabricated lies. All the while Obama was in Chicago saying the invasion was wrong, later upping it to “the worst foreign policy mistake” ever. Powell then called Iraq a “civil war”, yet the main instigators were foreigners like al-Masri and al-Zarqawi and al-Zawahiri. So, who’s advising whom?
If Obama were white, not only this discussion but the endorsement would have never happened. It may have been about preserving power but it was also about race. To Democratic politicians and African Americans, it’s always about race.
No, it was pretty much all about race.
It’s all about improved speaking fees and not being harassed at airports. Powell is old and bloated and probably a little lazy. He doesn’t need the grief, it’s easier this way.
Of course race had nothing to do with it. Powell today still says that we had to go into Iraq with the info we had, which of course matches Obama’s position on the war. He is concerned about Palin’s lack of experience, which of course pales(oops, is that racist?) next to Obama’s vast executive experience. And he hates McCain’s negative campaign ads, which of course is opposite the ‘positive’ only messages of Obama concerning Mccain’s taxing health insurance, cutting medicaid and Medicare and calling him McBush. Powells endorsement makes perfect sense.