Posted on 10/25/2016 2:16:33 PM PDT by Innovative
Colin L. Powell, the Republican former secretary of state, said on Tuesday that he planned to vote for Hillary Clinton for president as he condemned her rival, Donald J. Trump, at an event on Long Island.
Speaking before the Long Island Association, a trade group that frequently hosts political figures, Mr. Powell divulged his intentions come Election Day. “I am voting for Hillary Clinton,” he said, according to Matthew Cohen, a spokesman for the association. Mr. Powell went on to praise Mrs. Clinton for her skills as a leader and her experience.
Paule Pachter, a Long Island Association board member, said that Mr. Powell was blunt.
“He said he would support Hillary Clinton and he also elaborated on several reason why he felt that Donald Trump was not the right candidate,” he said. “He spoke about his inexperience, he spoke about the messages that he’s sending out every day to his supporters, which really paints our country in a negative light across the globe with all our allies.”
The comments were a change from Mr. Powell’s tone in hacked emails from his inbox that were made public in September. In the emails, Mr. Powell criticized Mr. Trump but also expressed bitterness at Mrs. Clinton for repeatedly pointing to Mr. Powell’s email habits to explain away her own use of a private email server while she ran the State Department.
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Is this ass-hat still stumbling around?
BFD...............
Don’t know if he is a card carrying Republican, but the Pubs should make a show of tearing up his documentation for membership. If you wear the R jersey, you back the R candidate. You don’t see football teams scoring on their own goals because they don’t like their coach. How can they get away with this!?
so true
Powell is a coward. He knew his direct-report, Richard Armitage, had told Novack about that so-called CIA spy, but never told his President, Bush43. If he had, then Scooter Libby might never have been questioned, and ultimately imprisoned.
It could be argued that Powell was guilty of sedition for not telling what he knew. Maybe.
I tried to think of something good to say about colin powell. I couldn’t.
I guess it takes a bigger man to ‘really’ leave the plantation.
Powell is nothing. Nobody cares what he thinks, and most people don’t know who he is.
That’s because he is a racist!
Typical plantation slave. Kiss the slave owner’s ring, Powell...after she ran you over with the bus and dragged you down the road.
Another Bushie showing his true colors.
West Point glass ceiling (being Temp PC) candidate, who if it wasn’t for Stormin Norman, would be nothing.
That's the joke.
It's gotten tiresome over the years through repetition.
A lot of Bushites are voting for Clinton.
It's an Establishment thing.
Colin who?
In the planning for the first Gulf War he advocated a head on assault, which would have led to far more casualties. Fortunately, he was overridden and the enormously successful flanking attack was used with minimum casualties on our side and maximum casualties to the other side. There is a very good chance that he is wrong here as well.
He’’s an idiot- the kind that thinks we’re all idiots. He waited just long enough for this to fade
Hillary Clinton’s Latest Email Scapegoat: Colin Powell
The Democratic presidential nominee has reportedly said privately that the former secretary of state encouraged her to use a personal address for State Department business.
The same rat-bastard "Republican" that let Lewis "Scooter" Libby twist in the wind.
Well, the lake of fire is pretty big.
So did Swartzkoff: “Hey diddle diddle, right up the middle”, is the way Boyd referred to it.
Affirmative action is not a good system for selecting top generals, or, for that matter, a President.
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