Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has just endorsed Barack Obama for President, a major plus for the President, with only 12 days to go to the election.
The Mitt Romney camp will say that this is no big deal, as Powell endorsed Obama over John McCain in 2008.
But, despite that fact, Powell is a well respected and admired person, who has good common sense and a dignity to do what is best for the nation, and sees Obama as having promoted the national defense and advocated social justice, the two most important traits of any successful President.
Powell may be a Republican by his own choice, but his vision of the world and of America makes him more a Democrat, and he must feel very uncomfortable with the modern day Republican Party, which is most certainly NOT the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and even the man that Powell has often stated admiration of, Ronald Reagan!