Powell on MSNBC following his Meet the Press announcement that he's voting for Obama. He cites Michelle Bachmann's (R-MN) demagoguery and smear mongering as emblematic of the tactics he objects to coming from the Republican leadership during the current campaign cycle.

Here is a serious man, a centrist but definitively Republican, speaking his mind on the campaign McCain has run. This endorsement plus the $150 million Obama took in during the month of September should be the final nail in the coffin for McCain's presidential chances.

Gen. Colin Powell, former four-star general during the Persian Gulf War, rips Sen. John McCain's flailing strategy attacking Sen. Barack Obama.

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The former Bush Secretary of State made the announcement this morning on Meet the Press. Update: Powell in making his endorsement attacks Palin's remarks that she likes small town America best, you know, the pro-America parts of the country. Powell says, " thinking about all villages have values, all towns have values, not just small towns have values." Update 2: Powell continues to hammer home the argument that the McCain campaign has gone too far after Meet the Press.