So, Colin Powell has endorsed Obama, at the very last second. Yay, what a maverick. Usual suspects saying the usual things. I know, I know, automatically if a Black guy gets nominated for President every Black person in the world must stand behind him, right? Stupid welfare queens. Can't be about the policies of the last eight years, or having Batshit Base Attractor as your running mate. Nope, has to be that they both are Black. Interesting that Zell Miller wasn't vilified for crossing party lines to endorse the fellow White guy, Bush. Hopefully a sensible republican will stand up when this is all over and say to his fellows, (to phrase Hudson) "Hey, maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked, pal!" That maybe the people they brought to the dance are not really who they want to dance with. But probably not.
Now back to Powell, I lost a bit of respect for him on February 5, 2003, at the UN. He seems to always have this halo of greatness about him, but when has he ever shown a spine except to stand up to the Clenis to oppose gays in the military? If I knew in a suburb of the Twin Cities that the run up to the war was bullshit how could he not? This reeks to me as a man who is trying to rehabilitate a failed image, and it must be working. My Grandma was just giddy about the endorsement and could not understand my underwhelmed reaction. And I suppose this will help with moderates and undecideds (those self-important assholes) who are still unsure. As usual, Digby has a much better post on why, while this is good and all, it maybe could have been a little sooner. Amongst other things.
UPDATE:I totally forgot, I really should applaud Powell for finally saying what has been an issue to me with all of this "Is he a Muslim?" bullshit. Really, why should it matter? That was brave and it needed to be said, by someone, anyone, everyone.
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I was really kind of floored when he made the “why should it matter if he is Muslim or not” statement. I am shocked that no one else in the media has brought up this point. Maybe they have and I missed it.
Since there has been such an effort to demonize Muslims by the right that trying to link him to that would be a no-brainer. I assume that since the undecided voter who can’t be bothered to come up with a philosophy about the way the country should be run economically or have a stand on social issues, was easily convinced that Muslim=Terrorist.
My favorite part is they get Lieberman, we get Colin Powell. I would take that trade any day. I am too lazy to look for it, but I guarantee that Powell’s name was thrown out there as VP by more than a couple right wingers. Those people now are claiming he cannot see past race.
I guess I voted for Lieberman to be VP. Ooops.
I know, right? It is so funny that the Right really has nothing in this election. So they go to their old reliable standby. And yes, I would much rather have Powell than Lieberman, any day. I too voted for him. Think how bad that would have been after they impeached Gore after 9/11.
I just remembered. I didn't even vote for Gore in 2000. Since it was a safe bet that Gore would win Minnesota, I wasted my vote on Nader. However, if you look at the results from Florida from 2000, the folks that wasted their votes gave GW the election. Adding the official results of Gore and Nader gives Gore 3,009,674 and adding Bush and all the other fringe candidates gives Bush a 2,953,376. They would have had to work that much harder to surpress votes without Nader.
Although my theory is that Nader in the race made it much easier to swallow for Joe 30 pack (Any dude that buys a six pack is a sissy or is going to a BYOB party) to vote for Gore when he knows that the Hippies are voting for Nader.
Impeached Gore? They would have killed him in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
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