Posted on 10/19/2008 6:52:26 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
Colin Powell today revealed himself as a craven and slimy individual in endorsing Barak Obama. He is endorsing him on the real grounds of racial solidarity and not the Horse Manure he spread this morning about fixing infrastructure, Ayers, etc. And the conduct of the war and the UN not voting right is more scatology. He was for it before he was against it. We've heard it before. Powell was against the war and did not have the courage to go to the wall against it.
I understand his pride in the success of a fellow black, but detest a prevailing culture that instead of saying racism is wrong wherever it appears, says it is the fault of white people and allows any non-white group to pack up on racial lines and pursue racial grievances. Obama is a part of these groups, not that he will not deny the depth of the association when expedient.
Barak Obama is a creature of total cynicism. No matter how close or how much you have done for him expect to be thrown under the train when it suits him. Don't believe me, ask Rev. Wright and Rev. Jackson, hell, ask his Grandmother. A soldier should respect loyalty, especially when that loyalty costs. That is the kind of loyalty George Bush has, maybe to a fault, definitely to his political detriment. Powell can be certain his rewards under Obama will last exactly as long as it is good for Barak.
Colin Powell, unlike Obama, was in the highest echelon of the administration at the time of the decision to go to war. His strident opposition would have given pause to the process. If he thought the war and prevailing leadership was wrong he should have resigned and fought it and them for all he is worth. He might have prevailed. Instead he functioned like a lackey and bided his time to stab his long time, "friend" John McCain in the back.
I really don't know what Powell thinks he can acheive by this. He is never going to be a darling of the Obama crew or the racial grievance industry. Oh they will give him some public compliments but they probably look on him as an Uncle Tom trying to get back in with the, "brothers", especially after working for the Bush administration. He can never erase his association with the war or diminish his failure to oppose it to his best ability if he thought it was wrong.
Powell will go down in history as the first black Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff and Secretary of State marking him as a leading expert in bureaucratic survival and infighting, but not as a leader who fought the fight he should have.
Since Powell states that he chooses to remain a Republican and the reasons he stated for his support of Obama are specious at best shows that his motivation is all the more transparent.
In the end this endorsement may help McCain because of the racial component and that it brings the "War on Terror" and Iraq back as campaign issues. Make no mistake that Powell was on board the Iraq invasion train and for making Afghanistan a NATO problem. Powell was for invading Iraq before he was against it. Many question to Obama about the obvious differences of opinion over the invasion of Iraq.
This should be factored into to any thoughts about Colin Powell..
What does that make Colin Powell?..
(cleaning glasses)....... EXACTLY...
Benedict Arnold served his country too....can we speak ill of him? Colin Powell is simply a racist....he put color over country!
Powell said he’s not leaving the Republican Party. oy vey. he is spineless. if he can support O and his policies, he is no Republican, and should leave the party.
I used to think that deep down most black folks would do what the Irish and Italians, and others have done....that is, put their ethnicity behind their citizenship.....the older generation of black people did this.....but no more...I must conclude that for most blacks it is RACE FIRST, COUNTRY SECOND...Very depressing.
They certainly don’t need him after the election. Probably they will simply be polite and ignore him.
Imagine betraying the military in such a despicable manner.
He retired early when the Clinton administration promoted gays in the military under a Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell sham and suddenly he’s all for gays serving openly in the military.
And that’s just one area where he’s flip flopped to serve his race rather than his country.
“racial solidarity”? How many Kenyan’s would dissagree? Odinga’s riots were quite the opposite.
How many times have I seen Freepers say that they would vote for Powell for President or, curiously, they mention at the same time that they would vote for Rice.
Is the grandest goal in life for you Freepers that have echoed those sentiments to be proclaimed as “not a racist.”
No wonder we’ve been losing in the political realm for so long. Attitudes like that play right into the liberals’ hands.
Bush really has bad judgment on who his friends are, doesn’t he? Add Powell’s dagger to the rest in Bush’s back. Or should I say chest as Bush just seems to take it as is?
Yes it is. If you have problem with that get off the thread and go soak your head.
The funny thing is that both Obama and Powell are not tied to African-American bondage. They are Kenyan and Jamiacan.
Martin Luther King would be sick. Most people are smart enough to figure out that Powell is simply embracing Obama because he’s black. So much for being a “colorblind” society.
Well, Powell claims to be a long time friend of McCain, so I guess his judgment on friends isn’t much better.
Seems to me if you really are a long time friend of someone, even if you’re not going to vote for them you keep your big trap shut. Nobody needs to know who you’re voting for.
"It's not about the money." = It's about the money.
"It's not that I don't love you." = It's that I don't love you.
"It's not based on race." = It's based on race.
Tribal, tribal, tribal... looks like I'm going to need a tribe of my own soon. Once I had learned more about the background of Desert Storm, I was uneasy whenever Colin Powell seemed to be on "my side." Once again, my gut instinct gets it right.
Mr. niteowl77
"It's not about the money." = It's about the money.
"It's not that I don't love you." = It's that I don't love you.
"It's not based on race." = It's based on race.
Tribal, tribal, tribal... looks like I'm going to need a tribe of my own soon. Once I had learned more about the background of Desert Storm, I was uneasy whenever Colin Powell seemed to be on "my side." Once again, my gut instinct gets it right.
Mr. niteowl77
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