I don't notice Republicans (except purported ones) stoking the racism fires in this election.

~~The mixed-race Mr Obama successfully sold himself in 2008 as a 'post-racial' president who would bridge America’s historic black-white divide.

But a tracking poll for the Washington Post shows the president is struggling to connect with many of the white voters who supported him four years ago.~~

....It is NOT about his race!

And we of course are to pay no attention to the countless African-Americans who say they are voting for Obama "because he is black."

Sorry... I am voting for Romney because of what he stands for. I could care less what Obama's parents looked like.

One benefit of voting for Romney is that eventually all these false charges of racism will be rendered moot...and MSNBC will have nothing at all to talk about.

FTA:'My party is full of racists':--- Isn't he a democrat now?

Then change parties nitwit.

This is all an attempt to tap back into the white guilt that helped Obama get elected in 2008. It isn't going to work.

Sorry ... but when many blacks have themselves said they voted for and will vote again for Obama is because he's black. Why are we not allowed to say the truth without being lambasted by the press? Oh, never mind.

This nitwit doesn't know that the party of racism is the Democratic Party? The Democrats own slavery, Jim Crow laws, Gov's Orval Faubus, George Wallace and LBJ. I could go on, but I won't. Besides, MSNBC?? Probably 17 people watched this? One channel I never watch.

yeah, you. Seriously, you expect me to believe you are voting for President Obama based on his record? Really? How dumb do you think I am? For that matter, how dumb are you?

Powell said he is a republican, doesn't believe in liberal policies....so why is he voting for Obama? We all know why...powell is a racist biggot who let Scooter Libby be destroyed. I loathe powell.

Colin went conservative when he was trying to sell his latest book...how many did he sell ?????two....

So BiteMe was right about the chains? And here we've been laughing at him. I feel just awful.

As Ex military, there is virtually alway a trueism when it comes to a Chiefs of Staff assignment.

For that job, you don't usually ever get it unlsees you are a suckee.

As long as Obama is a prohibative favorite of the media he will have Powell's endorsement. Powell has always made John McCain look like a rank amateur when it comes to sucking up to the mainstream media.

The party of Condoleeza Rice? The party of Clarence Thomas? Thomas Sowell? Herman Cain? That party?

It would appear that the race card is the only card General Steppanfetchit has.

''General Powell continued as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs during the first months of the Clinton administration, publicly disagreeing with President Clinton over the President's plan to permit gay men and women to serve in the military, although he eventually accepted a compromise on the issue.''

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/pow0bio-1

Well, at least he didn't call Powell a homophobe./S

Way past time for a GOP Colin-cleansing.

Why did Sununu open this can of worms?

If, as Sununu says, Colin Powell has " .. got a slightly different reason" for preferring President Obama, can we also say that Sununu has the same "slightly different reason" (not based on issues) for supporting Romney?

Perhaps Sununu should stop talking to the media, because he sometimes seems have he dreaded foot-in-mouth disease.

It's true. Why else would he support Obama?

There is no reason for Powell to support the Marxist other than skin color, and Powell's aide believes otherwise, then he should find another "party."

Well, let's name some names. Also, if less whites are for him now than in 2008, what does that mean. They weren't racist in 2008, but now they are racist?

Wilkerson has an interesting bio. His hatred for Bush and Cheney was intense. He was also apparently in favor of cutting a deal with Iran that would allow them to "assist" with post-war Iraq. I haven't fact-checked it, but it's unbelievable if true.

Never could stand powell - love Sununu - he
says what he thinks and nine out of ten times I agree with him. He goes straight to the point and doesn't waffle around. Bammy is the worst prez in the history of our country and if the dumb powell doesn't realize that, he must agree with the Benghazi killings where his choice for prez did fund raising and sleeping.

Fine. I'm a 'racist'. Whatever works for ya'....

Next ?

The biggest racist in the GOP is Colin Powell.

Has this weak man ever had an original thought?

Colin Powell is not in the GOP. Booted.

Colon (sp.) Powell needs to just shut up and get to the back of the Dem plantation bus.

Everyone knows that Colon (sp.) was a Diversity Hire. He advanced in the military because of racial quotas. He was a mediocre general and a lousy secretary of state; he left all the Dem partisans from the Clinton administration in place at State, continually undercut and backstabbed GWB, leaked sensitive stuff the press per his agenda, and left Scooter Libby out to dry for his/Armitage's own misdeed.
He is a man without honor.

Colin Powell is a Republican in the same sense that Benedict Arnold was an American.

If Republicans are more racist than Democrats, why were the first two African-American Secretaries of State, including Colin Powell, appointed by a Republican rather than a Democratic president? And why is the only current African-American Supreme Court Justice a Republican who was appointed by a Republican president?

As for African-Americans in general, during the last year of Republican George Bush's presidency, 2008, the Black unemployment rate was 10.1%, while during the last full year of Democrat Barack Obama's presidency, 2011, the Black unemployment rate was more than fifty percent higher at 15.8%.

The only group that should be eager for such statistics to continue is the truly racist Ku Klux Klan. Yet Colin Powell is trying to do everything possible to accommodate their hopes by re-electing the best President the Ku Klux Klan has had since Democrat Woodrow Wilson segregated Federal Buildings and jobs after 50 years of integration -- Barack Obama.

Just remember, "the Colin is located close to the Anus." There's a mental picture for ya'...

Powell must have been denied a prominent roll in the Romney Ryan administration.

Remember the wave of Clinton Rhinos that flooded the GOP ? Looks like Powell is one of them.

Supporting Obama's worldview is worse than supporting him because of his skin color. That worldview is the antithesis of everything that uniform, that these men wore, represents.

as someone else pointed out.......old Colon is a Democrat anyway and so it is correct that "his Party" is racist!

Blacks often complain there aren't enough blacks in positions. Elected office, debate moderator, you name it. If it's mostly white, it's not right.

Then when they endorse another black for a position, they get bent out of shape if somebody suggests color is a factor.

RINO is too good a word for Powell.
And with his aide Wilkerson appearing on the excrable Ed Schultz Show, we need know no more in order to assess him either.

ok, I am laughing now. The only reason he is supporting BO is because he is black. I would call that a racist outcome.

22, that was the perfect retort.