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.Powell endorses Obama again
CNN's Ashley Killough
(CNN) - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday he's endorsing President Barack Obama for a second time, saying he was "uncomfortable" with Mitt Romney's views on foreign policy.
"I voted for him in 2008, and I plan to stick with him in 2012," Powell said on CBS' "This Morning." "And I'll be voting for he and for Vice President Joe Biden next month."
Powell made headlines when the former George W. Bush administration official, who also worked for President Ronald Reagan and President George H.W. Bush, crossed party lines and supported Obama last cycle.
The Republican said he believes the economy is "starting to pick up" and attributed the recovery to the president's polices, citing specifically the auto industry bailout and Obama's economic proposals. "Generally we've come out of the dive and we're starting to gain al ude," he said.
Powell added he was "uncomfortable" with Mitt Romney's tax plans and views on foreign policy. Pointing to Monday night's final presidential debate, Powell argued the GOP nominee had changed his positions on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The former secretary of state said he was concerned with the advice Romney was getting from campaign staff members.
"I think there are some very, very strong neo-conservative views that are presented by the governor that I have some trouble with," Powell said, though he did not elaborate on which views.
"I also saw the president get us out of one war, start to get us out of a second war and did not get us into any new wars," he said.
Powell added he was pleased with the Obama administration's views on climate change, health care, immigration and education. As for the rising federal debt, he faulted Congress for failing to reach a "grand bargain" on a deficit-reduction plan.
"This is work the Congress is supposed to be doing," he said. "Why can't they up on the Hill start talking to one another, reach across the aisle? But it will take great presidential leadership."
Asked if he was still a Republican, Powell said he still claimed the GOP as his political home. "Yes I think I'm a Republican of a more moderate mold, and that's something of a dying breed, I'm sorry to say."
I heart this guy. He would so have mny vote over the two who are currently running.
for the red team-Cue the ' it's black thing' mantra..
Cue the blue team strawman
this "strawman" that people keep referring to has become quite the contender!
Crows of a featha be stickin togetha, yeah man, slap yo mama!
I too would vote for Powell.
Powell smeared himself by lying, he knew he was set up, to the UN about aluminum tubes to justify invading Iraq for oil. As the saying goes, "if you play with pigs, you get dirty". The dubya/ head/rummy war criminals were/are really dirty pigs.
" Tom Glen, a 21-year-old soldier of the 11th Light Infantry Brigade, wrote a letter to General Creighton Abrams, the new overall commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, accusing the Americal Division (and other units of the U.S. military) of routine and pervasive brutality against Vietnamese civilians. The letter was detailed and its contents echoed complaints received from other soldiers.[citation needed]
Colin Powell, then a 31-year-old Army major, was charged with investigating the letter, which did not specifically reference Mỹ Lai (Glen had limited knowledge of the events there). In his report, Powell wrote, "In direct refutation of this portrayal is the fact that relations between Americal Division[35] soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent." Powell's handling of the assignment was later characterized by some observers as "whitewashing" the atrocities of Mỹ Lai."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre
You already know the truth so you preempt anyone else from saying it.
Wow, and you call Team Red racist?
That's pretty funny coming from the guy who helped get us into war with Iraq.Powell said the economy is improving and Obama got the United States out of war in Iraq
Breaking news black people vote for black people.
Racialism at it's finest.
Ironic, coming from someone who openly admits to hating black people.....
lol@ people saying he voted for obama because he's black.
pure ignorance.
Saying I don't like most black people is not the same as saying I hate black people. You just gained another stupidity point.
It's pretty obvious by the tear in his eye for a guy he doesn't really know personally, a Democrat when he's a Republican, that the common bond they share is their race. That's what the entire message is about, that a black man can be president. It's a powerful message to blacks, and Colin Powell is no exception. So yes, the race played a role in his vote. To pretend otherwise is ignorance or just ty trolling per the usual.
don't even know why i'm responding but did you even read the article?
here i'll post some of it for you:
The Republican said he believes the economy is "starting to pick up" and attributed the recovery to the president's polices, citing specifically the auto industry bailout and Obama's economic proposals. "Generally we've come out of the dive and we're starting to gain al ude," he said.
Powell added he was "uncomfortable" with Mitt Romney's tax plans and views on foreign policy. Pointing to Monday night's final presidential debate, Powell argued the GOP nominee had changed his positions on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The former secretary of state said he was concerned with the advice Romney was getting from campaign staff members.
"I think there are some very, very strong neo-conservative views that are presented by the governor that I have some trouble with," Powell said, though he did not elaborate on which views.
"I also saw the president get us out of one war, start to get us out of a second war and did not get us into any new wars," he said.
Powell added he was pleased with the Obama administration's views on climate change, health care, immigration and education. As for the rising federal debt, he faulted Congress for failing to reach a "grand bargain" on a deficit-reduction plan.
"This is work the Congress is supposed to be doing," he said. "Why can't they up on the Hill start talking to one another, reach across the aisle? But it will take great presidential leadership."
Asked if he was still a Republican, Powell said he still claimed the GOP as his political home. "Yes I think I'm a Republican of a more moderate mold, and that's something of a dying breed, I'm sorry to say."
i doubt Mr. Powell is the only republican voting democrat and vice versa.
this has nothing to do with race and its a shame that you would think a man of Mr. Powell's stature and prestige would do something like that.
Wow. This is pretty much how I feel and why I am voting for Obama. And I'm white!
Sure I read it, but he endorsed Obama originally and knew nothing about his policies tbh. That negates anything else you said.
But he knows his policies now. O broke the first black prez barrier. There is really no need to endorse him for a second term if you are not on board with his policies regardless of color.
what you just typed is hearsay.
this. if Obama were a white man with the exact same views then Powell would have endorsed both McCain and Romney. it all boils down to skin color.
sons Pastor Manning took Powell to school in the last election ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=mUuaYXO0ze0
(click link, the user disabled embedding)
Last edited by BRHornet45; 10-25-2012 at 01:53 PM.
Obama has bombed more countries than Bush, no surprise here
Typical BR. It's not even trolling at this point.Being from the great state of Lewssssiana and having the standard 4th grade education level typically required in NO and doing absolutely nothing with your life (example: rooting for any New Orleans team) on top of being a re ed fatass rightwinger who thinks his intellectual capacity grows if he shouts more makes him smart. You may have different reasons for hating the black man but I will say I hope it's not because when you look down at the scale, it reads "Southbeach diet fatass" obviously leaving you incapable of laying the little pipe you have to the white woman.
son you're funny.
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