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Subscribe to RSSColin Powell endorsed President Obama on CBS. "I plan to stick with him in 2012,” he said. "I signed on for a long patrol with President Obama, and I don't think this is the time to make such a sudden change." Citing foreign policy, Powell said Obama’s has been “very, very solid” on terrorism and warned that there are "very strong neoconservative views that are presented" from Romney and his campaign. He also called Romney’s foreign policy "a moving target." He said, "Sol I am not quite sure which Gov. Romney we would be getting with respect to foreign policy.”
He added, "I'm a Republican of a more moderate mold" and called himself a "dying breed." And: "Let's not forget that Congress bears a lot of responsibility for many of the problems we have now,” but Obama needs to show "greater presidential leadership.” He also said Romney didn’t ask for his endorsement.
Obama was on Leno last night and raised the specter of Supreme Court appointments as it relates to Richard Mourdock and the choice in the election. “I don't know how these guys come up with these ideas. Let me make a very simple proposition. …. Rape is rape. It is a crime. And so, these various distinctions about rape and, you know -- don't make too much sense to me. Don't make any sense to me.
“The second thing this underscores, though, this is exactly why you don't want a bunch of politicians -- mostly male -- making decisions about women's health care decisions. I -- women are capable of making these decisions in consultation with their partners, with their doctors. And, you know, for politicians to want to intrude in this stuff, often times without any information, is a huge problem. And this is obviously a part of what's at stake in this election. You've got a Supreme Court that -- you know, typically a president is going to have probably another couple of appointments during the course of his term. And, you know, Roe vs. Wade is probably hanging in the balance.”
AP: “Seeking to shore up his support among women voters, President Barack Obama on Thursday hammered Republican rival Mitt Romney anew over his backing of Richard Mourdock, the Indiana Senate candidate drawing fire for saying that pregnancies that result from rape are ‘something God intended.’”
More: “ ‘Unlike some other leaders in the Republican Party, like John McCain, Mitt Romney hasn’t questioned his endorsement of Richard Mourdock or ever once stood up to the most extreme elements of his own party. Instead, he tapes ads for them,’ Obama’s campaign says in an online video. His aides haven’t ruled out the possibility of using a similar message in TV ads in battleground states in the coming days as the president looks to break open a race national polls show is close. While a Romney campaign aide has said he disagreed with Mourdock’s remark, the Republican presidential nominee is standing by Mourdock and hasn’t asked the Indiana state treasurer to take down a TV ad Romney filmed for him earlier this week.”
Obama also mocked Donald Trump, who yesterday promised to donate $5 million to a charity of Obama’s choice if he’d release his college transcripts and passport applications, leading the charge once again on conspiracy theories about the 44th president of the United States, who he somehow implies is illegitimate. Obama on Leno: "This all dates back to when we were growing up together in Kenya. We had constant run-ins on the soccer field." Obama added to laughter. "He wasn't very good and resented it. ... When we finally moved to America I thought it would be over."
Bill Clinton’s in another ad for Obama. Here’s the script: Clinton: "The stuff some folks are saying about President Obama sound kind of familiar. The same people said my ideas destroyed jobs—they called me every name in the book. Well we created 22 million new jobs and turned deficits into surpluses. President Obama's got it right. We should invest in the middle class, education and innovation. And pay down our debt with spending restraint and asking the wealthy to pay a little more. Sound familiar?"
Clinton will be on the trail with Obama at rallies Monday in, where else, Florida, Ohio, and Virginia.
Michelle Obama will do a fundraiser in Boston Tuesday for her husband’s campaign.
And the campaign has an ad called “537” aimed at those registered voters who are for him but aren’t getting into the likely voter models. Here’s the script: "Five hundred and thirty seven. The number of votes that changed the course of American history.” From a newscast: "Florida is too close to call.” Announcer: "The difference between what was..." [Picture of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney] "And what could have been.... So this year, if you're thinking that your vote doesn't count. That it won't matter. Well, back then, there were probably at least 537 people, who felt the same way. Make your voice heard. Vote."
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Gen. Powell, you are a man of honor and integrity who was thrown under the bus by the previous administration for their own benefit. You were used as a scapegoat after being lied to and deliberately provided with false info. You were deliberately abused by your boss and your party.
I'd vote for you in 2016. Please consider it.
So, do you think it is resentment that is causing him to endorse Obama? Or race?
No, it is neither of those things.
It is an astute observation of demonstrable fact by General Powell.
Rape is Rape. Thanks General.
Neither, Rosalita. He laid out his reasons VERY clearly. He is honorable unlike a lot of other folks.
I'll bet Powell didn't really want to endorse Obama .
I watched Colin Powell endorse President Obama's re-election on CBS this morning. Charlie Rose kept questioning Powell on his decision and throwing hardball questions at him (what liberal media?) I loved it when the General snapped "what's YOUR party affiliation, Charlie?" Charlie Rose looked taken aback, and muttered "I'm Independent."
I wish more leaders would push back against the broadcast media. I see examples of media bias every day on TV and I'd love to see more people like Gen. Powell pull the "journalists" up short.
Ontor, given the fact General Powell has enough presence of mind to have risen to the rank of a four star general over his lifetime, including having seen combat action in Vietnam as a Captain on patrol in a Viet Cong held area... I would deign to imagine anyone is forcing him to take a position he isn't convinced of.
Just because he is a quiet, reflective man, it doesn't mean he is a push over. He reserved judgment in July, preferring to study Mitt Romney and President Obama. He has given clear reasons why he has reservations about Mitt Romney. And in that, I think he is being conservative. There are many more reasons to be concerned about Romney that a lot of people are voicing.
When he said, "I'm a Republican of a more moderate mold" and called himself a "dying breed.", he was alluding to the fact that the Republican party is not what it used to be.
Anyone who thinks it is must be young and not have seen the radical changes over the last twenty years, or they are so blindly loyal they refuse to accept the influence of neo cons on the traditional party ways.
There is a terrible, dangerous element afoot in the Republican party. I suggest you research this before you totally commit to voting for Romney, if that is your intent.
I read an article recently in Rolling Stone Magazine about Romney that made my blood run cold. It is called "Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital". If you google that you can find it. In my estimation, he is not dumb. Nor is he principled. And he is one of the most frightening people I have seen come to the forefront in a long time.
Profile of the Sociopath
This website summarizes some of the common features of
descriptions of the behavior of sociopaths.
Glibness and Superficial Charm Romney comes across as well spoken and glib when he talks
Manipulative and Conning Romney says whatever he needs to say to get what he wants
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors
as permissible They appear to be
charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as
merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their
victims. . In preppy school Romney
cut the hair of a boy whose hairdo he didn’t approve of.
Grandiose Sense of Self Willard Mitt Romney wants to be POTUS , says he is going to wreak havoc
on day one, his entire administration will take place in 24 hours. The rest of
the time he doesn’t say what he will do. Probably he’ll follow the orders of
Grover Norquist.
Feels entitled to certain things as "their right." Both Mitt and his wife Anne have stated it
is Mitt’s turn to be POTUS.
Pathological Lying Has no problem lying coolly and
easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent
basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own
powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector
tests. Romney does this with no
guilt or with the usual tells that one picks up when another lies.
Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
Boy in preppy school and Seamus the dog on the roof of the car
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does
not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities.
Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims.
The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their
way.
Shallow Emotions Perfect as vulture capitalist. No empathy for those whose lives he
impacted negatively forever.
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more
feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by
insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a
normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
Incapacity for Love Romney visits people in hospitals and of course appears to love his
family. But does he really?
Need for Stimulation Living on the edge. Verbal
outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Promiscuity and gambling are
common. Probably the least of the
sociopathic traits for Mitt.
Callousness/Lack of Empathy Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only
contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of
them. Bain Capital
Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature. Rage and abuse, alternating with
small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser
and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are
all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal
boundaries, no concern for their impact on others. Preppy school and dog on roof
Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency Usually
has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet "gets by"
by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors
such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc. One of the lesser sociopathic traits of Mitt but probably because daddy
could give him whatever he wanted.
Irresponsibility/Unreliability
Flip Flop, Flip Flop of Romney on nearly
every issue.
Given the chance:
1) Mitt Romney says he will sign a bill that will end Roe v Wade.
2) He will "get rid of that" Planned Parenthood.
3) He will "Kill" Obamacare on day one.
4) Romney would voucherize Medicare and cut Medicaid by a third.
5) Romney would not provide universal coverage for pre-existing conditions (Campaign admitted it.)
So no abortions. No healthcare for mothers/newborns/infants/children. No coverage for pre-existing conditions.
WE REMEMBER when GOP held unemployment benefits hostage twice - once at Christmas 2010. WE REMEMBER GOP voted against TWO million jobs in the American Jobs Act 3 times.
The future of jobs/U.B. under a Romney/Ryan?
Paul Ryan gave a speech about Poverty yesterday: His budget is so hard on the middle class, working poor, children and disabled - that Catholic priests, and Nuns On The Bus have been hounding him about its cruelty and out-of-touchness. FACT - RyanRomney/GOP bag constantly about food stamps.
SO WHAT IS LEFT? Where will you turn when you have one more mouth to feed, yet safety nets are denied you? And you are reviled as a 47%-er (for Ryan, a 30%-er) who is just a dependent moocher, looking for a handout.
FALLOUT: The Romney/Ryan/AynRand policies will dramatically increase poverty. We'll create less revenue and create more deficit. The cost of health care will skyrocket. More folks will use Emergency care (Romney recommends it). Infant mortality will rise. As a nation, our health will tank. We'll be less competitive economically.
What's hard to understand? RomneyRyan want to give more tax breaks to the 0.01%. And increase the deficit - while rendering the rest of us helpless. RomneyRyan: Recipe for disaster.
Backhouse, when you have no more money you quit making mouths to feed and expecting the government to be your safety net.
Are you proposing abortions for the poor, Rosalita? I thought Republicans were against that.
PRO-LIFE = no birth control, no pills, no in-vitro, etc.
Romney and Ryan are Pro-life.
According to Ryan, rape is another method of conception.
Without birth control, no health care (Romney will end Obamacare AND Planned Parenthood), no safety nets and no abortion - what do you recommend for folks who cannot manage one more mouth to feed?
(On rape: There are 1.3 million rapes every year. 80,000 of those rapes end in pregnancy.)
CR -- no, i doubt you assertion but i do remember this administration, biden, endorsing china's barbaric approach to births? maybe joe is thinking in a second term there will be more flexibility allowing this approach in America.
our eloquent vp said: "Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I’m not second-guessing — of one child per family. The result being that you’re in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people. Not sustainable." his only concern was financial.
The kind of lie you are telling is heinous.
RomneyRyan are telling hundreds of lies on tape, every day. Because they don't care about you - just the 1% who are waiting for their $5 Trillion tax cut and their Bush tax cut extension. You having/not having healthcare, you being able to feed your kids means very little if anything, to them. As long as you work for them for as little as possible and don't complain.
Joe Biden and the President are good men. This President risked his presidency to do what no president was able to do for 100 years - health care reform.
Other developed countries have had universal health care for decades. England has had it since World War II. Taking care of each other is just everyday reality for those citizens. They are happy that EVERYONE is taken care of. They get it, that we are all in this together.
We are not alive today, to take care of the wealthiest income earners in the world - a tiny group of 400 families at the top of the income tree.
back -- i guess the kool-aid was freshly made this morning.
And it will all happen on DAY ONE just like a score of other things. Imagine an inauguration in the morning and his day of DAY ONE things and then the celebrations in the evening. From then on, nothing (except what he is told to do by Grover Norquist and the Koch brothers).
I get it. You do not process factual information.
Sincerely sorry that you have let that happen.
On President Obama's Inauguration day, January 2009:
FIFTEEN senior GOP leaders met, and conspired to block every effort made by the President to recover from a second Great Depression.
And they have. They blocked every single Jobs Bill - including the Veterans Jobs Bill a few weeks ago.
Despite their pledge to block American recovery, we are in far better shape than Europe. Under this President, 5.2 jobs were created in the last 31 months, and half a million manufacturing jobs. Auto is back and how. Housing is up.
By contrast, following a mild recession, GWB created only 1.1 million jobs over 37 months.
THE FACTS are against FAUX. Take your blindfold off.
BTW, This Administration did NOT create the catastrophic economic meltdown, that started under GWB.
This President - with ZERO help from GOP - is pulling us out of it.
This President has laid a firm foundation for recovery going FORWARD.
We're NOT going back to the Romney/Bush policies, that put us down a giant fiscal hole in the first place.
Donald Trump and Joe Biden, now appearing as Insane Clown Posse. One of them is a heartbeat from the Oval Office and the other still fantasizes about being there...but they are both Clowns!
He is voting color and out of resentment for the Administration he worked for.
Voting color? what an insulting comment. General Powell is an honorable, principled moderate, who realizes his party has been hijacked by far right extremists that put their radical agenda above country.
For you to disparage Powell's endorsement as racial is slanderous.
And why would he have resentment for the Bush Administration? Oh yeah, because they had him go in front of the UN and make a fool out of himself to justify war with Iraq? At least the man has integrity, which most in the Republican party don't have these days, or in recent memory, if we go back to Nixon and Bush II.
Let's face it: 90% of the country is voting color, whichever side they are on.
i don't think he is voting for obama because of race -- after all obama is only half-black -- but i would question why he is not concerned with the treatment African Americans have received from this administration. unemployment has gotten much worse for African Americans under obama's "leadership"; median income losses among the African Americans has also nosedived faster.
why powell and more than 90% of African Americans will vote for obama again makes no sense
I guess you people put this 72 year old white dude in the 10% that's voting for the best man for our President. Race doesn't have a thing will my vote.
President Obama--2012
Rosalita803 - General Powell has clearly stated his reasons for not trusting Mitt Romney. His endorsement for Obama has been well thought out. You might want to read the biography of Colin Powell on Wikipedia before you make a rush to judgment. He is a four star general who has seen combat many times in his life.
He is of the highest authority to call Mitt Romney out on his proposed foreign policy tactics, which essentially would be to turn this country over to the same neo con warmongers from the GWB brigade.
And if you want to be technical, GWB was not hawkish when he went into office. He actually wanted to attenuate peace measures wherever possible.
But, through his choice of vice president (Cheney) the same neo con brigade that hijacked GWB foreign policy are the ones Mitt Romney has lined up. The difference is Romney is fully aware of who they are. GWB was taken by surprise.
I totally agree with Backhouse! We cannot afford to go backwards!!!
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If I was a swing undecided voter. I would look at each side that weren't in support of Romney. Almost 100% of Americans didn't support Romney during the GOP race. The republican leaders, Fox News, Limbaugh, and republican voters hollered out. "We hate Romney!!! Anyone but Romney!!!" This was when people were sincere from their true feelings,coming from their hearts.
Words of support of Flip-Flop Romney today is all nonsense,full of dirty politics. Words of non-support of Romney months ago are real.
It is America-vote as you may with your one vote.
Really an ignorant bordering on stupid comment. No knowledge or research at all. Another obama troll I assume
Why is this an ignorant comment? The comment is 100% fact. Your response is ridiculous. It proves you're a Romney troll.
Thank you, General, for your service to this country!!!
That said, thank you General, for your honest endorsement of this awsom President! Everyone in this country knows, just how badly you were treated by your own admin., you are the better man than Bush/Cheney!!!
Many will come to this site, and spew their racial B.S. how you only did it because he is black. True Americans will know the diference. You sir, are an honorable man, endorsing an honorable President, nothing more, nothing less!!!
O & JOE FOR ALL AMERICANS MOVING FOREWARD!!!
what did you expect. a dummy always endorses a dummy
So you're calling a war hero and patriot a dummy, along with the POUS? You're showing your racist colors. Put on your hood. The KKK is calling you.
Colin Powell is really a "closet" racist. He would vote any black running even if he thought they would cut off his legs if elected. Powell was a great General but has slipped into the racist trap and joined with obama . He has expressed his disappointment and dislike of obama's administration last year
All that Republican men need to do is vote to ensure that their wives and daughters do not receive preventative health care, female check-ups, reproductive privacy and choices, and equal pay for equal work. After all, female family members are low priority people for Republican men and need male and federal government domination.
Republican men are committed to a life of celebacy? Should't they go to a vetrenarian and get fixed at least? Is it okay to lose a family member to cancer?
Former Secretary of State and General Colin Powell is a good man. I would rather have seen him than Bush elected in 2000 and 2004. He has experienced the Neocon type of government and it isn't good. His experience says no to Romney and yes to Obama. And before you get off on the issue, his race had little, if anything to do with his decision. Powell is above that sort of stuff.
Over 98% of blacks - including Colin Powell - voted for Obama last time. So how is this news?
The majority of white men vote against Obama. Is this news?
I've always considered Powell as a intelligent thoughtful individual. I can understand his 2008 vote but to back Obama after seeing where the country is after this term and say that he wants more will make me rethink my assessment of his intelligence and reasoning.
COLON POWELL, voted for color not character, he has said many times Romney would make an excellent president when it came to the economy and foreign issues... but he is black and obama is half black, he didn't want to be a black man voting against the first half black man to win the presidency ....