by Frank James
Colin Powell on Good Morning America today sounded like he was giving Sen. Barack Obama’s talking points when it comes to the experience question.
ABC News’s Dianne Sawyer asked Powell what he made of “relative lack of experience” at the national level, when it comes to envisioning the political phenom as president.
“He doesn’t have experience at the senior levels of national government. But I’ve seen other individuals come along who didn’t have that breadth of experience and what they do is surround themselves with people who do bring that experience.
“With Sen. Obama, he didn’t have a lot of experience running a presidential campaign, did he? But he seems to know how to organize a task and he seems to know how to apply resources to a problem at hand. So that gives me some indication that (with) his inexperience in foreign affairs or domestic affairs, he may be someone who can learn quickly.”
This is a point Obama has made repeatedly, that he should be judged by voters in large part on the presidential campaign he has put together whose success can’t be denied.
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One of the individuals Powell probably had in mind an old boss, the man who put him on the road to becoming one of Washington’s most powerful players, President Ronald Reagan. Reagan had little foreign policy experience when he came to Washington in 1981 but did exactly what Powell talked about; he surrounded himself with a circle of experienced old Washington hands.
Powell, ever the diplomat and shrewd inside-the-Beltway navigator, said he liked all three presidential candidates, calling them good friends.
But he really sounded like an Obama man.