Sunday, October 19, 2008

Denoument

Today, Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama. Here's the video, which in 7 minutes is the most reassuring, refreshing assessment of Barack Obama I've heard.



It comes from outside the Democratic party. It comes from a former general and a former secretary of state. It comes from a Republican, but a genuine moderate who believes in not deviating far to either side of the center. And amazingly, it's seven minutes of uninterrupted explanation provided by a modern news show.

This is what the national discourse should look like. And, if it is anything like successful, this is what national discourse will become.

1 comment:

Kevin said...

While generally a very good thing, the "Obama has always been a Christian" thing bugged me, as he was agnostic, and possibly even very nominally Unitarian, until his mid-twenties.