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Powell: "I would have difficulty with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court...."
http://www.politico.com ^ | 10/19/08 12:30 | y MIKE ALLEN & JONATHAN MARTIN | 10/19/08 12:30 PM EDT

Posted on 10/19/2008 9:37:09 AM PDT by forYourChildrenVote4Bush

I also heard an interview this morning: If ANYONE ELSE CAN GET IT

Powell basically said that Obama will surround himself with experience people due to obamas Inexperience...

Than he goes on to trash Palins Inexperience for President...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2takeconstitution; 4thecommongood; antichrist; issues; judiciary; mccain; obama; powell
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1 posted on 10/19/2008 9:37:09 AM PDT by forYourChildrenVote4Bush
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

What a jackass. Yeah let’s appoint activist judges so we can become a rule of man, instead of a rule of law. That way, all any President needs to do is just elect the people in robes to run the country. The lack of knowledge by this assclown is just incredible.


2 posted on 10/19/2008 9:39:51 AM PDT by NoobRep
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Powell is desperately trying to justify what is basically a racist decision..........


3 posted on 10/19/2008 9:40:55 AM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment

Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

4 posted on 10/19/2008 9:41:19 AM PDT by narses (http://www.youtube.com/TheMouthPeace)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

We always knew Powell was pro-abortion.

Powell thinks more black babies should be killed by the racist organization founded by the racist Margaret Sanger.


5 posted on 10/19/2008 9:41:55 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Scotswife
It looks that way. It just keeps getting sicker and sicker.



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6 posted on 10/19/2008 9:43:40 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

I have always known him to be a RINO, and this just proves it. These people have NO CHARACTER whatsoever.

He says it’s NOT about race. Yeah, alright.

I know he is RETIRED. I didn’t know he is also RETARDED.


7 posted on 10/19/2008 9:44:16 AM PDT by Ben Reyes (If Obama is elected, it's because of white guilt and black racism)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Oh be honest and just come out and announce you’re a democrat for Pete’s sake.


8 posted on 10/19/2008 9:44:24 AM PDT by nuconvert (Obama - Preferred by 4 out of 5 Dictators & Terrorists// Rove>Biden is a Big,Blowhard Dufus)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Didnt he also say it didnt matter if he was muslim or if he uses the Koran?

IT MATTERS TO ME GENERAL! IT MATTERS TO A LOT OF AMERICANS!


9 posted on 10/19/2008 9:45:18 AM PDT by Texas4ever (!WHO IS OBAMA?)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Another racist comes out of the woodwork.


10 posted on 10/19/2008 9:45:56 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("I'm just going to spread YOUR wealth around." - Barack HUSSEIN Obama a.k.a. Barry Soetoro)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yes Basically....

Skin First Country Second


11 posted on 10/19/2008 9:46:25 AM PDT by forYourChildrenVote4Bush (Today, July 16th I no longer donate money for Israel)
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To: nuconvert
without the GOP

Where would you and your son be? Ret. Col. Powell

12 posted on 10/19/2008 9:46:36 AM PDT by scooby321 (Cai)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

I think McCain needs to hit Obama on trying to undermine the 2nd amendment through tainted scholarship... joyce foundation.


13 posted on 10/19/2008 9:46:46 AM PDT by bahblahbah (http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors/)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush
Powell has always been a Demoncrat.

The Republicans tried to use him for the color of his skin and promoted him based on the color of his skin. It is to be expected that Colin Powell has finally come forward for what he is - a radical Marxist. Promotion based on color and not ideology doesn't work.

14 posted on 10/19/2008 9:47:06 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Powell might as well make it official and switch to the DemoncRAT party. He all but did so this morning. He is FINISHED as a Republican!


15 posted on 10/19/2008 9:47:19 AM PDT by teletech (Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT)
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To: Texas4ever

Powell can go to hell. He would have never been heard of if it were not for Ronald Reagan. Then “compassionate conservative” Dubya makes him Sec of State. What an ungrateful ingrate.


16 posted on 10/19/2008 9:47:51 AM PDT by Comparative Advantage
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush
This was no surprise. Black's I know that he was a puppet to his “master” Bush and that is exactly what they said so condescending. They have even less respect for Condi. I believe he intends to run for office in 2 years and has to shore up a base now.
17 posted on 10/19/2008 9:48:14 AM PDT by Kadanne (Truth and integrity in America)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Powell’s first loyalty is to his race, not his country or party. That’s all it is!


18 posted on 10/19/2008 9:48:35 AM PDT by devere
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To: JoeDetweiler

Yeah, and he failed. All he could do is talk nonsense.

This was a tribal endorsement, and nothing more.


19 posted on 10/19/2008 9:48:38 AM PDT by John Valentine
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To: narses

Good riddance of Powell. He showed his true color


20 posted on 10/19/2008 9:49:58 AM PDT by Kaslin (If Obama wants to spread the wealth around, let him start with his own)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

I picked up on his double standard about experience also.

Transcript here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27266223/


21 posted on 10/19/2008 9:51:00 AM PDT by Josh Painter ("Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country." - Bill Ayers)
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To: John Valentine

Yep, and I think most will see it that way too.


22 posted on 10/19/2008 9:51:10 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush
'I would have difficulty with two more Republican appointments to Surpeme Court'...

So, let me get this straight, General... You're not in favor of stacking the deck in America's favor?

And to think... I actually admired you back in the day.

23 posted on 10/19/2008 9:51:28 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Texas4ever

Well , rethink this.

IT looks like he is telling America that Obama is a Muslim.
HE is also saying that Obama lacks the skill to be pres thus the surrounding of experience.

Now, tell me, what would happen if the great one had to make a decision on his own?

I’ll tell you.... another great muslim blunder!!!!

And America wants to have that???


24 posted on 10/19/2008 9:51:47 AM PDT by himno hero
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush
“Its not about race”....the hell it isn't. From his earliest days as a 2nd Lt, Powell has always been a politician first and soldier second. Through his entire career he never chose honor over affirmative action privilege even when he knew he was promoted over more deserving peers. He was a failure as a Secretary of State, relying on out right bribery, at the expense of the American tax payer, over actual diplomacy. This old soldier would not salute him if he wrapped himself in the flag, lit himself on fire and jumped off the Statue of Liberty.
25 posted on 10/19/2008 9:53:07 AM PDT by Natural Law
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To: NoobRep

This is not the same man who fought for his country and who was DOD Chief of the Joint Staff.

As has already been pointed out his reasoning is contradictory if not downright fallacious. I wonder if his capacity to think is impaired or someone has been able to put pressure on him.

So sad. Many of us military types were very proud of him. I’ll always respect his military service to this country. But his endorsement of the Marxist Onada does nothing to change my mind about voting for McCain. Gad zooks. He had nothing cogent to say at all. Just parroting demrat talking points.

Doesn’t have any idea who the Marxist Onada is. That means he hasn’t even troubled himself to be informed. Gen. Powell is obviously not the man he once was.


26 posted on 10/19/2008 9:53:16 AM PDT by dools007
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

What a putz!


27 posted on 10/19/2008 9:53:16 AM PDT by scratcher (I trust the media about as much as I trust al Qaeda.)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

In other words, Powell decided based on race.


28 posted on 10/19/2008 9:53:47 AM PDT by loungeSerf (Freedom Sucks! Obama 08)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

What a flippin doughhead Powell is.
Obama has spent his whole life surrounded by radicals and people who burn with resentment and hate for this country, including his wife. How can you expect it to be any different once he takes office?


29 posted on 10/19/2008 9:54:41 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: Kadanne

So now the ‘progressives’ drop the moniker for Powell ‘house negro’ of ‘Uncle Tom’....
Well, we judge a man by his character, so much for Colin Powell’s character. Country first.


30 posted on 10/19/2008 9:55:35 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: JoeDetweiler

“Powell is desperately trying to justify what is basically a racist decision..........”

Yep. He has no basis for that statement. I just have to wonder how this perfume princess got to an Army general. Are all the others wached, too?


31 posted on 10/19/2008 9:55:52 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

What was it that made this guy successful? Oh yeah, affirmative action and the first Bush.


32 posted on 10/19/2008 9:56:24 AM PDT by Terry Mross (O)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

This from an Affirmative Action General.


33 posted on 10/19/2008 9:57:07 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Vote McWhatshisname and PALIN)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush
"Skin First Country Second"

So it seems. A question popped into my head this morning regarding Clarence Thomas and blacks dismissing him. My question then was: What if the Republican ticket were say J.C. Watts or Michael Steele and the Democratic ticket was a couple liberal white guys? As young, 'clean' well-spoken, liberal-socialist-big-government-Marxists as Obama.

Would the blacks still choose the Democrat over a conservative Republican black? As Snerdley says 'certified black enough' OR, dismiss him as a 'sell-out' Uncle Tom or whatever they use...

34 posted on 10/19/2008 9:57:10 AM PDT by KriegerGeist (I'm now considered a "Bitter Clinger" to my guns and religion.)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

LOL, is that what that disgusting little weasel said, “Surpeme Court”??

LMAO!!


35 posted on 10/19/2008 9:57:13 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: loungeSerf

I vote de blood.

Allah be praised


36 posted on 10/19/2008 9:57:23 AM PDT by We Dare Defend Our Rights
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush
One has to wonder whether Powell's endorsement is a plant by the GOP.

Why would he highlight to cultural conservatives that Obama will put a couple of extreme leftist judges on the USSC?

I know that he is not a plant. My question, which was rhetorical, was intended to point out the stupidity of some of those who reach high office.

37 posted on 10/19/2008 9:57:39 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (If Hillary is elected, her legacy will be telling the American people: Better put some ice on that.)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Colon Bowel is an incompetent boob. He proved the Peter Principle when he was SoS.


38 posted on 10/19/2008 9:58:33 AM PDT by Condor51 (The only difference between Bill Ayers and Timothy McVeigh is the body count!)
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To: We Dare Defend Our Rights

So Powell just said he has always been a Rat and never agreed with the base and platform of the GOP. Surprise Surprise..oh I forgot to mention...


39 posted on 10/19/2008 9:58:56 AM PDT by Oldexpat (Drill Here, Drill There..we must drill everywhere.)
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To: bmwcyle

“This from an Affirmative Action General.”

You nailed it!


40 posted on 10/19/2008 9:59:33 AM PDT by Comparative Advantage
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To: himno hero

He might as well have come out and said, “Obama is a muslim and I’m converting as soon as the chosen one is sworn in.”

And even Fox News is constantly saying “it’s proven that he’s not a muslim”. I think Powell just proved that he IS a muslim.

Wake up, America! You’re about to elect a muslim president only 7 years after the muslim knockded down the WTC.


41 posted on 10/19/2008 9:59:58 AM PDT by Terry Mross (O)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Why would have have a problem with two more Supreme Court picks. Republicans picked 7 of 9 justices and the Supreme Court sucks. Republicans are notoriously stupid when they chose their picks. Democrats have only picked 2 in the 25 years. If that is Powell’s fear for McCain, he should not worry about. McCain will not pick someone FREEPERS will approve. With the Senate at super majority and McCain’s love for fairness, he will pick someone moderate at best. I sincerely hope FREEPERS realize this.


42 posted on 10/19/2008 10:00:15 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Ben Reyes

IMHO he was an Affirmative Action General because he was not bad looking, a good talker, could schmooze well with people in the right places, etc.


43 posted on 10/19/2008 10:00:16 AM PDT by Tucker39 (I Tim. 1:15b " .....Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.")
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To: Geist Krieger

If J.C. Watts was on the ticket it wouldn’t be conservative. He’s the next “black consertative” to endorse the chosen one.


44 posted on 10/19/2008 10:01:22 AM PDT by Terry Mross (O)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Sure, absolutely.... two more conservative appointments to SCOTUS would be unthinkable! I wish I had a dime for everytime I heard a Republican say these very words.....

...is there any doubt at all this man is a Democrat?

Any?


45 posted on 10/19/2008 10:02:11 AM PDT by Lovebloggers (uate)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

You know it has to be about race. Obambi is on record saying he will pretty much decimate the US military, will cancel anti-missile defense programs, and will unilaterally disarm. One would think that Powell, being the career military man he was, would take issue with Obambi for such a position. However, I guess Powell puts race before and above US security. He blasts Sarah Palin’s alleged “lack of experience,” yet supports someone whose experience is less than hers? And it’s not about race? Give me a break!


46 posted on 10/19/2008 10:02:11 AM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: devere

Powell’s first loyalty is to his race, not his country or party. That’s all it is!
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THis is the truth for the majority of black people. They stick together, and color is put before ANYTHING.
Most whities don’t understand this.


47 posted on 10/19/2008 10:02:48 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: ought-six

There will be a lot of unemployed blacks when the military budget is slashed and they’re all kicked out of the military.


48 posted on 10/19/2008 10:03:16 AM PDT by Terry Mross (O)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush
This just proves Bill Gertz was right when he appeared on Hannity and Combs last week. He said the vast majority of President Bush's staff and cabinet were "liberal Republicans", including Andrew Card and Condoleezza Rice.

But Powell's endorsement of Obama is not nearly as devastating as Senator Joe Lieberman, their Vice Presidential Candidate, endorsement of Senator McCain. He not only endorsed McCain, but also spoke at the Republican National Convention.

Now that is devastating! And that point should be hammered hard to counter any possible momentum that could arise from Powell's endorsement.

49 posted on 10/19/2008 10:03:23 AM PDT by Treefiddy
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

I bet, like hussein, he hates Israel. And to think this @$$hat was secretary of state.


50 posted on 10/19/2008 10:03:24 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (Thanks to the robber barons in D.C. and on Wall St. I've been forced to become a minimalist.)
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