Posted on 09/19/2010 10:55:58 AM PDT by Justaham
Retired Gen. Colin Powell, a moderate Republican who endorsed Barack Obama in 2008, says the president's critics should be going after him on policy, not "nonsense."
"Fringe" elements on the right are taking a low road when they label Obama a foreign-born Muslim and peddle other theories about non-American influences on the president's character, Powell said Sunday. Obama was born in the U.S. and is Christian.
The former secretary of state said he still sees Obama as a transformational figure, if one who has lost some of his ability to connect with people.
Powell welcomed Obama's policies in health care and education while saying the president may have taken on too many problems at once and not done enough to control the deficit.
"There are so many rocks in our knapsack now that we're having trouble carrying it," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
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More from Mr. Affirmative-Action-in-a-Uniform.
Who cares what this man who wouldn’t have risen above colonel if he were white says?
“Policy”?
You mean like the high unemployment rate and the insane taxes? Maybe the huge deficit? Wow! why didn’t we say anything about this sooner!!!
Powell needs to be deemed irrelevant and ignored.
He might have not gotten to Major!
I agree with Powell critics should be attacking his policies because they are destroying America. Powell seems mighty thin skinned or ever prejudiced though.
Just a response to your nonsense reasons for supporting him.
I never thought that I would live to see the day when General Colin Powell has become a commie sympathizer.
Powell is just another RINO blowhard who does not know what he is talking about.
Powell, if you are not willing to be a part of the solution, then get the hell out of the way and leave the fighting to us who will stand up against communism and evil.
Folks, Colin Powell like his idol POTUS Barack Hussein Obama, adoree of Black Racist & America Hater, Reverand Jeremiah Wright, is naught but a “ZERO”!!! His opinion is not worth the value of a NYC Subway token!!!
It’s too bad that Secretary Powell let race determine his vote in 2008. I still can’t believe someone who fought communism with Ronald Reagan could have endorsed our current president. Talk about being fooled.
I think the only reason Colin Powell is nominally a Republican, is because Democrats truly hate military people. He agrees with everything Democrats think and want, except for that part.
It was his decision to carry all the rocks. He has his Czars to literally, "transform America."
The Democrat Congress in 2007 began to put our country in peril and now we are so far over our heads in peril we might not be able to swim to shore.
Colin Powell is a Dem. apologist.
I s Powell defending Obama because he is black?
Isn’t that a kind of racism?
No offence to some here, but this is another case of a black man looking out for a black man, me’thinks. =.=
Powell is a groundhog politician. He only comes out of his hole around election time and the “media” gets all excited about what he has to say.
What is nonsense, Powell, is the non-merit based, non-judgmental, affirmative action, racist injustice, which has put both you and Zero in positions, greatly exceeding your intellect and ability.
Powell is now obviously part of the Tokyo Rove Party.
This is just too funny coming from a guy that got his degree in geology.
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