Powell warns Obama to slow down on issues

Let Bowel be a pain in the ass for the left and Obama for a while.

Typical “moderate”. Useless to every side given enough time.

“It’s not a new theme for Powell.
He complained about the government’s size and intrusiveness in his 1996 speech to the Republican National Convention. He said then that the nation no longer could afford more entitlements, higher taxes and more bureaucracy. In the interview with CNN’s “State of the Union” that is to air today, Powell said he hasn’t changed his mind.”

Hey Colon, I thought you said people WANT big government now?

I will admit at one time I was a kool aid drinker for Powell. Now I see the man for what he truly is...manipulative little man, the general with no clothes.

Poor little affirmative action butt boy is upset because Obambi is even more incompetent than he is.

They are both racist lying filth that has been given EVERYTHING and have worked for NOTHING only because of their race.

Dr. MLK must be spinning at the speed of light by now!

Can’t get him to come out and say it, but after reading these three articles it is clear to me that he obviously is enamered with Obama like Powell was:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67247

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/01/ja-watts-obama.html

http://blacksnob.blogspot.com/2008/04/jc-watts-and-barack-obama-both-made.html

What an asshole! Now he’s licking Sotomayor’s butt! Sickening!

LOL, is there anybody in this nation who would give Powell the time of day at this point? He’s the black Arlen Specter - - he has shown himself to have no loyalty, and therefore NOBODY wants him. Powell, of all people, should understand that it’s time to “fade away” like a good soldier.

Please....

Powell warns...

yeah, and Jimmy Carter’s bunny roared.

Powell, you voted for him. He’s your candidate. Stand by him and quit selling out your beliefs every time you think you understand what way the political winds are blowing.

powell would have never been heard of,

if it were not for affirmative action promotions.

same for the president.

alan keyes had the brains and experience.

Powell said he voted for Jimmy Carter and LBJ.

Powell Worries About the Very Deficits and Spending He Endorsed
July 3, 2009 http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html

All items below (out of 148 items referencing Colin Powell) are linked here (Must be 24/7 member to access): http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/tools/search.member.html

10/20/08

Show Highlight: Colin Powell’s Obama endorsement was totally about race. Powell — who made the case at the UN for Saddam’s WMD — owes his career to Republican presidents, but he’s a pro-affirmative action, pro-abortion liberal. The Drive-Bys are having a cow that Rush dared to speak the truth. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
» Limbaugh: Where Are the Inexperienced, White Liberals Powell has Endorsed?

Rush delivers a response to the Drive-Bys freaking over his Powell reaction, speaking slowly to make it easier for the press to distort. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
Vote McCain: Biden guarantees a world crisis within months of Obama’s election.

Rudy Giuliani calls the EIB Network to agree with Biden. We don’t need a rookie like Obama whose weakness invites aggression. We need a Reagan who our enemies won’t dare mess with. McCain: peace through strength. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

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10/21/08

“The media continues to obsess over Rush daring to say what everyone knows: that General Powell is a liberal, whose endorsement of Obama is about race. The latest falsehood is that Rush called Powell a racist! (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

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10/22/08

“Why deny it? This election is all about race. That’s why it’s “historic,” right?
» An Idiot at the Kansas City Star: Socialism is a Code Word for Black

The Drive-By Media narrative: if McCain loses, it’s because he played to the conservative GOP base. No! If he loses, it’ll be because he didn’t give the GOP base and the nation as a whole, enough conservatism. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: “McCain isn’t losing independents and moderates because he and Palin are too conservative. McCain was never going to get them! We see the effectiveness of the campaign that tried to attract moderates. Hello, General Powell.”

Welcome to Obama’s America, a banana republic where 60s radicals aim to seize power and threaten riots if they lose. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
» It’s Turning into a Third World Country: Cops Prepare for Riots Whoever Wins

Prepare for speech controls under an Obama presidency with absolute Democrat control of Congress: Sen. Bingaman (D-NM) hopes to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.

Joy Behar on The View: “Rush Limbaugh is a terrorist.” We played the bite.

We’ve unearthed audio of Bill Ayers confessing to being an anarchist, and learned that Obama shared an office with this guy! Obama sought out these radicals in Chicago. He’s window dressing for their views. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

We’re trying to drag McCain across the finish line, but win or lose we’ll start rebuilding the conservative movement. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: “Why all of these ‘defections’ to Obama from people that you thought were conservative? These are conservative elites, conservative intellectuals. They are embarrassed. They think McCain and Bush can’t speak, and that Sarah Palin’s a hick. So they align with Obama on the basis of style, not substance.”
» Tony Blankley Gets It Right: The Birth of the Me-Too Conservative

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10/24/08

The very GOP moderates who said we had to pick McCain and dump conservatism — guys like Scott McClellan, Colin Powell, William Weld, etc. — jumped ship to Obama. Good riddance! Stay with the Democrats. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
» Charles Krauthammer Nails It: Why I’m voting for McCain

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12/15/08

Colin Powell, who endorsed Obama, has told the GOP to throw out Rush and stop listening to him. He also hates Sarah Palin and the social stuff, meaning abortion. This is about Washingtonians, not parties. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Pearl of Wisdom: “The guy who has supported the Republican candidate for president should be thrown out of the party. That would be me. But the guy who bolted and sabotaged the Republican nominee by endorsing the Democrat candidate should stay in and be part of the team that determines what the Republican Party is going to be.”
» NewsBusters: Colin Powell Bashes Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin

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05/12/09

The Drive-Bys Go Bezerk Over Cheney, Powell and El Rushbo
If Rush and Cheney hurt the GOP, why try to shut them up, libs? (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen)

“After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.” -Rush Limbaugh

Powell Worries About the Very Deficits and Spending He Endorsed
July 3, 2009 http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_070309/content/01125110.member.html

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[]RUSH: Now, Colin Powell. I’ve been wondering during all of this job loss and all of this expansion of government:: Where are Colin Powell and Tom Ridge? You know Colin Powell and Tom Ridge have both said that I’m not any good for the Republican Party, and people are saying, “Yeah, we need Colin Powell. He’s the ideal Republican!”

A guy who endorsed and voted for Obama!

I’m saying, “Where are these people?” I mean, I guess by their silence they support what’s going on here. They support every job gained in the last nine years being lost. They support rampant inflation. They support government-run, single-payer health care. They want this cap-and-trade stuff. Because I haven’t heard Powell or Tom Ridge voice any concerns about any of this. The only thing I hear them voicing concerns about is me. Well, Colin Powell has spoken out. They’ve got another interview at CNN and they’re promoting it by releasing portions of it today. He’s going to appear on State of the Union Sunday with the host John King. But to set this up, let’s go back to the 1996 Republican convention in San Diego. Listen to Colin Powell back when he was a Republican.

POWELL 1996: I became a Republican because I believe, like you, that the federal government has become too large and too intrusive in our lives. We can no longer... (applause) We can no longer afford solutions to our problems that result in more entitlements, higher taxes to pay for them, more bureaucracy to run them, and fewer results to show for it. (applause)

RUSH: Yeah! Right on, right on, right on. Now, I happen to still believe that. Colin Powell said last fall that Americans want more government, and they want higher taxes — and I’m accused of being the problem. He’s the one who’s changed, and he has abandoned Republicanism, conservatism. He’s joined hip to hip with Obama — and I am the problem. They gotta get me out of the Republican Party to save the Republican Party? They need to get him back in it to save it? ‘Cause he’s left it. Maybe not officially, but he’s endorsing and voting for Obama. I mean, in ‘96 he got standing ovations for that great speech he gave. He defined Reaganism and conservatism pretty well. That’s all gone. So let’s now move forward to this coming Sunday. John King says to Colin Powell, “When it comes to spending and the reach and the role of government, has the president met the test laid out by Colin Powell in 1996?”

POWELL 2009: Well, first, let me say, that was a pretty good statement, I thought. And I believe in all those things. But I also believe that we should have a government that works. I don’t like slogans anymore like “limited government.” That’s not the right answer. The right answer is, give me a government that works. Keep it as small as possible. Keep the tax burden on the American people as small as possible, but at the same time, have government that is solving the problems of the people. The people want their problems solved. And very often, it’s government that has to do that. So let’s have good government, effective government, whether you call it limited or not. Now, I think one of the challenges that President Obama has now is that he’s got so many things on the table, and these are issues that the American people find important, health care and so many other issues. But I think one of the cautions that has to be given to the president — and I’ve talked to some of his people about this — is that you can’t have so many things on the table that you can’t absorb it all. And we can’t pay for it all.

RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, there’s one word that describes that sound bite, one word that describes General Powell in that sound bite, and that is “incoherent.” See, John King played for him that portion of the 1996 speech at the convention. We played it last month; we quoted it last month. John King plays it for General Powell to get his reaction. (imitating Powell) “Well, first let me say it’s a pretty good statement, I thought, and I believe in all those things. But I also believe we should have a government that works.” He’s learned well from Obama. “I stand by my thing in ‘96. That was brilliant what I said in ‘96. That was a really great statement. But, but, but...” There’s always the BUT. “On the other hand, we need a government that works.”
[]Is this one working? Is this a government that is working? When you say in 1996 you don’t want a government that’s become too large and too intrusive in our lives, how do you go from that to people want a government to solve their problems? That’s not what government does. Government doesn’t solve people’s problems. I mean, maybe in a broad context, but problem solving is up to you! It’s up to family, church, community, what have you. Now, government can solve problems that it creates by removing the problems it’s created, unusually by virtue of its size. So he says he’s for limited government in the same bite and then he goes back. “I’m for limited government but I’m for a government that works.” This is incoherent. It depends on where he is speaking as to what he’s going to say. Here’s the next bite. He continued with this.

POWELL: I never would have believed that we would have budgets that are running into the, you know, multi-trillions of dollars — and we are amassing a huge, huge national debt that if we don’t pay for in our lifetime, our kids and grandkids and great-grandchildren will have to pay for it. So I think the president, as he moves forward with these initiatives, has to start really taking a very, very hard look at what the cost of all this is and how much additional bureaucracy — and will it be effective bureaucracy? — be needed to make all this happen.

KING: So it’s early but you’re a little worried?

POWELL: Huh? Yes.

KING: That’s a fair way to put it?

POWELL. Yeah. I’m a little concerned. “Concerned” would be a better word. I’m concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs, and the additional government that will be needed to execute them.

RUSH: You told us this is what the American people wanted! You endorsed this! Everything Obama’s doing he said he was going to do! We have played the sound bites on cap and trade; we’ve played the sound bites on health care; we’ve read the excerpts from his books where he forecasts the reality that is his administration. (imitating Powell) “The president needs to be told we can’t pay for all this.” Gosh! I’ll tell you, folks, if it weren’t so serious, it would be comical — and it’s both, actually. Well, I have to say this, too. Because, remember, the real reason, ladies and gentlemen, that General Powell is taking after me is because shortly after he endorsed Obama, I said, “There’s really one reason for this, and that’s race. There can’t be any other reason. He just doesn’t see how it’s possible not to get on the bandwagon with the first black president’s campaign in the history of the country,” and, of course, that is and was an obvious truth. Only I, the courageous El Rushbo, dared say it — and I caught grief for it, which is par for the course. But that’s why he’s really mad at me.

But I would now say, ladies and gentlemen, we go back and listen to General Powell in ‘96, then we listened to him affirm in a sound bite coming up Sunday that, “Yeah, that sound bite in ‘96 at the convention, I still agree with that,” and then in the third sound bite we hear him express “concern” over the debt and the spending and the president must realize as he goes forth with his initiatives that — isn’t it obvious that policy had nothing to do with General Powell’s endorsement of Obama? Isn’t it obvious now, in his own words, because now he’s deeply troubled by what’s happened even though he damn well knew it was going to happen! Obama wasn’t hiding any of this. He was hiding it with his rhetoric. But if you listened — if you got the right sound bites, if you read the texts of the right speeches — none of this is a surprise to any of us. This is why we’re so outraged that so many people got fooled by it because it was all out there. So if it wasn’t policy that inspired General Powell’s endorsement of Obama, I ask, what could it be? What could the remaining reason be? And I still say: race.
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RUSH: One more thing before we go back to the phones. General Powell was on notice long ago as to where President Obama intended to take the country. I have a Reuters story right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. It is from November 17th of last year, “las’year,” as athletes say. Here it’s “last year,” and the athlete will say las’year. “The United States government should not worry about deficits over the next two years while spending money to jumpstart the ailing economy, President-elect Barack Obama said in a television interview that aired on Sunday. Obama said consensus had emerged between economists in both major U.S. political parties that []expensive measures were necessary to avoid a deep recession. ‘The consensus is this, that we have to do whatever it takes to get this economy moving again, that we have to — we’re going to have to spend money now to stimulate the economy,’ he told the CBS television network’s 60 Minutes news program. ‘And (consensus is) that we shouldn’t worry about the deficit next year or even the year after.’”

So, General Powell, shut up and stop worrying about it. General Powell, you were told by Obama last November that a “consensus” of Republican and Democrat economists said don’t worry about the deficits for two years. We have no other way out. We’d avoid the recession. We’d avoid the recession. Yeah, avoid the recession! We’re only making it worse. But my point is, General Powell was on notice long ago that this was going to happen.
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Read the Background Material...
• Washington Times: Powell Airs Doubts on Obama Agenda
• Reuters: Obama Says Aiding Economy Trumps Budget Deficit - 03.17.08
• Business Insider: The Scariest Jobs Chart Ever

Hey Powell!!!

When you became a racist, when you choose the color of a man’s skin over his charachter and abilities you lost the little bit of respect you had left.

Traitor.

Barack Obama is trying to tackle too many big issues at one time

BEtter Idea Powell. Tell him to REALLY make a name for himself and to not create a single new social program, but to get the federal debt under control so that his social programs can go the distance instead of dying agonizing deaths when there's no money left to pay for them.

Frickin dope!

Dr. MLK must be spinning at the speed of light by now!
Hilarious :)