Colin Powell Blames Media and Tea Party for Divisive Tone in Washington
News Busters -- They compromised--"the Founding Fathers compromised on slavery. They had to in order to create a country. They compromised on the composition of the Senate, of the House, of the Supreme Court, of a president -- what are the president's powers? Can you imagine more difficult compromises today?
Compromise is how this country was founded, and unless two people in disagreement with each other don't find a way to reach out to one another and make compromises, you don't get a consensus that allows you to move forward.
But the Tea Party point of view of no compromise whatsoever is not a point of view that will eventually produce a presidential candidate who will win." Blog author's comments - If the Republicans don't compromise and do what the Democrats want, it's because of the Tea Party? I would hope the GOP will no longer always concede to what the Democrats want for our country.
Colin Powell may say he is a member of the Republican Party but he supported and voted for Obama in 2008 and I believe he will vote for him in 2012.
Compromise should never require citizens to turn a blind eye to out-of-control spending or corrupt leadership.
Videos from a few months ago - Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney talk about Colin Powell
Colin Powell Says He Does Not Yet
Know Who He Will Vote For In 2012
Blog author's comments - Former secretary of state Colin Powell knows right now who he is going to vote for...Barack Hussein Obama. Powell will not abandon Obama.
Comments below from FOX News story May 10. 2009.
Dick Cheney: Powell Left the Republican Party
Cheney had tough words for the Bush administration's former secretary of state when asked about the controversy over Powell's recent suggestion that the GOP move more to the center. He was asked specifically about conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh's call for Powell to join the Democrats.
"I think my take on it was Colin had already left the party. I didn't know he was still a Republican," Cheney said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Asked to clarify, Cheney noted that Powell endorsed Barack Obama, a Democrat for president shortly before the general election.
"I assumed that that is some indication of his loyalty and his interest," Cheney said.
Colin Powell is not a Republican. I think his support for Barack Hussein Obama is based solely on race. These may be harsh words when talking about a General and former Secretary of State, but that's what I believe.
Powell on 'Meet the Press’-”Republicans have got to take a hard look at some of the positions they've been taking. We can't be anti-immigration, for example. Because immigrants are fueling this country. Without immigrants we would be like Europe or Japan with an aging population and no young people coming in to take care of it. We have to educate our immigrants."
Mr. Powell, yes we can be anti-immigration, with the way Obama wants it to be. Immigrants can come to our country legally; this is not what Obama wants. Obama can see a day when he signs a bill which will give all the illegals amnesty; he is counting the future voters for the Democrat Party.
Powell On The President - "You just can't say no to everything, you just can't sit around blaming everything on the President."
Sir - we can and have every right to blame the President when we disagree with his policies and agenda for our country.
Powell also said - on the tea party activists who are driving the opposition against Obama: "This movement doesn't become a real force until it's — until it starts to talk to the issues," Powell said. "I want to cut spending. I want to have lower taxes. But how do you do that? You can't just have slogans. You can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda."
Colin Powell, the 'Tea Party' movement does have an agenda, they are talking the issues. They want your man Obama to get the hell out of the way and let the country function as it should. They do not want the country molded into something Obama believes it should be.
He ignores Obama's view on immigration.
I have very little respect for this man.
Powell on the tea party: "You can't just have slogans"
Blog author's comments - Powell endorsed Obama for President. The reason he made the appearance on "Meet the Depressed" yesterday, was to try and help Obama and the Democrats for the midterm elections.
If Obama cared about illegal immigration, he would not have had the Feds file suit against Arizona to stop the law the people passed to try to save their state. This law was needed to do what the federal government refuses to do.
Most of the problems we now have are because of the Obama Administration. Colin Powell you are not a Republican and cannot be trusted as you once were. Please, just go away, you have no credibility as far as I am concerned.
