It’s Worse Than We Thought… Obama Loses Colin Powell (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 5:18 AM
It’s worse than we thought. Obama’s even lost liberal Colin Powell.
What will Rush Limbaugh have to say about this?
Via CNN:
Powell says Obama failed to focus on what’s important.
CNN reported:
While saying he talks regularly with President Obama and his administration’s officials, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that the nation’s 44th president has overreached and lost focus in his first term — and lost votes because of it.
Powell, a self-described moderate Republican who served as a top military, national security and diplomatic official under presidents ranging from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, said he did not regret backing the then-Illinois senator over Republican Sen. John McCain during the 2008 election campaign.
But he said that Democrats suffered “a real body blow” in the recent midterm elections — when the party lost seats in the Senate and control of the House — in large part because Obama didn’t prioritize or communicate effectively enough.
“He should have focused on the economy … to the exclusion of most everything else domestically,” Powell told CNN’s Larry King. “When you’re starting out as a president, you have to figure out (what) is most important.”
Yet, Powell does not regret endorsing this socialist.
That’s really sad.
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regularguy commented:
Yet, Powell does not regret endorsing this socialist.
Three decades of affirmative action military career, not a bit of gratitude to the supposed white power structure that put him there. Reagan made him 25 years ago. Now he’s disappointed with one of his “people?” Sheesh.
Bill Fabrizio commented:
Powell is not able to come to terms with the enormous mistake he made. Supporting Obama (largely unknown to Powell and the rest of the country) over McCain (who Powell knew and worked with extensively over the years) has cost America dearly. Powell acknowledges the harm caused by Obama but will not admit to a judgmental error on his part.
Truly sad!
Chisum commented:
Powell says Obama failed to focus on what’s important.
I call BS. BO definitely focused on what’s important. What’s important to him.
And weren’t we told that he was the smartest man in the world? With the “judgment to lead”? That he was “The One”?
He doesn’t get a pass from me. Nor do the morons who shoved this loser down our throats!
bg commented:
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BOhemian Rhapsody
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BurmaShave commented:
At some point along the way Colin Powell is going will have to confront how thoroughly Obama has compromised our national security. That will be a good occasion for Powell to reconsider whether or not it was a good idea to support such glaringly deficient “leader” as our president.
Dee Vind commented:
Colin Powell is a racist. He votes with his eyes. Enough said.
Chisum commented:
BG,
I was reading Freddy Mercury’s Wiki bio and found this:
“A further controversy ensued in August 2006, when an organisation calling itself the Islamic Mobilization and Propagation petitioned the Zanzibar government’s culture ministry, demanding that a large-scale celebration of what would have been Mercury’s sixtieth birthday be cancelled. The organisation issued several complaints about the planned celebrations, including that Mercury was not a true Zanzibari and that he was gay, which is not in accordance with their interpretation of sharia. The organisation claimed that “associating Mercury with Zanzibar degrades our island as a place of Islam”.[65] The planned celebration was cancelled.”
There are no gays in Islam. Where’s “Me the AssTroll” to tell me how stupid I am?
southernsue commented:
ditto #6.
bg commented:
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aww com’on now, is it any wonder Obama believes himself above it all??
i mean, even these guys think/thought he is/was absolutely BRILLIANT,
but then again, he was groomed to be Caliph.. not to mention spooned
(so to speak).. /sarc/
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Opus #6 commented:
The part that gets my goat is when they claim that Obama was deficient on “communication”. As IF he had given just one more speech, we would have swallowed his poison pills.
Sorry, Charlie. Americans are smarter and more patriotic than that.
Powell is not somebody I support or listen to anymore. I put him in the same category with Oprah.
tarpon commented:
We’ve learned so much from Obama … Specifically how socialist think.
Terry Gain commented:
Asking a socialist to concentrate on the economy is asking for more economic devastation. Powell is the second most over-rated black person in America.
bg commented:
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albeit i agree Obama is as brilliant as he thinks he is..
the bottom line is:
brilliance can be, more often that not, limited, as his obvious is.. else
there would be no rhyme nor reason for all the STUPID LIES he’s told,
not to mention his actions.. all of which are anti-American pro-Islamic,
and i’m no genius, but go figure..
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bg commented:
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hey Colin, cry me a river.. /s/
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Militant Conservative commented:
Collin Powell is just a affirmative action general. Not suprised. Obama did focus intently on the economy. He meant to distroy the economy and cause the damage. Obama is distroying the country on purpose, when are some of you going to realize this?? powder is dry.
daryl commented:
Hell, Colin
He’s only the second black prez. Cut him some slack, will you? Where would you have been if Def. Sec. Cheney hadn’t allowed you to take all of the credit from Gen. Schwarzkopf?
Now you want to have your Obama cakes and eat them too.
GLM In Ohio commented:
Colin Powell = RACIST. I’ve never seen a more blatant example of racism in my life. He abandoned his Republican principles to endorse a BLACK man, plain and simple. Not a GOOD man, not a QUALIFIED man, and not a PATRIOTIC man. A BLACK man. He shares personal responsibility for every damn bit of damage Obowma is doing to this country, and he’s specifically responsible for the damage being done to race relations in this country. I believe that it was his endorsement that paved the way for what has turned out to be the worst possible “first black President” we could have ever had.
Obowma’s radical Socialist policies have succeeded in re-igniting racial tensions in America and widened the divide between Conservatives and Liberals, and his anti-American foreign policies have done irreparable damage to our reputation throughout the world. If he continues to ignore the people of this country and push his agenda, things are going to get much worse. I hope Powell is proud of himself. He lost his right to call himself anything but a typical liberal racist when he endorsed Obowma …
JPL17 commented:
You took the words out of my mouth, MC! Colin Powell and others still don’t get it: permanently damaging the private sector is Obama’s GOAL. It’s not just something that happens while he focuses on other things.
Muffin commented:
Nothing Powell said is true. He seems really depressed, and he should be. So is most of America. It would be liberating for him to admit that Obama has proven to be incompetent.
bg commented:
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the goal
the solution:
all those Muslim countries we send millions to will buy US up &
spit US out with their OIL profits.. thank you Rockefeller et al..
welcome to the NWO under Marxist by any other name rule, oh wait..
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chuck in st paul commented:
Quota queen Colin Powell wasn’t a very good general so why is anyone surprised he went for the quota queen candidate for President? Powell’s the one who convinced Bush The Elder to stop before wiping out the Republican Guard or going to Baghdad or forcing Sadly Insane to be the one to surrender, etc.
Powell’s a soft leftist and always has been.
Joanne commented:
Colin Powell didn’t see anything wrong with having a muslim in the Whitehouse either, so obviously he is a total moron.
Alana commented:
I just write him off vis-a-vis Obama, because he liked him because he’s black. Nothing he can say about Obama is untainted by that factor, so you gotta take it all with a grain of salt.
It’s Powell’s own thing to work out in his mind, and chances are, his psychological defenses will prevent his ever working it out. So, I pretty much write him off entirely, from now on.
Tom63010 commented:
If you were to give anyone a transcript of this interview and that transcript had been altered to hide the interviewer and interviewee I think most rational persons would conclude the interviewee was a Democrat.
Why does Colin Powell keep up this facade of being a Republican.
Jerry M commented:
There can be no explanation for Powell’s endorsement of Obama other than skin color. Would he have endorsed a white person with Obama’s radical background and lack of experience? The answer is a resounding no. Powell destroyed his credibility like much of the media when he endorsed our buffoon-in-chief. I won’t call him a racist but I will call him incredibly irresponsible.
8675309 commented:
Why does everyone, including the few conservative press, continue to give Powell cover as a “moderate Republican”? He is making the same excuse that Obama uses, ie. that it was communication that failed him. Powell is saying, as does Obama that moving toward a socialist or Marxist society is a desirable and publicly wanted change. He is nothing but another socialist/marxist dupe. He should be openly credited with his own espoused ideas as evidenced by his words.
james commented:
colin powell needs to explain when he knew richard armitage was the leaker of valerie plame. More importantly, why did he not tell President George W. Bush, his boss, that he knew who the leaker was and convey the information. Why did he let his boss twist in the wind and let an innocent man in Scooter Libby, by tried.
B-line Snowboard commented:
It has been a while since I have seen someone twist themselves into such an elaborate logical pretzel to justify and defend a position or (in this case) an endorsement to make it look like he wasn’t a dupe for supporting Obama.
It is obvious (at least to me) that Powell made his decision to endorse and ultimatly continues to defend some of the current policies due to some sort of feeling of racial identity and obligation to that racial identity.
God forbid General, that you would continue to hold your conservative principles and ultimately admit that your hopes for this president were dashed in these previous two years. We can only hope that the next two years will allow him to fully see the error of his ways and return him resolutely to the conservative fold.
Gregor commented:
Wrong. Obama focused on nothing BUT the economy. He focused his entire effort on purposely DESTROYING it. That’s what he believes he needs to do to obtain his new Marxist utopia.
It’s not a coincidence that immediately after being destroyed in the mid-terms and losing power, they decide to print massive amounts of money to destroy what’s left. They’re out of options and they need to finish the job.
Why are there still so many conservatives who don’t even grasp what’s going on? Why are there conservatives who still think he’s just a complete bumbling idiot? Really?
Marsh commented:
powell is the ultimate RINO.
Scott commented:
Powell spent most of his career, ostensibly, committed to fighting global communism…How could he ever endorse the marxist Hussein??? Powell showed himself to be a fraud…A paper General who like most politicians will say anything to advance his own career…Time to go buh-bye Colin.
colin commented:
Colin will never fess up to placing skin color way ahead of character. MLK is rolling over in his grave. Shame.
don abernathy commented:
DING DING DING….. WE HAVE A WINNER
#6 November 16, 2010 at 8:16 am
Dee Vind commented:
Colin Powell is a racist. He votes with his eyes. Enough said.
roflmao
RSweeney commented:
If Powell goes can Mugabe be far behind?
Betsy Ross commented:
Well, geez, General Powell….barry DID focus on the economy…he purposely wrecked the economy..he focused like a lazer beam on killing the free market and that is why voters voted the way they did…it never ceases to amaze me how these brilliant well-known people like Powell just can’t see the obvious…
tommy mc donnell commented:
colin powell doesn’t sound like obama has lost him at all. he seems like he’s still right on board the obama train wreck. obama has never lost focus on his primary objective as president. its to do as much damage to this country as possible. its to move this country as far down the road to a marxist dictatorship as possible. i don’t think obama’s problem with the people has been one of communication. i think the people hear him loud and clear. obama’s problem is that he doesn’t hears the people. the majority of the people do not want what obama wants. no matters hoe loud they shout it obama refuses to hear them.
Rick commented:
Powell will always be a traitor to the conservatives and the USA. He is very similar to Obama. Narcissistic ideologue. Please pray Powell and BHO doesn’t run for president ever again.
NH commented:
I see a Google ad targeted to NH… it’s got an incorrect URL.
Supposed to be handsoffnh.org
Our Dem gov who was re-elected thanks to Dems and RINOS who voted for him, is trying to steal private funds.
rose commented:
He hasn’t lost Powell. This is a feint. Listen to what Powell says, he is playing contrite but pushing the meme – “it’s just that he didn’t communicate it properly.”
He is carrying the water for Obama.
No question about it. It’s the same technique as saying “I’m sorry” to avert a confrontation, designed to disarm the opponent.
bg commented:
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rose #39
precisely..
very well stated, thank you..
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