This past Sunday, General Colin Powell, the first secretary of state for the George W Bush administration endorsed the democratic candidate, Senator Barack Obama.
Lawrence Lessig suggested: “This is the most important, most profound, more powerfully argued 7 minutes of this campaign.”
General Powell recounts a specific photograph in a photo-essay near the end of his endorsement. I wanted to find it. I needed to find it. What moved him so deeply to articulate what good Americans have been thinking throughout this campaign?
I personally feel either campaign hasn’t really made an effort to address this issue of anti-Muslim bigotry. I am not naive to the games politicians play to pilfer votes, but I wonder what would have happened if one of the candidates spoke what General Powell so eloquently delivered.