Posted on 08/25/2013 5:35:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the jury verdict that freed the killer of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin was "questionable." But he isn't sure it will have staying power in the public consciousness.
Speaking on CBS's Face the Nation, Powell said cases like Martin's "blaze across the midnight sky" and are forgotten.
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He will go down in history as a race baiter instead of a general and secretary of state.
I am embarrassed to admit I once had respect for this person.
I am.
And, every single time he opens his mouth, I am even more embarrassed.
Powell is a coward. He knew the person who outed Valerie Plamm was one of his subordinates, but was afraid to tell President Bush.
Coward.
“Powell said cases like Martin’s ‘blaze across the midnight sky’ and are forgotten.”
—a race-baiting remark
I’m starting to think old CP was part of the syphilis experiments way back when...either that or a lot of Blacks are just plain mentally defective. Col West is so far above Powell in so many ways that it shows that it’s all the wrong people being promoted and idolized...
Colin has gone from respected to a full out race pimp but he will stay in DC and never associate with Sharpton because he knows he is better than him. Slime bag Colin.
It will be forgotten because there is no more nation play for pay in it. The Martins already collected a buttload and got some good deals on selling T-shirts, too.
They won’t get squat in a civil trial and they and their ignorant lawyer know it, just as squeaky Holder knows he doesn’t have shit for a Civil Rights trial.
Further, with each Spokane, each Oklahoma, each Georgia, each weekly wherever where blacks committing hate crimes on whites is ignored by the media, the government and local law enforcement and justices, more white people are growing a seething, burning backlash against all this crap.
No more Progressives appointed to high office.
This political general has been a thorn in the side of this Republic his entire sordid career.
I guess Powell has to retain some cred with the black leadership class. What a golden opportunity this man had if he just had the guts to denounce the civil rights charlatans like Jackson and Sharpton and rose above all of this race baiting nonsense. Alas, he took the easy way out, and joined up with Rev. Jackson and Sharpton. He’s another left wing enabler and not someone I would want to emulate.
If only his pants were ‘creased’. Who knows how much farther he could have gone.
Colon had a field of expertise?
Whatever this political hack of a general had surely wasn’t expertise.
My son-in-law’s office in the Pentagon was situated just across the hall from this cretin for several years. The son-in-law, a uniformed military personnel, said this haughty asshat would erupt into tirades against junior officers and aides that would curl your hair.
Powell was the model for the 4 star who was selected to greet the Martian ambassador in Mars Attacks.
Great post! One minor correction on the use of the word "dumped" in the bolded part above. Step mom was no blood relation to Trayvon, and probably had not adopted him. When Tracy Martin moved on from #2 (Trayvon's step mom), she had no legal choice but to send Trayvon back to whichever bio parent would take him.
Boff. . . . . .
When Deon Sanders graduated from FSU they asked him weather he would play football or baseball.
He said Boff. . .
I am.
And, every single time he opens his mouth, I am even more embarrassed.
There's a lot of that going around. Powell did not impress me greatly back in the Gulf War, but I still gave him the benefit of the doubt - albeit on a diminishing basis - until he facilitated Scooter Libby's personal and political flaying. He pretty much dropped off my Christmas card list from that point on.
Mr. niteowl77
Leni
colon bowel should be forgotten. This insufferable affirmative-action, equal-opportunity loser of a general should fade away now.
It used to be questionable whether Colon Bowel was a vicious, dim-witted, race-baiting political hustler, but now he has mercifully removed all doubt.
Still, he would have done better than Obama as President. I think he has the same trouble as Obama in identifying with whites, and embraces most of the black prejudices.
I believe he has done some good with children .
vaudine
I wonder what, in the General’s mind, makes the verdict questionable. I watched the whole trial and I thought it was beyond question.
What makes black people of intelligence look at the world so differently that they cannot see testimony in the same way - even uncontroverted testimony?
I think this is the question we must all face if we are to learn to live in peace together.
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