The Big Endorsement
After hearing the rumors for several weeks, I first heard about Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama on Twitter yesterday.
My reaction at the time was a knee jerk one and I offered this tweet:
“I don’t care about Powells endorsement. I haven’t forgiven him over the march to war in iraq and that bs united nations presentation”
I was upset with Colin Powell and I’m still upset with Colin Powell.
Friends of mine offer a variety of explantions for Powell’s role in the war. It didn’t make me feel any better unfortunately.
I also didn’t appreciate that Colin Powell was making his endorsement with less than 3 weeks left in the election and with Obama in the lead by most measures (although i know it ain’t over yet). That’s like me suddenly becoming a Tampa Bay Rays fan (because they are going to kill the Phillies). Are we to believe that Colin Powell really didn’t have a firm opinion until now? Maybe I guess.
But I will confess. My tweet came from of the emotional part of me. I hadn’t actually seen or read his actual endorsement.
Until this morning.
And guess what. I was very impressed. And I’m glad that he endorsed Barack Obama.
It’s doesn’t mean that I’m over my other issues.
But in this case Powell did the right thing.
