Colin Powell Spotted Putting Obama Bumper Sticker on Car - AFTER Election

Back during the first Gulf War in 1991, Colin Powell exploded onto the national scene with his stirring, methodical summation of how the U.S. army was going to hunt down Iraqi forces and vanquish them, earning him such a reputation as a strong leader that he quickly became a presidential frontrunner for a chattering class looking for a new political star. The clamor for Powell for President reached a crescendo in 1995-1996, when he "came out of the closet" and announced he was a Republican, saying he had abandoned the Democratic Party because they were "bankrupt of new ideas." Virtually every poll conducted during that time period showed Powell convincingly beating Bill Clinton in a hypothetical matchup. And Powell parsed his words carefully when asked if he planned to run, saying he was "undecided." Finally, however, Powell meekly announced that "he didn't have the fire in his belly" for a presidential run, and receded into the public speaking circuit for a few years. Then, after becoming President George W. Bush's Secretary of State, he put forth a stirring, convincing performance at the United Nations Assembly about the need to remove Saddam Hussein from power, arguing that very credible intelligence showed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. But when it ultimately became clear that the "very credible intelligence" was, er, wrong, Powell sheepishly became a regular on the television talk show circuit, arguing that "he never wanted to go to war in Iraq in the first place." Now, on the heels of his bold endorsement of Barack Obama - which came just a week before the election when most polls were showing Obama with an insurmountable lead over John McCain - Powell has topped even himself. The morning after the election, Powell marched boldly down to his car and confidently affixed an "Obama" bumper sticker to his rear bumper, and proceeded to drive off to the nearest Washington cocktail party...