Comments | davidbcoe: Colin, George, and Rush

davidbcoe

Colin, George, and Rush

Oct 19, 2008 16:37

Well, it didn't take long for both George Will and Rush Limbaugh to do the obvious. Both of them have responded to Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama (this morning on "Meet the Press") by saying that the only reason Powell made the endorsement is that Obama (like Powell) is black. Really, guys? Do you really want to tell perhaps the most ( Read more... )

obama, politics, colin powell, race

Comments 8

GOP racism kmarkhoover October 19 2008, 23:00:51 UTC

lol, what a surprise

Re: GOP racism davidbcoe October 21 2008, 01:25:07 UTC

Agreed

jp_davis October 20 2008, 01:47:24 UTC

Wow, no shock at all on Limbaugh, but I'm kind of surprised that Will was so direct about it. Disgusting. Let's just sit back and wait for them to decry Powell's clear leftist record.

davidbcoe October 21 2008, 01:28:16 UTC

Powell's indictment of the GOP in general and the McCain campaign in particular was so strong that they have little choice but to play it this way.

markwise October 20 2008, 04:52:27 UTC

I think Colin Powell's endorsement matters to the people who think highly of his politics. I for one don't so this is really much of a non-issue. Yet the media are going to play this up to be a huge deal and act like Obama just got christened by God or something. He is just another person.

I did like McCain's response. "I have the endorsement of 4 former Sec of States and 27 Military Officers." So this one guy isn't going to mean that much.

davidbcoe October 21 2008, 01:30:51 UTC

Well, he's not "just another person." He is, according to every poll out there, one of the two or three most admired people in the country, and he's especially popular with independents and moderates. I don't know if this will help Obama or not, but it certainly won't hurt him.

carolf October 20 2008, 15:13:24 UTC

The story isn't really Powell's endorsement. It's the backlash.

I think the story was most evident in National Review firing Christopher Buckley. The hate mail/calls following his essay explaining why he was endorsing Obama -- an essay his father would have written in similar circumstances -- astounded him.

In his next essay I read, he pointed out that this backlash exemplified precisely what he had originally said about the party, which was one reason he was voting for Obama.

The Republicans are eating their own. It is not pretty.

davidbcoe October 21 2008, 01:31:52 UTC

No, not pretty at all. Another example is Kathleen Parker, a conservative commentator who write some disparaging things about Palin and was savaged.