Posted on 09/20/2010 6:03:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Colin Powell is holding off on endorsing President Obama in the 2012 election, but said that he still views the president as a “transformational figure.”
Powell, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of State under the Bush administration, backed Obama for president in 2008. But on Sunday he said that he would wait closer to 2012 to make his endorsements.
"I will look at the needs of the country, the situation as I see it, and I will evaluate both candidates and see which one I think is best able to lead the country," Powell said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
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To think that I used to think this man would have made a good president......
yawn. I also thot of him, briefly, as presidential material.
NO WAY.
His name is mispelled
But he’s right, you know. Barry is a transformational figure. He’s been transforming plenty. But it’s nothing that can’t be undone.
It’s a measure of how clueless the General is, that he thinks that Obama has at any time been governing. One can’t go back to governing if one never started.
Colon Powell...is he relevant anymore? Does he still have air left in his big gas bag?...
Like Obama, Powell got alot of undeserved cred because of what he looks like
He was affirmative action’d for so long it went to his head and now he acts just like an elitist. His positions on Obama and illegal immigration and the right tells you he’s a fake fraud. Just like his Pres__ent.
“views the president as a “transformational figure.”
You thought Powell was Presidential material???
Boy, were you sucker punched.
Powell has been a Trojan horse from day one.
Isn’t a little early to be worrying about the endorsements for 2012? It’s sort of like me placing a bet on the 2012 Derby - we have no idea who the candidates are going to be.
And why does Powell think anyone cares who he endorses? Are the illegals he hires to work on his house going to vote?
colon powell’s support for nobama shows what a racist he is.
Benedict Powell must have a book coming out, or is angling for some gig.
Whay would anyone give a rat’s @ss who this pinhead endorses?
Colon had illegals transform his garage, saving himself some cash.
He’s disrespecting our mission in Afghanistan.
He brags on hiring illegals to work on his home.
Wondering if senility has set in.
Affirmitive action general.
Affirmitive action general.
Who cares? We all know what his choice is based on.
Colin Powell’s endorsement has a reach that extends all the way to his immediate family.
If you knew about his record in GULF War I and then his compicence in keeping the real leaker of the Plame Game silent, then you need to be paying more attention.
This jerk lost me when he convinced Bush 41 to halt combat actions before they descimated the Republican Guard’s capability to continue it’s reign of oppression over the Iraqi people, especially in the north and south. All he was worried about was how we may appear to the people of the region because of the Basra Road attacks on the cowards fleeing Kuwait. What he didn’t know is we were on the cusp of showing our willingness to deal with the despots as only they know.
Then during the Plame thingy, he knew before Fitzy was appointed to investigate the charges that it was his deputy Sec. State Armitage who did the leaking in the interview with Robert Novak. When Novak told him, Powell told him not to tell anyone and then stood there with his trap shut while our guys in combat and the presidency twisted in the wind.
FYCP
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