Posted on 10/19/2008 2:18:11 PM PDT by VU4G10
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama on Sunday morning during his appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."
The media spin has been that Powell, a Republican and former John McCain supporter, has taken very the unusual step of crossing party lines to back a Democrat he thinks will serve the country best.
But a review of Powell’s own campaign contributions with the FEC shows that he has crossed party lines once before to help an African-American Democrat in a federal race.
In 1994, then-Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, the state’s first African-American governor, entered the Democratic primary in a bid for the U.S. Senate.
Records show that Powell donated $1,000 to Wilder’s campaign. Wilder later withdraw from the primary as polls showed him lagging three other candidates.
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I’m not endorsing Wilder, but Wilder had zero chance of winning in 1994. Neither did J. Marshall Coleman, the other independent in the race, whom Powell also contributed to. But by supporting both, Powell actually undercut Chuck Robb’s reelection chances. It would have been smart strategery for someone who supported North, but didn’t want to do so publicly.
Condoleezza Rice should hold a press conference tomorrow morning at 9:00 AM sharp.
And endorse Sarah Palin.
“The left has already declared Powell to be an “Uncle Tom”, so this shouldn’t matter. More racism.” ~ SJSAMPLE
Looks as if Rita X and Farrakhan will have a BIG problem with the Powell nomination. I wonder if she’ll call Rush tomorrow. :)
RITA X called Rush many years ago and said, “..Well, let me rephrase this. Uncle Tom Colin Colonel Powell. ... Because he — he is planning genocide on the black community as Minister Farrakhan has revealed to the masses of the people that President [George H. W.] Bush has sat down with Colonel Colin Powell to plan genocide against the black community.”
Excerpted from:
20th Anniversary Flashback: Rita X — The Short Version
July 31, 2008
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_073108/content/01125121.member.html
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RUSH: People have been have been requesting, ladies and gentlemen, to rehear the call from Rita X from Detroit. Now, we’ve got two versions of the Rita X call. We have the full version, which ran over nine minutes. That may be a bit much. But we might do that version tomorrow. We’re going to play the 2-1/2 minute version now as just a little tease.
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[]RITA X: [T]he president and his Chief Joints of Staff are planning a secret war involving their over 40-year knowledge of an encounter with a galactic fleet which has been called the unidentified flying saucers.
RUSH: Rita? Rita, hang on a minute. The “Chiefs of Joint,” as you say, the chairman of the Chiefs of Joint is a black man.
RITA X: Colin Colonel Powell?
RUSH: Colonel Colin Powell.
RITA X: He —
RUSH: (laughing) Colin Colonel Powell. It’s Colonel Colin Powell.
RITA X: Well, let me rephrase this. Uncle Tom Colin Colonel Powell.
RUSH: General! It’s General Colin Powell.
RITA X: Because he — he is planning genocide on the black community as Minister Farrakhan has revealed to the masses of the people that President [George H. W.] Bush has sat down with Colonel Colin Powell to plan genocide against the black community. But this is why the event. The mother plane is there, and the mother plane will destroy England, and that’s why you noticed that when the first sightings of the writing in the hedges, uh, from Stonehengees [sic] and the writings in the grass was 50 miles from what is call Stonehedges in England.
RUSH: Stonehedges, yes.
RITA X: The mother plane with the 1500 bomber plane were dropped know dropped three baby planes, three bombs on England and destroy England, and also she will destroy your nav— your — uh, the air, uh — the, uh, America air bases.
RUSH: Yeah.
RITA X: And her jets and everything.
END ARCHIVE CLIP
RUSH: There it is. Actually that was only half of it because that started halfway through the 2-1/2 minutes. It still works. Play the whole thing now. This is the whole two-minute version, just to give you a sample. This went on for nine minutes.
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RITA X: Let me just say this. There is a spaceship called the mother plane.
RUSH: Yes?
RITA X: And on the mother plane it has what is called 1500 bombing planes, and very soon in the 1990s, a four deplosion [sic] on the UFO phenomenon which has been withheld from the public will be exposed.
RUSH: Uhhh, I see.
RITA X: The Pentagon, NASA space program, the president of the United States, and the joint chief of staff — both Congress, and the senator of the USA as well as the Navy and Air Force intelligence, FBI, CIA — will be forced to —
RUSH: You forgot Interpol, forgot Interpol.
RITA X: Well, will be forced to face the nation in the mounting crisis in the air and on the land and — and the sea, and give up the secret. What are the secrets? The secret is the president and his Chief Joints of Staff are planning a secret war involving their over 40-year knowledge of an encounter with a galactic fleet which has been called the unidentified flying saucers.
RUSH: Rita? Rita, hang on a minute. The “Chiefs of Joint,” as you say, the chairman of the Chiefs of Joint is a black man.
RITA X: Colin Colonel Powell?
RUSH: Colonel Colin Powell.
RITA X: He —
RUSH: (laughing) Colin Colonel Powell. It’s Colonel Colin Powell.
RITA X: Well, let me rephrase this. Uncle Tom Colin Colonel Powell.
RUSH: General! It’s General Colin Powell.
RITA X: Because he — he is planning genocide on the black community as Minister Farrakhan has revealed to the masses of the people that President [George H. W.] Bush has sat down with Colonel Colin Powell to plan genocide against the black community. But this is why the event. The mother plane is there, and the mother plane will destroy England, and that’s why you noticed that when the first sightings of the writing in the hedges, uh, from Stonehengees [sic] and the writings in the grass was 50 miles from what is call Stonehedges in England.
RUSH: Stonehedges, yes.
RITA X: The mother plane with the 1500 bomber plane were dropped know dropped three baby planes, three bombs on England and destroy England, and also she will destroy your nav— your — uh, the air, uh — the, uh, America air bases.
RUSH: Yeah.
RITA X: And her jets and everything.
END ARCHIVE CLIP
RUSH: Now, you might be asking, “Where is Rita X today?” Rita X was from Detroit. Rita X was an acolyte of Minister Louis Farrakhan. I would suspect that Rita X is actively involved in the Obama campaign today, perhaps a community organizer, a voter registration drive precinct captain, or something like that. But no question that Rita X today — Rita X, if you’re still there, we’d love to hear from you. I’d love to hear how it’s going in the Obama campaign, because we’re sure that’s where she is. Maybe she’s Ludacris’ road manager. Could be. You never know. The possibilities with the kind of brilliance that Rita X displayed and the knowledge and the understanding, the depth of understanding she has of world affairs and “Stonehenges” and so forth; the sky was the limit for her, including the mother plane.
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Skin First Country Second...Racist
Powell is pro-abortion.
Gen. Powell showed his true colors on Sunday. Instead of speculating about Gov. Palin’s effectiveness, he should have explained why he first went to the United Nations to make a public case for the war in Iraq, and now is urging Americans to vote for a candidate who has promised unconditional withdrawal from Iraq (regardless of the consequences, regardless of the sacrifice).
Rita X was a true character, barmy but funny because of her seriousness and genuine belief in what she was saying.
I haven't heard her in years now, and Rush mentioned her continued absence a while back. She was probably carried off in the space ship she talked about, never to be seen or heard of again in this world. Too bad, I'd like to hear her views on this election.
"They're coming to take me away, hee hee, hah hah
They're coming to take me away, hah hah, hee hee."
Leni
” Powell is a RACIST. He always has been. ..His ideology has ALWAWYS been with the Demoncrats.OTOH Condi has ALWAYS been a GOP person. It went beyond her skin color.” ~ nmh
Yep!
12/13/2006
Rice Takes Off Gloves on Day One, Uses Occupation ... http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/estack_12_13_06/DONE/war_on_terror/rice_takes_off_gloves_on_day_one.member.html
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
I have a couple of audio sound bites I’d like you to listen to: Condoleezza Rice, addressing the staff of the state department today. You know, before we get to that, just a couple of observations here.
Remember, Colin Powell was actually the secretary of state when he testified before Congress and the UN, and what did he say? He said emphatically the same things that Condoleezza Rice and the president and Prime Minister Blair and Bill Clinton said about weapons of mass destruction. Yet, Democrats in Washington would never call Colin Powell a liar, nor would they mount a fund-raising campaign based on his testimony or his words.
They have praised Colin Powell up and down. So what’s the difference? Why is Condoleezza Rice blamed but Colin Powell escapes blame? I’ll tell you why.
It is because Condoleezza Rice is rightly considered more loyal to President Bush than Colin Powell was.
We know that Colin Powell spoke to the media behind the administration’s back to promote different viewpoints. He and Richard Armitage have admitted that they did so.
As for the president, the libs say he shouldn’t have yes-men around him. It’s not good to have nothing but a bunch of yes-men around him.
All right, I wonder if the same holds true for senators? Does Ted Kennedy have any conservatives on his staff advising him? Any pro-lifers, any capitalists, any hawks? Of course not. What about Dusty Harry Reid? Does Dusty Harry Reid have any people that disagree with him on his staff? What did we learn yesterday about Dusty Harry? One of the protesters at the inaugural parade was a chief staff member of Dusty Harry Reid’s, and he was arrested. The man was arrested. “Well, I was out here on my own time. I was not out here as a member of the Senate staff.” What is this yes-men business?
Bill Clinton didn’t have a bunch of people around him that disagreed with him. Bill Clinton had total yes-men and women who went to the bank lying for Bill Clinton, repeating whatever lies he told because there was such loyalty, and nobody in the press, nobody on the left ever cared diddly-squat about that.
But now Condoleezza Rice is right in line with George W. Bush, and because of that, we can call her a liar, too, and we can raise funds based on her lying testimony.
Things that she said were identical to Colin Powell, and not one liberal Democrat ever challenged Colin Powell. ...”
Conclusion: Powell's "loyalty" includes crippling in a PR way the man and the administration he worked for. Looks like he's shopping around for a new administration to cripple, and thinks Obama will trust him with such a new appointment.
Congressman Billybob
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The Declaration, the Constitution, parts of the Federalist, and America's Owner's Manual, here.
“Condoleezza Rice should hold a press conference tomorrow morning at 9:00 AM sharp. And endorse Sarah Palin.” ~ Cringing Negativism Network
Rice gets the same treatment from the hare-brained Left that Palin gets. Strong women scare the panties off the castrati and the air-heads that feminize them.
Disgusting, Racist Treatment of Dr. Rice
November 17, 2004
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/estack/left_hits_new_low.member.html
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This Condoleezza Rice business: you know, ladies and gentlemen, what is being done to her, particularly — and it’s not just articles. It’s even worse here in a series of editorial cartoons, and I saw these editorial cartoons last night, and I’ve been eagerly waiting all day today to see if there’s any reaction to their at all, and I didn’t think there would be, and the reason I didn’t think there would be is because every one of these editorial cartoons is in a big liberal newspaper, and every one of these editorial cartoons is drawn by a big liberal cartoonist. This stuff is grotesque. No American, certainly not a person of Dr. Condoleezza Rice’s stature, should be treated like this. It is a new low. It is an absolute new low for the left. .. The first one I have here is Oliphant. Now, I think Oliphant is syndicated. This is not Thomas Oliphant of the Boston Globe. He’s a columnist.
[] This is the cartoonist Oliphant, and to the best of my knowledge, he’s in the Washington Post. Let me describe this to you. It will be easy to describe. It is a single frame, single panel editorial cartoon. On the left, a very thin and gawky, long-nosed George W. Bush holding on his left hand a parrot, a parrot that is drawn to look like Condoleezza Rice. The exaggerations that are included here to illustrate Condoleezza Rice are just grotesque. Her hair, her lips, two buck teeth, her eyes, her nose and mouth are one unit, and they are about three inches long compared to the rest of her face, and Bush, as president, says to her, “How woodums wike to be secwetawy of state?” [sic] and the parrot that is a grotesque parody of Condoleezza Rice — and it is racist and it is bigoted like nothing I have seen in I can’t tell you how long. The parrot as Condoleezza Rice says, “Awwrk!! Ok, Chief! Anything you say, Chief! You bet, Chief! You’re my hero, Chief!”
In the lower left-hand column, the two staple characters in Oliphant cartoons, I guess two little birds [one dressed as Uncle Sam] and one says to the other “Don’t look to me. I didn’t vote for him,” and the other one says, “Neither did I.” So the point of this is to make fun of and laugh at Bush’s stupidity, Condoleezza Rice being a no-brain individual who’s nothing but a step-and-fetch-it black, made to look like a grotesque parrot who does nothing more than parrot an idiot president, George W. Bush. It is grotesque. It is insulting. It is vile. It is angry. It is childish, and it is typical I think of what the left has become. They claim to be holy than thou. They claim to be above all of us when it comes to understanding the downtrodden and minorities. They claim to be the only ones that have the ability to have the compassion and understanding, and yet they get away with racism. They get away with bigotry. They get away with sexism, and they get away with homophobia — and in the case of Condoleezza Rice, they get away with an attempted character destruction of a truly brilliant and accomplished woman who came from nothing to become the first black female secretary of state. You’d think they’d be applauding instead of making fun of her this way.
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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, this stuff that’s happening in the editorial cartoons today is nothing new. It’s just reached a new low. The left has consistently sought to destroy blacks that don’t agree with them, blacks that have “strayed from the plantation,” if you will. Clarence Thomas is just but one name that comes to mind. Now they are marching against Condoleezza Rice, and make no mistake about it: This is an effort to harm her ability to serve as secretary of state. Diplomats, people around the world will see these things and form opinions. Now, I know that Condoleezza Rice and Bush their dignity and stature will overcome all of this. That’s not what I’m worried about. I’m not worried about anything. I’m just incredulous. I’m incredulous. ....they’ve always thought that black conservatives are a bunch a step-and-fetch-its.
They’ve always thought that black conservatives are worthless. Now it’s time for them to illustrate it. We have the Oliphant cartoon we’re going to link to it at RushLimbaugh.com and it will be momentarily when that’s up there. You’ll be able to see it. The next one is not new. It is an old one from earlier this year. It is a Doonesbury cartoon. I don’t have the date of this cartoon, but you’ll be able to approximate the date. This is a four-panel cartoon, a conversation taking place at the White House. Here is panel one. George Bush speaking to Condoleezza Rice. “Condi, what if I nickname Clarke ‘Stretcher.’ You know, because he’s stretching the truth?” This is about Richard Clarke: “What if I nickname him ‘Stretcher’?” and Condoleezza Rice says, “Not strong enough, Mr. President. I mean, this guy is the king of lies, sir. Do you know what he wrote about our first meeting?”
[]
Bush says, “Of course not. It’s in a book,” meaning” Bush doesn’t read. He’s too stupid to read. How would Bush know what’s in a book? Condoleezza Rice says, “He wrote that I gave him the impression I’d never even heard of Al-Qaeda.” Bush says, “Had you?” and Condoleezza Rice says, “Oh, like you had?” and Bush says, “Careful, ‘Brown Sugar.’” So in this cartoon you have — this is playing off Richard Clarke saying Condoleezza Rice had no idea about Al-Qaeda; Bush and Condoleezza talking about it. The assumption is that neither of them had heard of Al-Qaeda, and they want to do something to destroy Richard Clarke, and when Condoleezza Rice insults Bush for also not knowing who Al-Qaeda was — all this, of course, is total fiction — he calls her “Brown Sugar.” This is Doonesbury. Now, this has to be around the time of the 9/11 hearings. There is another cartoon by somebody named Danziger, but I can’t tell you where this ran. I just have the cartoon itself, independent of any publication. It is Condoleezza Rice sitting in a rocking chair with her facial features once again exaggerated in a stereotypical fashion.
There are empty aluminum tubes sitting next to her that have smiley faces on them. She is holding one of these aluminum tubes and is attempting to go feed it with a bottle. I kid you not. She is barefoot with her legs spread, and she says, “I knows all about aluminum tubes,” [sic] and then, “Correction: “I don’t know nunthin’ about aluminum tubes...” I guess this has to do with weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and centrifuges and so forth. I really have no idea, but it doesn’t matter. He’s got some dumb black woman sitting barefoot obviously in a rocking chair trying to feed aluminum tubes with a bottle, saying, “I knows all about aluminum tubes.” Once again: mocking black speech, making fun of it.
These are the people that do not allow such things to happen. They are first. I’m sitting there looking at these cartoons and again I’m discussing myself, “Just what was it I said that caused a year-long uproar in the now-famous Donovan McNabb incident?” I don’t care. Whatever it was, it pales in comparison to what’s in the Oliphant cartoon yesterday, or actually was on the 15th. This Danziger cartoon, and Doonesbury, from the Richard Clarke era.
Now we go to the Daily Mirror, UK. The headline: “You Met the Monkey. Now Meet His Trainer — The hard-line right-winger President Bush is making the world a dangerous place. If there were a monkey in the White House, and many reckon there is, then his trainer would be the world’s most powerful person. In the case of George W. Bush, almost everything he knows about foreign policy has been learnt,” l-e-a-r-n-t, “from Condoleezza Rice.”
Once again, mocking black speech, my good friends on the left. Do you realize how utterly pathetic and hateful you people are beginning to appear? Do you understand that everybody is seeing this? Do you understand that it doesn’t take commentary from anybody to express how repugnant all of this is? It isn’t sophisticated. It isn’t funny. It may get you toasted at a Tina Brown dinner party, or a Sally Quinn dinner party in Washington, D.C. It may get you a back-slap from Arianna Huffington or Bill Maher but it is not gonna get you anywhere else.
...You know what? If the truth be known here, J. William Fulbright and the Dixiecrats from the Old South who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 have come back to life, and they live and breathe in the Washington Post editorial page as a cartoon. They live and breathe in the panels of Doonesbury. They live and breathe at editorial pages of the New York Times and the Daily Mirror and wherever else Condoleezza Rice is being besmirched and impugned today.
It’s no different than the Dixiecrats of the Old South. Make no mistake, that’s where the first opposition to civil rights took place. If it hadn’t been for Republican votes in the Senate, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would never pass, and this is another one of these big myths that the Republicans stood up. It was George Wallace and it was Lester Maddox, these white Democrats in the South that were the big obstructionists when it came to civil rights, and Lord knows it looks to me like they live and breathe again in the “sophisticated newspapers and magazines” of the left. This Oliphant cartoon, is truly, truly grotesque. No American should be treated this way. We have not seen caricatures of terrorists, we have not seen portrayals of people who murder Americans that match the way Condoleezza Rice is being portrayed today in the so-called mainstream media...
So they become a punch of petulant, immature little babies so no longer have the energy to hide their true bias, their true prejudice, and their true bigotry. It is they, my friends, who are engaging in the very behavior that they’ve always accused their enemies of behaving. If you look at this president, just had another female named to the cabinet today. The new education secretary is a female. Condoleezza Rice is the second black secretary of state consecutive.
She’s the first black woman. This country’s face to the world has been a black man, Colin Powell, and now will be a black woman, Condoleezza Rice.
You would think that these people, if they were genuine, if they were true, would be standing up and if they won’t applaud Bush, at least applaud these people, applaud Condoleezza Rice, applaud Colin Powell, applaud the new secretary of education. They never applauded the (out-going) Education Secretary Rod Paige. He had to go get grief from the NAACP because he works for Bush.
Now, it seems to me that if the liberals are honest, and they really do want advancement and affirmative action and all this sort of thing then they would be praising these people and congratulating them and they would want their constituents in the black community to know that they’re proud that this is happening. But, oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, ladies and gentlemen. They can’t afford that! They have besmirch these people. They have to try to destroy the them. They impugn them. They grotesquely distort them as human beings and as Americans, and this is being done under the eyes of everybody in this country, black Americans included. There have to be some of them scratching their heads today, not understanding why the Washington Post would portray Condoleezza Rice this way. Or why this Danziger cartoon would portray her in this way.
This Mirror piece goes on to praise people like Sandy Berger and Madeleine Albright. The New York Times today, “The Friends of George,” does not even refer to her as DOCTOR Rice. “Our concern about Ms. [sic] Rice is not that she makes the president feel comfortable. It’s that his national security advisor she seemed to tell him what he wanted to hear.” How do []they know? They don’t know the slightest thing about what went on in there! They haven’t a clue what went on with Dr. Rice. It’s DOCTOR Condoleezza Rice, whoever is writing editorials at the New York Times. It is DOCTOR.
Condoleezza Rice now joins an august group of Americans to be treated worse in the U.S. media than Yasser Arafat or Saddam Hussein or even Osama bin Laden..
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RUSH: Somebody just sent me a note and explained this, the Danziger cartoon. It’s a takeoff on Gone with the Wind where Butterfly McQueen said: “I don’t know nothin’ about birfing babies.” I don’t know nothing about birfing babies.” That’s what this is a takeoff on, with Condoleezza Rice, “I don’t know nunthin’ about aluminum tubes... “I don’t know nunthin’ about aluminum tubes...” That’s just a takeoff on that. ...
CALLER: Rush, you are blowing me away. I’ve worked in the inner city of Chicago for much of my life. I’m from the Class of ‘51 such as you are. You know, the Puff Daddy, the Snoop Doggy Dogg imagery that the Democratic Party embraces is where they want Black America to be. I read Charles Murray’s book “Losing Ground,” and to me that was just an absolute perfect example of a man who understood what the welfare state has done to the inner city, and who was more responsible for that than the Democratic Party? Who has put Black America in the hole they’re in? Rush, I am astounded by your knowledge and understanding. I have spent my life in the inner city, and you sit in the studio in, what, New York or Miami, and you have more insight or as much insight as a man who spent his whole life around Black America, who has great respect for them but knows that the Democratic Party has tread on them for as long as I have been around them. You are right on. Hole in one. Three-point play.
RUSH: (Laughing.) Ho! Can’t do much better than that. That’s very nice of you to say.
CALLER: I’m astounded, Rush. I am absolutely on the floor. You are so correct — and I’m in Chicago. I mean, you know, the old song, “Won’t You Please Come to Chicago?” Here’s a city that has had no regard for black America but has owned the black vote for all of my lifetime by way of the Daley family, but they have no respect for a... You know, I love Sowell; I love Walter Williams. I’ve read their books. I have great respect for them, but do black Americans have any respect for their learned individuals? No! They want the Snoop Doggy. They want the bad dudes who end up in jail or shoot each other like last night, a fight in a concert – .....
RUSH: In a way, because of what’s been done to them, you began to say, you can almost understand it. What’s outrageous is the people who set out to destroy them: U.S. senators who are Democrats, who try to destroy Clarence Thomas. Thomas Sowell, and you’re right. You talk about role models: Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams. The list is long of any of these [] learned intellectuals who are geniuses and have nothing but clear understanding, for them to be ridiculed and marginalized as a bunch of basically Uncle Toms because they have sidled up with Republicans is also insulting. I had a black woman call me not long ago, and this was echoed by many other black callers, and it bounces off of what you said moments ago at the beginning of your call talking about how the welfare state has actually destroyed the inner city black family. She said it did so on purpose. She said the purpose of welfare state as articulated and drawn up by the Democrats was to destroy the black family so as to always keep them in a constant state of need. It was a call from Glen Burnie, Maryland, is where this woman was and she said the basic thrust of it was to rid the black family of the need for fathers.
The government would replace fathers by providing bread for the family. So black men didn’t need to marry anybody and stay home because the government was going to be there, and then they began to pay these welfare mothers even more for each child they had and it was counterproductive to the whole thing and it destroyed the nucleus of the black family. And Dr. Sowell, I have talked to him about this, and I asked him, was it like this when you were growing up? He grew up in Harlem. He said, “No, it wasn’t at all like this. Yeah, there was discrimination, and yeah, there was poverty, but our parents urged us to study and learn and compete with the kids in the white schools and that’s what with did, but we had a solid familiar life built around the church,” ....
CALLER: I support the voucher very, very much. Most of the black folks I know, the voucher they know is the only way out of the captivity that they’re in.
RUSH: Okay, that’s another good point, too. The school voucher program. The ones who really want this are black parents, because while these white liberals are sending their kids to segregated private schools that only a spare few could afford to send their kids to, they won’t clean up the public school system out of fealty to the teachers unions and so inner city kids have to keep going to these worthless schools. Look at the dropout rate in New York. According to the New York statistics, half of the minority students, blacks and Hispanics will drop out long before long before nearing graduation, and these are institutions that have been under the control and dominance of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party for practically as long as I have been alive. ...”
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“Let’s keep in mind that Powell’s Chief of Staff was the person who “outed” Valerie Plame, and then let Bush and Rove bear the apparent blame for years. ...” ~ Congressman Billybob
Exactly.
Where is the Law That an Administration Can’t Defend Itself Against a Liar Like Joe Wilson?
March 6, 2007
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030607/content/01125104.member.html
Richard Armitage is a buddy of Colin Powell, and they were out to get Bush. They have not been big fans of Bush. They’re not even pursued in this. Armitage was not even pursued in any of this. So there’s another example.
Lawrence Wilkerson, who is one of Colin Powell’s aides, has been out trashing the Bush administration ever since this Wilson thing started.
I happen to think that Valerie Wilson and Joe Wilson are anti-war, anti-Bush, and set out with somebody to set all of this up and they got their dream realized today. I think they were trying to undermine the whole war in Iraq and the war on terror for whatever their own political reasons are. They set up this whole trip, send Wilson over there to say that there was no evidence.
The Senate intelligence committee said that his report actually confirmed that there was an attempt by the Iraqis, and they also confirmed that he had lied in his op-ed in the New York Times. Now here we go again, this “disposition to smear critics of the war.” How do you smear a liar? Somebody explain to me how in the world do you smear a liar: Joe Wilson? How do you smear a liar?
my TV was left on and the ABC news channel came on at 6 o clock
I watched it I thought as I never usually watch this station
OMG
They started off with Powell being a major endorsement and a big blow for Mccain, then on about obama raising record amounts of money yet never saying about how he went back on his word or how some have had their credit cards been used for obama’s campaign
they then got to McCain saying , well Mccain is fighting on but upping the attacks on obama
Now that the intro and for the first 7 mins they talked about obama getting this off Powell
I am totally disgusted with the media
If any journo is reading this well I hope one day to meet you so I can give you a piece of my mind about your biased coverage
Skin First Country Second...Racist
just like Oprah
On what planet was powell a good general? He was just an afirmative action bureaucrat. Don’t you remember how he chickened out when they had the other Hussein on the run?
Powell was another of the major screwups W did.
Well, Oprah is a Democrat...So no matter what, she will vote Democrat...but i understand what you say, Obama over Hillary....
BUT Powell, a person who Republicans have ELEVATED to above his C grade university average...
(REMEMBER a FEW years AGO the Democrats were saying, WHO is POWELL, this dummy, who got C average in University....BUT TODAY Powell is the second coming.....)
affirmative action has a lot to speak for.
hope that makes sense as I’m in a right mood right now with the media’s biased coverage of this election
sorry
Powell ah forget my blood pressure is too high right now
Obama is for dismembering little babies.
Little babies cannot vote, and, insofar as "you can easily judge a man's character by how he treats those who can do nothing for him" (Wolfgang von Goethe) both are self-serving GOd-hating baby killers. IOW birds of a feather.
BTW this has been my view of Powell since 1996 and is not recent.
General Powell made sure he had been born before he came out for abortion! Self-serving
What possibly makes you think that Rice is not ALSO for Oprah’s Obama?
Powell is a backstabber. He is one of those “corporate culture” predators who is all about office politics.
The naive will believe Powell’s big lie.
Powel spent too much time with the lowlifes of the state department. If he can lie about a Governor who is obviously qualified, imagine the other lies he HAS told.
Powel’s endorsement, if properly played can turn out to be a negative for the obama.
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