I'm a Wild Light Blinding Bright

Congratulations to Ben for correctly naming "A Murder of One" by Counting Crows as the Saturday Song of the Day.

After a weekend where victories by Mike Huckabee in Louisana and Kansas continued to muddle the Republican nomination process, Barack Obama won by large margins in Washington, Nebraska, Maine, and Louisana to move ahead of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic race before key Tuesday contests in Maryland, D.C., and Virginia.

There was much made last month of Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Sen. Obama and today's piece on "Fox News Sunday" is probably the closest that President Bush will come to endorsing John McCain before he (most likely) wins the Republic nomination. I'm sure that each of you have your own opinions on the pros and cons of endorsements from Sen. Kennedy and President Bush, but there's one possible forthcoming endorsement that has the potential to signal a step across partisan lines by a prominent former member of the George W. Bush Administration.

Even though it requires a bit of reading between the lines during this interview between former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell and CNN's Wolf Blitzer, it looks like Powell, a self-described Republican, could endorse Sen. Obama. Although Powell does not say those precise words, much less offer any type of time table for such a statement, it seems as though his description of wanting to support a candidate that has the party "behind them" would point towards the Democratic coalition that Obama is building and away from the ever-fracturing GOP.

I've always had a tremendous amount of respect for Colin Powell, and I highly recommend the autobiography that he co-authored with Joseph Persico entitled My American Journey. Again, the value of endorsements by any figure is always in the eye of the beholder, but it seems as though a potential Powell endorsement of Obama would carry more weight than most political head-nods.