Colin Powell Jumps The Shark

And I don't mean his endorsement of Barry O last Sunday:

Colin Powell's powerful chief of staff, Larry Wilkerson, gives a dramatic interview to Foreign Policy:

FP: What’s your take on the tone of the campaign?

LW: I was fully expecting the grand wizard of the Klu Klux Klan to arrive from Maryland and endorse McCain. I was becoming frightened that we were returning to 1968, when they assassinated Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Those were bad times.

One of the most dramatic moments for me was when I was watching McCain on television, and I thought I saw in McCain’s eyes himself, when someone yelled something out, a recognition of, ‘Oh, God, what have I done?’ This is not McCain; he doesn’t cater to this. But for the first time in his political life, I think he realized that there are some strange people in the Republican tent. My father used to say, ‘Larry beware of the left because they will bankrupt you; beware of the right because they will kill you.’

A McCain aide, who wouldn't criticize Powell on the record, responded by dismissing Wilkerson's remarks as extreme.

"But we won't hold our breath for Colin Powell to come out and denounce this kind of garbage from his own people even though these comments are worse than anything that's come out of this campaign," the aide said.

Sounds like Uncle Colin is angling to be Barry's SecDef, huh? Heckuva nice way to repay Ronald Reagan, who made Powell is National Security Advisor, and George H.W. Bush, who made Powell his Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, and George W. Bush, who made Powell his Secretary of State, or the Republican Party itself, which would have nominated him to be its presidential candidate by acclaimation (and maybe even have beaten Sick Willie) if he had opted to run in 1996.

General, you have nullified your past service to your country. You have burned all of your bridges behind you. And as for me and my family, you can officially kiss my big, fat, white ass.

[h/t: Media Lizzy]

UPDATE: Guess who was surprised by Uncle Colin's treachery (via Newsmax Insider):

John McCain said former Secretary of State Colin Powell did not notify him about his decision to endorse Barack Obama before he expressed his support for the Democrat on Meet the Press.

McCain told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review he regretted that Powell crossed party lines to endorse Obama and “expressed disappointment that his longtime friend didn’t notify him first.”

McCain told the newspaper, “I was surprised that he didn’t call me before.”

One reason Powell cited for not backing McCain was his choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate.

McCain said, “I wish he had taken the opportunity to meet Governor Palin.”

Powell said during his October 19 “Meet the Press” appearance, "It isn't easy for me to disappoint Senator McCain in the way that I have this morning, and I regret that.”

The following day, Obama told NBC's Today show that Powell "will have a role as one of my advisers." Whether Powell wants to take a formal role, Obama said, would be "something we'd have to discuss."