Colin Powell

"I'm also troubled by... not with what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say, and it is permitted to be said... Such things as, 'Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.' Well, the correct answer is that he's not a Muslim, he's a Christian, he's always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is no, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some 7-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet I have heard senior members of my own party drop this suggestion, that he's a Muslim and he might be associated with terrorists. This is not the way we should be doing it in America."

You know what? I forgive him. He just exonerated himself in my eyes. I'm not saying what he did at the beginning of the Iraq conflict was okay. But this is something too many liberals don't have the balls to say right now. Colin Powell is going to be run off the field for this endorsement. Not only does he not care, but he's willing to carry that ball right into the end zone. He didn't have to go this far. He did. Bravo.