Colin Powell: made of awesome!

Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama! This is maybe one of the greatest things to happen in the good camp for a while other that the McCain camp continually fucking themselves over everytime Sarah Palin says something unbearably stupid, but that's a whole other story. 

Listening to Powell on Meet the Press and later just random interviews I was impressed. In fact, I've always been quite impressed by him. He was the only person in the Bush administration I had respect for post-Iraq. In fact, I'm not sure I respected anyone else in the Bush administration pre-Iraq. He actually seemed honest when he talked about the fact that he based his choice on each and every issue and entirely on merit with few other criteria. A lot of political figures say that, and it is seldom believable. Could it be that there is actually a person who transcends party and looks only at the interests of America? If so, his opinion is certainly one to be cherished.

I can't honestly say that if he had endorsed John McCain, I would have listened to him so carefully and with such deep respect but I can say that Colin Powell is a truly honorable and brilliant military mind. 

His endorsement means something. And hopefully those truly annoying undecideds will take note!

Sarah Palin!!!!!!! The downfall of John McCain and perhaps America herself...

I never thought I'd say this, but... I ALMOST feel sorry about John McCain right now. Just almost, but still. 

Watching the rallies where crowds of supporter began yelling racist and violent comments McCain does seem genuinely disturbed. In fact, I actually gained a teeny tiny amount of respect for him when he corrected a woman for calling him an Arab. I do not think that McCain is a bad man.

However, when watching Sarah Palin at these rallies, she seems to revel in the rowdy, violent crowds. In fact she incites it. How can the campaign claim that she doesn't endorse that behavior when she brings it out by basically saying Obama is best buddies with terrorists trying to bring down America. 

Sarah Palin is the reason I find it impossible to feel bad for John McCain. She would be his downfall if I thought that he had any chance of winning in the first place. 

I really hate Sarah Palin...

The debate last night...

So I watched the debate last night and have to say that I was disappointed in pretty much everyone involved. Obama said things I agree with and McCain said things I disagree with. Nothing new on that front.

They were both kind of pricks though. I know that presidential candidates never follow debate rules. It's hard and that's the way it's always been. However last night, they not only ignored them but actively went against them. They ignored Tom Brokaw and the idea of town hall style debate was pretty much lost. 

On his part Tom Brokaw was pretty much spineless. He acted like a small child trying to get two big kids to listen to him. 

The debate drinking games and Craked.com's live blog made it all a little better...