Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama
Colin Powell was on Meet the Press tonight where he officially endorsed Barack Hussein Obama. I have always respected Powell, but after hearing his reasoning for endorsing Obama, I now find Powell’s motivation suspect. I know Powell was sincere in his endorsement, but he should have stopped there. The more Powell said, the more he sounded like a liberal democrat who strongly identifies with Obama because they are both black, and they both have liberal values, not that there is anything wrong with either. Powell waited until the last possible minute to announce his endorsement, so he wouldn’t risk his own reputation or future government appointments. The bottom line, Powell is an a$$ kisser, whether it be a democrat or republican a$$. I thought Powell was more of his own man, but I was wrong.
Rush Limbaugh said Colin Powell’s decision to get behind Barack Obama appeared to be very much tied to Obama’s status as the first African-American with a chance to become president. Limbaugh wrote in an e-mail:
"Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race. OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I’ll let you know what I come up with."
As for Powell’s statement of concern this morning about the sort of Supreme Court justices a President McCain might appoint, Limbaugh wrote:
"I was also unaware of his dislike for John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia. I guess he also regrets Reagan and Bush making him a four-star general and secretary of state and appointing his son to head the FCC. Yes, let’s hear it for transformational figures."
Limbaugh always makes good points, but there’s no reason to find fault in Powell’s comments, Powell himself has finally revealed who he really is, and I prefer it that way. We still need to make up our own minds, and vote for who we believe will be the best President for America. Don’t forget to vote.
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Billo,
Back in the first Persian Gulf War, when Powell was the military attache to the White House and spokesperson to the media, he was the one who counseled against going into Baghdad and ending everything then and there. Bush and Schwarzkopf wanted to wrap everything up once and for all, but Powell persuaded them with an argument that the streetfighting and body count that would ensue would turn the public against the Administration with an election looming. It is because of Powell that Saddam had over a decade to regroup and rebuild, it is because of his “advice” that we had to re-invade years later. And contrary to your post, he wasn’t critical or “forced” to give his WMD testimony before the UN. He was sidelined because under him the State Department became an entity unto its own, often undercutting the very President who gave him his office. Was it not Richard Armitage, Powell’s number two at the Pentagon, who was the one that leaked Valerie Plame’s name? That whole mess the liberal media pinned for months on end on the Bush Administration? And after years of benefitting from Republican patronage, what does Powell do? Bites the hand that feeds him. Do you honestly believe that a career soldier, a four-star general, would side politically with a man who never served and who has voted against the military every chance he got over a former POW, a longtime friend, and a senator that has done more for the VA than any other public official? Right. He’s just another brother supporting another brother, and I think his endorsement actually hurts Obama. Because that is precisely how the public at large will see this. Love how the Left demonized Powell when he was entrenched in the Bush Admin. Going so far as to call him an Uncle Tom. But now he is a wise and unbiased political sage. What a joke.
Well said Tyler!!
Powell was the only one on Bush’s team that had any sense of what Iraq is going to be. He was critical about sending troops in unprepared for what the conflict was going to be. After all he was the only one in Bush council that had a clue on military matters. He was also sceptical about the evidence of so called WMDs but was forced to give ‘evidence’ before the UN. He was sidelined after this and dismissed in Bush’s next term.
Its great he is endorsing Obama and going for a better change for the country because he knows that for all McCain’s talk he’s the same creature as Bush and is going to continue the same path of blunders that Bush has done.
Its funny how HG can praise the words of some unknown black republican who is against Obama(just because it fits his agenda) but immediately shoots down a distinguished and respectible republican like Powell for speaking good sense.
Whenever Hollywoodgrind talks politics it makes me want to puke. Give up.