Seriously, he didn’t see this coming? Colin Powell, the “Republican” who broke ranks and endorsed Barack Obama over war-veteran, former Vietnam prisoner-of-war, fiscal-disciplinarian John McCain, today expressed “concern” over the new administration’s excessive spending and the expansion of government that all of these programs will bring about. What part of Obama’s liberal campaigning did Powell not understand? Obama promised to raise taxes, promised to raise energy prices, promised to appease America’s enemies, promised to “redistribute” America’s wealth, promised to spend us into oblivion and yet Powell still endorsed him. Obama explained himself pretty thoroughly during the campaign, was Powell not listening, and if he wasn’t listening then why did he endorse him? This, unfortunately, gives credence to the Rush Limbaugh accusation that Powell only endorsed Obama because of race. Of course, I think that he endorsed Obama for the same reason that many other Americans voted for Obama: to reject Bush. Oddly enough, McCain, who considers probably considers himself nothing like Bush, was fighting against an anti-Bush sentiment that was being incessantly pushed by the mainstream media. But back to the issue, for Powell’s sake, I hope he realizes the gravity of his mistake in endorsing such a liberal for the post of leader of the free world and I hope he comes back to the party reformed and repentant. Republicans should forgive his momentary, though infinitely damaging, lapse of judgment… else they alienate all the other Obama voters who will eventually come to their senses.

-AG