Paul Jenkins: The GOP's White Supremacy
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Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama
Colin Powell on Meet the Press, October 19, 2008
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Paul Jenkins: The GOP's White Supremacy
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When a 19 year-old white supremacist recently gained a seat on the Palm Beach County Republican Executive Committee, the election created such an outcry that...
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Early Morning Swim: Wingnuts Spin The Powell Endorsement Edition
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First Rush Limbaugh ... ...and George Will . Then Pat Buchanan . Post debate battlegrounds: Obama up in all of them . Palin: Obama's crowds are worse ! Progressive taxation = socialism; national the banks = not socialism . $150M . McSame says that means it must be dirty money . I thought the liberal media made up the ugly shouts . Obama in FL ; McSame in MO ; Palin in CO & NV
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Powell Outside The Studio
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In some ways, more devastating. And a swipe at Bachmann's McCarthyism:
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He Sees It Too
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I spent most of this weekend at a family celebration. So it was only this evening that I got a chance to see Colin Powell's statement at the beginning of Meet the Press this morning, which you can see here...
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Powell says crazy Michelle Bachman helped him decide to endorse Obama
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Q: Sir, what role did McCain's negativity play in your decision? POWELL: It troubled me. You know, we have two wars. We have economic problems. We have health problems. We have education problems. We have infrastructure problems. We have problems around the world with our allies. And so those are the problems the American people wanted to hear about, not about Mr. Ayers, not about who is a Muslim and...
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The Powell Endorsement
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For those of you who missed it: The funny thing is that I know that my old friends who I think have gone completely insane (and they think I have gone around the bend, as well) would, in years past, have been really moved by Powell’s statements. Today, I am reasonably sure they will simply [...]
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Ken Blackwell defends Saltsman's Barack the Magic Negro CD
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The former Ohio vote bag man Secretary of State and contender for the head of the RNC, Ken Blackwell , had this to say about the holiday CD sent to committee members by fellow candidate for the job, Chip Saltsman: "Unfortunately, there is hypersensitivity in the press regarding matters of race. This is in large measure due to President-Elect Obama being the first African-American elected president,"...
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Political Bravery in Ex-Generals
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A toast, in Lu Mountain--Lu Shan--"Clouds and Mist" tea to political bravery in ex-generals: Communist Chinese General Peng Dehuai's forces inflicted the most severe defeat on the American army at least since James Longstreet's corps's attack at Chickamague. Less than a decade later General Peng stood up at the Lushan Plenum of the Communist Party of China and denounced Mao's Great Leap Forward as...
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"I Am Really Sorry You Went There"
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On Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama, Pat Buchanan goes there . And if Obama--who has always insisted that his campaign isn't about race--wins, what do bet Buchanan and company will be on television claiming Obama brought up the race issue to get elected? In case you haven't seen it yet, check out this interview with Powell after he appeared on Meet the Press . He shreds McCain's campaign...
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Lynn Sweet asks Colin Powell about the negative tone of the McCain campaign. Video
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The Powell Endorsement: The Video
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In case you missed it, here’s the video of General Powell endorsing Barack Obama this morning: Of even more interest, though, is what he had to say outside the NBC Studios: Mr. Powell also told reporters on Sunday that he was troubled that a number of Americans believe that Mr. Obama is a Muslim, although he did [...]
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Minnesota House Race Tightens — In Minutes
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Brad Haynes reports on congressional races. Rep. Michelle Bachmann s call for an investigation of anti-American views among her colleagues helped fuel a fund-raising bonanza for her opponent and is now throwing her re-election into question. In a Friday interview on MSNBC, the Minnesota congresswoman said Sen. Barack Obama s associations with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers absolutely raised...
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One of the most liberal and reasoned statement ever
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Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama today, in full, is one of the most liberal and reasoned statements, and could have historical significance. It's therefore fitting that I turn the 300th posting on this blog over to him. LibDig This!
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RIP Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, Fan of the Dallas Cowboys
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Filed under: Cowboys During his much-discussed appearance today on Meet the Press , Colin Powell gave a moving account of a 20-year-old American who was killed in Iraq: Powell's words -- and my own thoughts on why this is relevant to a sports web site -- are below. Powell said this : It was a photo essay about troops who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. And one picture at the tail end of this...
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USASERVICE.org
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WASHINGTON -- Retired Gen. Colin Powell , in conjunction with the presidential inaugural committee, today unveiled a program -- dubbed "Renew America Together" -- to spark a national wave of community service. The initiative and new Web site -- usaservice.org -- will allow citizens to use online tools similar to those that Barack Obama 's team crafted and employed with such success during the campaign....