Posted on 01/18/2013 10:55:26 AM PST by pabianice
IIRC...he was in Reagan’s WH as some sort of aid as a Colonel.....not many years later, he was JCS....AA? You betcha!
He is a racist putz.
Powell has fallen into the divisive Obamanetrics of hate whitey.
Pity...
these military brass are political beings from the get go.....
And in 1988, '92, '96, 2000, and 2004 as well.
Mitt Romney had been a centrist Massachusetts governor
I would have expected better from Hanson. If he's taking Powell to task for bending the truth, writing that sentence should have made his keyboard burst into flames.
You fellas need to get the beam out of your own eye before you start picking at the speck in mine! If you knew who I was and my whole background, you can NOT call me a racist at all. Wouldn't stick. No one ever has. That's why some liberals REALLY hate me -- can't find something to criticize and at the last of my school teaching career just made up something that was a lie. My attorney made them unmake it up.
>> Like many, I was confused not by General Colin Powells endorsements of Barack Obama, but rather his recent remarks alleging Republican extremism and racism
Seriously, after the crap he pulled on Scooter Libby?
Armitage says he was foolish in CIA leak
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924412/posts
funny how this race baiter said nothing when the left and the leftist media were doing the same things to Condi Rice he now falsely accuses the GOP of doing to obama...
He’s a milk turd.
He tried to be as white as possible going in, now he’s trying to be as brown as possible going out.
But in reality he’s become a stinky pile of off-color poop. /s
Yeah, I don’t understand why Hanson panders and calls that chump a hero. I’ve read his autobiography and it’s clear from his own words that he didn’t have all that much combat experience in Vietnam, and none after that. He got one decoration for bravery and that was for dragging people out of a helicopter crash he was in (nothing to be sneered at, but we’re not talking Audie Murphy either).
He was a staff puke most of his career and leveraged affirmative action as much as he could. He never particularly exhibited all that much talent from what I’ve read.
Powell never commanded a company in Vietnam and was never in harm’s way. He was a desk jockey. Each and every promotion after the rank of captain was due to affirmative action, all the way through his selection as Sec of State. All this courtesy of republicans, who he has never been one of. All the years he was taking from republicans he was a democrat. Finally he admits it with his pathetic endorsement of an unknown ward politician for president of the United States. The reason? Powell is as liberal as the day is long and Obama has the same skin tone. The man has no integrity whatsover. He’s a user. Nothing else.
During my Navy career it was my observation that half of COs were great people and great leaders, and the other half were useless “admiral’s boys” who got there via connections. It is also my observation about flag officers, many of whom I served with on their way up.
“these military brass are political beings from the get go.....”
powell was on the leading edge of the card players. Had he not played it, he would today be a retired Lt Col fishing on some bayou in Louisiana..
I graduated from high school with a guy who went on to graduate from the Naval Academy. He was a Top Gun pilot and flew the F-14. He retired with the rank of captain. I asked him why he did not become an admiral. His answer was “I did not want to kiss ass.”
Trivia bits about his military career.
1) As a major, Powell admitted that one of his jobs was to ‘whitewash’ the My Lai Massacre, which he admitted years later, and also said that much information about the event was never released to the public.
2) After a race riot when in Korea, where African American soldiers almost killed a Caucasian officer, Powell was charged by his commanding general with cracking down on black militants.
3) He became only the third general since World War II, along with Alexander Haig, to reach four-star rank without ever serving as a division commander. He did command V Corps in Germany, however.
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