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Posted on 08/28/2011 2:24:12 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday dismissed as "cheap shots" the criticism leveled at him and others in Vice President Dick Cheney's memoir.
It was the latest volley in a clash that stretches back to their first years in the George W. Bush administration.
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But the problem is they have in the past supported proven lightweight righties like Powell and Rice and Steele just for being black..hence why I mentioned their race.
I also think Cain and West even if somewhat deserved get special bumps for skin color.
This is simply my opinion...as an 11 year vet here..but I think most freepers even if they eschew affirmative action and other race quota stuff as a rule...especially if from up north or out west harbor essentially the same views on race that liberal whites do.
Exceptions would be Detroit and Cleveland whites...and a few others who have real time experience.
We do the same thing with other minorities..like latinos even though we know the more and more of them will kill us voting wise...for years here it was almost verboten to oppose amnesty as racist even though they vote 70-80% Democrat
Just my opinion but freepers are naive or just scared into giving the “good manners” answer on any race question even if in their hearts they suspect the facts don't support it
I'm southern from the blackest state in the Union and older..and am not bound by such doomed idealism
Powell was a ‘’token black’’ in the Army. Nothing more. Shut the pie hole asshole.
Cheap shots? The most undeservedly reviled man in libtard media history cannot take a cheap shot at anyone.
“The affirmative action General”
Says it all.
You do live up to your screen name don’t you?
“Since electing the first Black President was so important to him above his “principles”, why didn’t he run himself?”
Mrs. Powell was deathly afraid that if he ran he would be assinated.......a very real possibility for a black Republican.....not so likely with a Democrat Black......
I don’t think I ever liked him that much. Anxious to read the Cheney book.
That’s just excellent! LOL!
Who is this guy, Powell?
Happy you like it :^)
I better stop making these before I get banned :D lol
Oh, he's the guy that throws his friend of many years John McCain under the bus so he can vote for his Marxist Brotha.
You know, a man of integrity.
I never liked Colon Bowel. I did like Condi Rice, because she was brilliant. I liked J.C. Watts as a football player. I did not like Michael Steele at all.
Colinoscopy Powell is a total POS! To hell with him. He did everything he could do thwart the Bush administration and is, imo, a total traitor.
Go to hell Powell, and take Armitage with you. Both of you are scumbags and lying a-holes.
Grow a pair. F Powell, F is wife, F his kids and I hope they all rot in hell.
At this point, Powell is nothing more than a “cheap shot” himself.
Nevertheless, powell will be feayured in a new season ofthe TV show “The Mole”..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_NMZv6Vfh8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P0kxlCvDD8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAzlDSfmqZY
Alma might have been worried about a different lind of “assassination” — one far more common in DC — the kind where political rivals try to kill your reputation. Alma probably understood that Gen. Powell’s private views did not mesh well with Republican values. This would undoubtedly draw the kind of fire that destroys careers.
Not an appointment but a mistake
Signing the bill that made MLK’s birthday a holiday and relegating Washington’s birthday to a common presidents day
Reagan succumbed to affirmative action pressure with Powell,O’Day and King
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