His followers are doing contortion acts in their attempts to praise the endorsement. Mind you, these are the same people by and large who mistakenly thought Obama was against the Iraq War while shitting all over John Edwards and Hillary Clinton because they supported the IWR.
Powell’s support for Obama over the candidate of his own party followed a series of endorsements by prominent newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune. The Tribune’s endorsement was particularly significant. It marked the first time in its 161-year history that the conservative Republican newspaper endorsed a Democrat for president.
These endorsements coincided with the Obama campaign’s announcement on Friday that it had raised the staggering sum of $150 million in September, shattering the previous record it set when it collected $66 million in August. This brings Obama’s total in campaign funds to more than $600 million, far surpassing the amounts raised by Bush in 2000 and 2004.
The flood of corporate money to Obama, substantially larger than the sums raised by McCain, is another unmistakable indication of his support among the most influential sections of the American ruling class.
The bells continue to go off, the red flags continue to wave, yet the Obama supporters continue to be blind to the reality of their Chosen One.
This is the New York Review of Books article the piece mentions.
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