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Colin Powell critical of President Obama (AND TEA PARTY)
Politico ^
Posted on 09/19/2010 2:06:45 PM PDT by Blue Turtle
On Meet the Press: Powell said the tea party activists who are driving the opposition against Obama were part of a movement, but they do not yet offer the kind of agenda that makes them a party. They have to offer more than slogans, he said.
"This movement doesn't become a real force until it's— until it starts to talk to the issues," Powell said. "I want to cut spending. I want to have lower taxes. But how do you do that? You can't just have slogans. You can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda."
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ALL OBAMA HAD WERE SLOGANS, MR POWELL....
To: Blue Turtle
Powell = affirmative-action Peter-principle nobody.
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posted on
09/19/2010 2:08:01 PM PDT
by
devere
To: Blue Turtle
He also Hires Illegal aliens to fix up his house....
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posted on
09/19/2010 2:09:04 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: Blue Turtle
I guess to this ungrateful dimwit lower taxes, less government, and less spending are not elements of an agenda.
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posted on
09/19/2010 2:11:07 PM PDT
by
rashley
(Rashley)
To: Blue Turtle
Shallow rhetoric from a shallow man...
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posted on
09/19/2010 2:11:36 PM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Lets get dangerous)
To: Blue Turtle
He obviously shouldn’t be commenting on the Tea Party. He certainly has his head firmly planted up his behind if he thinks the TP has only offered slogans.
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posted on
09/19/2010 2:13:06 PM PDT
by
hope
To: Blue Turtle
AH! I take it that this is a nature post about the bellowing of the endanger North American RINO?
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posted on
09/19/2010 2:13:29 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: Blue Turtle
I want to cut spending. I want to have lower taxes. But how do you do that? Uhhh...by actually cutting spending and lowering taxes. Duh.
To: Blue Turtle; Admin Moderator
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posted on
09/19/2010 2:14:40 PM PDT
by
Impy
(Don't call me red.)
To: Blue Turtle
Cutting spending and lowering taxes is an agenda you moron.
And many here at one time wanted him to run for President...
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posted on
09/19/2010 2:20:04 PM PDT
by
DB
To: Blue Turtle
You can’t just have slogans. You can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda.”
Yes we can
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posted on
09/19/2010 2:21:25 PM PDT
by
italianquaker
(obama all hat no cattle)
To: hope
He obviously shouldn’t be commenting on the Tea Party. He certainly has his head firmly planted up his behind if he thinks the TP has only offered slogans.Yes, and since he has his head so far up his behind he needs a lot of TP. ;-)
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posted on
09/19/2010 2:24:43 PM PDT
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: italianquaker
You can’t just have slogans. You can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda.” Yes we can
LOL!
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posted on
09/19/2010 2:26:04 PM PDT
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: Blue Turtle
If government is smaller, the “agenda” disappears.
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posted on
09/19/2010 2:38:51 PM PDT
by
donna
(Synonyms: Feminism, Marxism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Islam-ism)
To: Blue Turtle
The idiot endorsed Obama. ‘nuff said.
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posted on
09/19/2010 2:42:38 PM PDT
by
Soul Seeker
(“I was there when we had the numbers, but didn’t have the principles.”---Jim DeMint)
To: devere
Powell has been in Washington since he was with the Reagan administration. He has no idea what the Tea Party is about or what the issues are which caused it to coalesce. Like the rest of the beltway snobs he cannot imagine that the people have begun to think for themselves.
To: Blue Turtle
I am with an earlier poster. If calling for lower taxes, smaller government, abolishing entitlements, and ending deficit spending is not an agenda, what is it? These are more than slogans to me.
To: Nosterrex
These are more than slogans to me.Of course they're more than slogans. The libs don't like those policies so they ridicule them and deny their value. We just need to stick to them as the regular American people know exactly what we're talking about and agree with us.
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posted on
09/19/2010 4:07:43 PM PDT
by
paulycy
(Demand Constitutionality: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
To: Blue Turtle
Why would you listen to a lying twerp who can’t even admit he’s on the Democrat plantation?
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posted on
09/19/2010 4:14:00 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
To: Blue Turtle
General..you’ve had your 15 minutes of fame. Now STFU!
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posted on
09/19/2010 5:08:12 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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