We always knew that Powell was a lib when he ran the State Department. The one thing he got right initially was Iraq.
My take is that he was hoping Obama could win without having to make a public endorsement, thus preserving his supposed high-and-mighty "non-partisan" credential, but McCain's increased momentum the past few days and the great threat of the suddenly public discussion about Obama's socialism - caused Powell and Obama to make this splash this morning. Let's change the subject, so to speak ...
Fellow conservatives, let's not let them get away with it.
Has there ever been as conservative of a candidate as Obama? I don’t mean politically or economically conservative. I mean institutionally.
All his youth, Obama was a object for others. Even his mother’s energy and will to have a multi-racial baby. Obama was but the political/sexual object. And after having him, she abandoned him for useless work in basket making economies in the third world, where most people would be ecstatic to be a L.A car wash worker.
So, Obama begins to make his way, fatherless, motherless, raised by white leftist grandparents that parade him around like a liberal status symbol. He enters elite, white leftist school, where he is the only black. A type of pet for the children, where whites could get their racial solidarity ticket punched. Obama the pet.
Like a cat to a crazy cat lady, he learns what it takes to get rewards and off he goes, repeating the same behavior to the same liberal stimuli for the next thirty years.
He drifts through soft, liberal schools until he colors, and fills in, with in the permissible, his warped sense of identity at Occidental, and the then usual politically conservative acts (in lefty world) of smoking marijuana and hanging with the afro-ed Black Liberationists. He doesn’t do well, but Columbia is desperate to have black males and affirmative action bubble makes them rare and hard to get, thus again the white liberal burden of Obama, and he no doubts is let known of the favor.
Obama gets, somehow, into Columbia in the fall of 1981, the same fall that the Black Liberation Army with the Weather Underground robs for the people a Brinks truck and murders two police officers and a working class Brinks guard( Power To The People ). So too at Columbia is superstar and famous Bill Ayers, fresh from a decade in hiding who is also starting his Masters, only a couple of years ahead of Obama, the Junior.
Did they meet? Maybe. Obama is very quiet about Columbia, not having released any of his records, at all.
Obama does or does not graduate; it’s not clear from Columbia and goes into the lefty equivalent of working in McDonalds, community organizing in Chicago. Is there a reason even Obama, the rare, nice, clean, lefty articulate Black object couldn’t get into a prestigious lefty law school? Odd that he would go back to Ayers home town, where the Ayers family is wealthy and influential and he takes a intern at a Ayers family law firm. Just a coincidence.
After time, somehow, Obama gets into Harvard Law, where he is again objectivized, and petted up to the head of the Law School. Oh, how happy were the many of the anointed left. They looked and had seen they had done well.
I had read that Obama was a bit disappointing, in not being ethnic enough, left enough, but what the heck, if you are a lefty you got to go with the stereotype that you got.
Obama goes back to Chicago, with his liberal promotion as a Harvard lawyer, slowly climbing the party steps, doing the proper things, behaving the way proper lefties want all their black people to behave. Not all Afro and raised fist like those blacks from the ghetto, but clean, quiet, non-threatening, studious. Something to be proud of and worth all the support. Proof that leftism is the road for blacks and that lefty whites were right. Obama, the classy black. Watch him speak.
How Obama must of enjoyed Wrights anti-white, anti-Semitic sermons. All his life, being an object of whites, their pet. How Obama and bitter clinger, Michael, must of enjoyed every slam against the insufferable patronization of the liberal whites and Jews, whom schooled them.
I feel that Obama is a very cynical man. Long practiced in maneuvering though white liberal delusions and the thin, weak, prison cell deep thinking of the Black grievance industry. And industry that makes late night community access channel preachers seem like MIT lectures in Physics by comparison. There is nobody that he has even had decades even of comradeship, that he hasn’t thrown under the bus. Stalin would be proud. Even Nixon kept friends for decades.
But, Obama isn’t a motherless, fatherless pet, living in the soft bigotry of elite leftists anymore.
Since his conception, people have been waiting for Obama, and Obama has done what lefties wanted. But like Michael’s lobster and Iranian caviar lunch, now it’s Obama’s turn. Now it is him who will have his wants and it is others that will conform.
He’s never had to be an executive, always operating in the predictable, elderly pattern of late stage leftistism. Even Jimmy Carter, at least, had a governorship under his belt and an education in the physical realities of nuclear submarines, and we know how detached ersatz sweater wearing Jimmy was, and still is. At least he had a family. Obama doesn’t have any of that, save the smoldering Michael, who reminds me of a female Nixon.
It will all be for the best. Honest. Trust Obama.
transformational figure = Black Elmer Gantry
One liberal, washed-up former general and failed Secretary of State, endorsing a radical socialist for president.
That’s about the size of it.
Apparently Powel has been a closet socialist. And conservatives almost fell for this guy’s act and would have supported him for president. Thank God his wife saved us from that.
Powell is a racist and supports another racist based on the color only.
Consider this evil and stupid man screwed up the state dept and Iraqi and then let Libby take the fall for comments he knew his empolyee made says it all about this disgusting
racist fraud !
Thank God he didn’t endorse him because of race. It must be the ‘Chosen One’s’ remarkable military knowledge and background that would make him a great Commander in Chief. I am happy to know that my grandson who just joined the USMC might have the privilege of serving under a great warrior like Obama. Now I can sleep at night knowing how safe he will be with such leadership.
Wow. I'm shocked that Powell is spewing the exact, tired old line the Obama camp and other 'conservative' pundits are. Yeah, not really.
Its all about Palin, and if McCain loses, the MSM is going to have a field day blaming Sarah. I hope she's ready.
I’m sure the media will hype this, but does anyone really care what Powell thinks? He showed his colors a long time ago.
Yep, I do think the timing of this is to distract people off the Joe the plumber and Ayers issues, they do seem to be hurting That One. Powell is a washed-up figure anyway - not newsworthy in my book.
Unfortunatley I believe Powell did this because of race. I also believe that he can take the rest of his life going around to all the families of the lost and wounded in Iraq and tell them sorry, I must have been wrong about that war thing. Powell is gone to me now.
O h M y G a w d!!!
Colin you of all people! I have been in and out of the Middle East and Pakistan this year and EVERY MUSLIM I TALK TO IS PROUD THAT OBAMA IS A MUSLIM!!!!!!
Powell can be blasted but this should be another wake up call to see how low the regard of Republican brand has sunk in the last 8 years. Voters want a change of direction.
If Republicans can’t recognize that and run a campaign where all they can offer is fear itself, then even an Obama will beat them.
What is needed is a New Conservative Contract with America setting forth where they want to lead the country. If not now then before 2010. Oust the Neocons bring back the Oldcons.
Powell made an ass and a hypocrite out of himself today spewing Obama camp talking points.
That was a big mistake that took his credibility down the toilet.
"Lifelong" apparently starts at 29.
Wow.
This gives 0bama another .0028% of the black vote, up to 99.76%
Even when he was in office,
it became increasingly clear that he
IS
a dyed-in-the-wool GLOBALIST/socialist/communist/Marxist/ Traitor.
Traitor to God, the American way and quite possibly apple pie.
Colin Powell is either a AA fool or a communist.
Powell had already proven himself to be a traitor — this is just further confirmation.
He practiced treachery — he left Scooter Libby out to dry on felony charges on the phony Plame charges, when all the time, he knew it was his guy Armitage who “leaked” the BS info.