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Colon Powell owes his entire career to the Republican Party. The officer corps of the military is owned by the GOP. Powell learned years ago the only way for him to get promoted was to lie about his politics and pretend to be a Republican. This lie got him all the way up to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and then Secretary of State. None of this would be possible if he were known to be a liberal Democrat. If it were not for the GOP, Colon Powell would have retired a no-name Colonel years ago.

Colon Powell is a traitor to the uniform if he thinks Obama is anyway qualified to be Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of America. Powell hates the military that gave him a life and he is now turning his back on his fellow soldiers just to vote for the "black guy".

To Colon Powell, race trumps service.

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Colon Powell owes his entire career to the Republican Party

Powell owes his entire career to white people that he hates.

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Powell has benefited from the advantages and opportunities his race has afforded him throughout his professional life. Following is an excerpt from a New York Times article published 24 September 1995:

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“So it is useful to read the Powell book alongside Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s interview with the author in the Sept. 25 issue of The New Yorker. In the book, [My American Journey] we learn of Mr. Powell's zeal for ‘entrepreneurial capitalism’ and his unfocused belief that the Democrats are hostile to it. But Mr. Gates adds the valuable information that Mr. Powell is ‘now a wealthy person’ whose holdings once included a share of a Buffalo television station. It was purchased in concert with a wealthy cousin, Bruce Llewellyn, under a tax-break program passed by a Democratic Administration and Congress to promote minority ownership of radio and television.

“Mr. Powell records his elation at making general at 42, but Mr. Gates and others provide the detail that Clifford Alexander, the Secretary of the Army under President Carter, forced the Pentagon to integrate the promotion lists that produced Mr. Powell's opportunity. Mr. Alexander told Mr. Gates that there were ‘a number of black generals’ of equal talent who never got General Powell's political breaks.”

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The link to the article is: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE5DF1630F937A1575AC0A963958260&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss.