By Selwyn Duke
Sometimes it’s hard to know if mainstream-media nonsense is the result of deceit (motivated by a desire to either draw readers or manipulate them) or just plain stupidity, but it’s often both. Such a case is the "surprise" registered by some in the media over Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama. Yeah, sure, it’s a real shocker when one leftist supports another.
I’ve never thought much of Powell, as I understood he was overrated. In fact, he’s really much like Obama himself, in that his is a triumph of image over substance.
Powell is a war hero, and, like Obama, fits the politically-correct profile of a modern American leader, as he is non-white. And his pulled-himself-up-by-the-bootstraps story and the fact that he’s somewhat intelligent and articulate helps as well.
Yet, how many of his fans knew or even cared about his politics? They had no idea that he actually once said (this is close to verbatim), "A family can include more than two genders," alluding to the idea that your "gender" (a misused word that shouldn’t be applied to people, only words) can be whatever you want it to be. What a silly man.
And his rationale for endorsing The One is equally silly. Among other things, he called Obama a "transformational figure," proving that he shares with the senator a penchant for empty rhetoric, too. To "transform" means to "change"; thus, he was simply parroting Obama’s change rhetoric using a different word. What a silly man.
So we need to ask the same question of Powell we would of Obama: What will we be changed into? What do you mean, "transformational figure"? Hitler, Mussolini, Napoleon, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein and Mao Tse-tung were transformational figures. Without specificity, it means nothing except that the person inspires some kind of change, which, mind you, isn’t by definition good; it’s just by definition "change." It can, has often been in history and will often be a bad thing. A very bad thing.
To be quite frank, Powell’s complete lack of discernment makes me wonder about his talents as a general as well. Someone who is out of touch with reality often brings that skewed world view into whatever he does; as one of my friends put it, "Judgment is judgment, no matter what it’s applied to."
Having said that, everyone has his gifts. The very liberal Warren Buffet is a financial maven and Albert Einstein was, well, no Einstein when it came to politics. Nevertheless, it has to give a wise person pause for thought.
Regardless, Colin Powell is a silly man. And even sillier are those who still sing his praises.
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