Comments on: Colin Powell’s Support For Barack Obama – An Inside Look at the Republican Party’s Real Plans

By: Tanveer Naseer

Tanveer Naseer — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:39:58 +0000

I agree Powell’s endorsement is self-serving. After all, he is a politician now and I think we’d all be hard-pressed to find a single politician that does anything out of altruism. But I believe his comment of being willing to work on Obama’s team is more along the lines of a contract-negotiating tactic where he’s basically telling the Republicans he’s now a free agent. Given their impending defeat, they really can’t afford to lose people of his caliber from their team.

Who knows – perhaps in 4 years we may even see Powell as a VP-candidate on the next Republican ticket. As we’ve seen this year, anyone can land that role without so much as a blink of the eye.

By: dobeman

dobeman — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:23:08 +0000

Some good thoughts, but I think Obama’s announcement post-Powell’s announcement, that Powell would have a part on [Obama's] staff, is what is really telling here.

Can the average person name one thing Powell had done in the last six months before this? No.

Powell’s no idiot; he knows which boat captain is going to give him the nicer cabin.

But what’s most interesting is how, during the Bush Presidency, Powell was never accepted as a “successful black man.” He was always treated as one who was never one of “his own.”

But now, his endorsement means to the world to the democrats.