Reply #29: NO. But if he speaks the truth, it's still the truth.

[Tigress DEM]

His assertion that Obama is better qualified to lead is true. So why call him a liar or go into all the other stuff right now?

He may just be trying to save his political ass or buy brownie points to get a lighter sentence. Right now the battle is this next few weeks and getting the voters out and the votes counted.

If you are in the middle of a battle and one of your enemy comes to you because they realize the other side is too whacked to support anymore, you don't debate about it in the middle of the battle. You get the information and evaluate it and if it helps your cause and enables victory, you use it and decide later how much credit a traitor and war criminal gets.

You also watch for the trojan horse in the mix or the trip up.

No one should be lauding Powell for finally making an intelligent decision or getting too star struck about him. He has to earn back any trust he gets going forward by doing the right thing.

Rebuild first to minimize the damage and take care of the top priority, the people. Justice will ride but this battle first so we have the power to get our hands on the evidence that is needed to prove who knew what when and how culpable they are.

We have the RNC shooting at our front ranks of voters, so if Powell is for us right now. Fine. Dandy. Don't let it distract us from whooping the RNC down.