Colin Powell Endorses Obama - Slams Smears

[ThePalinPatriot]

I feel I speak for most Republicans when I say "GET OUT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY NOW, OLD MAN POWELL!!!" You are an embarrassment to us. If we're so "right-wing" and "narrow," then switch your party affiliation, Stupid!! True Republicans don't like RINOs...which is what you are. Sarah Palin has 15x the brains you have.

[WashingtonianO7]

There is no way that Colin Powell would agree with a radical extremist liberal/socialist like Barack Hussein Obama, not the Powell I knew. Powell is angry and frustrated. Americans love their country first and above all. They cannot let it down!

And you fucking garbage extremists, keep dreaming...Obama president? That's not gonna happen! You could always go to Cuba via Venezuela and live there and have a taste of your dream country, and tell us what it is like. Fidel will love to have you.

[WashingtonianO7]

Fidel Castro NEVER said he was a socialist/Marxist until he succeeded and took control of the country, and then it was too late to be sorry. Spread the wealth?, economic justice?, the Supreme Court failed to re-distribute the wealth among black people?, Has a wife ashamed of her country?, He is a member of a racist, hate-America church? will negotiate with Hamas and terrorists countries? Obama wants to destroys the system that maintain the "white people" in power. God help and bless America

[WashingtonianO7]

It so sad to see Powell falling so low, a man I admired before, Ronald Reagan strongly thought he could make a great president. Now he has no dignity, loyalty, respect, credibility. He is just angry at the government, because he thinks he was used and betrayed for selling the Iraq WMD idea, but he always had a choice, he was never forced to do it, he agreed to go to the UN and others countries trying to get support to invade Irak. The man to be president, the great General, I am sorry for him.

[TrevorCrown]

It disgusts me that you take a tone of pity for this great man--a man who is still great. How can you possibly say that because his decision goes against the republican party--which I assume is your party, he has lost dignity? Can't you possibly imagine that maybe, just maybe, a man who has served the republican party for decades has better qualifications to evaluate it than you?

[sidvidle]

Thank you for this post! I admired Gen. Powell even more after his resignation. It showed me his integrity and the hard decision he had to make to do so. He put away his pride and was the only one that took responsibility for his mistake! He choose his good conscience/love for his country BEFORE his political career. I don't understand how ppl can disregard his YEARS of service so easily and yes as an insider, he knows a whole lot more than we do...

[OpenComments]

When people are in Scientology, they don't have choices. Sea Org members are unable to leave, because they will be declared a suppressive person if they do. Members who have family critical of Scientology are forced to ex-communicate them, and as a result, one mother has not seen her son in over 30 years. The Church of Scientology is an abusive organization that controls its members, breaks up families, and harasses its critics. This has nothing to do with beliefs.

[bartyfarslar]

The man to be president, the great General, I am sorry for him.

Go fuck yourself Powell is a hero and the pity of a useless loser like you is not something he needs

[starwar200]

great words from a great man, no one has put it like he did.

obama 08

[Aetas3000]

People like Sean Hannity who brought up Ayers in the first place have done more to hurt McCain than anyone on the democratic side.

[sngrmnsthsm]

Thank You General Powell for saying out loud what I have been waiting 4 someone of Your stature to say 4 so long. So what if someone is Muslim, Arab, Asian, Buddhist or whatever. So what is someone is not 100% Caucasian or Christian. There Is Only One Human Race, We Are All Pink On The Inside, We Are One. The divisive hateful nature of the McCain/Palin Campaign must come to an end. United We Stand but divided we fall & ultimately fail.

Sir, I stand & salute You!

Get Out & Barack The VOTE!

[ThePalinPatriot]

@sngrmnsthsm You're obviously not a true American.

[sngrmnsthsm]

@ThePalinPatriot ~Why is it that Corporate Bought and Owned RepliCONS think they have the patent on what's patriotic and what's not? So you think it's patriotic to be a hateful bigoted racist? Well guess what, that's Not OKay anymore. The sooner you realize that there's only one human race the sooner you will find peace, love and much needed balance. Peace and Love. We Are The 99%!!

[ThePalinPatriot]

@sngrmnsthsm Blah. Blah. Blah. Go eat dirt, you commie, socialist liberal.

[sngrmnsthsm]

@ThePalinPatriot How very un-christian of you. Judge not and love thy neighbor remember? WWJD?! The Power of Love Always Wins over hate and fear. Peace, love and balance.

[alienmoonbase]

The Hobamos new favorite neocon, Christopher Hitchens called Powell a "buttkissing climber"

HAHAH!!!

I can't wait for the democrats to take ownership of the world's problems again.

Clinton did it for 8 years and that led directly to 911.

Just sit back and enjoy the show!

[Whatchagonado]

You ARE going to sit back and enjoy the show! The leader of the free world is going to be one of these black people you hate so much. In fact, he will be YOUR LEADER and he will SPEAK FOR YOU.

I hope you can appreciate how funny it is that a bigoted piece of subhuman trash like yourself is going to have to accept an Obama presidency. I would vote for Obama just to see the look on your hideous face.

Just dont flip out and kill people, I know you bigots are all murderous terrorists.

[laleeloolelo]

You said: "Clinton did it for 8 years and that led directly to 911."

In case you don't remember 9/11 happened under Bush administration AFTER he got a report titled: BIN LADIN DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN THE US at least a month BEFORE 9/11.

Oh and whose administration CAUGHT the perpetrators of the first 1993 WTC attack?

Why, the CLINTON ADMINISTRATION of course.

[eveshr6]

I agree with you 100%. Everything that has gone wrong in the Bush Administration has been blamed on Clinton beginnning with 9/11. The lastest being this deregulation and the bailout. The republicans stated it started in the Clinton Admin. Okay he has been out of office 8 years why didn't anyone catch it? Bush has reacted to problems in America after there has been an disaster in every instance. They need to stand up and take at least some blame.

[ThePatriotsMaxims]

I'm glad you didn't use the "n" word this time. I'm getting carpal tunnel deleting your comments.

[bigmo10]

He has done NOTHING to distinguish himself worth noting.

he was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the sec of state. apparently you have done something that is more noteworthy than what he has accomplished, but i didn't get the memo.

what have you done?

[kalliebell]

are you fucking kidding me. Calling blacks racist for voting for Obama is the craziest thing I have ever heard. Majority of blacks are democrats, and are voting Democratic. Are you that fucking simple minded. I could say the same things about whites who are voting for McCain, but I don't because I actually have a brain and simple logic. Fuck off, Obama/Biden 08'

[freedomsfart]

This day after Obama takes the oath of office, Bush swaggers off into the sunset and Cheney returns to his crypt once and for all, there will be street parties around the world.

[archienc]

Now it will be interesting to see how the racists who said they would and could not vote for Obama but would and could vote for Colin Powell or Condi Rice will unmask themselves. Hmmmmm

[bigmo10]

that's what i'm sayin'. you must have been talking to the same people that i've been talking to haha

[Mumineen99]

The republican party breed a seed of hate into the hearts of Americans associating terrorists to a whole religion creating fear to push their agendas just like Hitler did in his regime. It is about time that someone like Colin Powel stand up against his own party and condemn Anti-Muslim smears. I ask the same question as Powel "So what if Obama was a Muslim?" See how republicans made an entire religion so negative that a secretary general like Colin Powel felt the need to condemn the negativity.

[Teratornis]

Wow. My opinion of Colin Powell just went up a whole bunch of notches. What an impressive soliloquy.

[kitchenlattice]

Intellectual vigor and curiosity. Now those are proper values.

Unfortunately, only people who already appreciate those things will listen to a man talking for seven minutes without a laugh track.

[agent9752]

His repudiation of the hate-mongering, and his story of a brave, young, honorable American, Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, was one of the most powerful moments of this conversation. Google his name to see the photo Powell references.

[UlriQ]

An incredibly honest response to the question posed to him. Colin Powell was instrumental in sending america to war BUT I believe that gieven the chance he'd admit that it was a failing on his part and the part of the Bush administration. Now that he's out of the Bush setup, what we see here is a realistic assessment of the current situation. Well done Colin.

He's not back Obama because he's a fellow African American, he's backed him because he's the better of the two candidates-that's all.

[ThePatriotsMaxims]

McCain has immediately countered this endorsement with an endorsement of his own:

TALLAHASSEE, FL -- The McCain-Palin campaign today announced the endorsement of Mexican-American soap opera actress Katie Barberi.

[ashyknuckles1]

Woo woo! The right wingers aren't going to like this.

[gmcjetpilot]

YEP HE ENDORSED OBAMA! Hope he accepts Sec of Defense or State!

Powell screwed up w/ his WMD UN speech, but he wasn't in the inner cabal loop of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rove (Rove unelected political officer making calls, my god).

They miss lead Powell. When he knew the truth, he resigned. May be he was fired for not going along, even better. The man has morals & principles like Obama.

Obama haters stop fearing, especially ones smarter, more educated & patriotic than you and McCain.

[437thx1138]

I thinks he knew it was fishy at the time. Watch Fronline's Bushes war-how they interacted with each other. Entertaining and sad.

[gmcjetpilot]

I think you're right, but I forgive him. I think Powell will never forget, unlike Geedub Bush who has not a care in the world; he really thinks he's "doing a heck of a job" and "mission accomplished".

I know polticicans lie. I know some Americans like to be lied to. But the amount and blant hubris of the obvious lies from the GOP insults everyones intellegence. Palin for example thinks she can pull a Jedi master mind trick, "No, I was cleared of all ethics and abuse of pwr violations". WOW!

[437thx1138]

gmcjetpilot I forgive him too. He was Joint Chief of staff over me in Desert Storm You feel your commanders influence all the way down and it was good.

Believe it or not Cheney was a good Sec Def.

Worst VP ever.

Maybe his option was do it or quit. They were putting on the pressure big! So stay inside and try to steer the ship? But his refusal would have killed it I think.

He's a great American.

[gmcjetpilot]

Good points! Cheney (what ever) 1990 or '91 explained whey they didn't attack/invade Iraq (desert storm). He was 100% right & prophetic! What changed between 1990 & 2003? 9/11? Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. The intel was weak. Much stronger contradictory intel was ignored? WHY?

Oil, thought it would be easy, ignored Cheney's 90's comments, corporations Haliburton, KDR, Blackwater all GOP owned doing GREAT!

CP knows he could have stopped it. I know it eats at him now. God Bless him!

[437thx1138]

He was my first choice for 2000 election. Drank the coolaid in '02. He OWED for that UN testimony. Helped the Neocon agenda by his testimony and silence.

Powell & Blair put them over the hump for the Iraq fiasco, I felt it happening. Blair will never come clean-see his recent statements.

Powell is really a centrist / realist I think. Welcome back General. You earned my respect again.

P.S. Thank you for your service.

[MapleTreeOfKnowledge]

I'm of the mind that he had been used as a pawn by Bush and his cronies. It is clear he is a very intelligent man. Somehow I don't think he would have wanted his name tied to the lies and bull shit that made the case for invading Iraq unless who honestly believed they were true. I think if he was guilty of anything he was guilty of trusting people he thought he COULD trust and they fucked him over. Just my opinion on the matter, anyway...

[sevgimehebbet]

America will be really Great again!!! Thanks Mr. Powell...

[dralavant]

WAY TO GO POWELL! MY RESPECT FOR YOU HAS SHOT UP 60 POINTS!

Finally, one of the Big Guys who aren't afraid to admit that Sarah Palin is not capable.

I'm throwing a huge party if Obama wins! FUCK YEAH!!!

[terotolo]

sounds like someone just stuck their fingers his ears goin' "LA LA LA LA". ...Obama's the future; deal with it!

[HotDogChiliePepper]

one of the best interviews I've ever seen on TV. thank you mr. Powell.

[jakesibley333]

this video literally made me cry, for the greatness of America's spirit.

[18844881]

ya the part that he mentioned about the muslim solder who died in Iraq moved me too for his honesty and integrity (even though i do not care about islam or any other religion, i think they are attacked unfairly)

[gmcjetpilot]

You to, damn! Makes you proud.

[GOPisTheHypocrisy]

Colin Powell for President 2016!!!!!

[JRodB]

I...don't think he's up for that man.

=/

Nice try though.

[JRodB]

Even though I'd definitely vote for him.

[simonack65]

Thanks for the really quick post. We appreciate it and all your videos too.

[persecutest]

Wake up america!

[tarheel8494]

We're awake. Powell is simply human enough to channel it. Remember, it's we the people.

[tarheel8494]

Thanks for posting this. I watched it on TV this morning. You could feel it was one of the great moments in the country's history. He summed up so many things so thoroughly, eloquently and thoughtfully...things that had to be said in this way.

[JRodB]

Exactly.