An affirmative action military brass hat. That’s all he is and ever was.
Bonehead, McConnell and others would still say he is a dream President
Powell could still run for the White House. As a Democrat, or a Green Party candidate, or a Socialist Party candidate, or as the Worker’s World Party candidate, or as the Socialist Workers’ Party candidate, or as the Communist Party USA’s candidate (Barry got their applause last time).
Even the Libertarian Party is taking Socialists now.
So many options.
More like a garden variety attention ho’. He is trying to be relevant now and instead making a fool of himself.
I still blame this sissy boy for our having to go back to Iraq. Had he let us finish up Desert Storm, Iraq would have been just a memory. Powell can KMA.
As we've learned of Barack Obama's ghost written (auto)biography, it may very well BE a fairy tale.
There was a time when flag officers could be relied upon to be patriots, strict adherents to the constitution. Powell should be a lesson....the Pentagon is full of these guys now...the perfumed princes of the Pentagon.
I loved the way they satirized him in “Mars Attacks.” Hit the nail right on the head.
Bammy Light.
Let's say you suddenly become famous for some reason. Maybe you've gotten rich, or you're really cute, or you've slept with some one rich, or you're racial characteristics have suddenly become interesting to the news media... it could be for all kinds of reasons.
The fickle eye of the information age turns your way, all of a sudden you've got your fifteen minutes of fame! But except for your freak talent, you're just an ordinary schlub! You don't have anything profound to say! You're all dressed up, but your brain doesn't have anywhere to go! What to do?
I'll tell you what to do, and it's really easy. Just bone up on a few left-wing talking points, and spout them every chance you get! With any luck, you can stretch your fifteen minutes to fifteen years! Everybody's doing it!
**sigh**
I’ve never liked him.
“Pulled himself” up from his affirmative action bootstraps. He was probably lifted from above (in the chain of command) and carried from below by subordinates.
I was always suspicious of him, even before he left Libby hanging in the wind.
Who’s dream.
Anyone who knows anything about Powell knows he is not now or ever been a Republican, he has always been a liberal.
He has been a kiss ass affirmative action promoted officer since Nam (maybe even before).
How he ever rose in Republican circles to the height that he did is strange. His wife, a stubborn Democrat, mostly kept to herself and out of sight and away from Republicans, but she had to wonder the same thing, with a snort and a chuckle. Of course, she wasn’t about to see him run for president as no-damn-Republican.
Powell was up to his ears in complicity for the attempted cover-up of the My Lai massacre, and should have been kicked out of the Army for it.
SOB butt-boy.
Never was my dream candidate. Leave the hero worship to the liberals and show me some substance.
Powell is what General Patton had in mind when he used the phrase “paper hanging son of a b&tch”.
Schadenfreude, babies!