Dr. Tilford is certainly right about Gen. Powell having had the Republican nomination if he’d wanted it. Many of us were deeply disappointed that Gen. Powell opted out. (Further proof that God “protects fools and small children”….and it’s been a looong time since I was a small child!)

Gen. Powell has had a long and illustrious career, and I hope history is kind to him. However, he’s lost any respect and admiration I had for him. A man (black, white, or pink-with-purple-polka-dots) who advocates the genocide of his own people has nothing to say that I’m interested in hearing.

However, by endorsing Obama, he rejected McCain. Why? What did McCain do or not do to warrant rejection? McCain indeed has all the pros you enumerated and Obama the negatives. What general in his right mind would support a civilian with such little experience as a leader?

I firmly believe the endorsement is for three reasons:

Supreme Court appointments: abortion issues.
Payback: bitterness at being the dupe for Bush
Race: In another article on CE I posted the links quoting Powell that his people got here “in chains….they didn’t just fall from the sky”.

Others have said Powell is getting something. Time will tell.

He’s irrelevant anyway to this election. Nobody cares about military heroism or leadership experience or else McCain would be faring better. Further the Doves will never trust him, so he doesn’t win them for Obama. Blacks already are in lock step with Dems, so are gays, lesbians, pro aborts, and Hollywood. Who did he gain for Obama? Maybe a few “undecideds” who were in Obama’s pocket, too, only were too cagey or desperate for attention to admit it.

By the way, according to my military sources, he is a shade of green: dark green, and that’s the way he’s voting.