It's About Time

Colin Powell, in case you hadn't heard, has endorsed Barack Obama for president. I can't really claim to be surprised about it -- Powell, in spite of being tarnished by the Bush administration, is a decent man. Here's Andrew Sullivan's post. I think Sullivan gets it right, pretty much:

Powell also is horrified, as decent Republicans should be, by the attempt to equate Obama with "the other" and to delegitimize Muslim-Americans or urban Americans or gay Americans or Arab-Americans or anyone else as somehow not "pro-America" or integrally part of this country.

Interesting, though, that it's taken this horror this long to manifest publicly. I guess the sight of a party in ruins has a way of opening people's eyes.