Attention Kossacks: THE FOLLOWING IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN ON MEET THE PRESS TOMORROW MORNING
However, all of us, including myself, have been duped by General Powell for years now.
The reality of the situation is this this :
Do you really think Colin Powell is going to stand up and scream from the top of his lungs, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore..."
WE'RE ALL FOOLING OURSELVES IF ANY OF US THINK GENERAL POWELL IS GOING TO 1. ENDORSE ANYBODY. 2. COMPLETELY EVISCERATE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR ITS DISGUSTING CAMPAIGN, THE STATE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND STRONGLY DENOUNCE SENATOR MCCAIN AND GOVERNOR PALIN.
He fooled me once, well shame on him, he fools me twice, well, shame, uhhhh, shame on uhhhh, we can't get fooled again....
I think we're all suffering from some kind of denial when it comes to Colin Powell. Myself more than most. I can admit it. Just after the Palin pick, I wrote a diary on here entitled "Colin Powell, Now Is the Time" On September 1. Here it is: http://www.dailykos.com/...
This is the real Colin Powell:
Every time I think there's a clear moment when Colin Powell can make a difference in this country, I'm let down. I don't want to hear about what he said after we invaded Iraq. How does that help? He suffers from Bob Woodward disease. (As an example: Witness a horrible accident, get all the facts you can about why it happened, who's at fault, wait for the police to show up, let the case go to court, and then write a book for profit about how you knew who was at fault all along and you can prove it that the court got it wrong.)
Please don't tell me that at the 11th hour, all of us think Colin Powell will go on national television and say things like,
"The selection of Sara Palin represents a national security threat to the country."
"I am ashamed to be associated with the current form of the Republican Party. There is simply no place for me in it."
"I am appalled by how Senator McCain, a friend of mine for more than 25 years, has run his campaign against Senator Obama. I find it disgusting and an insult to the country."
"We simply cannot allow the same neoconservatives to guide our foreign policy like they have for the last 8 years."
Instead, I'm sure he'll give a one or two line endorsement of Barack Obama, maybe, if we're lucky and he'll quickly want to move off the subject and give some wretched rehearsed line like, "Voting is a personal decision Tom. I've given you my opinion and we'll leave it at that."
Do all of us have distorted memories of Colin Powell? Here's a trip down memory lane:
Salon.com August 2004
He travels the country delivering motivational speeches, a theater of make-believe, as though he were the same Colin Powell as before Bush. While he preaches his secrets of success, he can see the neoconservative architects of failure in Iraq who demonized him distributed among the leading Republican candidates for president.
September 2005: The Times:
Powell "regrets" mess of Iraq....
General Powell said that he had "never seen evidence to suggest" a connection between the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the regime of Saddam Hussein, unlike Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, who has made such a claim.
Thanks for telling it straight to the American people General Powell, BEFORE the loss of thousands of our young men and woman and tens of thousands of our walking wounded and our national treasure.
May 2004: CNN:
Secretary of State Colin Powell said on "Fox News Sunday" that Kerry was wrong to suggest recently that Libya's decision to give up its unconventional weapons may have been delayed to make it look like a positive result of the Iraq war, and therefore benefit Bush's campaign.
"I don't know what Senator Kerry's talking about," said Powell. "It is offensive because it's a political charge in a political year. ... I mean, what is his evidence for this, other than an assertion on his part?"
Thank you sir, may I have another....
Miami Herald October 2008
Colin Powell, the retired Army general and former secretary of state, characterized Sen. Ted Stevens in court Friday as a "trusted individual" and a man with a "sterling" reputation.
"He was someone whose word you could rely on," said Powell, who self-deprecatingly described himself as the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who retired and then "dabbled a bit in diplomacy."
The Nation May 2004
As everyone knows by now, Powell had grave doubts about the claims being made in the U.N. presentation. More specifically, he knew the claims were trumped-up B.S., and he knew by then that the government, in Anthony Zinni's (former head of Central Command in the Middle East) words, had been "captured" by a band of maniacs hell-bent on invading Iraq on the flimsiest of pretexts, for various malignant reasons none of which had anything whatsoever to do with the presence of WMD.
Powell knew it, and those in power knew he knew it. At the time of his U.N. presentation, however, many Americans didn't know it. Here we have the press (and especially the despicable Judith Miller), and their complicit, kiss-ass kowtowing to power to thank.
The Colin Powell that exists in our minds is just that, a warped representation of the way we'd like Colin Powell to be, but isn't.
He's a man that once was the face of what American can be, instead, he's the face of what America currently is.