[SpinyNorman]

Just watched the Powell interview on MTP. His reasoning sounds plausible, but it is the things he doesn’t say that say the most.

He completely falls for the line that Obama and Ayers only had limited connections.

Goes against his own statements about troop withdrawals on arbitrary deadlines, instead saying that the current situation makes that moot. Well, it wasn’t any action of Obama, particularly with regard to the surge, that got us here.

He keeps hemming and hawing. Pretty unconvincingly to me.

I think he has gone for a positive image in black posterity rather than a good choice.

[hinckley buzzard]

Just read the transcript. It is clear that Powell is afraid, and has wimped out in the face of who knows what racial and other intimidation. He may or may not actually believe the drivel he spewed, but the overriding fact is that he's an old man with a mentally unstable wife, and he just doesn't have it anymore. If he ever did.