Check out the latter bit in particular, where Colin Powell speaks out against Republicans’ insinuations that Obama is Muslim. It’s up there, in my book, with Obama’s race speech.
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Urbanartiste — October 19, 2008
Colin Powell is incredible. He should have ran in 2000!
gwp_admin — October 20, 2008
I know -- I'm liking him MORE and MORE. -Deborah
Bob Lamm — October 20, 2008
Powell's remarks yesterday were terrific--but also completely hypocritical. As Mike Lupica wrote in the NY Daily News today: "The same sort of gutter tactics from his party that he decried yesterday were tactics Powell saw when he was helping Bush and Cheney get elected eight years ago, when he acted as cheerleader for both of them at the 2000 Republican convention."
We should never forget that the blood of all those who have died tragically and pointlessly in Iraq isn't just on the hands of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld. It's also on the hands of Colin Powell--and everyone who voted for that war.
gwp_admin — October 20, 2008
Bob, thank you for this reminder to keep love for Powell in check. You are dead right. But it was just so refreshing to hear him take on the whole "Obama is Muslim" crap with a "he's not, but so what if he was?" Something I've heard from so few Republicans these days it makes my head spin. - Deborah
Bob Lamm — October 21, 2008
Deborah, Powell's "he's not, but so what if he was?" response to the false rumor about Obama being a Muslim was indeed wonderful. It has been said by very few prominent Republicans and not nearly enough prominent Democrats. But Colin Powell's role in helping to elect Bush and Cheney and in defending and justifying their war in Iraq should never be forgotten. Nor should his terrible stance in the early 1990s on gays in the military.