"Colin Powell gave one of the most thoughtful, meticulous endorsements of any candidate, and laid it all out very methodically ..."

Powell's endorsement was many things, but it was hardly meticulous. I like Rick Lowry's analysis of it.

It's a funny thing about Colin Powell. I recently listened to a podcast of a question-and-answer session he gave before the Iraq surge. He was certain that surge had no chance. He recommended so many "conventional wisdoms" about Iraq and foreign policy that he sounded like Ben Bradlee. What also struck me is that during that time, before Iraq turned around, no one was talking about Afghanistan. It was only when Iraq started doing well that critics began advancing Afghanistan as a problem.

I am not familiar with this Roland but when I look at his picture here, he looks kinda short and fat and a nincompoop (sp)!

Having observed appearance of Rush and "Rollie Pollie" lately I'd enjoy seeing a medical professional do a body fat check on both of them.  My sense is that the chunky lefty would leave more between the calipers than El Rushbo.

ROTF!

It's known as "punting on first down."

--Mike 

www.thebrattonreport...

head looks like a balloon...and is just as empty. I have to stop, I'm making myself laugh...

LIAR!  have a look....

 http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/tags/rush_limbaugh

but keep listening to him spread the hate....that will bring us all together as one country. 

Obama for President 

So if Roland was paid more money (around $400 million), that would make him right in your mind?  I don't quite follow.  Are the opinions of wealthy people more true or valid than the opinions of people who make less?

Powell should have met with Palin a few times before making his decision.  Of course, it goes without saying that advice would have served McCain just as well.

This guy is obviously a racist idiot.....you are surely referring to comedian Rush Limbaugh!  He and Hannity do their best to divide the country with their right wing spin on everything!  and looks like you take the bait everytime....sad.

Go OBAMA!!! 

Racist Rush Limbaugh is at it again.

He now accuses General Colin Powell, who is 100 times the man that Limbaugh will never be, of endorsing Senator Barack Obama simply because he's Black.

What about the tens of millions of Americans that clearly prefer Obama and have made him the front runner? Are they also endorsing Obama because he is Black? Clearly most of these American must be White, otherwise John McCain would be ahead.

Might they not see in Obama the transformative candidate who will lead this country away from the racist polarization, class divisions, and religious intolerance that prevents the United States from realizing its full potential? 

So, if Powell also sees things similarly, should he be penalized because he is Black and Obama also happens to be African American? Using Limbaugh's warped logic, the millions of Whites that prefer Obama over McCain are just Black-man-lovers? 

So, why is it that a man who spews hate and racism, like Rush Limbaugh, trembles about the prospects of a Senator Barack Obama victory? Because it affects him where it hurts the most; his wallet. Limbaugh draws an audience by playing up on people's fears, and that includes racism of course; the new politics represented by Obama would drive away his audience.

Senator Obama, by his soaring eloquence and steel-bending intellect, has already exploded the racist myths and stereotypes about Black people that helps keep people like Limbaugh in business; his audience must increasingly find it hard to believe that Black people are inherently unintelligent --Limbaugh does not belong in the same universe as Obama when it comes to intellect-- inherently lazy, and predicate criminals prone to drug dealing, thievery and other vices.

So when people want to find out why is it that the Federal government, in the ultimate act of socialism, has to bailout investment and commercial banks to the tune of $850 billion –counting the money already given to AIG— imagine how unconvincing it would sound if Limbaugh were to offer his standard responses such as "because there are too many illegal Mexicans in this country" or "because Black people are lazy." 

So quite naturally, Limbaugh’s audience will start searching for more credible and persuasive explanations of their problems. There can be no doubt that Limbaugh has no solution to offer to our American and global 21st Century woes.

Who listens to Rush Limbaugh to understand why there's a credit crunch and why money is fleeing from stock markets?

Who listens to Limbaugh to understand the interconnectiveness of the global economy and how a cough on Wall Street affects all foreign economies?

Who listens to Limbaugh to understand that there's a need to do away with divisive false labels such as "liberals" and "conservatives" to marshal the collective will and energy needed to arrest the decline, distribute the shared burden --and yes, the national wealth-- in order to start rebuilding the economy? 

Who listens to Rush Limbaugh to understand that unless we rebuild our schools and our roads and our infrastructure and create new jobs in green economies, the US will continue to slide and lose its global pre-eminence?

Limbaugh thrives on peddling fear; he is the worse kind of pimp in the world--a race pimp. He feasts on fears and disappointments of people who have lost their jobs while his Republican friends were busy shipping American jobs overseas and allowing financial bandits to run off with hundreds of billions of dollars in annual "bonuses" even while their firms' shares dropped and workers were laid off.

Rather than targeting the masterminds of this disaster, Limbaugh blames immigrants, especially Mexicans --including presumably the hapless nanny he used to send to buy his pills. He blames the poorest in our society, accusing them of being parasites of the state, when the true leeches were on Wall Street, milking the economy dry, without producing anything, except so-called derivatives, which is a fancy word for thin air.

Racism sells and has always sold and made people like Limbaugh very wealthy; it’s a divide-and-rule strategy that keeps the have-nots at each others throats while Limbaugh, who produces nothing but hate, carts a mountain of gold to the bank.

In fact, rather then falling for Limbaugh's con-job of portraying senator Obama as a "socialist" and General Powell --a genuine hero who risked his life and served this country in many conflicts, including in Vietnam and in the first Gulf War-- as some sort of racist because he endorsed Senator Obama, the Joe-the-plumbers of this country must start asking this question: Why is it that an eminently unintelligent and un-hard working man such as Limbaugh gets paid tens of millions of dollars for spewing hatred, racism and division, under the guise of "conservatism" while true Joe-the-plumbers risk losing their homes to foreclosure?

What skill –apart from pimping racism—does Limbaugh have to be entitled to such bounty?

The kind of transformative politics that Obama represents will sweep to the gutter hate-mongers such as Limbaugh.

should have been impeached - For What?  Read your Constitution and remove your ignorance.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

Then tell me who is angry,,,,,hypocrit

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

I love posts like this, hate, anger and such intelligence...  Obama has no experience, period.  Name one thing he has done that qualifies him to be the president.  Community activist?  What a joke, more like community hate monger with Ayers.  State Senator, voted present on more issues than voted yea or nea...  U.S. Senator - never offered or passed legislation. 

Nothing - this guy has no experience yet you put down a person who has been a Governor of a state.  You obviously are not educated enough to see this...

kind of like giving failing investment firms/banks 700 billion eh? 

or maybe like McSame wanting to use my tax dollars to buy up bad mortgages right?

you guys are funny.....time to put your head back in the sand. 

I'm a racist too!

or so I've been told (a lot) lately by the AP, Democrats, and media. This is a good thing, to be a racist right?  Do I get a membership button?  Maybe a plaque to hang proudly in my home?

2008 Media Declares

TN Mom is RACIST

Yay TN Mom!  You GO Gurl!!!

As I posted above, it is not about Palin's supposed inexperience.  It is about Palin's apparent lack of readiness to be President.  You are the second person to use this strawman.

Somebody tell me how Colin Powell is different from Wesley Clark.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

American Joe Porter Wants A Minute Of Your Time An impassioned letter from a ‘nobody’. Dear Friends: My name is Joe Porter. I live in Champaign, Illinois. I’m 46 years old, a born-again Christian, a husband, a father, a small business owner, a veteran, and a homeowner. I don’t consider myself to be either conservative or liberal, and I vote for the person, not Republican or Democrat. I don’t believe there are ‘two Americas’ but that every person in this country can be whomever and whatever they want to be if they’ll just work to get there and nowhere else on earth can they find such opportunities. I believe our government should help those who are legitimately downtrodden, and should always put the interests of America first. The purpose of this message is that I’m concerned about the future of this great nation. I’m worried that the silent majority of honest, hard-working, tax-paying people in this country have been passive for too long. Most folks I know choose not to involve themselves in politics. They go about their daily lives, paying their bills, raising their kids, and doing what they can to maintain the good life. They vote and consider doing so to be a sacred trust. They shake their heads at the political pundits and so-called ‘news’, thinking that what they hear is always spun by whomever is reporting it. They can’t understand how elected officials can regularly violate the public trust with pork barrel spending. They don’t want government handouts. They want the government to protect them, not raise their taxes for more government programs. We are in the unique position in this country of electing our leaders. It’s a privilege to do so. I’ve never found a candidate in any election with whom I agreed on everything. I’ll wager that most of us don’t even agree with our families or spouses 100% of the time. So when I step into that voting booth, I always try to look at the big picture and cast my vote for the man or woman who is best qualified for the job. I’ve hired a lot of people in my lifetime, and essentially that’s what an election is - a hiring process. Who has the credentials? Whom do I want working for me? Whom can I trust to do the job right? I’m concerned that a growing number of voters in this country simply don’t get it. They are caught up in a fervor they can’t explain, and calling it ‘change’. ‘Change what?’, I ask. ‘Well, we’re going to change America’, they say. ‘In what way?’, I query. ‘We want someone new and fresh in the White House’, they exclaim. ‘So, someone who’s not a politician?’, I say. ‘Uh, well, no, we just want a lot of stuff changed, so we’re voting for Obama’, they state. ‘So the current system, the system of freedom and democracy that has enabled a man to grow up in this great country, get a fine education, raise incredible amounts of money and dominate the news, and win his party’s nomination for the White House that system’s all wrong?’ ‘No, no, that part of the system’s okay we just need a lot of change.’ And so it goes. ‘Change we can believe in.’ Quite frankly, I don’t believe that vague proclamations of change hold any promise for me. In recent months, I’ve been asking virtually everyone I encounter how they’re voting. I live in Illinois, so most folks tell me they’re voting for Barack Obama. But no one can really tell me why only that he’s going to change a lot of stuff ‘Change, change, change.’ I have yet to find one single person who can tell me distinctly and convincingly why this man is qualified to be President and Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful nation on earth other than the fact that he claims he’s going to implement a lot of change. We’ve all seen the emails about Obama’s genealogy, his upbringing, his Muslim background, and his church affiliations. Let’s ignore this for a moment. Put it all aside. Then ask yourself, ‘What qualifies this man to be my president? That he’s a brilliant orator and talks about change?’ CHANGE WHAT? Friends, I’ll be forthright with you I believe the American voters who are supporting Barack Obama don’t have a clue what they’re doing, as evidenced by the fact that not one of them - NOT ONE of them I’ve spoken to can spell out his qualifications. Not even the most liberal media can explain why he should be elected. Political experience? Negligible. Foreign relations? Non-existent. Achievements? Name one. Someone who wants to unite the country? If you haven’t read his wife’s thesis from Princeton, look it up on the web. This is who’s lining up to be our next First Lady? The only thing I can glean from Obama’s constant harping about change is that we’re in for a lot of new taxes. For me, the choice is clear. I’ve looked carefully at the two leading applicants for the job, and I’ve made my choice. Here’s a question - ‘Where were you five and a half years ago? Around Christmas, 2002. You’ve had five or six birthdays in that time. My son has grown from a sixth grade child to a high school graduate. Five and a half years is a good chunk of time. About 2,000 days. 2,000 nights of sleep. 6, 000 meals, give or take.’ John McCain spent that amount of time, from 1967 to 1973, in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp. When offered early release, he refused it. He considered this offer to be a public relations stunt by his captors, and insisted that those held longer than he should be released first. Did you get that part? He was offered his freedom, and he turned it down. A regimen of beatings and torture began. Do you possess such strength of character? Locked in a filthy cell in a foreign country, would you turn down your own freedom in favor of your fellow man? I submit that’s a quality of character that is rarely found, and for me, this singular act defines John McCain. Unlike several presidential candidates in recent years whose military service is questionable or non-existent, you will not find anyone to denigrate the integrity and moral courage of this man. A graduate of Annapolis, during his Naval service he received the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross. His own son is now serving in the Marine Corps in Iraq. Barack Obama is fond of saying ‘We honor John McCain’s service…BUT…’, which to me is condescending and offensive - because what I hear is, ‘Let’s forget this man’s sacrifice for his country, and his proven leadership abilities, and talk some more about change.’ I don’t agree with John McCain on everything - but I am utterly convinced that he is qualified to be our next President, and I trust him to do what’s right. I know in my heart that he has the best interests of our country in mind. He doesn’t simply want to be President - he wants to lead America, and there’s a huge difference. Factually, there is simply no comparison between the two candidates. A man of questionable background and motives who prattles on about change, can’t hold a candle to a man who has devoted his life in public service to this nation, retiring from the Navy in 1981 and elected to the Senate in 1982. Perhaps Obama’s supporters are taking a stance between old and new. Maybe they don’t care about McCain’s service or his strength of character, or his unblemished qualifications to be President. Maybe ‘likeability’ is a higher priority for them than ‘trust’. Being a prisoner of war is not what qualifies John McCain to be President of the United States of America - but his demonstrated leadership certainly DOES. Dear friends, it is time for us to stand. It is time for thinking Americans to say, ‘Enough.’ It is time for people of all parties to stop following the party line. It is time for anyone who wants to keep America first, who wants the right man leading their nation, to start a dialogue with all their friends and neighbors and ask who they’re voting for, and why. There’s a lot of evil in this world. That should be readily apparent to all of us by now. And when faced with that evil as we are now, I want a man who knows the cost of war on his troops and on his citizens. I want a man who puts my family’s interests before any foreign country. I want a President who’s qualified to lead. I want my country back, and I’m voting for John McCain. Phone: 760.434.1395 E-mail:ronald.hess@alumni.purdue.ed

I AM JUST SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED..............THIS COUNTRY IS HEADING DOWN CRAPPER...........AND JUST REMEMBER WHEN IT"S TIME FOR BLAME.....YOU REMEMBER WHO!!!