Posted on 07/04/2009 7:03:18 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON (AP) - Colin Powell worries that President Barack Obama is trying to tackle too many big issues at one time.
In an interview to be aired Sunday on CNN, the former secretary of state says he's worried about the huge national debt that's piling-up.
Powell says that while the needs of the people must be met, the size of the government, and the tax burden, need to be kept as small as possible.
He says the president has to start taking a "very, very hard look" at the cost of all he wants to do and at whether the bureaucracy that'll be created will be effective.
Powell says he talks with the president from time to time and has expressed his concerns to the administration.
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He serves no purpose as a liberal Democrat. He just fades into oblivion if he switches sides.
If I had to choose between Powell, McQueeg or Ridge for the title of Most Loathsome Republican, my head would probably explode.
RIHOMO
Republican in his OWN MIND only!
Typing RINO for him is a waste of keystrokes.
Let us not judge him by the content of his skin, but by the color of his character.
What Powell did see was himself being called an Uncle Tom by the bros.
You mean the White House’s Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction PR man suddenly isn’t a “neo-con,” but rather has adopted “realism”.
What’s the difference between the two again? Oh yeah, realists infiltrate everywhere around the globe for mankind and international order, whereas neo-cons infiltrate everywhere around the globe for national security and freedom (or whatever).
Wait, I thought Powell was trying to tell us a couple of months ago that the American people WANT big government? Which is it, Colin?
Whereas neocons infiltrate everywhere around the globe for republican election bloodbaths.
WTF ... Colon Bowell just told us weeks ago that the American people want more and bigger goobermint, more services, and are willing to pay higher taxes for it.
This assclown can’t decide which side of the fence to fall on.
“Hey, boy. I don’t need you any more. I got elected and you don’t mean nothin’. Thanks for the endorsement, BTW.”
wow, so will 0Bama kick him off the plantation next??
Colin Powell, I nominate you for the Jimmy Carter Just-Go-the-Hell-Away-and-Shut-the-Ef-Up Award
His vote was blinded by the color of the candidates skin and not the experience of the candidate.
Powell claims he thinks government should be small, LOL!!
The jokes keep writing themselves.
He must have stuck his finger in the wrong place.
That statement is oxymoronic, and so is Colin Powell.
And to think -- I once really admired this man. He went and opened his damned fool mouth and ruined it.
From one Affirmative Action Baby to Another.
Does powell really think anyone from either side gives a crap about what he says? No one trusts a turncoat.
What a great conservative leader!
This would be a great time for Obama to appoint Powell to some high government post, so that he could say that the administration is bipartisan.
The press would certainly go along after discussing it in the WaPo salons for $25k per head.
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