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Oct

19

Colin Powell endorses and announced that he is voting for Barack Obama for President of the United States on Meet the Press.

On the show, Powell said that Obama had showed steadiness, intellectual curiosity and depth of knowledge during the economic crisis, and that he had selected a vice-presidential candidate who was ready to be president.

As for John McCain, Powell said that McCain appeared unsure during the economic crisis and changed his position from a day to day.   He continued by saying that the selection of Sarah Palin, who he said was not ready to be president, had raised questions in his mind as to McCain’s judgement.

He was also not pleased with McCains approach to his campaign: linking of Bill Ayers to Obama as to suggest that somehow Obama had terrorist feelings and the robo calls.

His most damning indictiment of the McCain campaign has to do with those who say that Barack Obama is a Muslim.  Powell said that the right answer is that Obama is a Christian and the really right answer is, “What if the is?  Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?”

He followed this point with the story of a mother who was crying on the headstone of her son buried at the National Cemetery.  On the headstone was not a Cross or a Star of David, but a Crescent and Star.  He was a Muslim.  He was a 20 year old young man who was born in New Jersey.  He was 14 when the trade towers were attacked and had to wait until he was old enough to serve and die for his country.

I hope this point will not be lost on those who keep using Obama as a Muslim as a way to discredit him as being worthy of becoming president.

However, I, like many others of your out there, even with his later explanation, am still amazed that Powell did not question more the information given to him in support of the invasion of Iraq. Still, his rejection of the Bush-McCain approach to the war in Iraq now has offered him some slight redemption, but considering that many believe that he was the only person who could have stopped this war, he still has more to do. His support for Obama, however, is an act that continues to lead him down that road of redemption, hopefully with many more acts to follow.

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