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But, if you take race out of it, Colin Powell’s endorsement seems to be a departure from a lifetime’s choices and allegiances. Colin Powell has been a Republican insider since the days of Richard Nixon, for whom he worked. That contact proved very valuable to his military career as he hopscotched his seniors to take assignments and promotions.
1 posted on 10/20/2008 6:43:05 AM PDT by shortstop
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That contact proved very valuable to his military career as he hopscotched his seniors to take assignments and promotions.

So much for "affirmative action".................

2 posted on 10/20/2008 6:44:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (My wallet is made out of depleted you-owe-mium........)
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3 posted on 10/20/2008 6:45:10 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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He compared Governor Palin’s experience to biden’s instead of obama’s, which was also disingenuous.


4 posted on 10/20/2008 6:46:41 AM PDT by Schnucki (Did acorn disenfranchise hillary primaries voters?)
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0bama wants to fill his cabinet with former Bush Administration officials?
That doesn’t look like ‘CHANGE’ to me!

In fact, Powell is the guy who sold the Iraq war to the American people.
I can’t even tell 0bama and Bush apart at this point.

And to throw Powell’s own words back at him, the fact that he endorsed someone as inexperienced as 0bama makes me question his judgement.


5 posted on 10/20/2008 6:47:53 AM PDT by counterpunch (It's the SOCIALISM, Stupid!)
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a black man endorsed a black man. big deal.

but it isn’t about race now is it?


6 posted on 10/20/2008 6:48:40 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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One word: Unmasked

Two words: Selfish opportunist.

Three words: Affirmative action amok.


7 posted on 10/20/2008 6:48:53 AM PDT by StAntKnee (Why'dja say I was a community organizer? You know how I always wanted to pretend I was a soldier.)
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Quite frankly, Samuel JOE Wurzellbacher’s endorsement holds much more weight with me.
And I call yell his middle name JOE JOE JOE JOE JOE without being labelled an evil white-devil islamaphobic racist.

I’M WITH JOE!.. This theme needs to go big very fast... I’M WITH JOE!

Freepers need to spread the word in every place there is a MAC or BO raly. Purchase plungers and make signs in this theme to take to your rallies.
We are all plumbers now that need to unclog the system from impending over-taxation (Socialism) and the legalized ‘theft’ of our hard earned income.

Call to MAC/Palin/Republican campaigns and organize people to go with you.

If you are going to bring a plunger, remember that you can’t bring the stick part into a rally. {So if you are staying outside a BO rally when he comes later this week, that’s fine. ) If you are headed into the rally, you need to replace the stick with rolled corrogated paper carried separately until you’re in the rally.

This theme needs to be the universal cry against Socialism and carries the implicit message of unclogging the “waste’ from the system.

A dozen guys with plungers just freeped outside a BO rally in VA!
Support Joe, the first average Joe to stand up to the tyranny of neo-Marxism! Also, Phil the bricklayer signs showed up at a Palin rally. (Can anyone say—> Bob the Builder!)

JOE could obtain security clearance to be a White House plumber. Could barack, with his cadre of nefarious friends?

Bonus: We can shout his middle name, “JOE” outloud fear of taking a LEAD PIPE to the knees! Try and escape the wrath of the Left if you are bold enough to utter.......barack HUSSEIN obama.


9 posted on 10/20/2008 6:50:13 AM PDT by Gemsbok (Fight voter FRAUD (Acorn)(Obama) and be a poll worker or observer: Beat them at their own game!)
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Mark Twain said, “If you take a starving dog, feed it and make it prosperous, it won’t bite you. That is the principle difference between a dog and a man”.

Powell could have just kept his mouth shut, but chose to stab his Repub allies in the back. Never trust a RINO.


11 posted on 10/20/2008 6:52:17 AM PDT by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the hippies.)
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Powell chose a communist/Marxist/Black Liberation Theology follower over a fellow military man who gave his body for the USA. A man who endured vicious torture at the hands of Communists. A man who is one of the most moderate middle of the road Senators.

McCain is a true moderate record wise and has proven his loyalty to this nation.

0bama is the most liberal Senator in the Senate with a background that couldn't get him security clearance to the nations most minimum security sites.

12 posted on 10/20/2008 6:52:33 AM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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I have lost any respect I had for Powell following his endorsement of Obama.


13 posted on 10/20/2008 6:53:00 AM PDT by Ebenezer (Strength and Honor!)
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The way I see it, oddly enough, if you take race out of his reasons for supporting Obama, he sounds no different than the long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking, left-winged idiots who have supported Obama for the past 21 months.


14 posted on 10/20/2008 6:53:26 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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RNC RINOs coming home to roost.

I lost respect for Powell some years back.

With O’s loss I hope Powell moves to another country like South Africa where there pretice the kind of socialism O and Powell wants here.

God save our republic.


15 posted on 10/20/2008 6:53:33 AM PDT by stockpirate (let the market work, .... then just tax the heck out of people at the end and just redistribute it,)
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Whatever got into Colon missed-duh-rectum.
16 posted on 10/20/2008 6:53:57 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (If Barack Obama is Vladamir Lenin, Bill Ayers is Leon Trotsky.)
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After his endorsement of NOBAMA, I’ve decided I’m going to call him Colon Bowel, because he is PURE SH*T after that move!


17 posted on 10/20/2008 6:54:19 AM PDT by RogerWilko
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Powell chose race over the best interests of American soldiers, and he used DNC talking points to do it. It’s as if the saps who lie for Obama wrote Powell’s dribble.


18 posted on 10/20/2008 6:54:19 AM PDT by pallis
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Can I say the "N" word now?


NEANDERTHAL


It's too bad ignorance isn't painful.

19 posted on 10/20/2008 6:54:45 AM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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What??? Colin Powell is no longer an “Uncle Tom”? Who’da thunkit?


20 posted on 10/20/2008 6:55:03 AM PDT by PGalt
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I talked with a retired Admiral yesterday. NEVER before have I seen him froth at the mouth and rant as he did yesterday. Speaking about Powell’s endorsement I will only quote this small part, “...that slimmy deserter, that son of a bitch...”
I get that this is not setting to well in some circles!


21 posted on 10/20/2008 6:55:24 AM PDT by WellyP
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Hack away all the cr**, and Powell said the same thing as Biden...He's articulate and clean.

What I cringed at the most in Powell's little speech was the item about two more conservative judges on the Supreme Court....which tells me Powell doesn't care much about what our forefathers intended....

23 posted on 10/20/2008 6:55:43 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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Colin Powell has been a Republican insider since the days of Richard Nixon, for whom he worked. That contact proved very valuable to his military career as he hopscotched his seniors to take assignments and promotions.

I've been derided here and elsewhere for saying this but I've always believed that Powell was the ultimate Affirmative Action beneficiary.

24 posted on 10/20/2008 6:56:57 AM PDT by pgkdan
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