Powell giving a presser going right down the list of Obama’s talking points. He has been in the bag for Obama for some time.
You nailed it, buddy. What a puke. And I don’t say that often, but I am livid at Colin’s huffery and puffery this morning.
One of their tacks is to be crybabies about how mean the McCain campaign is being to their boy, how McCain “belittles” O’Bammy.
Really, how can you belittle someone that arrogant?
I suspected as much back in August, when Kristol tried to smoke Powell out on endorsing Obama. It's too bad that story became one of whether Powell would speak at the D. convention, which probably never was in the cards.
I would not be surprised if Powell privately pledged his support to Obama a long time ago, and the campaign team has simply been waiting for what they judged to be the most effective moment to roll out the endorsement. That's how it generally goes with political endorsements - the campaign team asks the endorser to wait until the moment judged most useful to the campaign.