I actually woke up this morning with a couple of thoughts. One, how much did Obama raise in September and when will he let us all know. Two, whats he going to talk about for 30 minutes on October 29th, and three, is there another suprise endorsement that he is keeping in the bag?
Well it now APPEARS that Colin Powell will endorse Barack Obama. Lawrence O'Donnell is now reporting:
When Colin Powell turns off his TV after the final presidential debate, he will have learned everything he is going to learn about the candidates vying to succeed his former boss, George W. Bush. Powell has made it clear that he has been thinking about an endorsement for a long time but wanted to hear more from the candidates before making his choice. It now seems beyond doubt that Colin Powell will endorse Barack Obama and thereby hammer the final nail in the coffin of the Republican campaign to hold onto the White House.
The recent ugliness of the McCain-Palin rally audiences cannot be lost on Colin Powell. And Powell is not one to ignore a 14 point lead in a New York Times poll. But most important for Powell and the press will be his explicit rejection of the Bush-McCain approach to Iraq, Iran and the rest of the world.
Powell's endorsement will be perfectly timed to dominate a news cycle or two. It will give Obama the one thing he still needs more of--credibility as Commander-In-Chief. And Sarah Palin's speechwriters will be hard pressed to come up with a condescending quip about it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Now, if your like me you read that and say wait a minute, it cites no source to support that averment! True, but Ariana Huffington thinks it is supported by enough to make it a headline on huffingtonpost.com If it is true, think about the brilliance of the Obama campaign. When it seemed the West Virginia loss to Hillary was going to highlight Obama's problems with white rural voters, he pulls out John Edwards. He may also be waiting to spring Septebmer fundraising numbers at just the right time, maybe along with a Powell endorsement, to dominate the news cycle for a few days. Im sure by the time I post this someone will have quick put a "breaking" diary out with a link and a sentence but I wanted to talk about this a little more. I agree with a few diaries I saw today and yesterday that the Obama campaign is undoubtedly the best run campaign in modern history. It has utilized the internet and non-traditional advertising like no one before. I think it says a lot about what kind of president he will be, knowing where to spend the dollars, when to break the news, where to campaign and how to reach people effectively. Then theres John Sydney McCain campaigning in my home state of Pennsylvania, bombarding us with TV ads, all the while down by double digits in the last 5 polls out of PA.
God bless america, God bless Barack Obama, and keep him safe!