I had this thought before lunch and thought I'd share it with the list. I googled it and found that I'm not the first to think of it so I can't claim it as my own.
I'd been thinking about Powell's endorsement of Obama this weekend and how much impressed with him I've always been, even after his failure to live up to his own values by stumping the Iraq war to the U.N. for President G.W. Bush. His endorsement of Barack Obama this past weekend may be the most powerful 7 minutes of television I’ve watched in the past 10 years and his indictment of the current Republican party, the Bush administration, and Sen. John McCain’s campaign and Vice-Presidential choices is exactly on target. I think Barack Obama shoud make Colin Powell his Secretary of Defense. Who better to place over the abused and war-worn military of the United States. Who better to shepherd it back into the fine tradition of the American military and restore its honor and morale. Powell would defend his men and women against ill-use and champion their cause with President Obama and the Congress. And what a blow it would lay to the charges that Obama doesn’t know how to cross the aisle for bi-partisan action. Choosing Colin Powell for his Secretary of State would be a courageous, right, action by President Obama. -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
