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what would one expect?

But he all but endorsed Obama in 2008, so why be surprised? It's a black thing.

Shocked face!

I'll be voting for he?

How sad. He has his and could give a damn less about the decimated black community.

Colin, we hardly knew ye.

Another word comes to mind. Treason.

Iam casting MY vote based on the content of the candidates' characters--and NOT on the color of their skins.

I don't think Colin Powell can say that.

Colin Powell has always been all about race... never about America.

Who knew Colin was a statist?

Thought General Halftrack had finally retired to Uncle Sugar's Old Soldiers" Home on Upshur Street?

No surprise there, He is proving he was a token General. I remember when he hung Scooter Libby out to dry, too.

The new Websters Dictionary will have Powells' picture in the definition of Racist. It's amazing how many people cannot look past the color of skin to see what lies beneath the surface...

FTA..he criticized Republican challenger Mitt Romney's stance on foreign policy.

The affirmative action General approves of the affrimative action Pres ignoring Muslims murdering Americans.
Black is more important to him than country!

Powell is the reason we had to return to Iraq to finish what should have been finished under Bush 41. Had the Iraqis on the ropes and gave up.

powell has no integrity. He's a kindred spirit to obama. Therefore, this endorsement is entirely predictable.

You sir, Colin Powell are an inexcusable racist.

Word is in the beltway he was always just a political animal, nothing more, crawling his way to the top of the military establishment (being 'clean, articulate..." etc. to quote Biden didn't hurt.)

Minor surprise, major disappointment, no impact.

He da racist.

le doosh bag, he speak.

"...voting for he..." Somehow, this supposedly simple error saddens me as much as the unsurprising endorsement. Poster 6 nailed it.

Still, a massive downer for me. I just got back from a charity trip to a 3rd world country not far from the USA. My group gave its time, money and effort to help out. For that, we were called names (I speak their language enough)by the people we went to help. I feel and felt betrayed by them and now by Powell. He is not the man I thought he was....to much like Obama I now realize. He can hang in the closet with Barry and the other empty suits.

Too bad I cancelled out his vote when I voted on Monday.

I remember when the Bush1's Iraq war was going on Swartzkroft was the one doing all the leading then once victory was at hand Powell stepped in to take all the credit. I've had a low opinion of Powell since. I'd like to know what Swartzkroft and the other leaders in the military think of Powell.

It is indeed #2. When I think of the time and the education, the quotas and reparations, affirmative action and special considerations, and they were all for naught. First, foremost and always the vast majority of blacks will vote skin color.

Face it, he was and always will be under the shadow of Affirmative Action. He knows what said his bread (pumpernickel) is buttered on.

"side" not "said".

For anyone who was ever in doubt, this confirms that Colon Pow was indeed and Affirmative Action baby.

Once Powell had played 41 & 43 for all he could get, he got in touch with his inner Rat.

The senior Army guys always knew he was a token general. What a fraud. I guess it takes a fraud to endorse a fraud.

Thsi idiot still thinks that Oblama is black. Cut off his pension.

affirmative action negro

#15, that is my biggest problem with Colin Powell. It was a bad decision from an historical perspective. It was easy enough to see, at the time, that it was going to be a bad decision. Just days and weeks proved it so when there was an uprising of Iraqis and the US stood by and let them be slaughtered by Hussein as he reasserted his power.

We did not get any input to override that bad decision. Thankfully, this bad decision on his part will be overridden by the voters.

Well then, once President Romney has settled into the WH, Powell can just crawl away and go back to being completely irrelevant.

Maybe he likes his policies. All these folks crying racist may be the true racist. I disagree with his endorsement, but maybe those of you who are white are supportign Romney for that reason. You can say all you want that it is about the unemployment rate, defense, economic issues

Colin always was a Politically Correct wuss. He is going with Solbama again for the same reason he called off the A-10s on the "highway of death". He can't stand any controversy. He was and remains weak. A puny man who advanced only because of the color of his skin. Sound familiar?

I once thought highly of the man even though he supported the unknown in 2008. The knowns now prove to have made this a terrible decision. To double down exposes a total lack of wisdom and deductive reasoning.

And this is news because.............?

How many country club Republicans supported this south end of a north-bound horse, yet they reject Todd Akin? Country club Republicans are bigger fools than Demorats.

Most of us have had it up to here with this ass-clown, and Powell is endorsing him?!?

What #4 & #22 said: "...voting for he..." Good grief, one wonders if the general passed 4th grade English.

#39, oh please, give me a break. Colin Powell got where he is by pretending (apparently) to be a Republican. It was George W Bush, a Republican WHITE president, who elevated Powell to the status he held (and who most of us thought he deserved, based on who he said he was, NOT the color of his skin).

So if we are disappointed in the man and who he has endorsed for president, especially after the fiasco of the last 4 years, that doesn't make us racist.

I thought he was a worm back when others thought he was cool. I believed him to be a total wimp during the first Gulf War.

No surprise that he'd go for that foreign policy brain trust, Obama.

He needs a colinoscopy ASAP.

Is this affirmative action thing contagious?

Powell's conservative credentials expired when he endorsed Obama the first time around. Why does he continue to remain a Republican? He's become almost as big a cypher as Obama is.

Colin Who?

Race before country. Plain and simple.

Republicans made this guy, and he does this. It's all about race with these birds, and that's gratitude for ya.

Can we stop with the "Colin Powell is a republican" nonsense now.
Now you know why the liberal media and democrat establishment will never allow a black conservative to win the republican nomination: too many Colin Powell's out there voting by the color of the person's skin.

Years ago a friend with "inside knowledge" on the My Lai massacre in Viet Nam stated that Powell had "dirty hands" in this event, meaning that he had pulled some strings, etc.

Can't prove it, haven't read anything about this, never read his book...yet somehow I would, if given the chance, want to explore this thread, this smear, or this supposed fact.

I don't trust the guy, especially after how he covered for his boy and sent Scooter Libby up river without a paddle.

Nope, go home, rock in your chair, read a black civil war book and imagine what a true leader would say about B. Hussein.

Try thinking like Mayor Clint Eastwood...

Worthless, mealy-mouthed, spaghetti-spined political general, whose endorsement ranks up there with Van Jones and Anita Dunn-predictable and inconsequential.

Hardly a surprise. Powell was first and foremost a careerist, and while in the military projected the attitudes that would best insure promotion. After retiring from the Army, he cast off his non-political suit and donned Republican attire to better fit his appointment in the Bush I administration. Upon leaving the Bush administration, he then used his cred to bolster the causes he really believed in. One of these is supporting a Black President.

His 'intelligence' was a scam all this time. This president is tearing down this country, and this 'general' says, yep, he's doing a good job and I'm sticking with him. He covered up the affirmative action quite well, for a time.

Hes racist

Powell is a disgrace. He was never, ever a Republican but an opportunist. He ego was fed by being Secretary of State, but he is a user. As noted above, it's how he got ahead in the military - maximizing the value of affirmative action.

What y'all said.

Ha! One would think that old Colin actually believes that because he pretends to be a "republican" he will get more Republicans to vote for obama! That's a joke, right? And how many RINO's thought he would be a great president back in the day? Too many! WHO cares?

At least Condalisa Rice came to her senses.

But I guess she had some senses to come to in the first place. Colin Powell never seemed that smart to me in the first place...

The affirmative action General endorses the affirmative action President. Is anybody surprised?

Always had great respect for General Powell as a true American patriot. He has sacrificed that position by giving in to those who want a black president reelected. I no longer respect him.

Many years ago Powell gave an interview, I believe with 60 Minutes - I am not certain...

In the interview he discussed his upbringing, his career in the military and path to the WH and how much Affirmative Action helped him with opportunities in school, college (New York), employment and the military. He was rather upfront and unapologetic about the doors opened to him through Affirmative Action and during the interview he acted as if it was owed to him.

This attitude is carried by a vast majority of blacks, and that is why most non-blacks view blacks in postitions of authority or elevated as unqualified because of benefits bestowed without earned merit, talent or accomplishment. This personifies Obama, many blacks in public office/service and those in mid to high level corporate positions (where quotas have to be satisfied).

Perhaps the only area where Affirmative Action cannot assist and where true talent and ability are required is in professional sports.

#51, The first link is about My Lai. The second is about Brig. Gen. John W. Donaldson was charged with murder. There are other links worth reading.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/121700b.html
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/121700c.html

''One lesson he doesn't mention is that a military bureaucrat succeeds best by sidestepping controversy and keeping quiet when superiors screw up.''

Correction to post #66: reference should be to post #54.

Any respect I had for this man is gone. He is the same as Obama, an evil man. He sees nothing except O's blackness.

I never cared for Colon. What a lame brain.

Clearly a rayciss.

" I would like to list the reasons I am voting for Obama.........he's black......I'm black!" - Colin Powell

Disappointed.

But even 76% of the rank and file are against Obama...so the General is misplaced.

I agree with above posters who noted Powell's ignorance of English grammar. I saw him on TV saying "I voted for he......and Biden."

Him really said that. Me heard he say it.

I am sooo glad to hear this. There are still some Republicans who think this man would be a great candidate for them. He has never been a Republican and I doubt if he even voted for the Bushes.

As a former U>S> military general, Mr Powell should understand that Obama's foreign policy can be summed up in two words, PRO-MUSLIM. He has no other foreign policy. Perhaps Mr Powell just wants to vote based on race, which is actually understandable. Obviously he has left his military background far in the background.
Voting for the re-election of the president is a vote against America's future.

It's a black thing.

So the AAG (Affirmative Action General)backed up Colin Powell endores his tranformative figger again. Like we didn't see this coming. I still remember back during the Gulf War that this hack gave his bad advice to the first President Bush to not go and get Sodamninsane in Bagdad. The fact that this old RINO would go to bat for Odumbo after how he's decimated the black community with his wretched policies is nothing short of a disgrace. I often wonder how better men like Bush 1 and 2, Rumsfield, and Schawtzkopf feel about this moral coward.

In other news, the sun came up this morning.

Since 2008, I have had no respect for Colon left to lose.

This isn't a RINO, this a Democrap!

It's tribal, I tell you. Tribal!

I think Colin Powell is still peeved over President Regan forcing him to abandon his command in Europe after the Democrats pushed the Iran-Contra fallacy upon the country. I was at NATO HQ when Casper Wineberger called Powell to advise him that President Regan wanted him to report to Washington as his National Security Council Chief. Powell's response was that if President Regan wanted him, he would have to call Powell himself. Powell had just taken command of V Corps as a Three-Star General then. Well, Powell grudgingly reported to DC so we know who called whom....

Hey folks,#39 is off his meds. king booboo can't help himself!!

Ted in Michigan

Powell was anti-tea party and he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations so it is possible he is for the New World Order. That would explain his allegiance to O since with O it is all about the United Nations and International 'well-being' and not the United States-but the denigration of the United States, to bolster the New World Order.

Man as God:
"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things." (Romans 1)

No doubt he believes OJ was innocent, too.

I give him an A.

As in Affirm-A

Powell's bonifides for the most part come in foreign policy. He as said previously that Obama has a questionable foreign policy stance. Most all know that Obama's economic and domestic policies are an abject failure. Maybe color really does run more than skin deep?

Colin Powell made his way up the ranks through Affirmative Action. He was a C student but became a General because of his color. He has never impressed me.

Colin Powell, plantation general. Usually they are only colonels but I guess that's rank inflation.

I wish Condoleeza Rice would tell us about the true Colin Powell...

You're right on #87. Like Fauxbama, Powell is another example of promotion because of affirmative action. Also like Fauxbama, Powell's rise was based on skin color and without any consideration of merit because there was none.

It's so sad to see the great General Powell embarrassing himself in this way. He's showing that he's not right in the head anymore.

Pathetic.

obama left 30people to die in Libya!
He watched 4 men die and did nothing and you endorse him!

"I'll be voting for he and Vice President Biden..."

He? I will be voting for he?

Powell is not what he was cracked up to be. The lights are on - but nobody seems to be at home. He looked and sounded like a man of substance, just as Barack Obama -to some people- looked and sounded like a man of substance.

If Powell ever decides to run for office, I will not be voting for he.

Thank God this dumba... will never be president, what an idiot he is.

Maybe he has been promised to be the new ambassador to Libya.