Posted on 09/20/2010 5:45:58 PM PDT by Kaslin
Punctured Pundit: Americans are grateful to Gen. Colin Powell for his exemplary service in uniform. But in his media-ordained role as political wise man, his knowledge and judgment leave a lot to be desired.
Powell is touted as a rare sage within the Republican Party (though it's a funny kind of Republican who endorses Barack Obama at the worst time imaginable for his GOP opponent, in October 2008). The media present him as a better angel of our nature who has chosen to belong to a hellish political organization dominated by intemperate ideologues.
When former Secretary of State Powell speaks, we are expected to shush those around us and prepare to receive his wisdom.
But on Sunday, Powell again and again proved his sage status to be little more than a myth. Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," the biggest embarrassment came when the veteran of the last three Republican administrations took a shot at "his" party on immigration.
"We can't be anti-immigration," this son of Jamaican immigrants contended, "because immigrants are fueling this country. Without immigrants, America would be like Europe or Japan, with an aging population and no young people coming in to take care of it."
Come again?
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ANYBODY could beat Saddam Hussein with 550,000 pre-Clintoon downsizing American troops.
Another black ‘conservative’ showing their true colors.
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