Posted on 10/19/2008 11:14:56 AM PDT by nobamanada
Rush Limbaugh to Politico on Powell's Endorsement "Rush Limbaugh suggested Powell's move was very much related to Obama's status as the first African-American with a chance to become president." "'Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race,' Limbaugh wrote in an email. '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.'" "'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 4-star and Secretary of State AND appointing his son to head the FCC. Yes, let's hear it for transformational figures.'"
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I remember Bush saying about that time and when the MSM kept trying to get him to admit that he had made mistakes, that he had made mistakes in some of his appointments. I always thought he was referring to Powell.
I hate to say that I am surprised by Colin Powell’s endorsement of Obama, but I am. I said it several times in the last few days that I did not believe Powell would endorse Obama. Logically, it was not possible. But he did it, so I have to conclude that Powell’s endorsement is solely due to race. Or Powell has always been about more government in our lives rather than less.
As someone who has followed republican politics longer than Rush Limbaugh, please let me weigh in on Colin Powell. In a way he can’t be blamed for who he is. It was the Republican party that elevated him in the vain hope that to do so would impress black voters. It didn’t work then, and it isn’t working now. Oh, it worked for Powell; in spades. Powell had the inoculation of skin color to keep the press at bay. (The previous two sentences are for the New York Times types, who would swear those catch phrases were implied, even if not there.) He had a cushy career, and it could be argued that it would not have been as brilliant or lucerative had it not been for the great hopes and efforts of the republicans of several administrations. He even became a darling of the press, but always with the disclaimer that he was a republican, as if to reinforce their belief that no republican could be so saintly.
Powell was not above sticking his finger in the eyes of his patrons on occasion, as if to say to his buddies in the press and on the left, “We all know what this dance is all about..” and anyway, just who was being hurt by it? Certainly not Powell.
Give me real conservative black republicans and I, and we, will back them with all our hearts and wallets, as we have done for years. As for those who think the government owes them a living, let’s see what happens when the money runs out.
Why? It is all true, so what’s your beef?
Powell is a racist. A shameless racist.
Colin Powell has just thrown under the bus
all of our brave troops fighting for freedom in Iraq.
I am not afraid. Powell endorsed Barry because Barry is black - it is plain and simple because Barry is black,
Powell is not endorsing Obama because he is black. Powell is endorsing Obama because he believes Obama will win.
Powell has never stuck his neck out politically in his life. He is a politician with no real ideology and never had a reason to be a Republican other than being high ranking military officer wanting to be promoted during Republican administrations.
Powell has no reason to be a Republican. He's not pro-life, opposes the 2nd amendment, and he supports racial quotas. He's never demonstrated an understanding or interest in the free market.
More evidence? He gave McCain a maximum contribution way back when it looked like he would win. He never made that kind of contribution to Obama until now.
If it was really about race, Powell would have made the contribution early on, not now.
Not POSSIBLE that Powell will sit on Osama’s cabinet —
but definite!!!
Of course Powell is endorsing Osama because he’s black. How stupid do they think we are?
And yes, Powell will have a seat at the table, if Osama gets elected.
I do not believe it will happen. But I believe this election, and Osama’s loss, will cause race riots and division in this country, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. Osama making this about race (and now through his VP choice, Biden) will cause a great divide like we have only seen at the time of the Civil War. It will be ugly....we should all be prepared.
BTW — I have a black friend who is also a homeschooling Christian conservative mom like me, who is so excited about the first black man to be President, she is voting for Obama. I just stared at her when she told me. I truly am shocked. Maybe that makes me naive.
Then I guess we should call Barry Arab-American or Kenyan-American. You know it doesn’t matter, if you identify yourself as black that is all that seems to be needed.
I think that's pretty close to it. Everyone knows Powell quit the Bush Administration out of disenchantment with his advice being rejected and the U.N. speech fiasco, which made Powell look bad and which (mostly) wasn't his fault.
He felt used and abused by Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld (so, I think, did George Tenet), so he took his marbles and went home to sulk with fellow ex-41 insiders like Brent Scowcroft.
I think history will vindicate Bush, find narrowly against Powell for going away mad, and find decisively against all the people who made Iraq worse than it had to be, by rendering aid and comfort to the nation's enemies for their own political purposes.
The point Rush made about Powell's promotion to great rank by Republicans -- without saying out loud that Powell was essentially a political general, like Clinton's puppydog Gen. Clark -- is a valid one. The Wall Street Wing of the GOP is the "ones what brung him", and he was vouchsafed further confidences and great offices by 43.
Powell does indeed appear to be angling for an Obama Administration appointment. Powell will have a long, quiet retirement if McCain manages to pull out a win.
Even if Obama wins, on second thought, Powell's phone may not ring. If Obama is smart -- and he is both smart and ruthless -- he will know instinctively that he doesn't have time for allegiance-switchers. It's one thing to bring a prominent Republican into his cabinet, and another to bring in one who traded his allegiances to bargain for the job.
“If BHO gets in, we’ll hear about race non-stop for the next four years.”
Just what will make that different than people my age having heard it nonstop for seventy years escapes me.
It has been known since August that Powell would endorse Obama. So, Powell is lying about the reasons that he gave today.
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August 13, 2008
Late Wednesday afternoon, the political world skipped a heartbeat when Fox pundit and eminent neoconservative Bill Kristol predicted that former Gen. Colin Powell would endorse Barack Obama, and even potentially speak at the Democratic National Convention.
In response to an emailed question, Brzezinski agreed with Kristol about the endorsement, writing simply: “I sort of expect he [Powell] will.”
Though he worked for President Carter, Brzezinski keeps close relations with the “realist” camp of Republican foreign policy heavyweights like Bush 41 adviser Brent Scowcroft, who also worked with Powell.
A spokeswoman for Powell denies strongly that he will be at either convention, though seems to have stopped short of closing the door entirely on an Obama endorsement.
Rush was a pure Bushbot when Bush picked Powell. Bush should have NEVER picked a lib like Powell. For Rush to interject the black “thang” now is just stupid.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2109597/posts?page=55#55
I agree with your statement — If Obama wins with a super Democrat majority in Congress he and comrades will do to America what Lenin and his Bolsheviks did when they pulled their successful coup aganist the Russian Republic during “Red October” 1917 — they will pass law after law in favor of socialism.
Indeed within 100 days the American Republic may well be outlawed and destroyed.
Then what?
Another civil war?
My greatest fear is that if it comes to civil war, the opposition to tyranny may not want to fight.
Soak your head, please.
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