Posted on 12/11/2013 4:23:40 PM PST by jazusamo
Revelation: Colin Powell, George W. Bush's secretary of state, has confirmed the suspicion that derailed his plan to run for president: He's not just a liberal, but a socialist.
It's been a long time ago now, but Powell was once the dream Republican presidential candidate for a lot of pundits, campaign experts and ordinary Americans who appreciated his outstanding military service and pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps success story.
Now we find that Powell is with the extreme left of the Democratic Party on health care, supporting European-style single-payer socialized medicine.
"I don't see why we can't do what Europe is doing, what Canada is doing, what Korea is doing, what all these other places are doing," Powell said at a Prostate Cancer Survivors Celebration Breakfast in Washington state last week.
"I think universal health care is one of the things we should really be focused on, and I hope that will happen," Powell added.
"Whether it's ObamaCare, or son of ObamaCare, I don't care. As long as we get it done."
Twenty years ago, after his role in the successful Persian Gulf War as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, an Atlantic article titled "President Powell?" noted polling that found his favorability to be "an almost unheard-of 64%," with his unfavorable rating at a microscopic 6%.
His biography is a modern-day fairy tale.
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I wonder how many people know that Colin Powell was vehemently opposed to U.S. involvement in Operation Desert Storm (i.e., Gulf War I)? It wasn’t until after George HW Bush told Powell it was not his decision to make, and that either he gets on board or hits the road that Powell — who was an affirmative action general officer — decided to “go with the flow.”
I find it absolutely hilarious that Powell is trotted out as the hero of GW I, when he did NOTHING to prosecute that war. General Schwartzkopf deserves all the credit for that victory.
LOL!
“Jack Murtha is great friend of mine,” Powell declared. “He’s a great patriot.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1528430/posts?page=1
Colin, you ignorant sl*t.
Well said, Powell went along with the program quietly for his career and General Schwartzkopf got the job done.
I knew the score then, our son was a grunt Sgt. in operation Desert Storm and the boots on the ground knew the score.
Thanks, Smooth.
That right there should be enough for anyone to know Powell was a suck up. Up until 0bama came along Murtha was the most corrupt turkey in D.C.
This was evident by his speech years ago at the RNC convention. He had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to influence the Black community in a positive, self-reliant way and he pandered to them with his dependency encouragement.
This is “News ?”
I think MANY senior military officers are socialists. They have been bred and cultivated in the womb of big government. Many are gun grabbers and collectivists who have been taken care of their entire adult lives.
“pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps success story?” I think it was pull yourself up by the bootstraps with affirmative action. I never have liked him.
Maybe Colin Powell (Secretary of State) should have listened to Colin Powell (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) in 2003.
If you favor european-style socialized medicine, the Obamacare is doubly disastrous.
Joe McCarthy was right and still is!
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