Posted on 10/25/2016 2:16:33 PM PDT by Innovative
Colin L. Powell, the Republican former secretary of state, said on Tuesday that he planned to vote for Hillary Clinton for president as he condemned her rival, Donald J. Trump, at an event on Long Island.
Speaking before the Long Island Association, a trade group that frequently hosts political figures, Mr. Powell divulged his intentions come Election Day. I am voting for Hillary Clinton, he said, according to Matthew Cohen, a spokesman for the association. Mr. Powell went on to praise Mrs. Clinton for her skills as a leader and her experience.
Paule Pachter, a Long Island Association board member, said that Mr. Powell was blunt.
He said he would support Hillary Clinton and he also elaborated on several reason why he felt that Donald Trump was not the right candidate, he said. He spoke about his inexperience, he spoke about the messages that hes sending out every day to his supporters, which really paints our country in a negative light across the globe with all our allies.
The comments were a change from Mr. Powells tone in hacked emails from his inbox that were made public in September. In the emails, Mr. Powell criticized Mr. Trump but also expressed bitterness at Mrs. Clinton for repeatedly pointing to Mr. Powells email habits to explain away her own use of a private email server while she ran the State Department.
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Reprehensible piece of garbage. Worthless RINO, fit only for the company of Boehner & Ryan kind of trash.
If people would listen when a public figure says he’s pro-abortion, they could write him off right away. Powell said he’s pro-abortion nearly 20 years sgo, yet FReepers were boosting him for years afterward. Same with Condi.
He has been a Democrat for years. This is not a surprise and should not be taken as anything more than a bid, who cares.
Doubt that there isn’t a monetary reason that he leans that way.
He is in deep do do if he doesn’t support her... he is old so he will likely pay a small price like “Legacy” unless the Beast wins ... then he is intact.
Everything will come out ... Everything.
MSM cannot hide and obscure anymore ... it is a “Brave New World Revealed” and the 47% on their SOMA aka Welfare and Diversity that learn that they are on the Plantation that long to be Free.
True Diversity is Freedom,Liberty and Competition... not Affirmative Action. The General may come up short if the Truth be known at this stage in History.
He KNOWS History is written by the Victors, not the Vanquished.
He has buttered his bread and how it lands is now up to us in the Red Hats.
The Bush family will long regret their exposure as RINO opportunists. This election turned over the rock. Nelson Rockefeller’s dive into obscurity is the model for the Bush’s, though I don’t think the energy is there to power death by heart attack in the arms of a whore, a la Nelson. Maybe I’m wrong.
Is he exempt from obamacare?
How many avowed Hillary Clinton supporters are really supporting her out of loyalty to BO, and nothing else?
Colin Powell is forever a POS! Go to Hell, Colin Powell! Burn, Baby, Burn!
OK. He’s an establishment RACIST!
Colin Powell = RINO #NeverTrumper A-hole...
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