On Sunday 19 October, former Secretary of State Colin Powell officially announced his endorsement of Barack Obama for President of the United States. Although Powell had left the Republican Party quite some time ago—after he had tried to run away from and attempted to hide his very large contribution towards selling the Iraq war to the American people and the world—the mainstream Obama-supporting media is reporting gleefully “Colin Powell endorses Obama, breaks ranks with the GOP”—Los Angeles Time headline.
