Posted on 05/25/2009 6:03:43 AM PDT by Zakeet
This was at 166th St. and Boston Road in the Bronx Sunday morning, in front of the amazing old building that was still called Morris High School when Gen. Colin Powell graduated from there more than 50 years ago and began a life of service to his country.
This was an hour before Powell would appear on "Face the Nation" to discuss comments made about him by former Vice President Dick Cheney, whose most famous moment carrying a gun came when shooting a lawyer once instead of quail.
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A week ago Cheney - whose idea of a foxhole is Fox News - went on "Face the Nation" and said he assumed Powell had left the Republican Party after endorsing Barack Obama. Then Cheney said if he had to choose between Powell and Rush Limbaugh to lead the Republicans, he would go with Limbaugh.
But that really is the current Republican Party, isn't it? Angry old white men like Cheney and Limbaugh talking to each other. Two toy soldiers who enjoy insulting a real one like Powell. Trying to convince the country that if you don't believe in torture, you don't want to keep it safe.
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Of course Dick Cheney wants to talk about torture now. It's all he's got. He doesn't want to talk about the soldiers he sent off to die in Iraq. He doesn't want to talk about all the wounded soldiers from that war, or the trips he didn't make to Walter Reed while he was still vice president.
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Cheney doesn't want to talk about how the Republicans lost both houses of Congress and finally the White House while he was vice president, as millions left his party on the dead run. And he certainly doesn't want to talk about what kind of country he left to President Obama, and to the rest of us.
So he talks about the potential danger of closing Guantanamo and puts it all on Obama.
Maybe obama should call Powell and ask him what to do about Iran and North Korea.......
Barf. Powell was a great soldier, but as a political appointee he was a deserter. He wasn’t there when John McCain needed him and he colluded with the enemy. His supposed ideas like embracing big government and raising taxes would lead to certain doom for the GOP. Let’s hope no one listens to him.
“Americans do want to pay taxes for services” and “Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less.” Gimme a break, Powell. You’re not worthy to snipe at a political leader like Dick Cheney.
So, did Colon vote for Jimmah for the first (and only) term or both times or only for Jimmah’s second attempt?
A few years back the same leftist clowns were calling Powell an uncle Tom and far worse. Seems that the left likes blacks just fine as long as they remember “their place”.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Powell may be a military hero, but he also is a traitor to the Republican party. Anyone who endorsed a Democrat for the Presidency isn’t a Republican, in my book.
OK, this just means Obama has no business being the commander in chief. I guess i have to agree. Get that damn toy soldier out of office now.
No sense reading beyond this childish drivel.
He may have been a great soldier, but hero is a far stretch. Powell spent most of his military life inside the beltway, out of touch with the Soldier who was out in the thick of things. I will never forget the story about him losing his sidearm. What struck me was not the point Powell was making about the lesson his commander taught him that day, but I was more struck by the fact that guy still had a job.
If heroism is so important why did Powell endorse the 0 over McCain who did some rather heroic things?
The same leftards who bashed Bush for his National Guard service and lack of real war experience compared to Kerry, are the same leftards who have given over the defense of the country to Zero who has no military experience, and in fact, has no governing experience.
This is a case of pot meet kettle in their arguments regarding Cheney/Limbaugh/Powell.
all war heroes(for which they should receive our accolades, especially on Memorial Day), all stupid leftist bastards who need to leave politics to people who believe in the American Way.
Let’s talk about O’s service to his country.
I know I know, there is no greater calling than rabble rousing on the South Side of Chicago,.
No greater service to one’s fellow man than to take millions of dollars from the Annenberg Foundation, meant to educate the underprivileged children in Chicago and spent it on your own personal pursuits.
Quite a comparison, wouldn’t you say Mr. or is it Mrs. Zakeet.
Bush got c. 63 m votes in ‘04. McCain got c. 59 m in ‘08. A younger, healthier Cheney leading the ticket in ‘08 in all likelihood would have gotten more, although probably would have lost to Obama’s overwhelming spending advantage ( but, then, probably would not have been constrained by Mccain’s choice to take public financing once Obama had gone back on his pledge to take it). So your argument means nothing.
Dick and George helped squander the last of the Reagan demographic coalition’s potential for nationwide political victory. With the American Southwest becoming Neuevo Mexico and the Northeast an isolated out of touch euro-socialist soft tyranny the GOP finds itself torn between two conflicting visions of America and cannot figure out what to do. But its the Democrats who ought to be in the hotseat, but the Stooopid Party listens to the squealers of the lib MSM instead and they are stuck in a reactionary mode.
There was a rumor that Cheney got all the planes on the ground on 9/11 and that there were more plans in play. Bad guys were on trains to Mexico that day and some got pulled over. I'd take Cheney and Limbaugh any day over a double dealing, lying skunk like Powell.
As a soldier Powell was a great political appointee.
“A few years back the same leftist clowns were calling Powell an uncle Tom and far worse. Seems that the left likes blacks just fine as long as they remember “their place”.”
That’s what I was thinking! Didn’t they hate him for being a black working for a Republican President, twice?
Yeah, as long as they get back on the Plantation, blacks are fine.
Rove made a good comment about little Powel vs everybody else.
It is called the marketplace of ideas.
Powel is not selling ideas, he is only being a lap dog for the left.
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