Any chance of this happening?
I don’t think he’d publicly endorse him, but he has said that he might vote for him, and he hasn’t endorsed McCain.
My voodoo mojo says he will. I think he’s itching for a chance to stick it to the guys who wiped their asses with his reputation without being directly “disloyal”. Two bits says he does it.
Robert Novack seems to think he will. Not that he’s an authority on the subject or anything, but his opinion is noteworthy nonetheless.
Personally, I think he proved to the nation while sitting in front of the United Nations, knowingly lying for the Bushies, that he has no moral character, let alone balls, which leads me to believe he will never stand up against his party and endorse their opponent. He doesn’t have the cojones to do something that honorable.
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak, who has very deep knowledge of the Republican party says he will.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/novak/1025358,CST-EDT-novak26.article
*The prototypical Obamacon may be Larry Hunter, an ardent supply-sider. When it became known recently that Hunter supports Obama, fellow conservatives were stunned. Hunter was fired as U.S. Chamber of Commerce chief economist in 1993 when he would not swallow Clinton administration policy, and later joined Jack Kemp at Empower America.
Explaining his support for the uncompromising liberal Obama, Hunter blogged: “The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders stumbling around like zombies in a horror version of “Weekend With Bernie,” handcuffed to a corpse.”
Colin Powell is said by friends to share Hunter’s analysis of the GOP. His tenuous 13-year relationship with the Republican Party, after his retirement from the Army, has ended. The national security adviser for Reagan left the present administration bitter about being ushered out of the State Department a year earlier than he wanted. As an African American, friends say, Powell is sensitive to racial attacks on Obama, and especially his wife. While McCain strategists shrug off defections from Bartlett and Hunter, they wince in anticipation of headlines about Powell’s expected endorsement of Obama.*
Hmmm. Poet Laureate position open?
Concur. That is a beautiful piece of description.
That’s a terrible trap you’ve put him in. No matter what he does, unless it’s the specific thing you want, you get to say “see? I told you he’s a dishonest and dishonorable scumbag! I knew all along!”
Why would he automatically vote for Obama. Is Powell Muslim too?
I agree. And would a Colin Powell endorsement carry any weight anyway? Obama doesn’t need him.
No, actually he’s a good house boy who won’t turn on his masters. He’ll keep his mouth shut, at least until after November.
-Joe
He’s already advising Obama on foreign policy, and has refused to endorse McCain. I don’t see his endorsement of Obama as a stretch. The endorsement would have no effect on extremists of either party, but would have a great effect on most people.
Actually, she appears to have said that he’s ALREADY proven that “he’s a dishonest and dishonorable scumbag!” Past tense. And that she doesn’t believe he has it in him to be anything else.
I thought they had lied to him. Dammit, I liked the guy.
“House boy”? “Masters”? If any conservative had used this type of racist rhetoric against a liberal black person, can you imagine the uproar? But since it’s Colin Powell being targeted, I guess it’s OK, huh?
Count me among the handful of Dems who think that Powell genuinely believed what he was saying when he spoke to the UN Security Council about Iraq’s WMD program. From all I’ve read, he grilled DCI George Tenet and other CIA honchos before the speech, line by line, to be sure that everything he was going to say was, er, the straight dope. The SecState also insisted that Tenet sit there behind him during the speech, symbolically backing up what he said. But, of course, it turned out the data was wrong/exaggerated/wishful thinking.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Powell endorses Obama, but I think it would be on the merits, and not because of bitterness at how badly misled he was in '03, or shabbily he was shown the door of the State Dept. in '05.
Yes, lots of people went more than a little bit crazy in the wake of 9/11. They believed all sorts of implausible stuff to be true. With the passage of years, some have had the insight needed to re-evaluate their beliefs, others remain crazy.
So is it Powell or me who remains crazy? :dubious:
Would a Powell endorsement really help Obama all that much? Powell’s pretty much out of the Republican mainstream.
I can even see it working against Obama. Some people will claim that this is proof that “those people” always stick together and put racial loyalty above anything else. That’ll be fuel for the Republican meme that Obama will show favoritism to blacks over whites if elected.
Powell is nobody’s house boy. I think he tried too much to be a party loyalist and his big mistake when he went before the UN is that he decided to trust the neocons even though he didn’t trust them, and it bit him in the ass. They betrayed him far more than he thought they’d be capable of doing, and he isn’t happy about what they did to his reputation. He trusted them with his credibility (he was the only person in the administration who had any) and they treated it like a rented bungalo during Spring Break.
I think he has tacitly endorsed Obama already, simply by praising him, hinting that he might vote for him and – most telling of all – by not endorsing McCain. Will he make it any more explicit than that? Maybe, but I have my doubts. I don’t think that’s his style. I think he’s put a thumb in the GOP’s eye just by what he’s already said (and not said).