Powell's Blind Spot for Obama

Powell said about Obama in spring 2008:

"Earlier this spring, Powell went on record with the following statement, “I’ve seen other individuals come along who didn’t have that breadth of experience and what they do is surround themselves with people who do bring that experience. With Senator Obama, he didn’t have a lot of experience running a presidential campaign, did he?” Powell asked. “But he seems to know how to organize a task and he seems to know how to apply resources to a problem at hand. So that gives me some indication that (with) his inexperience in foreign affairs or domestic affairs, he may be someone who can learn quickly.”

With this statement, Powell appreciates the management style and effectiveness of Senator Obama during his campaign and gives his considerable weight as a student of foreign and military policy to deflect possible criticisms of Obama’s lack of experience. "

1. Pls correct me but I always thought that the candidates are not managing their own campaign. That's why they have a bunch of managers. I already mentioned this in in a comment on Conservative Badlands

2. If Powell is so certain that Obama knows who to surround himself with, why:

a. doesn't Powell see the possible lack of judgment in Obama choices of associations in the past.

b. why doesn't he give Palin the same benefit of the doubt.

Here is what he says about Palin:

She's a very distinguished woman, and she's to be admired. But at the same time, now that we have had a chance to watch her for some seven weeks, I don't believe she's ready to be president of the United States, which is the job of the vice president. And so that raised some question in my mind as to the judgment that Sen. McCain made.

I see that everybody (including people like Juan Williams) tend to go to this aspect that 2 interviews show a person's character, but not their action? What about being a governor, a mayor. Hey according to that philosophy Martin Sheen would be probably a good President too (I mean he looked great on TV as the President). This is beyond me.

Is Colin Powell really telling me that I should vote for Obama, because he is a good campaigner?

And in his Meet the Press interview he says:

"And the party has moved even further to the right, and Governor Palin has indicated a further rightward shift. I would have difficulty with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court, but that's what we'd be looking at in a McCain administration. I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say."

1. Powell seems to vote for a party and not for a President, which is odd.

2. He would rather have a liberal President, Senate and House, then a rep. President with a liberal House and Senate. What kind of Conservative is that? I don't even expect a moderate democrat to be all excited about an extremely liberal administration.

The Alien Patriot