I think this endorsement will carry a lot of weight, if only for the sole reason that the talking heads on TV and the blogosphere will be talking about it for 2-3 days, maybe a week, and there are only 15 days to the election.
And when you are 5-7 points behind like McCain is, every one of those days matters, especially because McCain doesn't go up or down in the polls very quickly.
Likewise, Powell has quite the rep, and even some Republicans will second guess themselves after seeing that Powell endorsed Obama. I don't expect the race thing to be much of an issue, unless you are Rush Limbaugh (who happened to say that it was a race thing...).
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
