Maybe They're Afraid Remembering Colin Powell Could Overshadow Obama's Successes?

I said in my last and 1st (ironic word choices...I do mean the last post I made which happens to be my first) post that I wanted to touch on Colin Powell.

I recall people still reminiscing on wanting him as President after Desert Storm. In fact, it seems like the masses really wanted him, but he turned down the Party's nomination after his return, saying that he wanted to spend time with his family. That's a wise man, but you also have to wonder how it would have changed history...I mean, this was YEARS before Obama ever came into the picture, and most likely, if he ran, Powell would have probably won. It's not like he had only black people who supported him--even Mormons I spoke to just a couple months ago wanted him as President. This gives you an idea of how likeable of a candidate he would have been.

What's so odd is that now with Obama as a potential, people are calling for "change" and saying what a big success this is to, namely, the black community. Have people forgotten about Colin Powell? Doubt it. But it should definitely be recognized that Powell does belong to a different party and if anything, acknowledging his ability to get mass support for the elections (despite not being white) long before Obama would mean that Obama, then, is nothing special.

This makes it seem almost like Colin Powell and Condeleezza's successes are nothing to praise because, while they could both be compared to Obama in terms of skin, they belong to the opposing party and a success for Powell and Rice wouldn't mean a success for "their people"--it could be seen as a success, instead, for the Republican Party. Irony?

Colin puts the POW in Powell. I like that better than OBAMB a your country. Actually, now POW just ends up looking like Pris. of War without the comic book excitement....POW = McCain. Oh quirkiness at its glory.

Note: The remainder of my blogs will probably use "black," "un-Caucasian," and maybe even "African American" interchangeably because once I tried being PC by calling someone African American, and he told me he preferred "black" because his great, great grandparents were the Africans from Africa but he was indefintely black. So if you're offended by me using either of these, at least this way you'll only be 1/3 offended. Or maybe 2/3. Depends.