But the debate over Powell being RINO is for another time; the point here is that an accomplished statesman and a positive icon for young black males is being skewered by a celebrity who spent HIS life being an Uncle Tom and now seems to wish to somehow ease personal inner demons by attacking a great man in a petty, vindictive, divisive, and STUPID attack.
--KL
Kip the opinion that Powell is a RINO is not the writer of the article, it's MINE. A positive icon for blacks would be Alan Keyes. Actually Keyes is an good model for anybody reguardless of race. Powell keeps his head down always, in order to please the maximum amount of people. I reserved judgement on this until lately. He probably achieved rank in the service(mostly) that way as well. I don't TRUST Colin Powell an inch. He acts just like a RINO acts. You do realize that a RINO is really a democrat don't you, but not only democrat, a democrat with no balls. Colin is not even worth black democrats slimeing him. No threat really.
Colin Powell is a Republican in the John McCain model. He'll turn on ya in a minute, no friend of republicans. Since just being a democrat makes you either an enabler or an outright traitor to the Republic. Powell is an accident waiting to happen to republicans. A political mine, a booby trap, a potential Jeffords...
Keyes, on the otherhand is somebody to be respected. A little too religious for me, but I trust him. And he can stand toe to toe with anyone,.....anyone, and present logical conclusions. I did'nt vote for him for important reasons but, if he would've had a chance, I would have. The republicans have some very good people like Ann Colter but "the people" want oligarchy evidently.. Since you like Powell you're probably one of them...
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