Posted on 12/11/2008 2:49:32 PM PST by Wegotsarah.com
[RECOMMEND- SEE Full 2 minute video at site. Powell tells future}
In an interview with CNN- General Colin Powell said of Gov. Sarah Palin:
"Gov. Palin, to some extent, pushed the party more to the right, and I think she had something of a polarizing effect when she talked about how small town values are good. Well, most of us don’t live in small towns. And I was raised in the South Bronx, and there’s nothing wrong with my value system from the South Bronx."
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Colin Powell: The next generation’s Jimmy Carter.
Yeah, Powell’s probably a fan of those BIG CITY values like they have in Chicago.
Colin Who?
Oh, do you mean that affirmative action General?
Now we have an affirmative action president.
And he will be just as lackluster.
The Big Tent according to Powell: It is OK to shove big town values down the throats of small towns, and they better shut up and enjoy it.
Is this even newsworthy? Powell’s whole adult life was in government. And then cashing in on that big-gov career. This is all dog bites man rather that vice-versa.
Powell has a become a leftnut buffoon, craving the media’s love. He should quit pretending to care what happens to the Republican Party, and go over to the dark side. Sarah knows what the Republican Party needs to do to win.
In NoVa you can't even drive through a Burger King and get somebody that speaks English. I've been to malls up there and seen maybe 4 or 5 people I thought might have been born here.
NoVa is a cess pool of immigration, the kind that don't assimlate.
What is Colin Powell about anyway? Is he off his anti-dementia medicine or was he just another joke forced on us back when we thought the office of the POTUS had credibility?
I used to like this guy.
Looking back, I don’t know what the hell I was thinking. Colin Powell is a douchbag of the first order. I’m sorry I ever had any respect for him.
It’s time for Powell to fade away, as old soldiers are supposed to do.
“....there’s nothing wrong with my value system from the South Bronx.”
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And Module 1 of that value system is:
Race Trumps All.
Powell is revealing to much of himself....and it’s ugly.
Gee, Colin, you mean the people with the Big City values that called you an “Oreo” when you became Secretary of State? THOSE values?
Oh and P.S. - I ALWAYS liked Schwartzkoff best!
"even then, Powell recalls, residents locked their doors. "Burglaries were common," he writes. "Drug use was on the rise. Street fights and knifings occurred."
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In that same era of decline, as heroin and guns flooded the area, Powell's old building was abandoned and burned in the mass arson that gutted whole neighborhoods of the Bronx. Businesses closed, factories shut down, people moved out.
The 41st Precinct stationhouse was known as Fort Apache. Later, when all the shells of buildings had been knocked down, the station was dubbed Little House on the Prairie.
Charlotte St., several blocks from Powell's street, was a campaign stop for two men who became President. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan both paused there to proclaim it the symbol of urban decay.
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In 1991, while Powell directed Operation Desert Storm at a cost of 150 U.S. lives, 51 people, most of them young men, were slain in his old neighborhood.
A mural on the wall of the building across from his old home is dedicated to the murder victims of the '90s: "G-Man," "J-Prod," "Bebe," and "Mark." "One Love" is emblazoned on the red heart in the center of the spray-painted tribute.
Hey, let’s take those Sout Bronx values he likes so much and graffiti Colin’s house.
Home sweet home eh collin?
I guess all of your LIBERAL critics were right about you!
Your words have the value of flatulence, sir!
I can see why you didn't have the fortitude to run for president. We would have supported you. Not anymore. Go be an Uncle Tom over on the Dem side.
I guess all of your LIBERAL critics were right about you!
Your words have the value of flatulence, sir!
I can see why you didn't have the fortitude to run for president. We would have supported you. Not anymore. Go be an Uncle Tom over on the Dem side.
I’ll take small town values over South Bronx values any day.
The guy has always been an asshole, We just didn’t know it. I admit it. I liked him because he was black and on our side. I overlooked everything else about him. He hid his true colors pretty well. Till now. Asshole! Sarah Palin has more class than an asshole like Powell could ever dream of having. Loser!
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