Posted on 10/19/2008 5:26:26 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
FAYETTEVILLE, NC: Colin Powell's intervention did not surprise me. I knew that he thought America was on the wrong track. Last summer I was speaking to one of his closest freinds. He phoned Colin Powell while I was with him and the former secretary of state was fixing his roof at the time.
The message of the friend - a man who had also been in government - was that America was alienating the world by showing a harsh face. He went on: America was at its strongest when it was at its most generous. The country, he said, had to live up to its ideals.
Colin Powell has now echoed that. Barack Obama would be a transformational president and his election would electrify the world, he said.
His endorsement may not influence many Republicans. He was often regarded as a "soft" member of the party. His words may, however, carry weight with swing voters and independents. In essence what he was saying was "You can trust Barack Obama as your commander-in-chief".
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I've read Powell's book. He's always been a 'reluctant Republican,' and he has been itching to pay back the Bush Administration and Republicans in general for making him go before the UN and give that speech that turned out to be false. He has never forgiven the Republican Party for that, and this is his twisting of the knife.
Just remember, Mr. Secretary, that when you lie down with dogs...
“Drops a grenade”? How about ‘drops a load’.
This is why you don’t let traitors in your midst. They are capable of doing far more harm than good.
It's more than that. Powell's decision is bad for everyone, whether or not they're too stupid to see it yet. Powell should know better than this. Obama is an empty-suit communist.
The man who made the case for the war, goes with his race.
HEY W/GW, THANKS GUYS
Another member of the GOP marches in lock step with the socialist RAT party.
YES, AMERICA WAS GENEROUS WHEN CLINTON WAS IN OFFICE....Once HE LEFT OFFICE 9 Months Later 911 happened.
If he didn't believe it and support it he should have resigned then. That's what an honorable man would have done. But Colon Powell is his name.
Perhaps this will come in handy.
Yeah. We probably all should have listened to Powell and kissed Osama's ass after 09-11-01. Getting mad was really dumb.
I'd say. Powell makes Lincoln Chafee look like Barry Goldwater.
“You can trust Barack Obama as your commander-in-chief”.
I think not.
Riiigghhht!!?? Ole powell up on a ladder with a bundle of shingles over his shoulder to fix the roof. I stopped reading there.
secretary of state for an obama admin or some such??
It's all about Powell's racism and everyone knows it. How many young inexperienced white liberals has he similarly endorsed. Can anybody give me a number? I can't find one.
Powell was front and center leading the charge up UN Security Council hill. He wasn't forced, he could have just walked away, but nope he did the deed. WMDs and all, Saddam's Iraq was a bad actor and had to be taken out. War votes are final, there are no do-overs.
And now we are to believe the Iraq war soldiers died in vain, because that is what he is saying, endorsing cut and run himself.
but it’s so chic to be a traitor these days
I cannot understand why he went on MTP in June of 2007, took up for Bush and his involvement in the case for war against Iraq, then gives $2,300 to McCain, then loses all sense of reality and endorses Obama. I can completely understand racial pride, but I am shocked of the kool-aide dripping from his mouth and total lack of criticism of the anti-Palin left.
I find it strange he did it now, instead of on Nov 2nd. This was hastily done. Maybe the Obama campaign are seeing something in their polls which motivated Powell to go on now, instead of Nov 2nd.
“... making him go before the UN and give that speech that turned out to be false.”
There is a substantial amount of ambiguity still about that Leftist “fact” regarding “no weapons of mass destruction”.
Powell, (and the Bush Administration as a whole), could have done a much better job of defending the sound rationale behind that initial supposition, and the subsequent events. Instead they let the Democrats and their media completely dominate that ONE aspect of the GWOT.
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