Posted on 07/05/2009 9:39:04 AM PDT by tobyhill
Colin Powell, one of the nation's most prominent African-Americans, is going after people who attacked Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor because of her stand in favor of affirmative action.
Powell, who's from the same Bronx neighborhood in New York as Sotomayor, said she should face "a spirited set of hearings" in the Senate. But he said the federal appeals court judge, who would be the first Hispanic justice, shouldn't be condemned for ruling against white firefighters who contended they suffered reverse discrimination.
"What we can't continue to have is to have somebody like a Judge Sotomayor ... called a racist, a reverse racist and she ought to withdraw her nomination because we're mad at her," Powell said in an interview broadcast Sunday on "State of the Union" on CNN.
Powell made it clear that he was referring to critics outside the Senate.
"Fortunately, the senators who will sit on this hearing in the Judiciary Committee, after a few days of this kind of nonsense, said, `Let's slow down, let's examine her qualifications in the way we're supposed to at a confirmation hearing."' The committee begins hearings July 13.
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Powell is a black racist. Period.
Colin needs to go away. America already has more than enough race baiters running around out there.
What happened was that their bombs, just like the ones designed by Bill Ayers, blew up in their hands (and killed 7 terrorists).
Why is Colin Powell defending someone who associates with people who kill people with bombs?
Has he gone completely senile this time, or is he simply stupid.
They’re both affirmative action babies!
‘”What we can’t continue to have is to have somebody like a Judge Sotomayor ... called a racist, a reverse racist and she ought to withdraw her nomination because we’re mad at her,” Powell said in an interview broadcast Sunday on “State of the Union” on CNN.’
What we can’t have is the indisputably racist Sotomayor, a member of the board of La Raza, an inherently racist organization, confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice.
Colin, you are clearly either senile, stupid, or malicious. Go away. I’d prefer that you hang a (D) after your name, so you don’t continue to sully the Republicans.
This country has gone right through the looking glass.
C’mon Colin....are you white, black, half-white? Married to a white girl? Black enough? Democrat enough? A confused Republican....just go the hell away....
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Well, that, AND...
kissing major political and top military brass ASS.
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Agreed. And both are associated with an affirmative action president.
This froma “republican” who voted for a leftist because they have the same shade of skin? Isn’t that rich.
Powell was known to be a political animal. His time in DC was perfect for his political skills but his filed leadership was average.
Of course Powell thinks racism is OK. He never would have made it to the top without it.
It seems to me that the evidence of Sotomayor’s racial bias is far more substantial than typically present when conservatives are accused of said crime.
Liberal thy name is hypocrite.
Now Powell is claiming that it's ok to be elected based solely on being black but it's not ok for a white man to just have a job they're qualified for.
Who gives a flip what Obama-supporting Powell thinks-—about anythng!
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