Colin Powell slams "polarizing" Palin
In an interview that will air this Sunday with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, General Colin Powell sounds off on Sarah Palin and her assertion that "small town values" are somehow better than values gleaned from elsewhere. In Powell's case, the South Bronx.
FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN ANCHOR: What do you think is going to happen to the Republican Party? You sounded concerned then, and you always have been concerned about certain aspects of your party. Do you think it's moving in the right direction?
POWELL: We don't know yet. I don't know yet.
I think that in the latter months of the campaign, the party moved further to the right. Governor Palin, to some extent, pushed the party more to the right. And I think she had something of a polarizing effect when she talked about small-town values are good.
Well, most of us don't live in small towns. And I was raised in the South Bronx, and there's nothing wrong with my value system from the South Bronx.
Republicans like to run around complaining about "elitism" and how liberals somehow look down on other non-liberals. Yet, for the majority of the campaign, Sarah Palin hit the stump time after time essentially flipping off large swaths of the country, in some cases even labeling them un-American. Republican hypocrisy is nothing new, of course, but it's pretty interesting how the "elitism" narrative only cuts one way. The GOP noise machine sure has done a good job of advancing these false narratives.
Mines from the suburbs of Dallas Texas
There's gotta be a hellofalot wrong with that.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Please, please DOG let Palin remain. She is the gift that keeps on giving!
Let's just hope her daughter's marriage can last until then.
What marriage?
The Repugs have alienated latins, blacks, non-Christians, the educated folks outside of wall street, gays, northerners, pacific west coasters, northern Virginians, and anyone that don't have a gun rack on their mantle. They are now a fringe party praise Jebus!
Made her comment about Northern Virginia, I was extremely pissed off (Full disclosure, I spent the better part of my life in Northern Virginia). She apparently didn't realize how many people live or have lived in Northern VA. The funny thing is that there are a lot of service men and women who live in Northern Virginia. But, I guess those people are evil as well since they live in Northern VA.
According to Palin, I'm doubly horrible since I've lived in Northern VA and currently live in California.
At anyone who wasn't white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant. As Gov. Powell points out, such folk will soon be in the minority. Yet they have not learned to get along with people who are different from themselves. Liberals have, and that's why liberalism is making a resurgence. Thanks, Gen. Powell, for speaking truth to power. I just wish you would have when you were Secretary of State ...
for all you've done for your country.
From the Americal Division in I Corps to the U.N., you have served your masters well.
You can go back in your hole now.
P.S., I do agree with you about Palin.
Colin Powell understands that conservatives must listen to others and not just preach dogma to them. Repigs are committing suicide by being the white only party as they become a minority. This is why Dems should be in power for a very long time to come.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
20 to Life.
It works for me.
A rope dance for Cheney then?
I will bring the popcorn and booze.
There are few who are more deserving.
Praise Turkey Lady!
Live in St Louis MO, the blue collar and diverse south side.\
Grew up in Farmington MO. Small town Farmington MO. Home of the last official lynching in MO. Home of racism, sexism, the Bible and lead mining. 15 miles from Potosi MO, world capital on incest and sexual misconduct with minors.
Small town values.
...and you probably have more fingers than they have teeth due to their crystal meth addiction. Yeah, small town values.
is the meth capitol of the country. Another of sign of Palin's leadership up there.
Isn't the city she was mayor of some kind of rape capital of Alaska?
Where you used to have to pay for your rape kit.
Yeah, this is the kind of "slam" Colin the Wishy Washy is well known for. It's the kind of no holds barred criticism that would make it a simple matter for Powell to appear with Palin in 2010 campaigning for Republican candidates. I'll bet Colin and Harry Reid would be great friends.
I swear Republicans look in the mirror and whatever they see staring back at them, that's what they accuse liberals of being. How the party of the wealthy and powerful get away with calling the other side "elite" and not get laughed out of the room is beyond me. Down is the new up.
Colin "Uncle Thomas" Powell kissed BushCo's ass.
How well do you sleep at night, knowing your grandstand lies have led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people?
for his role in the Iraq fiasco, but over the last few months, he's redeeming himself big time! He's so right about a lot of things and taking on Barack Obama's view that we Americans should be inclusive rather than be exclusive is so right on. That said, I still am having a hard time accepting neocons at this point. Sorry for my hypocrisy but this is so deep seeded that it's going to take years to get over what they've done to our country over the last 8 years!
Not even close.
Millions are dead, wounded, maimed for life because of his little jig before the UNSC. As my friend over at The Field Negro would say, Powell; nothing but House Negro behavior.
Powell is as guilty as Rice, Cheney, Rummy and Wolfie.
Swing baby, swing.
I'm of the belief that if Powell hadn't done what he did, George Bush & Dick Cheney would have still found a way to start an illegal occupation/genocide.
Powell seems to understand today what his actions long ago has caused. George Bush hasn't and never will.
It isn't enough and it never will be.
He sold his soul along with any credibility or morals or ethics or pride he once had.
I would welcome that stark contrast between the America that Palin/Limbaugh want to impose, and what Americans desire for themselves and their families. The error that Palin/Limbaugh continually make, because they just don't get it, is that blaming someone as unpatriotic because they propose liberal ideas, is not going to resonate with a patriotic American, who is concerned about their health care costs, and the education of their children.
Palin/Limbaugh would treat medical care as a "commodity", if you can't afford it, the hell with you.
ALEJCARO
Could have used this clip say about 2 or 3 months ago. Colin Powell's interviews have started to be reminiscent of the scene in The Wedding Singer where Robby's ex-fiance is telling him all these reasons why she doesn't want to marry him after she stood him up at the alter the day before. I kinda just want to shout, "Once again, things that could've been brought to my attention yesterday!"
I understand why people want to keep Palin around, but, personally, she can just go to the seventh level of hell. I'm sure there's a special place for her and her ilk.
colin feels that at this point he has enough of a platform given his former stature as a statesman, along with the fact that he is Black and there will be a following strictly based on his ethnicity, he feels that he still wields enough clout to call out sarah palin. What he absolutely doesn't understand is the power this woman draws. She controls middle america, All she has to do to illustrate that is spin another joe the plummer story or utter a "you betcha." She is aware that her star will dim to nothing by the time of the next presidential election unless she keeps it glowing. Colin Powell is basically a man without a party. The Repubs do not want him back and though the dems would welcome him into the fold with open arms, colin himself is not sure of his course of action. take care colin, you're on thin ice and your power base will not support you.
Powell and the people who live in the places like where he is from do not think like real American people like Sarah Palin.
is about as "real American," as American cheese. Her shopping trips
to Neiman and Saks showed just how real American she is. She's an
offensive, hypocritical joke of what some people think real American's look, act and think like.
Probably most prevalent in the public mind is the "Great Man" theory where individuals of exceptional capability initiate the turning points of history. Never been a fan of it. What we are seeing here is the alternative. Our once popular and high-ranking general is smelling the public sentiment and getting on the bandwagon for a ride.
awwww how cute, Colon Powell found a spine when the GOP is out of office and he doesn't have to worry about being scapegoated anymore.
what a real american. Way to stand up when the party is all but in shambles. True leadership from a General...vomit
how intelligent people continue to say such ridiculous things without blinking is beyond me... the shift in demographics simply proves the idiocy of referring to a person as "a minority" as if it is the same as referring to them as a greek-american. minority and majority are relational terms that can shift at a given moment (just ask the gop); but no matter what you do, you can't stop genetically or historically being a person of greek ancestry who was raised in america. for an african american to refer to himself and others as "a minority" is just ludicrous, and the insanity of it is on full display here. this is more than semantics; this is about psychological damage.
Something is wrong with Powell's value system.
The left is inclined to give him a pass since he backed Obama.
But we all know that he lied to all of us from the podium of the United Nations.
He is trying to resurrect himself from his well deserved fall from grace.
And he thinks that going after Palin will help his cause.
Pure smoke.
Sarah Palin is a piss-ant nobody who's days are numbered.
You know what was truely polarizing? Colin Powell standing in front of the world ,and lying us into a war!
I wish he would just fuck off already.
Whi isn't that god damned fuckiung traitor in prison?!
They have alienated conservatives like myself. Im as far right as you can get on alot of issues..but catch heat for being Left on abortion and gay rights.
The government sucks. To see intelligent people wanting a larger government makes me shake my head in disgust. It was Einstien that said insanity was repeating the same action and expecting a different outcome.
It doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out Palin was a disaster. I thought Romney would be McCains pick for bowing out early and not making a stink after spending $20M of his own money. Its pretty ironic.. ida voted for a black guy all right. Powell. Not one that wants to spread the wealth around. Wasnt it Democrats that stalled the civil rights movement? Wasnt MLK a Republican?
Who cares.. The fact is the GOP has an uphill battle ahead of them. They alienated to many faces this election cycle.
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