Colin Powell endorses Obama; Sununu, McCain go nuts
Yesterday, Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for president, explaining that he believes the incumbent has done a good job on the economy given the situation he was handed. As a former secretary of state and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Powell also took serious issue with the foreign policy stances of Obama’s opponent, Mitt Romney, saying that ” I’m not quite sure which Governor Romney we would be getting with respect to foreign policy”:
“One day he has a certain strong view about staying in Afghanistan, but then on Monday night he agrees with the withdrawal. Same thing in Iraq. On almost every issue that was discussed on Monday night, Governor Romney agreed with the President with some nuances. But this is quite a different set of foreign policy views than he had earlier in the campaign. And my concern, which I’ve expressed previously in a public way, is that sometimes I don’t sense that he has thought through these issues as thoroughly as he should have, and he gets advice from his campaign staff that he then has to adjust to modify as he goes along.
INTERVIEWER: Are you concerned about the people that are advising Governor Romney?
POWELL: I think there’s some very, very strong neo-conservative views that are presented by the Governor that I have some trouble with. There are other issues as well, not just the economy and foreign policy. I’m more comfortable with President Obama and his administration when it comes to issues like what are we going to do about climate, what are we going to do about immigration? What are we going to do about education? Lots of things like that. I do not want to see the new Obamacare plan thrown off the table. It has issues, you have to fix some things in that plan. But what I see when I look at that plan is 30 million of our fellow citizens will now be covered by insurance. And I think that’s good. We’re one of the few nations in the world, with our size, population and wealth, that does not have universal health care.”
To which John Sununu, top surrogate for Mitt Romney replied:
“When you take a look at Colin Powell, you have to look at whether that’s an endorsement based on issues or he’s got a slightly different reason for endorsing President Obama. I think when you have somebody of your own race that you’re proud of being president of the United States, I applaud Colin for standing with him.”
Earlier in the day, Sen. John McCain lashed out at Powell as well.
“I think one of the sad aspects of his career is going to the United Nations Security Council and telling them things about Iraq that were absolutely false,” McCain said, going on to tell Powell that “you disappoint us and you have harmed your legacy even further by defending what has clearly been the most feckless foreign policy in my lifetime.”
UPDATE: Just in case anybody thought McCain merely had a bad moment, he repeated his childish little sniping today:
“Colin Powell, interestingly enough, said that Obama got us out of Iraq,” McCain said, standing outside of an American Legion hall. “But it was Colin Powell, with his testimony before the U.N. Security Council, that got us into Iraq.”
Sununu’s statement, which he later tried to back down, is deeply troubling. No one alive today possesses Powell’s level of experience at the highest levels of military and foreign policy, yet Sununu attempts to reduce him to a one-dimensional cartoon character motivated solely by racial affinity.
But personally, as I indicated yesterday in comments, McCain’s statement is more unforgivable. For whatever reason, Powell did indeed mislead the United Nations in his presentation regarding Iraq’s alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction, and he has acknowledged that as a blot on his record. But McCain was selling the WMD angle every bit as hard if not harder than Powell. Nobody in Congress was lobbying harder for an invasion of Iraq. Here is McCain in 2002:
Given that record, McCain’s swipe at Powell for his UN presentation comes off as extremely petty, utterly without dignity or integrity. It reveals the smallness of the man who uttered it. All in all, what McCain and Sununu have said tells us much more about their own character than it does about Powell.
– Jay Bookman
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Get me Rex Kramer
October 26th, 2012
9:09 am
I wouldn’t make comments about the character of John McCain Jay, because you are not in his league. Very few people are.
barking frog
October 26th, 2012
9:09 am
Party hack and Crash McCain v.
Good Soldier. I’ll go with good
soldier.
Hurst
October 26th, 2012
9:09 am
Don’t Tread, actually, Lindsay endorsed Romney, but she may be backtracking that. But hey, Romney got the all-important Meat Loaf endorsement!
Jm
October 26th, 2012
9:10 am
” No one alive today possesses Powell’s level of experience at the highest levels of military and foreign policy”
Malarky
Lord Help Us
October 26th, 2012
9:10 am
‘Definition of Racism, 95% of African-Americans voting for Obama….. If that number is not based on race, don’t know what is……’
How about the 94% that voted for Bill Clinton…
James
October 26th, 2012
9:10 am
I’m curious regarding why no one has ever been charged with a crime for lying to Congress, the Senate, the American people or the UN about WMD’s in Iraq? As a retired soldier who served in Iraq I personally believe the republican party, from top to bottom, should be charged with war crimes and sent to prison. But I may be biased in my opinion as well.
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2012
9:10 am
And Mitt is not “middle of the road” simply because the average of his positions works out that way.
Goldie
October 26th, 2012
9:11 am
“A vote for Obama is a vote for free Obama phones, free Obama bucks, and free birth control pills, shall I continue.”
Definition of Racism = andygrdzki @ 9:07.
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 26th, 2012
9:11 am
Whatever – “How about addressing this issue? Paid for by the Obama campaign.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223316/Outrage-Girls-star-Lena-Dunhams-election-video-paid-presidents-campaign.html
This is disgusting. I can’t believe our society has come to this type analogy in politics. Obama needs to denounce this immediately.”
I agree, what can’t Obama do something positive like promote the miracle of child birth through rape?
SamJackson
October 26th, 2012
9:12 am
Sam Jackson says he voted for Obama because he’s black and no one blinks. Now someone suggests Powell did the same and it’s racism? You liberals are such HYPOCRITES!! You make me sick!
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 26th, 2012
9:12 am
JAY
Hard to argue your SCOTUS point but I’m not convinced this is as big a deal as one may think…turning over RVW will take a lot….but I can see the concerns for sure…I think it should be pushed to the states…
Jack
October 26th, 2012
9:13 am
What we have here is a forum filled with white-guilt apologists for a left-wing, failed president.
Lord Help Us
October 26th, 2012
9:13 am
‘Powell did the same and it’s racism?’
Please, Dear Sir, show me where Powell said he voted for Obama because he is black. Thanks in advance…
Patrick
October 26th, 2012
9:14 am
” No one alive today possesses Powell’s level of experience at the highest levels of military and foreign policy”
Malarky
You gonna supply us with a list of alternate names Jm?
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 26th, 2012
9:14 am
JAY
Going to make donuts
I did put money on UF but the spread went up to Florida -6.5 or -7…I hope I lose my money.
Georgia
October 26th, 2012
9:14 am
Can the Republicans hang on for ten more days without another gaffe? The Tea Party must be out of material. Lets see, they’ve drawn OBL beards on all the Obama photos they could find. Check. They’ve made the big reveal, and humiliated poor kids in Chicago. Check. They’ve drooled, and nose picked, and mouth breathed, and ear waxed their way through the debate analysis. Check, check, check, and check.
They need a writer. I’m available.
jconservative
October 26th, 2012
9:15 am
“This is strictly race based.”
There is a lot of this in this election as there was 4 years ago.
I know dozens of people who are voting for Obama simply because of race.
I know dozens of people who are voting against Obama simply because of race.
And both sides are doing so with a great deal of pride.
Now I know dozens of voters who are voting for Romney and Obama for reasons other than race.
whitewater
October 26th, 2012
9:15 am
McCain is an ugly american with no integrity and honestly.
wayne duke
October 26th, 2012
9:15 am
Sununu has it right. Powell is a man of enormous accomplishments but he cannot admit that Obama had been a miserable president and is endorsing race over the good of the nation.
Jay
October 26th, 2012
9:15 am
“Definition of Racism, 95% of African-Americans voting for Obama….. If that number is not based on race, don’t know what is……
So Andy, how many black Americans voted for Bill Clinton (84%)? John Kerry? (88%) Al Gore (90%)?
White men every one of them, right?
But then I see you go on with:
“A vote for Obama is a vote for free Obama phones, free Obama bucks, and free birth control pills, shall I continue.”
No, continuing isn’t necessary. You have established where you stand quite clearly.
hiram
October 26th, 2012
9:15 am
Revenge of the Nerds…
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100186641/nate-silver-the-geeky-statistician-who-is-singlehandedly-dismantling-the-myth-of-mitt-mentum/
Goldie
October 26th, 2012
9:16 am
“I know people share different opnions, but can someone be fair?”
Marr — apparently not if someone continues to listen to Limbaugh and Fox Noise every day!
4 more years!
October 26th, 2012
9:16 am
with powell’s endorsement, Obama should get millions more in votes, especially from moderates which should seal the election! Romney will lose by 1-2 % — too conservative.
SamJackson
October 26th, 2012
9:17 am
please include the whole quote and don’t pick and choose to suit your purposes!!
“Now someone suggests Powell did the same and it’s racism?”
I said someone SUGGESTS Powell did the same!!
Whatever
October 26th, 2012
9:18 am
Butch,
Nice deflection. I’m not picking either side. I’m not excusing anyone’s activity. Why are you excusing this?
Moderate Line
October 26th, 2012
9:18 am
It reveals the smallness of the man who uttered it.
++++++
I have a hard time with such a statement considering McCain spent 6 years as a prisoner of war.There really nothing small about McCain at all. He has the same flaws as all politicians.
I do not condone McCain Flip-Flop. However, congress was largely reliant upon what the Bush administration was saying. I think it is important to point out when politicians are wrong and contradict themselves but if McCain is small they are all small. McCain was actually right in saying Powell statements before the UN damage his image but attacking his support of Obama policies is merely political.
I have tremendous respect for Obama and Romney. However, I still believe they are both dishonest when it comes to describing the other side.
For example, Obama is up to 126 Mostly False or worse statements according to Poltifact and Romney is at 82.
Here are examples, Obama stated that Romney supported the Arizona immigration law. Politfact ruled that false. When Obama said Romney was “clear” he would not give government assistance to the auto companies politfact ruled it false so I guess it wasn’t clear.
Romney said Obama was silent on Iran. Poltifact ruled false. Romney said that regulations have quadrupled under Obama. Politifact ruled it false.
It is almost impossible to get the truth from either one of these guys. Is that unusually. Not really. If McCain is small they are small. However, I would have to say if McCain is small he is still bigger than either one of these two.
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Ron Sponer
October 26th, 2012
9:19 am
Why the race talk when Obama is certainly NOT black. His Mother – WHITE. That makes him mixed race, bi-racial or correctly, a Mulatto. He disrespected his own Mother by going for the black vote. Shame on him! How can you say, “I’m black” when you are not? By lying.
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT
October 26th, 2012
9:19 am
More evidence the GOP is the bigotry think tank of America.
ryan s
October 26th, 2012
9:19 am
McCain is attacking powell for iraq (which is understandable) but Romney will and is employing how many Bush administration people?
Whatever
October 26th, 2012
9:20 am
Jay,
If 95% of whites voted for the white candidate then it would be racism. That’s what we’d be told.
I’m told I’m racist just because I don’t like Obama. I also don’t like Romney but no one accuses me of be racist for that.
It’s a terrible accusation that the left needs to stop using.
sam
October 26th, 2012
9:20 am
how the hell did Sununu get to be front and center during this election? The GOP has been hiding him awaya and locking him out for 20 years, now he’s their spokesman? i would imagine he’s costing Romney votes at this point, hopefully he’ll be put back in the closet soon. he’s not helping or adding anything intelligent to the conversation.
poggi
October 26th, 2012
9:21 am
I don’t know this criticism about Romney being in concert with Obama on some of the latter’s foreign policies – for instance, the squabble on potentially nuclear Iran. It seems that everyone expects the views of two parties to be diametrically opposed everytime. This is preposterous. What if the opposite view is the worst possible stance? Is the other party to be doomed? Nobody, I repeat, nobody, has an absolute monopoly on a particular view.
Goldie
October 26th, 2012
9:21 am
“Sununu has it right.”
Just like when he stated that he wished Our President was “a real American” — had it right then too???
Sununu is on the same cuckoo clown car with Trump, Akin and Coulter et al.
Peter
October 26th, 2012
9:22 am
All you middle class Republican’s bend over after voting……..
Tax Policy Center in Spotlight for Its Romney Study
By ANNIE LOWREY | New York Times – 16 hours ago
WASHINGTON — A small nonpartisan research center operated by professed “geeks” has found itself at the center of a rancorous $5 trillion debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney.
No white paper or policy manifesto put out during the presidential campaign has proved more controversial than an August study by the Washington-based Tax Policy Center, a respected nonprofit that issues studiously detailed tax analyses.
That study found, in short, that Mr. Romney could not keep all of the promises he had made on individual tax reform: including cutting marginal tax rates by 20 percent, keeping protections for investment income, not widening the deficit and not increasing the tax burden on the poor or middle class. It concluded that Mr. Romney’s plan, on its face, would cut taxes for rich families and raise them for everyone else.
indigo
October 26th, 2012
9:22 am
As we get closer to election day, leading Republicans are, more and more, showing their true beliefs and personalities. From believing that God wants a rape victim to get pregnant, that one of our top military and political experts votes solely according to race preference to severly chastising the same person for his Iraq invasion actions, even though he was just as convinced we should invade, Republican banality becomes clearer each and every day.
How has half of the country managed to dumb down to this depressing level?
GOP
October 26th, 2012
9:22 am
Romney is a nutt job! He flip flops more than a fish out of water. How on earth can a person TRUST him? You can’t. I still think he has alzheimers. I really believe he do. It will come out just like it did with Ronald Regan.
ivan
October 26th, 2012
9:22 am
This McCain is liar and a undercover neocon and probably not only that, with mixed conservative-liberal nuances to fool people who does not him well.
He is one of Israel firsters in our Congress. Look at his friends as fishy Liberman…
Dixie Chicks
October 26th, 2012
9:23 am
The country is polarized indeed; but what puzzles most people is “Where is George W. Bush”? He was the leader that the Republican Party considered a hero (MISSION ACCOMPLISHED). He does not attend the Republican National Convention. George H. and Jeb endorses Mitt Romney and still no sign of George W. Bush. What are his views? He lead the country into WAR and we lost thousands of American lives. Why can’t the media interview him and get his opinion on why those that have served in his cabinet are speaking out against the Republican Party!!
Soulice
October 26th, 2012
9:23 am
I don’t like a lot of what McCain has been saying/doing….but for the 4-5 of you calling him an ugly american and worse…take a look at his service to the country, then look at yourself in the mirrro and smack what you see. Sad.
Patrick
October 26th, 2012
9:23 am
” No one alive today possesses Powell’s level of experience at the highest levels of military and foreign policy”
Malarky
How is that list of alternate names coming along, Jm?
We can’t wait to see what you come up with!!
Remember, Captain Kangaroo and General Motors aren’t actually people…
Cherie Miles
October 26th, 2012
9:24 am
Sununu , Palin ,Mcain, the reta** girl , her name does not deserve to be anywhere,. Does anyone see a conservitve picture being painted here? Do your really want the White house to be ran by these kind of people? If you ask yourself who would be there if there with all of us , who do you trust to stay to the end. or who would only protect their own ? you only have one answer and that Obama
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT
October 26th, 2012
9:24 am
SunnuMo is the latest carnival barker for the neo retarded wing of the Con party.
Rightwing Troll
October 26th, 2012
9:24 am
“turning over RVW will take a lot”
Not that I have a dog in this hunt, but…
turning over RVW is but one justice away in this activist SCOTUS who isn’t afraid to be overtly political.
Jay
October 26th, 2012
9:24 am
“I think it should be pushed to the states…”
And you think that if given the chance, people in Congress such as Tom Price and Phil Gingrey and Paul Broun are going to stand back and let the states handle it?
No.
If you believe that abortion is murder and that human life begins at conception, then you will not allow concepts such as federalism to stop you from outlawing abortion everywhere, wherever you have the opportunity. They will use every power of the federal government at their disposal to do so, and frankly I do not see how you can argue otherwise. Everything that they say and do on the topic makes it clear.
the truth...
October 26th, 2012
9:24 am
Bill Clinton said it plain in 2008……..about Hillary’s candidacy…that Obama was playing the race card. That continues today without any doubt….
From the “he gave me a cell phone” illiterates to the blind youth who are more knowledgable about MTV, video games, and dancing with the stars, we have an electorate today that is largely uninformed about anything other than the insignificant in life.
When your most staunchest supporters are Bill Maher, Eva Longoria and Snookie………well that pretty well says it all !
Today if a Black person comes out in favor of a Republican he is roasted in the press, even if it was a successful businessman like Herman Cain.
Herman was an “Uncle Tom” you remember?
Colin Powell is way too concerned that he does not end up called an “Uncle Tom” just like Herman was…………as a VietNam era Marine, who killed no babies and went voluntarily I am so disappointed in the General that it makes me sick.
ragnar danneskjold
October 26th, 2012
9:25 am
Given the total failure of Obama’s policies, bothe foreign and domestic, most of which were defective at the “design” stage, I’d say Gen Powell is the one who has gone “nuts.”
Given Gen Powell’s experienced role in masterminding the coverup of the Valerie Plame “outing,” certainly Chauncey needs his help now, with the Libya deception issue.
Anyone really interested in the rational thoughts of a significant African-American thinker follows economists Dr. Thomas Sowell or Dr. Walter E Williams. I respectfully note they find little to admire in the current administration.
Tundra Dude
October 26th, 2012
9:25 am
Tundra — and don’t forget the classic “and the Iraqi oil will pay for this war!”
Good Wun, I forgot!
LOL — and these GOP clowns want to get re-elected in November
It could happen….they’re counting on the BungaWazi issue…..and the price of tea in China, I hear.
atler8
October 26th, 2012
9:25 am
Don’t tread..
You got it wrong on Lohan. She came out for Romney the other day & joins her misfit sister Britney Spears in the same camp.
Glad to set you straight on that error of yours but please don’t take my word for it & go verify it yourself.
stands for decibels
October 26th, 2012
9:25 am
Romney will have no choice but to appoint an anti-abortion replacement that will swing the majority against Roe v. Wade.
and by “anti-abortion,” of course, Jay means “ok with criminalization if not necessarily a cheerleader for abortion criminalization, although being a cheerleader will help, if, God forbid, the Goopers ever get a Senate majority during Romney’s Administration.”
And don’t anyone even bother denying this because we all know this story arc’s trajectory, ‘k?
Levels of Blackness
October 26th, 2012
9:25 am
Being an American is an idea. That’s how anyone can become an
American. But there are certain responsibilities that come with
the idea of individual liberty over massive federal government
intrusions on said individualism. At the moment the country is divided
mostly down this chasm. Others can do the drabby 400 year old argument
and say the country is divided by race. I beg to differ. If anyone divides by race, sexual orientation, etc. it’s Lefty.
Moderate Line
October 26th, 2012
9:25 am
Mary Elizabeth
October 26th, 2012
9:07 am
The Gallup Poll this morning has shown that Americans – for the first time in five years – now think that their lives are getting better. After all that President Obama has methodically, and prudently, done to ensure the American people a better America than the one he inheritied, what a cruel misplacement of justice if Romney is elected president and, thereafter, takes credit for all the hard work and fortitude that President Obama has shown in seeing America through the greatest financial collapse since 1929.
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If Romney is elected it would be “misplacement of justice” because he would get credited for instead of Obama.
First, if the country is doing well who really cares who is going to get credit. What is important is not whether Obama gets credit or Romney gets credit but that people are actually doing better. There are people who work hard every day who do not have enough to eat. My grandfather worked in coal mine when he was 12. Of all the injustices in the world this ranks pretty low.
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT
October 26th, 2012
9:27 am
John Mclame lost all cred when he selected Sarah Palin.
the truth...
October 26th, 2012
9:27 am
Jay you are a sick man………….Reading this column this morning does the same for me that listening to Neal Bortz over 15 minutes does………..makes me sick….
So just like I turn Bortz off……………I turn you off…………
Ares
October 26th, 2012
9:27 am
Blood is thicker than water….
C. Tampa Ironworse
October 26th, 2012
9:27 am
Jay,
You get your news/opinions from watching TheDailyShow? What a coincidence, I have a friend who’s also a complete idiot.
stands for decibels
October 26th, 2012
9:28 am
Demwits are all giddy about the guy they called “uncle tom” and “Bush’s lackey” has to say now that he has endorsed obama.
Actually I called him “the guy who should be Bush 41’s VP candidate” back in 1988. To this day I don’t really know why he chose Dan Freaking Quayle instead.
Bill
October 26th, 2012
9:28 am
Romnesia is a disabling disease. Romney & his cronies are True Liars & support the 1% Savior Romney which talks out his neck with the persona of a used car salesman.
Welcome to the Occupation
October 26th, 2012
9:29 am
Sununu’s statement, which he later tried to back down, is deeply troubling.
To the right wing, all things boil down to clan and tribalism.
C. Tampa Ironworse
October 26th, 2012
9:30 am
Ps: quoting John Stewart in a political blog is like quoting Sean Hannity. It shows your bias and that you follow only those that agree with you.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
October 26th, 2012
9:30 am
I personally mailed Powell a case of White out today to take the (R) off everything behind his name. It’s the least I can do.
Goldie
October 26th, 2012
9:30 am
“I am so disappointed in the General that it makes me sick.”
Wow — a common theme amongst the Cons is how sick they all are. Not a good recipe for governing 100% of America in the 21st century.
Oh wait — that’s partly why they feel so “sick”… it’s the whole 21st century thing that’s happening and they don’t like it one iota! They prefer to move the clock back to 1959…
rightwingextreme
October 26th, 2012
9:31 am
Powell did not endorse:
John Kerry, long term Senator who served in Vietnam
Bill Clinton, two time governor of Arkansas
Michael Dutaxus, two time governor of Massachusetts
However he did endorse Barack Hussein Obama whose prior experience in leading anything amounted to nothing:
US Senator for barely two years who passed zero legislation and rarely held committee meetings.
Ummmmmm…what did Powell see in Obama’s qualifications that he didn’t see in those other gentlemen??
Hmmmmmmm
October 26th, 2012
9:31 am
@Jay
And you don’t believe that abortion is murder? …… Sure glad your mother didn’t believe in abortion…
Brosephus™
October 26th, 2012
9:31 am
“When you take a look at Colin Powell, you have to look at whether that’s an endorsement based on issues or he’s got a slightly different reason for endorsing President Obama. I think when you have somebody of your own race that you’re proud of being president of the United States, I applaud Colin for standing with him.”
Some of y’all White folks are funny…
sam
October 26th, 2012
9:31 am
Poggi, you’re missing the point here. The problem isnt whether Romney agrees with Obama on certain things, the issue is whether the week before he gave a speech and expressed the complete opposite viewpoint. He’s has reversed course on at least 7 or 8 things, thats not ‘evolving’ that is changing views to fit the room.
Ralph
October 26th, 2012
9:31 am
Powell is not a Republican, he votes for Obama for the same reason that 98% of all blacks vote for him, not only that he was nothing but a token, or quota General when he was in the military.
Moderate Line
October 26th, 2012
9:32 am
Jay
October 26th, 2012
9:24 am
“I think it should be pushed to the states…”
And you think that if given the chance, people in Congress such as Tom Price and Phil Gingrey and Paul Broun are going to stand back and let the states handle it?
No.
If you believe that abortion is murder and that human life begins at conception, then you will not allow concepts such as federalism to stop you from outlawing abortion everywhere, wherever you have the opportunity. They will use every power of the federal government at their disposal to do so, and frankly I do not see how you can argue otherwise. Everything that they say and do on the topic makes it clear.
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What do you have to support such a statement. In the 70’s before Roe v Wade was there a push to outlaw abortion nationally as many states were legalizing it? I do not remember one.
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
October 26th, 2012
9:32 am
Jay,
Thanks for the info. I thought they would have an early count too, just to make it easier.. Thanks again.
Jay
October 26th, 2012
9:32 am
“I’m told I’m racist just because I don’t like Obama.”
Who told you that, Whatever?
Look, you cannot read the comments on this blog without concluding that at least a few of those most virulently anti-Obama are motivated by racism. Now, that doesn’t by any stretch of the imagination mean that all, or most, or anywhere close to most of those who oppose Obama are also motivated by racism. And it most certainly doesn’t mean that you in particular are. Tens of millions of good Americans voted against Gore, Clinton and Kerry, for example, and those same people are voting against Obama today for the same reasons.
But let’s not try to pretend that racism doesn’t play a role as well. The popularity of that whole “Obamaphone” meme in certain quarters argues eloquently otherwise.
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...and liking it!
October 26th, 2012
9:33 am
Bro,
We are white and we can’t get down…
Mick
October 26th, 2012
9:35 am
As we head into the final two laps, obama is starting to pull ahead as the better man. This civil war of politics has myriad repercussions for both sides, however, no matter how it plays out, we collectively pretty much get amnesia in a matter of months – ain’t that america?
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
October 26th, 2012
9:35 am
And all comments from the left about Romney are OK with everyone I guess. Hypocrites all
Goldie
October 26th, 2012
9:36 am
Lindsay Lohan is definitely a representative of the Narc-A-Non voters for Romney/Ryan!
East Cobb RINO, Inc. (LLC)
October 26th, 2012
9:36 am
WRONG! Romney will say it LOUDER!!!
He will also hold his hands parallel to each other and move them up down while saying it. Like the guy in the Fedex commercial.
RAMZAD
October 26th, 2012
9:36 am
I am as liberal as most people can get, but I applaud the Republican Powell for stepping up and speaking the truth about Barack Obama.
Another thing. Powell has Jamaican blood, and if you know anything about people with Jamaican culture in them is that- nobody pimps a Jamaican or get one to be a water bucket for things he/she does not believe..Jamaicans are never anybody’s whoring puppy.
When Racism and Hate Rule
October 26th, 2012
9:37 am
Mitch McConnell’s famous words…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-A09a_gHJc
gm
October 26th, 2012
9:37 am
Amazing when Obama gets a endorsement from another African American then it becomes race, Romney gets endorse from Trump, Eastwood then it becomes good policy.
I hope all people of color take a hard look at these bigots we have in this country, and remind your self during the next 911 or the next war, why would you give your lives for these people?
All you brain wash Black Rep, I hope you get a hard look at your party who is trying to disgrace a 5 star General who put his life on the line for these right wing gomers, this is why minorities dont want to have anything to do with the klan, tea party, right wing nut jobs.
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 26th, 2012
9:37 am
Whatever – “Why are you excusing this?”
Because I have a life.
H.E. Pennypacker
October 26th, 2012
9:37 am
C. Tampa,
Your dig at Daily Show viewers intelligence is devoid of fact. Actually their viewers are much more educated and informed of current events than the news channel with the least informed viewers. I will let you click on the link, (or the url gives it away), to find the channel of choice for those least informed, but I suspect most on here already know.
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/174826/survey-nprs-listeners-best-informed-fox-news-viewers-worst-informed/
sheepdawg
October 26th, 2012
9:38 am
who cares what those two old gray white men think? they are out of touch and their days are numbered
practicalmind
October 26th, 2012
9:38 am
Good. Powell has backbone and a rational intelligent mind. George Bush and Dick tried to use him like a puppet. Before the Iraq war started, they sent him to France to the G8 meeting to deliver the George and Dick’s like about nuclear material in Iraq. They had US ambassador in France can do the same, but they want Mr. Powell to do it, because Powell was more well know around the world and the lie makes a stronger case if came out of Powell’s mouth. Dick had a speech written up for Mr. Powell and gave him before the day he went to France. Mr. Powell modify it to tone down the message, but he had call several people to question about the information. It was a short time to be able to get the truth and he had to do as his boss said. I am sure he that meeting probably the reason Mr. Powell resigned. I was hopping he will tell the American public about those detail lies, but he hadn’t. At least endorse Obama proof that he has an intelligent mind and stood by what he believes. My dad told me, “There are many smart hero die in shame for serving a bad master in history. If you can avoid it, you can become the good hero, a role model, or a good leader in history for many to follow.”
TaxPayer
October 26th, 2012
9:38 am
Poor Republicans. Their lives are not getting better. They are still waiting for home prices to return to the level that they were when they bought their homes in 2007. So sad.
sam
October 26th, 2012
9:38 am
Rightwingextreme, maybe you should ask yourself what Powell sees in the GOP rather than what he sees on the other side. If you listen to his words (i know its hard through the fog of anger and hatred) he is telling you that its people like you that he won’t stand with. And with every post on these blogs by the ‘rightwingextreme’ his choice is 100% validated.
Dave T
October 26th, 2012
9:39 am
The two Johns – Mit Wits! Plain and simple.
Thomas Heyward Jr
October 26th, 2012
9:39 am
Colin Powel is a race-traitor for endorsing Kill-List Obama.
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A Human-race-traitor.
JamVet
October 26th, 2012
9:39 am
Georgia has a HUGE number of white racists. This forum merely provides evidence thereof.
Spend a week in Nebraska, like I just did, and you will see a difference in Republicans that is so stark that it is amazing.
Democrats and progressivess are not reviled there. They honor men like Bob Kerrey (a Vietnam war veteran and hero – no POS swiftboaters, there) and Ben Nelson even though they are not Republicans.
Yes, Virgina it is true. There are actually conservative Republicans in this country who are not anti-education, anti-environment and who are not modern day Klansmen.
What we have here are the perverse neo/non-conservative Republicans still utterly hung up on fighting the battles they lost a long time ago…
Thomas Heyward Jr
October 26th, 2012
9:39 am
Look in the mirror boy………………………………..if ye can.
Biz Grrl
October 26th, 2012
9:40 am
That someone can still make these kind of comments about race in this day and age is deplorable. Ignorance and intolerance abound. Sadly, it comes down to this level, doesn’t it? If I could hear a Republican party that didn’t align with limiting human rights, pushing one religion over others and measuring people by skin color, then I might be able to weigh some of the economic arguments. As it stands, it isn’t credible to think the party cares about most people’s economic welfare specifically when it doesn’t bother to care about most people in general.
bookman parrot
October 26th, 2012
9:40 am
sounds like complexion counts more than ideology for CP
Jay
October 26th, 2012
9:40 am
Moderate, I don’t think you can compare the political climate of today to that of the ’70s.
Back then, Richard Nixon — pro-choice, creator of the EPA, institutor of wage and price controls, advocate of single-payer health program — was considered a hard-shell conservative.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
October 26th, 2012
9:40 am
Days numbered is Obama…thank goodness. Time for a serious President
Gill Bates
October 26th, 2012
9:40 am
Republicans squawk about Freedom – yet when a Republican endorses a Democrat they go ballistic to attempt to “force” party loyalty. Hypocrites.
Williebkind
October 26th, 2012
9:41 am
Colin Powel is an affirmative action recipient. He was set up to succeed and only performed mediocrely. His views are his and does not have much significance except for those who needs remarks to stop the bleeding in their ranks. Powell is like Obama and should have never been part of the conservative ranks.
indigo
October 26th, 2012
9:41 am
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Our soldiers kill in war. Is that murder? Our police kill in the line of duty. Is that murder? Some states execute killers. Is that murder?
You believe “thou shall not kill”. So, should we do away with our military, police and justice system?
Exactly how do you define “murder”?
Welcome to the Occupation
October 26th, 2012
9:41 am
andygrdzki “Definition of Racism, 95% of African-Americans voting for Obama….. If that number is not based on race, don’t know what is……”
It drives them absolutely, stark raving bonkers.
And yet, what is true racism is the ACCUSATION that because almost all African Americans will vote for Obama they are doing so out of some kind of tribalist racist “loyalty” – conveniently overlooking the way that white Southerners will bevoting for Romney at rates drastically higher than they voted for Kerry in ‘04 or Gore in ‘00.
sam
October 26th, 2012
9:41 am
Ramzhad, that Jamaican pimp stuff would be great if he hadnt went to the UN and lied for W….i would imagine that has a lot to do with why he’s turned away from the party
When Racism and Hate Rule
October 26th, 2012
9:41 am
…..and this also includes “Record Breaking Fillibusters” by the Republican Party…and they think that Americans will NOT remember…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_UwkE7hB4s&feature=related
Williebkind
October 26th, 2012
9:42 am
Its been four years and the left still blames Bush/Cheney. How incredible is that?
gm
October 26th, 2012
9:42 am
Hermain Cain, Alen West, this is your rep party, what does it take for you brain washed idiots to see these right wing bigots on the right care nothing about you unless you are playing sports and entertaining them?