Posted on 10/20/2008 6:43:05 AM PDT by shortstop
One hundred percent correct!
May his "compassionate conservatism" be a lesson to those who would offer an olive branch to their enemies.
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“Next line: “because he is reaching out all across America.” That’s meaningless.”
0bama is reaching out with a club for anyone who disagrees.
LOL! Where did you find that?
I’d rather have Joe the Plumbers endorsement than powells .
Colin Powell can support anybody he wants. That’s his right. Just as it’s our right to try to figure out why
I don’t think the Powell endorsement will sway many voters if any, thus why spend time trying to figure out why someone does things that in essence don’t matter.
Frankly, based upon what I have seen during this campaign season, I already assumed that most blacks will pull the lever for Obama because the fairytale ending is just too tempting.
I think it more newsworthy to hear about blacks who have decided NOT to vote for Obama, because they see through the marketing.
I think the overriding factor is as he stated himself...
He doesn’t like Palin, primarily because of her expressed and obvious faith in God which translates to her strong pro-life stance.
I think the strongest underlying factor is Powell’s opportunistic desire to distance himself from being labeled a republican “uncle tom”.
With the polls getting better for McCain after numerous elite pundits, Rino’s, terrorists, dictators and the MSM endorse Zero..it seems that they are all having an negative effect on the middle right of the public.
Powell is an opportunist. He will do anything to stay in the limelight. If McCain wins he will be back cuddling up and nice.
From link: "Not wanting to have anyone say in the history books that he voted against Jackie “Obama” Robinson being the first black presidential player, Colin Powell has voted race. "
And outside the beltway, or the NYC cocktail circuit, who gives a rat's patoot what he thinks anyway.
How a US General can endorse someone who has had relations with a terrorist either shows that he is a traitor himself going against the oath he took to our country OR he is a racist. Has to be one or the other.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/17/powell-surge/
Interesting link with video......
Powell stood in opposition to the surge.......
If McCain wanted to he could state “Although I respect General Powell, he was against the surge.......yet the surge, which I supported, was successful”
The Suntrade Institute will tell you why!
General Powell, as is John McCain, GWB, Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, etc, are bona fide members of the Council on Foreign Relations. A "'powerful" (read arrogant) set of Washington DC - New York insiders, including major media owners, who operate to manipulate (read spin) the politics of the United States, to integrate it into the globalist community.
Anyone who thinks there is a philosophical division between a "Republican Party" and a "Democratic Party" is naive. That is now obvious.
The people of the United States could, and would, work, function, invest, sacrifice, build, and prosper, very well with the most laid back, conservative "President." But that is NOT what is going on.
Read the Suntrade Institute's tagline.
There are indeed two types of people in the world: the Bicamerals, those who need to function in a topdown authoritative world, where direction is given centrally and by extortion. This IS the Left. And those who function through their own internal consciousness of self responsibility and moral balance. This is what religion, especially Christianity is all about. This is WHY the Soviet Union outlawed it.
This schism of mass human psychology (bicameral or conscious), is clearly explained in Jaynes' Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, but appears over and over in the Greek philosophers, Christ, Payne, HG Wells, Toynbee, Camus, and others.
The Council on Foreign Relations does NOT believe that human commerce can function through the individual's own moral, or social, balance, but must rather be "handled." That is what the current politics in the United States is about.
Sarah Palin for instance is clearly someone whose life strategy they disdain.
Simply-put Conservatism is human commerce functioning through the responsibility and courage of the individual, Leftism is mass manipulation because of the lack of faith in that option, hence the arrogance of the Ivy league set.
How obvious is it?
We are truly going the wrong way. To Johnny Suntrade, Jay Rockefeller is a mentally sick individual, as are many others.
You have heard this from the Suntrade Institute, not the Brookings Institution, not the CFR, not the DNC, not the GOP, not the Harvard School of Government.
http://www.onecitizenspeaking.com/ seems a good reference blog, takes the time for in depth analysis and a useful link to timely videos.
” Powell is not a descendant of slaves (he’s Caribbean)”
—WHAT?!?!?
I believe his parents are from Jamaica, although he was born in New York.
The only thing his endorsement means is that Colon (yes I spelled it right) Powell IS the affermative action moron we all knew he was all along.
Over promoted due to his race, and finally obviously NOT for his intelligence.
There is a difference between book smart (which he is) and intelligent thinker (obviously is NOT)
“I think it more newsworthy to hear about blacks who have decided NOT to vote for Obama, because they see through the marketing.”
They are true blue principled conservatives.
They know that freedom is at stake.
Powell has been drinking DC bathwater too long.
If my email is any indication from military I know “not setting too well in some circles” is an understatement!
My inbox for my email is pretty singed right now. Someone reminded me that Air Force Chief of Staff Merrill McPeak came to head the AF under Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. McPeak was a kneepadder for Clinton from the beginning and fired Air Force members who said anything against Clinton in public.
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