Posted on 09/19/2010 5:22:12 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Karl Rove, former adviser to President George W. Bush.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Bill Clinton; former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Bill Clinton.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.; Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine; former Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va.; Anita Dunn, former Obama White House communications director
This is all you need to know about Powell.
“Major General John Hudachek (in one occasion, he failed to tell him a high-ranking foreign official was visiting the base), and for the first time was rated “average” on his efficiency report. Most devastating, Powell was not recommended to command his own division. For most, such a poor recommendation would spell early retirement, but Powell was saved by his friends in Washington.”
What does that say? You decide.
Keep them darkies on the plantation!!!
Colin Powell is up at “the big House” and is the “house N..”;
he doesn’t care about the ‘slaves’ on the Detroit Plantation, the Watts Plantation,etc...
Juan mentioned Daniels, Barber and Pawlenty. I think that means we can rule them out. Who wants anyone the dems want? not!
You might also want to check in with fishtalk since she is a local and has not problem whatsoever in supporting O' 'Donnell. She appears to me at least to be a relative new comer to politics never really having held office.
She just may be a fresh face which IMHO is just fine. I really don't see her having a hard core past to judge grade, or go by.
Anyway,in a race with a conservative who appears to be on the right track has all the right support around her and is bringing in as much money as fast as she is, I would vote for her over and avowed Marxist every time.
My guess is others in Delaware will as well. Not to mention how many of the dems will actually even turn out.
The only thing I would like to learn about Colin Powell is how he has managed to leverage a mediocre military record into Chairman of the Joint chiefs of Staff and subsequent position as Secretary of State, without ONCE, no matter how ineffective or disastrous his policies, being criticized by anyone in the media.
If we knew how he did that, we could use that power for Good.
Pretty sure McCain was the nominee which did not work out for me at all.
To be honest with you I really don't take Powell,Clinton or many of the phonies out there very seriously.
Excellent points. Great rant.
I am in exactly the same boat.
We each have different thresholds and triggers. FWIW, I think "emotion rules the heads" attaches to the GOP loyalists. Either that, or the two camps have substantially different expectations.
MAN UP, Powell ...tell us what you really think of MR On The Job In Training ??
What's wrong ?? No “pair” anymore since you retired and your Wifey took over ??
WHY do you even show your face on Sunday shows ??
Defending Rove? You are fall down funny right now. I have said several times I disagree with him. All I have said that might be construed by somone who refuses to hear as a defense is Rove is doing what he is paid to do-expressing a political opinion. He has every right to express it just as you and I have every right to publicly disagree with it. All I’m saying is I am suprised by the crescendo the outrage around here has reached. I have no emotional investment in this issue at all; not about Karl Rove and not about O’Donnell personally.
Knee jerk habit? I have never defended Rove. Like all political advisers he sold his services to the candidate who would pay him the most (or pay him at all). If McCain had been the highest bidder in 2000, Rove would have worked for him. With demonstrated principles like that I don’t expect a lot from people like him. I had no emotion invested in Rove when he agreed with me, and I have none now
Actually, I was thinking Republicans better have a good game to counter Clinton, and I don’y see any former Republican President going on Meet the Press to refute his misleadings
Miss Marple calls it a ‘foxhole conversion’. LOL
There are no atheists in national elections.
The press NEVER castigated Powell and Armitage for their silence.... while Scooter Libby was going through HELL....w/the help of Russert....showed me that he and the media were and still are joined.
Daniels is the new McCain. The MSM will be pushing him as the man the Dems fear the most. Then after he gets the nomination, they will destroy him.
Rove-type consultants are like jockeys in horse racing: the first battle is to get on the right horse and then the remainder is to get him to the finish line in first. They’re not in charge of all the horses in the stable or the long-term viability of the farm.
That makes them interesting in their place, but we make them out to be bigger gurus than they are. The Karls of the world are more like vote plumbers, charged with making sure that the votes come out of the spigots in the various fixtures in the various rooms as they’re supposed to, but they are not actually the architects designing the houses—or even selecting the fixtures in the interiors. They are simply mechanics for a narrow but necessary aspect of a good home.
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