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That kind of ideological confusion certainly explains all the problems in the republican party. But that's ok Silence. I'm a liberal and I accept you anyway...
Thanks Peter... I appreciate it
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That kind of ideological confusion certainly explains all the problems in the republican party. But that's ok Silence. I'm a liberal and I accept you anyway...
There will some honest Republicans (not those who worship at the altar of the Bush NeoCon Idol) who will now vote for Obama. The real republican party has been hi-jacked by the extreme right and doesn't reflect what their party once stood for.
This is a big endorsement no matter what the right says.
When the real conservative pundits and now Powell won't back up McCain and his Sarah Doll, that is telling evidence.
Now if we can sweep this election in the Whitehouse, Congress and Senate and then have Dems who don't act like Repubs, we might be able to get back on America's real course.etc.
are you actually claiming I'm a right winger? seriously? you might want to look around here before you assume you know someone's political views. I'm for abortion, for gun control, and various other "left wing" ideas.
I've never voted for a Republican president so please explain to me how I'm a right winger Black?
and yes, I was against the Iraq war. I'm generally speaking, against ALL war since I'd consider myself to be a pacifist.
Colin Powell is a man of deep integrity IMO and high intelligence. He, I think, believed in the intelligence he presented for the case for war. I don't think he was in on the lies and manipulations, but rather was lied to and manipulated by the Bush administration and used to make the case BECAUSE of the respect the American people had for him.
He took the hit for the Bush administration and I think that was their plan all along.
Powell has an 80% favorable rating with Americans according to Gallup. To insinuate that his endorsement is somehow lessened because he's black is just idiotic but not unexpected from you sealy. You make some of the most outlandish remarks and you actually, at times, make me ashamed that we are on the same side.
I don't absolve Powell of anything. He fucked up. But like I said I believe he was used by the Bush Administration.
What forever amazes me is the number of people who call themselves "antiwar" and shout and scream at Bush .. but absolve Powell of his complicity in the worst military and political disaster in American history.
They call that bullshit .. progressive.
go figure
You should be ashamed that you once again, appear to be a closet right-winger because you love their tactics ..
POST WHERE I SUPPOSEDLY SAID THAT POWELL'S ENDORSEMENT IS LESSENED BECAUSE HE'S BLACK
Nice.
But how could a decorated vietnam vet, respected Republican, and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs support a secret radical muslim socialist, who pals around with terrorists?
According to MSNBC, this morning on Meet the Press Gen Colin Powell will endorse Barack Obama for President of the United States!
That is incredible and will certainly silence (no pun) a lot of the "he's too risky" bullshit coming from McCain & Co.
I was hoping for this since Colin Powell is probably the ONLY Republican I'd ever vote for!
Powell should be led before a firing squad and shot to death for his role in getting tens of thousands of US soldiers killed, maimed, and critically wounded with false "evidence" he KNEW was false.
SO, the Powell fraud endorses the Obama fraud .. big deal .. America still loses
it's just my opinion Black... you don't have to agree with it.
Powell had shown himself, prior to the Iraq war, to be a man of deep integrity. He resigned from the Bush Administration when it was revealed that the intelligence was faulty. I believe he did that because he felt they had used him.
I'm not privy to inside information so I am not stating this as fact, just speculation based on years of following this man and his actions.
I agree with you.
Let's point out the CIA Director, George Tenet, was a Clinton appointee and said the WMD intelligence was a "slam dunk".
So how come Powell gets a pass for being duped by Tenet but Bush does not?
That kind of ideological confusion certainly explains all the problems in the republican party. But that's ok Silence. I'm a liberal and I accept you anyway...
Republican Tactics 101: Someone makes a endorsement towards the opponent, even if they are the same side as you; destroy their character.
Its the Nuremburg Principle.
Powell wasn't an architect of this war, there's no evidence that he was involved in cooking up bogus intelligence, and behind the scenes all evidence points to the fact that Powell was trying to talk bush out of invading.
Yes, he's guilty of complicity and weakness. He's an asshole on a whole front of issues.
But the people that should be rotting in prison in the Hague are the architects, Cheney, Bush, Wolfowitz, Hadley, and the NeoCons who proactively engaged in deception and lies.
Silence is a Liberal by the way.
Republican Tactics 101: Someone makes a endorsement towards the opponent, even if they are the same side as you; destroy their character.
Well DOH-----if someone is gonig to use their characture as a reason to vote for someone I think they have pretty much opened the door for valid criticism.
Are you impaired in some way? I agreed with the poster regarding Powell's integrity, etc. I simply pointed out that Powell is given a pass on accepting faulty intelligence from Clinton appointee Tenet but Bush is not.
Liberals are however, weak as mud.
Do you notice the amount of hypocrisy in that post?
If he endorsed John McCain, you'd be talking about how great Colin Powell is and what a great decision he made.