If Powell does come out for McCain and helps put McCain over the top with Independent voters, Powell will be more reviled in the “black community” than he ever thought possible. He will be viewed as the ultimate “race traitor” by most, and “Uncle Tom” will be the mildest term used for him.
I’d love to see the endorsement, not b/c I concern myself with Powell’s political preferences but b/c it really could make a difference, such a prominent black bucking the Obamessiah cult.
Still, I would not be surprised to see Powell go for Obama despite his donations. Powell just danced on a London stage with the loathsome Kanye West, after all. It is far from clear to me that Powell is resistant to the race-based hysteria at this point. He just said (in London) how important it was to continue identification as “African Americans” into the coming generations. Someone thinking along those lines right now is not so likely to resist the siren songs of the Obamanation.
Look at the lineup for MTP:
Do you really think they would have booked
Chuck Todd
NBC’s political director,
David Brooks
The New York Times,
Jon Meacham
Editor, Newsweek Magazine,
Andrea Mitchell
NBC News,
Joe Scarborough
MSNBC,
if there were any chance that Powell would endorse McCain? These people are on there to boast about the endorsement of Obama!
Hmm. A bad sign. He is smarter than that.
“how important it was to continue identification as “African Americans” into the coming generations”
Which is why so many “African Americans” marry white women? Blacks routinely mate with whites and Hispanics (who are also white, BTW). Black will cease to exist outside of Africa.