The media’s in a tizzy over Colin Powell’s Meet the Press endorsement of Barack Obama this morning.

It’s not a surprise to anyone who’s paid attention to his pro-Obama murmuringsover the last four months.

How will people outside the Beltway bubble respond?

Yawn.

Powell’s embrace of Barack Obama is a triumph of hope over reality. He told Tom Brokaw that Obama’s “steadiness” and “not jumping in and changing every day” convinced him that The One was ready to lead.

Hello?

Guess Powell relied on Obama’s website after he purged his surge criticism from it.

Powell then goes on to pooh-pooh Obama’s longtime “limited relationship” with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers as an “issue that is not central” to the campaign — just as evidence of the closeness of these two very chummy “neighbors” mounts.

Judgment, schmudgment, eh, Secretary Powell?

Finally, we arrive at the real reason Powell is endorsing Obama: The party, he complains, has become too “narrow” for his tastes. Pro-abortion Powell can’t stand the thought of two more Republican Supreme Court appointments. He thinks Sarah Palin is too conservative. He shares the Obama view of our base as racist and non-inclusive — but has nothing to say about the rabid pack of America-damning preachers who helped make Obama the “transformational” figure Powell has placed his faith in.

Powell also makes reference to all the Obama-is-a-Muslim rumors, blaming the Republican Party for all that. Never mind the Democrat Hillary backers like Bob Kerrey and on down to her grass-roots supporters who indulged themselves and trafficked in those very rumors Powell smears conservatives for spreading.

The orgy of Obamedia attention Powell will receive the next 24 hours is disproportionate to its importance.

The press only loves maverick Republicans when they jump in bed with Democrats.

Just ask John McCain.

One last note: I see in comments that many believe Powell supports Obama because he is black. Powell has said electing a black president would be “electrifying.” He is a staunch supporter of government racial preferences.

It’s a mistake, though, to attribute Powell’s endorsement primarily to some kind of race loyalty.

It’s Obama’s social liberalism, not his skin color, that attracts Powell most.

What’s not to hate?  Note the demographic crosstabs, too. 63 percent of Americans under 30 agree with The One about spreading the wealth? Game over, man.

John McCain now says it's socialism, but Barack Obama insists, "When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Forty-four percent (44%) of voters agree with Obama’s statement while 42% disagree in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Democrats think their candidate is right, but 78% of Republicans disagree.

While Obama was campaigning recently, a plumber’s assistant named Joe Wurzelbacher asked the Democratic presidential nominee a critical question about his tax policy. Obama defended the policy, saying in part, "When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” McCain brought the incident up in the final presidential debate last Wednesday, and "Joe the Plumber" suddenly was a central figure in the closing days of the presidential campaign.

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When the issue shifted to the Supreme Court in last week's presidential debate, Obama said he would appoint Supreme Court justices "who hopefully have a sense of what real-world folks are going through." Not those who have a sense of what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they wrote the Constitution. He wants those who believe in a "living Constitution" that changes with the liberal fad du jour.

He claimed "the Supreme Court made it more difficult for a woman named Lily Ledbetter to press her claim for pay discrimination." Actually the Court did nothing of the sort. It merely said the law put a time limit on filing such claims and that Ledbetter missed the cutoff — by almost two decades. They interpreted the law to mean what it says as written.

As Carrie Lukas, vice president for policy and economics at the Independent Women's Forum, informs us, when producing the "77 cents" statistic Obama repeats in a campaign ad, the Labor Department does not in fact take into account factors such as years of experience, hours worked, education, service interruptions for marriage and child rearing.

Crunching the numbers, Obama's 28 male staffers were paid a total of $1,523,120 for an average salary of $54,397. Obama's 30 female employees divided $1,354,580 for a female average salary of $45,152. Obama's female staffers, on average, make just 83 cents to the dollar his male staffers make.

McCain's office, by contrast, is a feminist fantasy. McCain's 17 male staffers carve up $916,914 for an average salary of $53,936. His 25 female employees split $1,396,958 for average pay of $55,878. In McCain's office, a woman earns $1.04 for every buck a man makes.

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