....Barack Obama.

Praises Obama as a thinker, trashes McCain's campaign of innuendo and
insults, claims Palin "not ready" for presidency.

Powell, a Republican, a war hero, a well-respected American, says we
need a generational change such as Obama will bring.

Powell said he has been watching Obama and McCain closely since the
conventions, and decided Obama had the ideas, the intellectual capacity
to lead the country.

I'm sure the Republicans will now start trashing Powell.