{"id":4138,"date":"2008-10-19T09:53:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T13:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=4138"},"modified":"2008-10-19T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T16:02:48","slug":"powell-endorses-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=4138","title":{"rendered":"Powell endorses Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shocker. To no one. Colin Powell endorsed Barack<\/a> Obama this morning. The man who coined the phrase “compassionate conservative” (hinting that the rest of us are not compassionate), the man who made the biggest military blunder in recent history by arguing against taking Baghdad in 1991, the man who made the second biggest military blunder in recent history by advising withdrawal from Mogadishu in 1993 is endorsing Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

In 1991, Hussein couldn’t have defended Baghdad against the US, and one of the reasons it would have been a cake walk is because the world hadn’t seen us leave Somalia with our tails between our legs yet – the act that bon Laden admits encouraged him to attack us.<\/p>\n

Powell said he remains a Republican…but I’d like to know how he (and the rest of the recent turncoats) can justify that. Powell went on to defend Obama from the charges that his policies are socialist…Powell just proved he’s not a Republican. It brought to mind a post I read last week on Baldilocks<\/a> about being on the “right side of history” – another socialist concept.<\/p>\n

Michelle Malkin<\/a> agrees that it’s all a big yawn and calls it a “Triumph of Hope Over Reality”.<\/p>\n

All of these northeast Republicans (who are mostly a popcorn fart away from being Limousine liberals anyway) jumping ship is not news. They’ve been uncomfortable with the concept of being associated with grassroots Conservatives since Reagan, and they’ve been looking for an excuse to jump ship that makes them look good in the media anyway. What could make them look better than voting for the affirmative action candidate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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