The Powell Endorsement

What this really means to me is that at last Colin Powell has stiffened his spine......he rolled over too many times for W for me to have any respect left for him. But the fact that he will endorse Obama has some redeeming value. The fact that he cannot support McCain whom he has known for over twenty-five years should be very informative to those continuing to cling so some mythic style fantasy about McCain.



And the blind still cannot see the issue of judgment in the continued use of Joe the NonPlumber as campaign fodder.



It equates, in my book, with McCain being a sucker for the Chalabi propaganda because it fed into his belief that there is a military solution for every problem. And Johnny still believes that the Iraq mistake can be "WON" without ever defining how that applies or what would constitute "VICTORY".........He very probably doesn't even know that the rewritten field manual and use of cultural training with the troops, which two women anthropologists contributed, had more to do with the change of circumstances in the Iraq conflict than an increase in troop numbers, the increase in knowledge really had more to do with it.......and we still do not know that there is any permanent improvement or rather if once we quit payrolling the Sons of Iraq if they will erupt in domestic violence all over again.

McCain could learn by reading some of the personal accounts by Iraqi citizens that have lived through all of this - and they blog about it. There is a site called Iraqi Bloggers Central where you can sample many of the bloggers postings. There are diverse views and some of the active ones are operating stateside so review enough different ones to get where they are coming from

In a measure it is sad to see the McCain campaign's sick efforts to keep throwing mud....they are bankrupt of ideas and have no vision for either the immediate economic problems or all the other challenges that are going to be dumped on the lap of the next president, courtesy of the Bush Administration and McCain has to bear some responsibility for all of it......after all by his re peated declaratives "he knows how to correct everything" .......think for a few minutes about that campaign regurgitation.


graysmoke