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Poupon Powell
The GOP’s Anointed One may practice his politics privately, but the bigger mystery is why he is ultimately not a Democrat. (From our September 1996 issue.)
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The speech was widely noted, along with the fee, peppers, bun mix, and hot sauce. Powell is serious about his image, and this one did not seem quite right. Old advocates began to rethink their positions. Maureen Dowd of the New York Times called Bill Kristol to confer. Then she wrote a Sunday column in which she said Powell was “pretending he can be inside politics and outside politics at the same time, disguising his lack of nerve with high moral language.” Newsweek was out the next day. The old conventional wisdom on Powell, it said, was “Above politics as usual.” The new one was “Mario Cuomo in a uniform.”
Meanwhile, it has been reported that Powell would like to be secretary of state. This is a position more or less above politics, and he could hold it in either a Dole or Clinton administration. Many possibilities now suggest themselves, and here is one: Clinton wins, and Warren Christopher retires. Strobe Talbott jumps ship. Clinton appoints Powell. Ken Starr hands up an indictment, and congressional Democrats turn honest. Clinton is forced to resign, and Gore becomes president. Gore, though, is now tainted, and at their convention, the Democrats decide that an African-American general would be just right. Powell is nominated by acclamation, and finally things work out.
(This article by John Corry, then The American Spectator’s senior correspondent, appeared in our September 1996 issue.)
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burt| 10.22.08 @ 9:14AM
Anyone who is black and Republican is immediately ripped apart by the Democratic controlled press. As for Powell, he never was a Republican. Now, he has seized his chance to return to the good graces of the press and his friends at the Department of State.
yeah| 10.22.08 @ 4:36PM
Gotta love conservative politics, you're ok if you're on of us and you're a commie, flag burning closet homesexual if you're not.
jacksmith| 10.22.08 @ 4:43PM
I see you all have not lost your fight :
GOOD! Because we have a lot to do. You! (the American people) are going to have to take back control of your elected government at every level, and set your government back on the right path of service to you, and the greater good of the World.
Barack Obama and the democrats are your best hope of doing that now. Tell your family, friends, and everyone you know to support them as best they can. Because the Bush McCain vote fraud, vote cheating, vote buying, vote manipulation machine is already hard at work to cheat you again. And we all know what a disaster that has been the past 8 years of Bush McCain.
Barack Obama and the democrats will need all the power you can give them at every level of government (Federal, State, County, and local City elected governments). Obama and the democrats will have an enormous mess to fix for the American people, and the rest of the World. A mess caused by the corrupt Bush McCain administration.
You see, starting back in 2000, and before 911, it was mostly the Republican governors, Republican legislatures, and county elected Republican officials that conspired with the corrupt Bush McCain administration to raise college, and university tuitions by the fastest, and highest rate increases in American history. Some state tuitions went up by as much as a WHOPPING! 30% in one year.
The reason the Bush McCain administration did this was to force struggling working class kids into the military to pay for the sudden jump in tuition. Which was forced on them by the corrupt Bush McCain administration, and their corrupt Republican Governors, and republican controlled state legislatures.
See, Bush McCain had plans to get us into all these immoral, foolish, criminal, and unnecessary wars from the start. So they could use these wars to seize power, and later to get reelected. But, for their evil plan to work they needed more volunteer soldiers struggling to pay for an education whose blood they could spill to help them seize more power. Remember Bush McCain's "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!" theatrics.
The exploitation, and lost lives of these finest Americans is despicable, disgusting, immoral, corrupt and criminal. And it makes me SICK, and ANGRY!
You will have to vote for Obama, and the democrats in overwhelming numbers to overcome the Bush McCain vote fraud machine. Vote early if you can. Then help your fellow Americans cast their votes now, and on through election day. Vote for Obama, and the democrats like your life, and the lives of your loved ones depends on it. Because it does. You will not survive 4 more years of "Let Them Eat Cake" Bush McCain, and their republican allies.
Just look at the mess we have now.
You can fix this mess with your votes for Obama, and the democrats. And REMEMBER, no matter which of us may stumble or fall, the rest of you must continue to surge forward for Barack Obama, and the democrats, and for your-selves most of all. The children, and the World are counting on us.
It's in your hands now. And I know you will get it done.
God bless all of you.
JACK SMITH - WORKING CLASS... :-)
OCPatriot| 10.22.08 @ 5:17PM
SOUR GRAPES, ANYONE?
The fun thing about those who put Powell and his endorsement down for one reason or other is that, if Powell had come out for McCain, he would have been hailed as a leading light of the Republican Party. Think of it that way, and you can't help but realize that such articles and comments are nothing but "sour grapes."
P.S. Ever notice that the schtick is PUTTING PEOPLE DOWN as opposed to pointing out the positives of the alternatives? Are such commentators actually scared, or are they using fear, as George Bush did, to enlist sympathy for their side?
E Briggs| 10.22.08 @ 5:43PM
Maybe Colin Powell wants to be handy as an advisor in case "Figurehead" Obama wins the election!
Tarantula| 10.22.08 @ 6:00PM
JACK SMITH - WORKING CLASS...you're an idiot...
ruth| 10.22.08 @ 6:16PM
Typical liberal pondscum
Dave| 10.22.08 @ 7:03PM
Why is it not racist for 100% of blacks to be voting for Obama? Powell is just doing his racial duty - big surprise, maybe he can be Ambassador to France and he and Oprah can lunch together across the channel.
OCPatriot| 10.22.08 @ 10:36PM
Look, all of you misguided right-wing Republicans and so-called Conservatives, the reason McCain is down in the polls is because he is running a very disorganized campaign without a clear program to clean up the mess George Bush has created. It's that simple. Blaming "voter fraud" and "Powell" and the defections by well-known Conservatives is the wrong way to assess what's happening. By any standards, McCain seems to be unable to organize his own campaign; pundists on both sides have been making excuses for him, saying he hasn't been served well by his advisors, but who the hell is running and in charge of his campaign, if not him? It's obvious that McCain shoots from the hip, from the way he had Palin vetted to choosing her, and if you refuse to accept this you're in deep denial. Had the Republicans chosen a good smart candidate with good organizational skills, they would probably be ahead now, but no, they didn't. But don't keep making excuses, upon excuses, upon excuses about why it isn't working and the calamity that will result when Obama becomes elected.
Grissie| 10.23.08 @ 8:14AM
The Hoopla over Colin Powell jumping ship is getting far too much analysis. Pure and simple a revenge endorsement of Obama due to his Bush donnybrook. He is NOT the outstanding, shining patriot portrayed. Colin Powell has a definite Political Identity Crisis.