Colin Powell....closet democrat...no surprise there...nm

• Colon Powell endorses Barak Obama. nm - oldtimer
  • Come to think of it, Colin Powell might be the - October surprise. nm
    • Come to think of it........s/m - gourdpainter
      • I think it is way too late now to make a change...sm - oldtimer
        • Agreed 100%. If McCain can't take charge of his own campaign - how can he be trusted to lead country? nm
        • I agree - gourdpainter
          • By that same logic, Obama is also a puppet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - nm
            • Did you even read what I said? - gourdpainter
              • oops...sorry, musta had a brain freeze.....sorry....:-) - nm
              • Oh lighten up....they're all puppets, we know that.....nm - nm
                • IMHO Colin Powell isn't a puppet. - gourdpainter
          • CP says that he thinks Obama has the potential...sm - oldtimer
            • Yep, McCain has potential to be a good president too....sm - sm
              • If John McCain had stuck to his guns and been...sm - geek
  • Colin Powell....closet democrat...no surprise there...nm - nm
    • Actually, in talking with my husband about this today...sm - ms
    • Yeah, he turned....gone over to the dark side...nm - .
      • Possibly s/m - gourdpainter
        • If McCain had chosen Powell for VP...sm - oldtimer
          • He's already turned it down once - Dee
          • What makes you think Colin Powell would want to be on the McCain ticket? - Educated Voter
            • Not a right wing wacko, just supposing what...sm - oldtimer
              • You are definitely not a right-wing wacko, oldtimer! - Educated Voter
          • If he had chosen Powell... - sam
            • Ain't that the truth! (Sam, great to see you back!) - nm
          • He would have been a GREAT choice but - sm
            • Wrong! Their may have been some people that...sm - oldtimer
              • Sorry, OT, but I must disagree - sm
                • I can only tell you what my feelings were this morning...sm - oldtimer
                  • I felt his pain. - gourdpainter
                    • So, in the same respect, - sm
                      • Must be not. Double standard applies. Crickets. - nm
          • Had he done so I would have voted for him most likely - gourdpainter
            • At one time I would have too, when McCain was...sm - oldtimer
              • I think one of his messages was GOP needs to - moderate itself back toward center next time. nm
          • You got that right. Colon Powell could have - REALLY rocked the vote. Missed opportunity. nm
            • Pretty much shows - gourdpainter
      • We knew it wouldn't take long for McC camp racism - to rear it's ugly head. So 1950s of you...sm
        • It was a Star Wars reference......you're the one that injected racism. nm - No I didn't
          • I knew what you meant as well. - sm
          • I knew what you meant...you notice which side plays the race card....nm - fastymt
            • Thanks...glad you could see it for what it was. Star Wars, pure and simple...nm - nm
              • Choir member reassuring each other that their campaign - is not the least bit racist not that convincing.
                • Choir member....what an interesting choice of words. - sm
          • Like ribs, fried chicken and watermelon - aren't racist stereotypes?...sm
            • could you please - gourdpainter
              • Hay, GP. Don't forget the conebread. - nm
                • SNL fan? conehead/cornbread? HaHa. nm - oldtimer
                  • I understand "conebread". LOL - gourdpainter
                • Goshdangit!!! - gourdpainter
            • Once again....you are the one that saw something that wasn't there. - Not my fault you're acting racist.
              • Like phoney food stamp flyers covered with racial stereotypes, - robocalls, Johnstown PA McC rally,...sm
              • You say what you say. I hear what I hear. Must have been - blinded by all the racism that has been...sm
              • Isn't it strange how you can make fun all you want - fastymt
                • Show me one thing on our laundry list that has - proved to be fatal. Racism kills folks...sm
                  • Liberal softies and whiners are the downfall of this country...nm - fastymt
                    • Yeah. We'll be falling right into the leadership shortly - by popular mandate. Democracy in action. nm
                      • Practice your lockstep and iron your brown shirt... - fastymt
                        • Rubs already hold copyright on lockstep. - Bet my 401K against yours you ar mistaken. sm
                          • Oh, how I love to rile you guys up! Thanks for making my day... - fastymt
                            • The only thing you know how to rile up is each other. - You send the rest of us into...sm
                    • Oh PULEEZ n/m - gourdpainter
    • Yeah right. Served under Reagan, Bush I and Bush II - Considers himself a pub. Nice ry. nm
      • You do understand the term, "closet" democrat, don't you???nm - nice ry yourself
        • What part of "I am republican first and foremost" (Colin Powell) - Do you not understand? nm
          • Ok, how about he was a "closet Obama supporter" until now..IMHO...nm - Is that better?
            • Or how about - gourdpainter
  • Repubublican, former National Security Advisor, - Chairman of Joint Chief of Staff and...sm
  • Colin, not Colon...you must be an MT! Thanks for the laugh..nm! - phillygal
    • Too funny! Yes, I am an MT. nm - oldtimer

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It is easy to see that he is heart-sick that his years of service to our nation were in vain because he was pressured into making those untrue statements to Congress.  It is big, sick, industrial machine ruining lives everywhere it plants its massive cloven hoof.

Where did I ever say I don't post under other monikers?  

Taiga is the name I have used on the Medquist board for just about as long as this board has been in existence.  I had always thought it wise to keep a political persona separate from a work persona but with all these accusations of fraud and "untruthfulness" I will no longer be using Teddy and will stick to Taiga from now on with any posting I do on the MTStars board. 

Actually my original moniker on the political board, going back several years, even back to when both libs and cons were put together under one grouping was "Observer."  When you began posting as "Observer" I switched to Teddy for obvious reasons.  So in the end, there really are more than one of us elitist, snobbish jerks out there!!

You know, the same could be said about religion --- which is just another "choice."  As in keep your sermons to yourself.  Maybe I don't want my children exposed to fanatics who believe in a nonexistent being, but you guys just keep on preaching.  The ironic thing about your post is that religion itself is a choice.  It is a choice to believe.  So, you think everyone else should abide by what you choose to believe -- as opposed to how they choose to live.  Quite a double standard you have there. 

I am not enthralled with her as well.  I see her as someone who straddles both sides of the fence, or as you aptly put it, a closet Republican. I had a high opinion of her, but it seemed to me that when Bush's popularity was at an all time high she bent with the wind to include her vote on Iraq. Iraq had been so closely monitored for so many years and under such scrutity there was no way Iraq had any undetected weapons of mass destruction.  That woman was in the White House for 8 years and had to know that was not the case, yet she went right along with it as it was the politically popular thing to do at the time.  I lost my respect for her after that. The exciting thing is that there are so many candidates out there now. I also like Chris Dodd, but I don't think he has too much of a chance. Anyway the debates will be coming and the voters will have a good variety of candidates to listen to and field out.

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He was never anything but a Dem in my book.  Notice that it was that nasty, ole' George Bush who was the first prez to put a black into such a high level in his cabinet.  And also Condi Rice...  But Bush is way too lib for me, anyway.  But he's right on things I consider important.

I find it amazing that the Dems will defend their party no matter what the scandal, but the Republicans don't.  Rmemeber Mark Foley?  Gone!  His replacement:  3rd mistress, I believe?  How about Ted Stevens?  He needs to GO, and is Republican.  Clinton cheating on Hillary all the time?  I wouldn't condone that from any of them. 

That's my point, and it's the truth.  The politicians work for US, remember?

I thought the show was wonderful and illustrated very clearly how bits and pieces of intelligence were selected and manipulated and turned into something they weren't.  (They referred to it as a "Chinese menu" that the administration used to pick and choose from.)

I taped this show and watched it a couple times.  As far as Powell is concerned, it did show how Powell's relationship with George Tenet began to disintegrate.

It further showed how Tenet was, at Bush's father's urging, kept as CIA director when Dubya took office, and all the events leading to his resignation.  He was one of Dubya's sacrifical lambs.  I guess Bush thought giving him the Medal of Freedom made up for that.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Powell's chief of staff, said that Powell told him, "I wonder how we'll all feel if we put half a million troops into Iraq and march from one corner of the country to the other and find nothing."

Powell said, "I will forever be known as the one who made the case. I have to live with that."  (That made me feel really bad for Powell, who I have always trusted and considered to be an honest, ethical man.  His association with Bush really dragged him down, and his statement about having to live with that just tells me that he's still an honest, ethical man, the kind of man who had a spectacular military career, actually had the guts to go fight in wars himself, someone who truly IS Presidential material, someone who doesn't belong in an underhanded, lying, foolish administration like Bush's.)

The show also pointed out how if you are someone who works for this president and you discover something not right or in alignment with his "plans," if you tell him, you'd better be prepared to resign or be fired. 

This show clearly illustrated how Bush wanted to go to war with Iraq, and all he needed was a reason, even if he had to invent a fictional one.

Again, I thought it was an excellent show, and if you ever have the opportunity to watch it or obtain a transcript of it, I would highly recommend it.

Two Democrats today commented on leftists like you and several others on this board.  I sure do agree with them.

Mike Kinsley, lifelong Democrat, on Pelosi’s pathetic platform:

For national security in general, the Democrats’ plan is so according-to-type that you cringe with embarrassment: It’s mostly about new cash benefits for veterans. Regarding Iraq specifically, the Democrats’ plan has two parts. First, they want Iraqis to “assum[e] primary responsibility for securing and governing their country.” Then they want “responsible redeployment” (great euphemism) of American forces.

Older readers may recognize this formula. It’s Vietnamization—the Nixon-Kissinger plan for extracting us from a previous mistake. But Vietnamization was not a plan for victory. It was a plan for what was called “peace with honor” and is now known as “defeat.”

Maybe “A New Direction for America” is just a campaign document—although it seems to have had no effect at all on the campaign. My fear is that the House Democrats may try to use it as a basis for governing.

Orson Scott Card, lifelong Democrat, on the only issue that matters in this election:

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America’s role as a light among nations.

But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it — and in the most damaging possible way — I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages.

To all intents and purposes, when the Democratic Party jettisoned Joseph Lieberman over the issue of his support of this war, they kicked me out as well. The party of Harry Truman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan — the party I joined back in the 1970s — is dead. Of suicide.

With all that lynch mob mentality going on, people are waking up to the real deal.  Even a lot of very prominent pubs are turning away, advising JM to dump that noose around his neck because she is dragging him down.  After all, he did create the monster.  I say, what goes around . . .