Colin Powell, whom many mistakenly saw as a trustworthy and honorable man, is apparently trying to make amends. Make amends, that is, for tossing out principle, betraying his lifelong party that awarded him office of Secretary of State and jumping the Republican ship to endorse a fellow black man. After supporting the unprepared, inept Obama for president and harshly criticizing his own party, he is now making a halfhearted move to salvage his reputation. He does not want his legacy to be that he betrayed his party because of race and, by some, that he betrayed his country when he made the elaborate case for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to the U.N. He recently made the following statement: "I think one of the cautions that has to be given to the president - and I've talked to some of his people about this - is that you can't have so many things on the table that you can't absorb it all. And we can't pay for it all," Powell said further, "And I never would have believed that we would have budgets that are running into the multi-trillions of dollars, and we are amassing a huge, huge national debt that, if we don't pay for in our lifetime, our kids and grandkids and great grandchildren will have to pay for it." At the time Powell jumped ship to help get a black man elected president, he lamely explained that the Republican Party had gotten just too conservative - a situation he had not noticed before Obama came on the scene as a probable nominee.
One Guy's Opinion on the Political Scene By: Jim Herndon
