Colin Powell

Here, via Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic, is Colin Powell, redeeming himself. He comes down hard on the crap the GOP has been slinging lately - Bill Ayers and the secret Moslem stuff an the real America and so on - and it's about time. Powell sacrificed a lot of his reputation by sticking with the Bush administration over the invasion of Iraq (he should have resigned rather than go the UN over that - there is no excuse), but he still was and is about the only person in the Bush administration with any trace of dignity...

And - this time he's right, and he said it directly and unambiguously: the Republicans are running a sordid, embarrassing campaign, and if they don't change, then you (if you are, like Powell, a moderate conservative, and a decent person) have to change. And let's face it - the story at the end may be predictable and manipulative, but by god it's also the truth: American Moslems serve and love their country as much as everyone else. The idea that merely accusing someone of being Islamic is an insult is disgusting, and if anything is unamerican, that's it, right there.