powell for the endorsement. and powell intended to stay neutral. and then he watched mccain choose palin, start using bill airs as a weapon against oep. suggesting that he was seeing the very good rallies at the end the campaign which were a foreshadowing of everything we saw with trump. and that was really what turned powell in the end away from muk cane as much as towards obama, turned way from mccain. as much as it uplifted obama, it shattered mccain who had a moment, a dark moment at the endst campaign and said, colin powell is against me. what have i become? you saw mccain in the last two weeks of that campaign sort of pull back from the edge of where he taken his campaign and could see kind of powell s like cassandra telling mccain where the republican party was headed. it s an incredibly important moment, i think, and tells a lot about where our politics would end up over the course of the
pure. something more noble. when ted kennedy turned against the clinton, it was specifically because of what he s seen both clinton do in that race, do it nevada, do in south carolina, ted kennedy was disgusted by bill clinton s race baiting in the race. and what pushed him in the arms of obama was a rejection of that kind of politics. similarly with colin powell, powell had been watching for two years, obama and mccain had both been lobbying powell for the endorsement. and powell intended to stay neutral, and then he watched mccain choose palin. start using bill errors as a weapon against obama, suggesting that he was power out of terrorists, as powell put it. they say at the end of the campaign which were foreshadowing of everything we saw with trump. and that was really what turned powell in the end away from mccain, as much as turned away gave the endorsement to obama and as much as it uplifted