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Michelle Malkin: The Colin Powell endorsement: Triumph of hope over reality
michellemalkin.com ^
| October 19, 2008
| Michelle Malkin
Posted on 10/19/2008 9:09:54 PM PDT by kellynla
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 murmurings over the last four months.
How will people outside the Beltway bubble respond?
Yawn.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008endorsements; antichrist; barackobama; colinpowell; liberals; malkin; nigerflap; obama; plameleak
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"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."
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:09:54 PM PDT
by
kellynla
To: kellynla
"It’s Obama’s social liberalism, not his skin color, that attracts Powell most."
That is right.
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:11:27 PM PDT
by
Lexinom
To: kellynla
If Powell was white, nobody would care who he endorsed.
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:11:40 PM PDT
by
Names Ash Housewares
(Refusing to kneel before the polling gods and whimper. FIGHT!)
To: kellynla
like I said. limp wristed metrosexuals vote for their own.
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:11:45 PM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(It's the socialism, stupid.)
To: kellynla
i don’t have any respect for powell anymore.
to say that it’s not about race, when it obviously is,
is wrong.
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:12:56 PM PDT
by
ken21
(people die and you never hear from them again.)
To: kellynla
The DUmmies apparently reacted the same way most of us did....FU Colon Bowel.....for different reasons of course. Traitors eventually die completely alone.
To: Names Ash Housewares
If Obama was white, Powell would have never endorsed him.
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:15:09 PM PDT
by
tatown
(RINO's have destroyed the Republican party.)
To: kellynla
Won’t help with the anti-war vote. Obama may have just lost them by getting a pro-war former Bush cabinet member.
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:15:21 PM PDT
by
DJ Republica
(President Palin is a friend of Iesu, and Jews.)
To: kellynla
That doesn’t make sense..why did Powell give money to McCain when it was thought that Hillary was the candidate? She’s more liberal...she’s pro-abortion. Sorry, doesn’t cut it. It’s the black thing, for sure.
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:15:30 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: ken21
I NEVER believed Colin Powell when he said “my fellow Republicans”. One part of the RINO legacy that forced me to abandon the party this year.
Powell is an opportunist of the highest order. He always has been.
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:15:59 PM PDT
by
wireplay
To: kellynla
“It’s Obama’s social liberalism, not his skin color, that attracts Powell most.”
#####
Rarely do I disagree with the redoubtable Mrs Malkin, but it goes like this:
Colin Powell is black, Obama is (phenotypically)black, therefore Powell supports him.
Would he have crossed the aisle for Clinton?
No.
Powell is a racist.
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:16:26 PM PDT
by
EyeGuy
(Obama will deliver America on a Leash to an envious world.)
To: Names Ash Housewares
If Obama was white, Powell would not have endorsed him.
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:16:39 PM PDT
by
jrooney
(I am not voting for Spread the Wealth/Senator Government. I am voting for the War Hero and Baracuda.)
To: kellynla
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:17:54 PM PDT
by
timestax
To: kellynla
Since McCain is pretty moderate on social issues, I’m gonna have to disagree with Malkin as well.
It’s simply race. If Powell was THAT left he would’ve jumped for kerry!
To: kellynla
I just thank the Lord that Powell was not one of Senator McCain’s cellmates at the Hanoi Hilton.
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:20:00 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
("I'm just going to spread YOUR wealth around." - Barack HUSSEIN Obama a.k.a. Barry Soetoro)
To: kellynla
A retired general just choose an anti-military socialist over an pro-military American war hero.
Racist Loser.
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:20:59 PM PDT
by
Free Bee
To: wireplay
agree.
i always wondered why my tv-viewing democrat friends liked him so much!
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:21:00 PM PDT
by
ken21
(people die and you never hear from them again.)
To: HerrBlucher
Traitors eventually die completely alone. This guy has a lot of lonely days ahead of him.......
To: tatown
If Obama was white, Powell would have never endorsed him. IMHO, if Obama was white, he wouldn't be the dimocRAT nominee. He'd just be the junior senator from Illinois and looked at as too inexperienced to even be considered.
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:22:28 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: kellynla
My gut sense of Powell was set when in MAR 1968 he sat in an air conditioned hooch and typed out his report and recommendations to the Americal Division commanding general as to the massacre at My Lai. This without ever having jumped on a helicopter for the 10 minute flight down there to actually investigate what happened.
His actions - or, inactions - there render him as complicit as anyone to murder and its subsequent coverups.
Phooey on Powell!
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posted on
10/19/2008 9:24:09 PM PDT
by
onedoug
( Barracuda!)
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