Posted on 02/21/2010 7:25:58 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
(Newser) – It's time to get past the incessant partisan potshots being taken at President Obama and forge some progress, Colin Powell told Face the Nation today.
"I don’t think the country will be well served if the next three years are attempts to bring him down and destroy him as a political figure," said the Republican, who added that "Americans will want to see some progress" and said he doesn't regret voting for Obama in 2008.
Powell also dismissed Dick Cheney's suggestions that the country was less safe under Obama as bunk: "To suggest that somehow we’ve become much less safe because of the administration isn’t born out by the facts.”
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Colin, you lost your credibility after you endorsed this loser for president... go away!
Hey Colon-—you can follow your Pied Piper down the road to ruin but alot of us simply refuse to be bamboozled like the dumb sheeples!
Well you little b!tch. You were MADE during President Bush’s term. This is the thanks you give that great man?
Oh I forgot, ya’ll are the same half color.. sheeesss
Hey Polly, Are you sure Powell didn't mean "borne"?
Let’s review just a few of the Democrat Party tactics: They spent the first four years calling President Bush “illegitimate”, grown men and women in Congress (and the MSM) told Americans everyday that this President STOLE an election, they deliberately fostered hate and fear, knowing it was a lie. Nancy spent the last four years saying nothing but “failure, failure, failure.” It got to the point where Ring Around The Collar was Bush’s fault. She, Obama, and Harry Reid declared the Iraq war LOST, all to score political points and turn Iraq into another Vietnam that the Democrats could run against for another 30 years.
They stole our troops honor in death, and stole their victories. The entire Valerie Plame “scandal” was made up out of whole cloth by the Kerry campaign, in conjunction with David Corn. It planted the “Bush lied” meme that Democrats rode all the way through the 2006 elections. Then they pulled the Dan Rather bull with the fake TANG memos to try to nail George W. Bush. Ray Nagin refused to call a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, left 200 school buses unused, and made no contingency plans for getting people out of the Superdome or the Convention Center after Katrina. But Reid was right there to blame Bush.
No terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11. But all the Dems says is “we are not safer” and the media laps it up. Not to mention that after 9/11 ....SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON HOLDING UP A FRONT PAGE OF A NEWSPAPER, ON THE UNITED STATES SENATE FLOOR...SAYING BUSH KNEW! They started websites, made movies, wore T-shirts, ran protests with hanging effigies and Hitler photo shops constantly in order to destroy the President and the Vice President of the United States.
Now they have foisted an anti-American President on us...who sat in an anti-American racist church with his children for 20 years, and a man who has friends in the WeatherUnderground. This political party proved they will lie, fabricate documents, and try to lose a war in order to gain power.
There is nothing easier than telling the guy you just beat that he should forget the depths you plumbed to do so. We remember “Jesusland”. And if you have a few hours, scroll through Malkin’s “Bush Derangement Syndrome” archive. We remember everything - being called racist warmongers, & Christianist nutbags.
They spent the last eight years engaged in a disgusting orgy of divisive political hatred. When we asked them to unite for the country it was in the course of a shooting war with an enemy who would like to kill us all. They told us to stuff it.
This goes deep and hot and I will not yield on this one. Jonah Goldberg wrote on NRO that the Democrats have spent the last eight years blackmailing the country: give us power or we will destroy America. We’ll stab the troops in the back, leak classified intelligence, block George Bush at every turn, loudly protest and bring things to a halt, do our best to drive the economy into the ground and make this country a smoldering ruin until you let us win.
I will laugh at every stumble Hussein makes, applaud his mistakes and cheer his enemies. I want him to spend the next four years cowering in a corner while our economy crashes and burns and our enemies kick his bony ass. I want him to leave office a broken man. And I want every disloyal asshole who voted for him to share his pain. These rotten bastards poisoned the well for the last eight years, and I want them to choke on it now. *No* bipartisanship, *no *compromise, *no* surrender *
We must create doubt. Question his judgment. Support his opponents. Ridicule his errors. Mitigate his successes with suggestion of unintended consequences. Refuse to praise his work. Challenge his advocates when they advocate; don’t let them own the conversation.
Does he mean ‘lay off’ as in ‘to leave alone’ or ‘lay off’ as in ‘to fire’? I would prefer the later, and then we can do the former all we want.
Powell just wants to make sure no brother can call him an Uncle Tom.
Powell has a racial bias.
Typical unfortunately (Birds of a Feather)
We should not stop riding Obaminations a$$ until the day he leaves the WH.
Powell was busy HELPING to try and put Libby in jail...any lie to get at Cheney/Bush.
Hey Colin,I’ll lay off on Obambi when he’s gone from office.
Don’t ever presume to tell me what to do.
This is all part of the “revive obama” strategy.
Colon is a RINO. He is out of touch and needs to go away.
Really Powell? Lay off of Obozo? Did you make such a plea during the 8 years that liberals blasted President Bush during a time of war? Did you avoid laying off of Bush during the 2008 election cycle? You’re a hypocrite, you lying liberal traitor.
Powell can kiss my rosy red butt. I’m going to hammer this communist president 10 times as hard as the left hammered Bush. Obambi’s a useless, braindead, inexperienced, dunce, anti-American, communist, POS, socialist, marxist, fascist, scrawny, unemployable street punk with a law degree. And that’s just his better qualities.
What an unpatriotic thing to say, from an ostensibly dedicated military man.
1. Stop lying.
2. Stop the wreckless and corrupt spending.
3. Reduce taxes.
4. Get the government out of the banking and auto industries.
5. Eliminate the radicals from his cabinet and staff.
6. Stop trying to nationalize healthcare, and
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